Gerardo Lopez, School of Education, is a new member of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's Committee on Multicultural Education. His term began March 1.

McCarthy

Martha McCarthy, School of Education, is the 10th recipient of the Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Council for Educational Administration; it is the highest honor given in the educational leadership field and recognizes senior professionals in the field of educational administration. UCEA is a consortium of major research universities with doctoral programs in educational leadership and policy. McCarthy directs the High School Survey of Student Engagement, which identifies student behaviors and school characteristics that can be changed to enhance student learning.

Clint Oster, SPEA, presented two papers at the 46th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Forum in Washington, D.C. The first was "The Evolution of U.S. Domestic Airline Route Networks since 1990" (with John Strong); the second was "U.S. Commercial Aviation Safety in the 1990s" (with Strong and Kurt Zorn).

Lisa Bingham, SPEA, received the American Society for Public Administration's Section on Environmental and Natural Resources Administration (SENRA) Book Award for her co-edited book, The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution. SENRA gives the annual award for the best book on environmental and natural resources administration. The award was presented April 3 at the ASPA meeting in Milwaukee.

Les Lenkowsky, SPEA, is a founding director of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research in Indianapolis and took part in the first board meeting on March 31. "The Political Challenges Facing Charities and Foundations" appeared in the March 31 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and he participated in a panel discussion on civic engagement at the Midwestern Political Science Association meeting in Chicago on April 8.

Rafael Reuveny, SPEA, was interviewed by the Voice of America concerning the Sharon-Mahmud Abas meeting, and the meaning and significance of the understanding on the informal Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. The interview aired on several international programs in February. He is the co-author (with Omar M.G. Kesh and Brian Pollins) of "Trade Still Follows the Flag: The Primacy of Politics in a Simultaneous Model of Interdependence and Armed Conflict," in the Journal of Politics.

Kathleen Chmelewski, art director for the IU Office of Publications, has been recognized by the Midwest division of the American Institute of Graphic Arts for her work on the publication promoting this year's IUB ArtsWeek. She was cited in the professional category of AIGA's second annual Origination Design Competition; her award was one of 25 out of 250 submissions. Check out the winners at this Web site:
http://www.indianapolis.aiga.org/origgination/index.cfm

Skirvin

Mark Skirvin has been named senior director of alumni chapters for the IU Alumni Association. The position is new although Skirvin has served as director of alumni chapters, working with IUAA chapters in Indiana and several other states, since September 2000. Prior to joining the IUAA staff in Bloomington, he was assistant director of alumni relations at IUPUI.

Michael Grossberg, School of Law, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005-2006. He will use the fellowship to complete a book, Saving Our Kids: Child Protection in America. The book, which is under contract with Harvard University Press, will analyze child protection as an ideal and a set of policies from the 1870s to the present. According to the book, child protection is a particularly revealing means of tracing the changing place of children in American society and the development of modern American social policy.

Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, School of Law, attended a March 18-19 meeting in Montreal to advise the Canadian minister of labour and housing on proposed amendments to the Canadian Labour Code.

Kevin Brown, School of Law, participated on a panel discussion titled "New and Emerging Education Reform Trends" at the conference "Meeting the Challenge of Grutter: Affirmative Action in Twenty-Five Years" held at Ohio State University School of Law on Feb. 25.

Craig Bradley, School of Law, had two works cited in the recent juvenile death penalty case of Roper v. Simmons, in Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent. The case was decided March 1. The text of the dissent can be found at:
http://scotus.ap.org/scotus/03-633p.zd1.pdf.

Leandra Lederman, School of Law, was cited in the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Ballard. Lederman was interviewed by National Public Radio about the case.

Ann Gellis, School of Law, has been named associate vice president for research compliance for the Office of the Vice President for Research. The promotion recognizes her responsibilities for university-wide, rather than Bloomington-specific, compliance activities.

John Applegate, associate dean at the School of Law, was vice chairman of a National Academy of Sciences committee that just released a report, "Risk and Decisions about Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste." The committee recommended to the U.S. Department of Energy that it develop an externally evaluated exemption system for managing defense nuclear wastes that may not require emplacement in the proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. He is now serving on a congressionally mandated follow-up Committee on Management of Certain Radioactive Waste Streams Stored in Tanks at Three Department of Energy Sites, which will focus on high-level wastes stored at the Savannah River Site, S.C.; Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho; and Hanford Reservation, Wash.

Holly Stocking, School of Journalism, is the co-author, along with Lisa Holstein, of "The Social Construction of Scientific Ignorance in an Environmental and Public Health Controversy," which was accepted for presentation at an interdisciplinary conference on the public communication of science in the corporate world, to be held at Cornell University.

An article written by Bill Harwood, School of Education, and J. Jose Bonner, biology, along with science education doctoral student Christine Lotter, has appeared in The Science Teacher, the publication of the National Science Teachers Association.