Tributes and appointments--IU Bloomington

Sgt. Leslie Slone of the IU Police Department has been awarded the IUB Office for Women’s Affairs’ Outstanding Staff Award 2000-2001. Slone also was named the 2001 Police Officer of the Year by the Northside Exchange, Bloomington and Greater Monroe County clubs. She is a certified instructor in the IUPD’s Rape Aggression Defense training, a program specifically designed to give women information on sexual assault and practical experience in self-defense techniques. Slone meets with students, faculty and staff on many topics that concern their personal safety. She has presented programs in the local grade schools and high schools.

 

Other recipients of annual awards from the Office for Women’s Affairs were Lisa Pratt, geological sciences, who received the OWA Distinguished Scholar Award; and Fenton Martin, head librarian of the research collection at the Department of Political Science, and Betty Jo Kish Irvine, acquisitions librarian at the Fine Arts Library, received the Gros Louis Special Recognition Awards.

Joel Meier, HPER, recently received the highest honor awarded by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. During the alliance’s national convention awards ceremony last month in Cincinnati, Meier was presented with the Luther Halsey Gulick Medal. During the convention, Meier was also inducted as president-elect of the American Leisure Academy.

http://www.aahperd.org/

 

Edward Darbonne has been named assistant vice president and chief information officer at the IU Foundation. He was formerly executive director of the Office of University Development Information Systems at the University of Illinois.

Europe's leading on-line abstract publisher and analyst, Anbar Electronic Intelligence, has honored Thomas Hustad, a marketing professor at the Kelley School of Business, with the Emerald Golden Page Award. The award recognizes the Journal of Product Innovation Management, which Hustad founded more than 15 years ago and edited until January 2000. The journal provides managers and producers of new products with research-based information.

http://www.anbar.co.uk/awards/

 

Bruhn

Davis

Abels

Three members of the University Information Technology Policy and Security Offices have earned the formal designation of Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP). Mark Bruhn, policy officer, Tom Davis, security officer, and Marge Abels, lead security analyst, have fulfilled the strict requirements necessary to obtain this formal recognition, which includes a minimum of three years of experience directly focused in data and technology security, and successful completion of a comprehensive 250-question examination. The examination covers ten security- and technology-related areas, including security management practices; access control systems and methodology; law, investigation and ethics; physical security; business continuity and disaster recovery planning; security architecture and models; cryptography; applications development; and operations security. Candidates for certification must also know and abide by a set of professional ethics statements set forth by the International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2. ISC2 is an international organization dedicated to the certification of Information Systems Security professionals and practitioners.

http://www.isc2.org/index.html

http://www.itpo.iu.edu/

 

Thomas Sebeok, Distinguished Professor emeritus of linguistics and semiotics, is a visiting professor during the spring semester at the Institute for Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. A high-point of his stay will be an international conference on “Semiotics and the Communication Sciences,” supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Sebeok was invited to deliver an illustrated lecture dedicated to the memory of his late friend and collaborator Heini Hediger, a leading expert on man-animal communication, especially in zoological gardens, marine lands and circus settings. Hediger pioneered the application of Sebeok’s semiotic ideas and methods in animal taming and training, facilities and management. From Switzerland, Sebeok will proceed to Rome for lectures and ceremonies attendant upon the publication of his new book, The Semiotic Self, as well as to Milan, where a book is to appear in May about his life and works.

 

A.B. Assensoh, Afro-American studies, is the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences’ James P. Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service to Students. The award is named in memory of a late IU biology professor who was beloved for his skill and dedication as a teacher and mentor.

Two academic advisers in the College of Arts and Sciences have received the COAS Adviser of the Year Award: MaryLou Hosek of the Department of Sociology and Mary Kay Rothert of the Department of English.

Alan Rugman has been selected as the first recipient of the L. Leslie Waters Chair in international business at the Kelley School. Rugman comes to IU from Templeton College at the University of Oxford in England, where he served as the Thames Water Fellow in strategic management. The Waters Chair is named in honor of the Kelley School professor who was instrumental in helping to implement the school’s mission of internationalization following World War II.

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/rugman.htm

 

Fred Cate, law, has been elected to the senate of Phi Beta Kappa Society, the executive body of the prestigious honorary. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most respected undergraduate honors organization in the United States. Cate was elected a fellow in 1992 and to the fellows’ board of directors in 1999. He was a speaker at the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, and talked about issues surrounding privacy and access to public records. Last month, he appeared before the subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection of the U.S. House of Representatives and will testify before the U.S. Senate commerce committee next month. http://www.pbk.org/

The National Park Service has awarded its Crystal Owl Award, the highest NPS honor for training and development excellence, to the Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands, HPER, and to the institute’s director, Jim Ridenour, a former director of the NPS who has directed the institute since its inception in 1993.

http://www.indiana.edu/~eppley/

 

Lahn

Buxbaum

Hannah Buxbaum and Seth Lahn of the School of Law have been honored with the annual Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award and the Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Law Award, respectively. Law professors Charlie Geyh and Jeffrey Stake are recipients of the Trustees Teaching Awards.

Glenda Murray, continuing studies, presented a paper at the University Continuing Education Association national meeting in Philadelphia last month. Her topic was “Learning from Innovations: Successful Strategies for Workforce Development.” She discussed the IU contract with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to provide training and educational opportunities for its employees. Murray is director of professional development for the Office of Learning Partnerships.

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/workforce01.htm