APPOINTMENTS

Robin Asbury, executive director of university relations, UW-Oshkosh. She was director of public relations and marketing at Newberry College in Newberry, S.C.

John Berens, associate vice chancellor for enrollment and information services, UW-Oshkosh. Berens has been assistant vice chancellor for information technology since 1995.

Martin Cadwallader, dean of the Graduate School and vice chancellor for research, UW-Madison. Cadwallader was the interim dean of the school.

Dale Carruthers, director of recreational sports, UW-Madison. Carruthers had been with the Division of Campus Recreation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1981.

Christine Clements, dean, College of Business and Economics, UW-Whitewater. Clements previously served as interim dean.

Craig Coshun, assistant director of News and Public Affairs, UW-Whitewater. Coshun was sports director at WMTV in Madison from 1993 to 2000.

Heidi Fisher, director of annual giving and donor relations, UW-Eau Claire Foundation. Fisher is a 1990 education graduate of UW-Eau Claire.

Virginia Helm, provost/vice chancellor, UW-Stevens Point. Helm was the executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Ind.

Faith Hensrud, director, Distance Learning Center, UW-Superior. Hensrud spent the past year as the center's interim director.

Luoluo Hong, dean of students, UW-Madison. Hong was assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W. Va.

E. Mitchell Kilcrease, director of University Centers and Programs, UW-Eau Claire. Kilcrease was associate director of Reeve Memorial Union/director of University Dining and Retail Services at UW-Oshkosh.

Dean Murzello, director of Gruenhagen Conference Center, UW-Oshkosh. Murzello was a member of the management team at Appleton's Radisson Paper Valley Hotel.

Donald A. Nichols, director of the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, UW-Madison. Nichols, who teaches economics, was appointed to a three-year term.

Elena Pokot, chief technology officer, UW-Whitewater. Pokot was the director of Administrative Systems and Information Technology at William Ratney Harper College in Palatine, Ill.

Virginia Sapiro, associate vice chancellor for teaching and learning, UW-Madison. Sapiro is also the Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies.

Marsha Mailick Seltzer, director, Waisman Center, UW-Madison. Seltzer was the center's acting director.

Marcia Sola, coordinator for International Student Services, UW-Platteville. Sola was the immigration outreach coordinator for the Northeastern Iowa Archdiocese.

Joseph A. Tiffany, executive director of the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, UW-La Crosse. Tiffany has directed the center's laboratory for eight years and has been on the anthropology department faculty at Iowa State University in Ames.

Samuel Butcher and Laura Knoll, UW-Madison and Michael Carvan, UW-Milwaukee, $200,000 under the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Shaw Scientist Award. Butcher, an assistant professor of biochemistry, will study the structural biology of RNA. Knoll, an assistant professor of medical microbiology, will look for genes that can cause infections in developing fetuses. Carvan, an assistant professor in the UWM Great Lakes WATER Institute, will study effects of alcohol exposure on the development of zebra fish.

Bill Colclough, UW-La Crosse, $10,977 from the U.S. Agency for International Development, via Georgetown University, to provide in-country training of Romanian bankers in asset and liability management. Colclough is in the College of Business Administration.

Jan Gallagher, Business Development Center, UW-La Crosse, $51,476 from the Small Business Administration, via UW Extension, for the 2002 Small Business Development Grant.

Heidi Goodrich-Blair, UW- Madison, $400,000 from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Goodrich-Blair will study how some bacteria evade the human body's innate immune system. She is an assistant professor of bacteriology.

Jo Handelsman, professor of plant pathology, UW-Madison, $1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to further undergraduate research. Handelsman was one of 20 winners chosen from among 150 scientists nominated by 84 American research universities.

Roger Haro, Rob Tyser and Mark Sandheinrich, UW-La Crosse, $415,481 from the U.S. Geological Survey to continue the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Cooperative Agreement with the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center.

Michael Jackson, UW-La Crosse, $35,000 from the American Chemical Society for a Petroleum Research Fund award; $36,800 from the Research Corp. for "high resolution molecular spectroscopy in the far-infrared using laser magnetic resonance," and $17,400 from the National Science Foundation for a scientific research grant at Oxford University.

Todd Kostman, UW-Oshkosh, $74,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for two years of study on reducing the toxin oxalic acid in plants, potentially making them safer for humans and animals to eat. Kostman is the director of UWO's Electron Microscopy Facility.

Mo McAlpine and Garth Tymeson, UW-La Crosse, $23,600 from the City of La Crosse for support of the National Youth Sports Program. McAlpine and Tymeson are in the College of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Teacher Education.

Vjekoslav Miletic, UW-Madison, $150,000 from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation for a two-year study on why pain sometimes persists after an injury and what may be done to relieve it. Miletic is a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine's department of comparative biosciences.

Robert Ragan, UW-La Crosse, $90,000 from the National Science Foundation for research on computational studies of spin transport in quantum fluids and solids. Ragan is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics.

Barbara Stewart and Ned Reese, Multicultural Student Services, UW-La Crosse, $142,927 from the U.S. Department of Education, via UW System, for a four-year "Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership Grant."

UW-Madison PACE Coalition, $468,000, four-year grant renewal from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Formerly known as the RWJ Project, the project is now known as "PACE: Reducing the Consequences of High-Risk Drinking," to reflect the commission's work on policy, alternatives, community, and education toward reducing consequences of high-risk drinking on campus.

Rita Christoffersen, UW-Stout, named a Maybelle Ranney Price professor, a one-year professorship that provides $3,500. Christoffersen is a professor in UW-Stout's technology department.

Michael L. Corradini, UW-Madison, named by President Bush as chair of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Corradini is chair of UW-Madison's Department of Engineering Physics and director of the Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems.

Jan Gallagher, UW-La Crosse, nominated as the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center Star. Gallagher represented Wisconsin at the Association of Small Business Development Centers annual conference in Nashville in September. Gallagher has directed the center for eight years.

Leslie Koepke and Robert Salt, UW-Stout, named Dahlgren Professors in the human development, family living and community education services department. The two-year professorships provide $7,500.

Max G. Lagally, UW-Madison, 2002 Tibbetts Award, which goes to individuals and organizations that have used Small Business Innovation Research funding to make a clear and definable difference. Lagally is an E.W. Mueller Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Meg Waraczynski, UW-Whitewater, 2002 Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit in the Faculty Academic Advising category from the National Academic Advising Association. Waraczynski is an associate professor of psychology.

UW-Eau Claire, eight-year reaccreditation of Department of Communication Disorders masters program by the Council on Academic Reaccreditation of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

UW-Platteville, "Discover Downtown," a cooperative revitalization effort with the Platteville Chamber of Commerce and the Platteville Main Street Program, honored by the Wisconsin Downtown Action Council for work in energizing Platteville's City Park and historic downtown.

Abdol Soofi, Ph.D., UW-Platteville, Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data: Techniques of Nonlinear Dynamics. Soofi is director of economics and director of institutional research. Soofi co-edited the text with Liangyue Cao of the University of Western Australia, Nedlands.

Rodney Stevenson, UW-Madison, and Abbas Taheri, UW-Fox Valley, "Energy Price, Environmental Policy and Technological Bias," in October's edition of The Energy Journal, a publication of the International Association for Energy Economics. Stevenson is a professor of business and environmental studies in the Graduate School of Business. Taheri is an associate professor of economics.