Faculty and staff tributes

IU Bloomington

Gary Hieftje, Distinguished Professor of chemistry, was selected to be the Speaker of the Year for the 2000-2001 Indiana Academy of Science annual meeting. Hieftje gave a presentation entitled "“Instrumentation Science in the New Millennium" on the campus of IU East in November.

Musician Luke Gillespie’s new book, Stylistic II/V7/I Voicing for Keyboardists, has been published by Jamey Aebersold. It was introduced at the International Association of Jazz Educators annual conference Jan. 10-13 in New York City. Designed for both students and professionals, the book is a progressive guide to understanding many different ways to play the II/V7/I harmonic progression which is so common in jazz.

David Lasocki, head of reference services at the Cook Music Library, is the author or co-author of 21 articles in the recently published second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His books, articles, dissertation and editions are cited in 33 other articles in NG2.

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Ernest Davidson, Distinguished Professor of chemistry, has been selected as a recipient of the 2001 Schrödinger Medal, sponsored by the World Association Theoretically Originated Chemists (WATOC) Scientific Board. The award will be presented at the triennial 6th World Congress of Theoretically Oriented Chemists in Lugano, Switzerland, in August 2002. Previous winners include Lou Allinger, Nicholas Handy, Ken Houk, Bjoern Roos and Axel Becke.

Blaise Cronin, dean of the School of Library and Information Science, is the co-editor of The Web of Knowledge: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield, and the co-author of two papers in the book,"The Scholar's Spoor" and "The Citation Network As a Prototype for Representing Trust in Virtual Environments." He is a recent contributor to the Journal of Information Science, the Journal of Documentation, Library Journal and the International Journal of Information Management. Recently, he was appointed to the editorial advisory board of Scientometrics.

IUPUI

Victoria Champion, nursing, has received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in Oncology Research Award from the Oncology Nurses Society.

James White, School of Law, recently presented: "Rededication to Our Core Values: Legal Education in the Public Interest of People" as the inaugural speech of the Treusch Public Service Lecture at Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles.

Dr. Domenick Zero, director of the Oral Health Research Institute, was the keynote speaker at the Martin Curzon Retirement Symposium last semester in England. The symposium was held in association with the University of Leeds Dental Institute. His topic was erosion research in dentistry.

Dr. Deborah I. Allen, director of the Bowen Research Center, began her appointment in January to the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Commission on Clinical Policies and Research. The four-year appointment will involve the promotion of the practice of patient-centered, evidence-based medicine and support of the development of scientific knowledge to meet the needs of family physicians, their patients and communities. To achieve these goals, the commission fosters the interpretation and dissemination of new knowledge through appropriate clinical policies and other tools and research relevant to practicing family physicians.

Dr. Brenda O'Hara, family medicine residency co-director and director of predoctoral education at the IU School of Medicine, is senior author of two peer-reviewed publications appearing last semester. In "Gender and Preceptors’ Feedback to Students," a research report published in the October issue of Academic Medicine, preceptors’ evaluations of medical students were analyzed to determine whether evaluation comments differed based on preceptor’s and students’ genders."ENT Experience in a Family Medicine Clerkship: Is There Enough?" published in the November-December issue of Family Medicine, revealed that students have more limited opportunity to perform and/or assist with ENT procedures or to be involved with patient education and ENT counseling. Robert Saywell, Terry Zollinger, Christopher Smith, Jennifer Burba and David M. Stopperich contributed to the publication.

Thomas Cappucci, a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, has been named hotel general manager of University Place Conference Center and Hotel. He was formerly director of hotel operations for Inverness Hotel and Golf Club, Englewood, Colo., and is on the North American board of directors of the International Association of Conference Centers. He is chairman of IACC’s 20th annual conference in March.

Angela Barron McBride, University Dean of Nursing, has received the Distinguished Nurse Educator Award from the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati.

Rowland Sherrill, chair of religious studies, has received the Charles McArthur Alumni Award for Career Achievement from his alma mater, Eckerd College.

IU Northwest

Roberta Wollons, history, made an appearance at NPR affiliate WBEZ in Chicago to discuss her recently published book, Kindergartens and Cultures: the global fusion of ideas. She also has received a grant from the Spencer Foundation for a spring research project, "Culture, Gender, and Missionary Education: A Post-Colonial View."

Bob Moran, director of library services, has been appointed associate editor of the quarterly Library Administration and Management. He will assume the editorship in two years.

Joe Pellicciotti, SPEA, has had "'State-Created Danger,' or Similar Theory, As Basis for Civil Right Action Under 42 U.S.C.A. Sect. 1983" published in American Law Reports, Vol. 159.

IU South Bend

Three new deans begin their second semester of service to the IU South Bend campus. Miriam Shillingsburg is dean of the Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Jon Meyer is dean of the Division of the Arts, and Lawrence Garber, a professor of chemistry, will serve as interim dean of the Division of Business and Economics through the current school year. Shillingsburg was formerly a professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where she was director of ExCET, the university’s program for improving scores on the licensing exam for Texas teachers. She also served as dean of the college of arts and sciences at Lamar University. An accomplished researcher and scholar in 19th-century American literature, Shillingsburg has published more than 40 articles, a book on Mark Twain and two scholarly editions.

Meyer came to IUSB from the University of Maryland, Towson University campus, where he was chair of the art department. He was in charge of the art department at the University of Arizona from 1992-96, and he served as the department chair at the University of Dayton from 1990-92. He is the author of more than 65 critical articles which have been published in The Village Voice, ARTnews, ARTS, New Art Examiner and Visions Quarterly, among others. He also has participated in more than 50 group and solo art exhibitions throughout the world.

Steven Gerenscer, political science, is the author of The Skeptic’s Oakeshott, published by Saint Martin’s Press. The book is an investigation into the ideas of 20th-century British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott, a well-known British political thinker from the1940s and until his death in 1990. Following World War II, he became a cautious critic of the development of the British welfare state. While he was a conservative in some important senses, he could also be critical of capitalism as easily as socialism. Gerenscer’s book looks first to the philosophical background in Oakeshott’s ideas and the gradual changes in the ideas in his later years.

Scott Sernau, sociology, is the author of Bound: Living in the Globalized World, published by Kumarian Press. Sernau explores the background of current global interconnectedness and at how social issues become global issues. He examines the global marketplace, the changing world of gender and work, the worldwide reach of technology, ongoing racial and ethnic tensions, and cultural conflict. The book also looks at city sprawl and the global environment and suggests ways toward building a more equitable, rewarding and sustainable global society.

Katherine Jackson, finance, is the author of Collaborative Finance, published by South-Western Publishing. It is a text for introductory financial management courses covering the basic concepts of finance using team learning methods.

John McIntosh, psychology, co-edited Review of Suicidology, 2000. Other editors are Ronald W. Maris, Silvia Sara Canetto and Morton M. Silverman. The publisher is Guilford Press. The volume is an official publication of the American Association of Suicidology.

Jerry Hinnefeld, physics, has received a $92,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project, titled "Research in Undergraduate Institutions: Experiments in Low Energy Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics."

Steven Shore, physics and astronomy, has received a $32,000 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute for "STIS Observations of a Magellanic Cloud Nova in Outburst."

IU Kokomo

Robert Strikwerda, philosophy, will present a pair of research papers later in the spring semester. He will present "Foucault and Fatherhood" during a panel discussion on "Ethics and the Family" at the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics (see today's IU Home Pages "Browser" column, for information about the APPE meeting.) His “Recent American Anthropology as a Self-Correcting Enterprise: Critique of Ethnography and the Mead/Freeman Controversy” will be presented during the third annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable held at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Michael Finkler, biology, recently made two presentations at the meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Chicago. Finkler co-presented "Overwintering energetics of the red-blacked salamander, Plethon cinereus" with Theresa Christman, who is a recent IU Kokomo graduate and recipient of the Outstanding Student in Biological and Physical Sciences Award for the 1999-2000 academic year. Finkler also co-presented "Sex-related differences in locomotor performance and metabolism in breeding spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum)" with Mark Sugalski of New England College, Henniker, N.H., and Dennis Claussen of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

IU Kokomo faculty members receiving faculty fellowships for the summer 2001 session are:

Christian Chauret, biology; "Controlling Biofilm Growth in Drinking Water Distribution Systems with Chlorine Dioxide: A Bench-Scale Evaluation;" Kasem Kasem, chemistry; "Characterization: All Solid State Electrochemical Cells;" Colleen Reilly, English; "Developing a Heuristic for Defining, Measuring, and Assessing Quality: A Case Study of Documentation at a Metering Facility;" Allen Safianow, history; "Perceptions of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s: Noblesville, Indiana;" and Kathryn Truax, psychology; "Information-Seeking in Self-Improvement and Self-Esteem Regulation."

IPFW

Ronald Duchovic, chemistry, is using a grant of supercomputer time from the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for his project, "Combustion Processes Involving O, O2, and HN2."

Donald Friedman, chemistry, has received a $30,000 research grant for “The Effects of Conical Intersections in Molecular Photodissociation: Two-Dimensional Quantal Model Studies” from the American Chemical Society.

Timothy Houghton, English and linguistics, completed a residency grant for research and writing at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., Nov. 2–15.

John Hrehov and Audrey A. Ushenko, fine arts, had solo exhibitions at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Inc. gallery in New York City, Oct. 3–Nov. 4: Hrehov, The Picture Proper, and Ushenko, Recent Paintings.

Bruce Kingsbury, biology, has received a $65,992 grant from the U. S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity to support the Flatwoods Salamander and Striped Newt Survey and Mapping Phase I project; a $10,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for the wildlife program; and a $30,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for "Status of the Eastern Massasauga in Michigan."

Bangalore Lingaraj, management and marketing, is president of the Operations Management and Entrepreneurship Association and organized last year's annual conference in conjunction with the Midwest Business Administration Association meeting in Chicago.

Donald Linn, chemistry, has received a $30,000 research grant for "Preparations and Reactivities of Polyhydridometallates" from the American Chemical Society.

Frank Paladino, biology, received a $27,650 grant from the Goldring Family Foundation for a conservation project and a $52,650 grant from the Center for Field Studies for the Costa Rican Sea Turtles Renewal.

Kathy Pollock, accounting and finance, has been elected to the board of directors of the Center for Nonviolence and was appointed to the Indiana CPA Society’s Leadership Cabinet in September. She is last spring's recipient of the IPFW Student Government Service Award for outstanding support of students. In October, she was a discussant at the American Accounting Association, accounting behavior and organizations section meeting, in Chicago.

Kenneth Stevenson, chemistry, has received a $133, 993 grant for "Excited State Reactivity of Copper(I) Complexes in Solution" from the National Science Foundation and a $30,000 grant for "Photoinduced Electron Ejection and Exciplex Formation in Copper (I) Complexes" from the American Chemical Society.

Stuart Blythe, English and linguistics, presented "Reading the Mundane Artifacts in Our Midst" at the Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition in Louisville, Ky, Oct. 5-7; "Models for the Development of Technical Communication" at the Council on Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication in Menomonie, Wis., Oct. 19-21; and "Talking, Seeing, and Writing: Engaging Multiple Literacies" at the National Council of Teachers of English in Milwaukee, Nov. 16–21.

Mary Ann Cain and George Kalamaras, English and linguistics, presented "Ritual Order and Narrative Uncertainty: A Retelling of Indian Erotica as Cultural Dialogue" at the East Asian Studies Conference in Bloomington Oct. 6–8. Kalamaras also presented poetry readings at the Ear In Reading Series, Sept. 16, and the CCS Reading Series, Sept. 17, both in New York City; and the New York State Writers' Institute in Albany, Sept. 18.

Adam Coffman, mathematical sciences, was a participant at the University of Chicago’s Geometry and Topology Conference in October. He contributed "A Survey of Real Submanifolds of High Codimension in Cn" at Lehigh University's Geometry and Topology Conference in June and "The Real Classification of Steiner Surfaces" at the Mathematical Pictures Conference at Miami University, Ohio, in September.

Avon Crismore, English and linguistics, presented "Helping ESL Students Read and Write More Critically" at the Second Language Writing Conference in Lafayette, Sept. 15-16.

Rachelle Darabi, transitional studies, presented Putting the Pieces Together for Students with Diverse Learning Styles" at the Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference in Indianapolis, Oct. 14. She also presented "Cross-Cultural Interactions Online" at the 2000 International Online Conference on Teaching Online at IPFW, Nov. 13–14.

Carl Drummond, geosciences, co-presented "Taphonomic Reworking and Stratal Organization of Tempestite Deposition: Ordovician Kope Formation, Northern Kentucky" at the Geological Society of America meeting in Reno, Nev., Nov. 9-18.

Rodney Farnsworth, English and linguistics, presented "Emotional and Intellectual Self-Suppression Among Women in Stael’s 'Corinne' and Two Early Novels of Austen" at the American Conference on Romanticism in Park City, Utah, Oct. 12-14.

Gerald L. Houseman, political science (emeritus), presented "The American Election System" at Damansara College North in Penang, Malaysia, Oct. 5. He gave a lecture, "Public Management: An International Challenge," at the invitation of the National Institute of Public Administration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sept. 30. The U.S. Department of State sent Houseman on a lecture tour to the Borneo States of Malaysia and the Kingdom of Brunei, where he presented "The 2000 American Election: What Asia Can Expect from the Results." He also published "Democracy Versus Wealth" in the November/December issue of Challenge.

James Loebl, accounting and finance, presented "Using Crummey Powers to Qualify Gifts to Trusts for the Annual Exclusion" at the Academy of Business Disciplines meeting in Fort Meyers, Fla., in November. His paper, "Does the Excluded COD Income of an Insolvent S Corporation Increase the Basis of the Shareholders' Stock?" appearing in the December Florida Law Review, was cited by Justice Breyer in the dissenting opinion filed in Gitlitz v. Commissioner and released by the United States Supreme Court Jan. 9.

Carol Lawton, psychology, presented "Individual Differences and Evaluation of Online Mapping Systems" at GIScience 2000: The First International Conference on Geographic Information Science, in Savannah, Ga., Oct. 30.

Vincent Maloney, chemistry, gave an invited seminar, "Investigation of the Photochemistry of Phosphoryl and Sulfonyl Azides and the Reactivity of their Nitrenes," at Washington University's Chemistry Department in St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 5.

Laurel Reinking, English and linguistics, presented "Situated-Dynamic Audience Analysis: An Effective Tool to Help ESL Business and Technical Writers" at the Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL), in Indianapolis, Oct. 14.

Melissa Schaub, English and linguistics, presented "Satire and Sympathy: The Politics of Illness in 'Mary Barton' and 'Sybil'" at the Victorians Institute 2000 in Columbia, S.C., Oct. 6–7.

Beth Simon, English and linguistics, presented “Here We Do Not Speak Bhojpuri: The Speech Acts of Self and Others” at the International South Asian Conference in Madison, Wis., Oct. 12-15.

William Vetter, accounting and finance, counsels Indiana Small Business Development Center clients and is presenting a workshop at the center on "Legal Tax Problems of Doing Business on the Internet through the ISBD"” He presented"“Land Tenure in Kazakhstan-Post-U.S.S.R. Developments" at the Tri-State Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 10-11. The paper was also published in the conference’s refereed Proceedings. He presented “Crossroads, Contrasts, Communities: Kazakhstan and Central Asia” at the Fort Wayne International Affairs Forum, Nov. 14.

Jay Jackson, psychology, wrote "Demonstrating the Concept of Illusory Correlation" in a recent volume of Teaching of Psychology.

Rajiv Kashyap, management and marketing, published "A Data Driven Model for Evaluating Brand Exit" (with George Milne), in Proceedings of the American Marketing Association’s 2000 International Marketing Educators Conference.

James Lutz, political science, is the author of Import Propensities of Industrialized Countries: Protectionism Revealed, published in October by Palgrave.

Ali Mir, management and marketing, has published "Codes of Migration: The Contours of the Global Software Market" in Cultural Dynamics and "Encountering Capital, Encountering Knowledge" (with B. Mathew and R. Mir), in Studies in the Strategy and Tactics of Competitive Advantage: Management in the New Millennium, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press. He also co-authored "On the Politics of Community in South Asian American Studies" in a recent edition of Amerasia Journal.

Richard Pacer, chemistry, published "How Can an Instructor Best Introduce the Topic of Significant Figures to Students Unfamiliar with the Concept?" in the November issue of Journal of Chemical Education.

George Schmelzle, accounting and finance, published "Telecommuting to Improve the Bottom Line" in Strategic Finance.

Zoher Shipchandler and James Moore, management and marketing, published three papers: "Factors Influencing Foreign Firm Performance in the U. S. Market" in American Business Review; “Product Customization for the U. S. Market: An Expert System Comparison of British, German, and Japanese Subsidiaries” in Multinational Business Review; and "Factors Influencing the Product Customization Decision Process of Foreign Industrial Product Manufacturers" in the Journal of Transnational Management Development.

Kenneth Stevenson, chemistry, published "Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Structure of the Molecule-Based Magnet Mn[N(CN)2]2" (with Carmen R. Kmety and Arthur J. Epstein, Ohio State University; Jamie L. Manson and Joel S. Miller, University of Utah; Qingzhen Huang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, and Ross W. Erwin, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and S. McCall and J. E. Crow, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) in Physical Review B, Vol. 62. He also published "Mechanism of Electron Ejection Induced by Mono- and Biphotonic Excitation of Cu(CN)2– -Halide Ion Systems" (with Attila Horvath, University of Veszprém, Hungary) in Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Vol. 208.

David Turnipseed, management and marketing, published "Phase Analysis of Burnout and Other Psychological Phenomena" in Psychological Reports, Vol. 37, 2000; "Good Soldiers and Their Syndromes" (with E. C. Murkison), in the North American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 2, 2000; and "A Bi-Cultural Comparison of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Does the OCB Phenomenon Transcend National Culture?" (with Murkison), in the International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 8, 2000.

IU East

Mike Foos, biology, Kris Dhawale, chemistry, were local arrangements chairs for the annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science in November. Approximately 450 students, faculty and others were on campus, including 130 junior and 250 senior academy students and teachers.

In addition, Foos and Dhawale are involved in the research that will develop through an IU Research and University Graduate School grant to purchase an atomic absorption spectrophotometer for use in environmental analysis and bioremediation. Mary Blakefield, biology, and undergraduates studying instrumental analysis also will be utilizing the new equipment for research projects.

Lisa Beach, humanities and fine arts, is the author of "Fried Potatoes," published in this month’s issue of The Flying Island literary magazine.

Rob Tolley, anthropology, taught a three-day seminar in conducting post-fire archaeological surveys in Bozeman, Mont., last semester.

Randall Osborne, psychology, and Paul Barton-Kriese, political science, with students Don Spuregon and Debra Rutledge, gave a workshop titled, "Building Bridges Not Burning Them: Using a Web Based Course to Teach the Politics and Psychology of Hate" at the Race, Class, and Gender conference in New Orleans, Oct. 19-21. Barton-Kriese also presented a paper entitled "As American as Apple Pie: Political Culture or Race Hatred in the United States." Barton-Kriese was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural and Diversity Enhancement Award during January festivities marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Ashton Veramallay, economics, organized the session on "Economics Without Borders" for the annual meeting of the National Council on Economics Education and the National Association of Economic Educators at Savannah, Ga., last semester. He also presented a paper on comparative analysis of the American fed and the Euro fed, as well as serving on the international committee.