Michael Cohen, emeritus professor of education, was inducted into the Association of Teacher Educators-Indiana Unit Teacher Educators Hall of Fame in October.

John Hayek, senior associate director for the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), co-wrote an article with IU grad student Timothy Haskell which recently won the 2003 award for best overall submission to the Association of Fraternity Advisors magazine, Perspectives. The title of their work was “Our responsibility: Knowing how fraternities and sororities help students learn.”

George Kuh, director of NSSE, is serving on the Board of Regents at Luther College, his alma mater.

Charles Reigeluth, instructional systems technology, has been elected to the board of directors of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.

Erick Janssen and John Bancroft of the Kinsey Institute, and Peter Finn of the Department of Psychology are co-recipients of the Hugo G. Beigel Research Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. The three authored “The Sexual Inhibition and Sexual Excitation Scales: I. Measuring sexual inhibition and excitation proneness in men,” considered the best article during the last annual publishing cycle of the Journal of Sex Research. The award promotes and rewards research excellence in sexology; this is Janssen’s second Beigel Award.

Edwin Marshall, associate dean of the IU School of Optometry, is serving as chair of the executive board of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from more than 50 occupations of public health. He is a past president of both the Indiana Public Health Association and the Indiana Optometric Association.

Sandra Bate, executive director of marketing and analytical services at the IU Foundation, is the sixth recipient of a University and College Designers Association (UCDA) Gold Award, in recognition of distinguished service to the national group. She is a past president of UCDA and served as chairperson of its board of directors. In 1993, she founded the UCDA Design Institute and served as faculty chairperson of that national conference for seven years.

Ray Cramer, professor of music and director of bands, was honored last semester by the National Band Association (NBA) with the Outstanding Mentor Award. During a concert in October, former students Stephen Pratt, associate director of bands at IUB, and Jay Gephart, associate director of bands at Purdue, presented the award to Cramer. Numerous former students from around the country submitted letters to the NBA attributing part of their success to having Cramer as a mentor.

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John Keith is the executive director of planned giving services at the IU Foundation; in fiscal 2003, IU received commitments of more than $31 million from IU alumni and friends who are including IU in their estate plans.

Cheryl Crouch, executive director of marketing, auxiliary services and programs, was elected to a three-year term on the national board of directors of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services. The organization is the largest auxiliary services support group in the world and serves higher education institutions in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Jeffrey Johnston, chemistry, was honored with the 2003-2004 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award by the Office of the Dean of Faculties, and chemist Daniel Mindiola was the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award, the most prestigious award given by the NSF to junior faculty members.

Katharine Byers, social work, was the recipient of the Influencing State Policy (ISP) Jefferson Cup Award last semester. The special award honors those who have contributed significantly to ISP as an organization. She is a charter member of the organization and serves on its board of advisers.

Dr. Jay Grosfeld, pediatric surgery, has been named a life member of the Fellows Leadership Society of the American College of Surgeons. He is a past recipient of the William E. Ladd Medal by the American Academy of Pediatrics—one of the most prestigious honors in pediatric surgery.

Tempel

Gene Tempel, director of the Center on Philanthropy, received the William S. Armstrong Ambassador Award from the IU Foundation in December. The award honors individuals at IU who create friendships and alliances that contribute to the university’s effectiveness and well-being.

Amy Conrad Warner has been named interim vice chancellor for external affairs until the return of Cheryl Sullivan, who is on leave of absence until January serving as secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, at the request of Gov. Joe Kernan. She has been executive director of the Community Learning Network since 1996 and has carried the additional title of associate vice chancellor for lifelong learning since August.

Richards

Laurence Richards has been named vice chancellor for academic affairs and will oversee all academic affairs and work with faculty, staff, community leaders and regional employers to identify new program needs on campus. He was formerly acting vice president for academic affairs at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts and was the founding dean of Bridgewaters’ School of Management and Aviation Science.

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Douglas Singh, SPEA, is the co-author of the third edition of Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach, a textbook published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers. His co-author is Leiyu Shi of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the “patchwork” of public and private service that composes the U.S. health-care system.

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Pat Ames was recently named vice chancellor for information technology. She was formerly director of academic facilities and classroom technology at California State University, Fullerton.  

William O’Donnell began his duties as vice chancellor of administration and fiscal affairs last week. He was formerly assistant vice president and controller for Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nev. The institute is the research campus of the University and Community College System of Nevada.

Summer Faculty Fellowship Awards totaling $26,000 were recently awarded to outstanding faculty research projects. Awards of $7,000 went to Ligaya McGovern, sociology; and Kasem K. Kasem, chemistry; and awards of $6,000 each were given to Nancy Greenwood, sociology, and Michael Finkler, biology.

McGovern plans to complete a book-length manuscript examining the experiences of migrant Filipino domestic workers in five different countries. Tentatively titled Maid for Export: Globalization, Gender and Resistance, the book would focus on the policies and institutional practices of countries that export and import such labor, how these policies can exploit workers, and how workers respond. During the past 10 years, McGovern has gathered data on the subject, including personal interviews with 182 immigrant domestic workers in Chicago; Vancouver, Canada; Rome, Italy; Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Kasem has earned three previous summer fellowships, in 1997, 1999 and 2001, all supporting his ongoing study of durable conductive materials for photo-electrochemical cells, which are often used in solar-powered devices. His research proposal title is “Photo-electrochemical Studies on Thin Solid Films of Some Organic Polymers in Semiconductors’ Assemblies.”

First Contact: Research on Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology is the working title for a book Greenwood plans to write. The aim of First Contact is “to provide new insights about sociology curriculum design and to potentially change how sociology is viewed by students and the general public alike.” Rowman and Littlefield Publishers has contracted with Greenwood to publish the book in late 2004 or early 2005.

Finkler also received his third summer fellowship for “Sex-Related Differences in the Stored Energy Reserves of Spring-Breeding Ambystomid Salamanders.”

For a decade, he has studied “energy expenditures” by turtles and salamanders in reproduction and how these energy costs might affect the survival of the animals’ offspring.