AWARDS

Gilles Bousquet, dean of International Studies, and David Trubek, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and former dean of International Studies, UW-Madison, l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, or the Order of Academic Palms, from the French government. The Palmes recognizes devotion and accomplishment in the areas of teaching, scholarship and research.

Deborah Brandt, UW-Madison, the University of Louisville's 2003 Grawemeyer Award in Education for "Literacy in American Lives," and the Modern Language Association's Mina P. Shaugnessy prize recognizing the outstanding research publication on the teaching of English. The Grawemeyer Award comes with a $200,000 prize. The MLA prize includes a $1,000 award.

Anthony Bukoski, UW-Superior, the Sarmatian Review Literary Prize for 2002 "for artistic excellence in presenting the life of American Polish communities in the Midwest." Bukoski is the first recipient of this award.

La Vonne Cornell-Swanson, UW-Eau Claire, the I. DeQuincey Newman Social and Economic Justice Scholarship Award from the I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice. Cornell-Swanson, an assistant professor of social work, was the first to receive the award.

Robert Goodman, professor of plant pathology; Richard Vierstra, professor of horticulture; and Laura Kiessling, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, UW-Madison, named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Carole Halberg, UW-Eau Claire, the 2003 Senn Award for leadership by a professional in a non-profit organization from the United Way of Greater Eau Claire. Halberg is president of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.

Harry Jol, UW-Eau Claire, a visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Jol, a professor of geography, will spend six months with the department of geological sciences.

Heather Kind-Keppel, UW-Stevens Point, the Empowher New Professional Fellowship award from the American College Personnel Association for her work with empowering women. She is the director of Baldwin Residence Hall.

Marvin Lang, UW-Stevens Point, the Harry and Carol Mosher award from the Santa Clara Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. Lang is a chemistry professor.

David Larbalestier, UW-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Larbalestier is a professor of materials science and engineering.

Gilbert Nathanson and Linda Sparke, UW-Madison, elected to the fellowship program at the American Physical Society, a worldwide federation of more than 42,000 physicists.

Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry, UW-Madison, the 2003 award for "Public Understanding of Science and Technology" from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

UW-Stout, Secretary's Award of Achievement from the Wisconsin Department of Employee Relations and the State Council on Affirmative Action, for progress in attracting women and minorities to faculty positions and for a variety of diversity initiatives.

Randy Champeau, UW-Stevens Point, $300,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for "Development and Dissemination of K-12 Forestry Education Program" and $95,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Administration for "Focus on Energy-Renewable Energy Program." Champeau is director of the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education and associate dean of extension and outreach in the College of Natural Resources.

Kevin Czerwinski, UW-Stevens Point, $118,525 from National Institutes of Health-AREA for "Canthinones as Human Isozyme Selective PDE4 Inhibitors." Czerwinski is an associate professor of chemistry.

Heather Dubrow, UW-Madison, $40,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to examine lyric poetry in the early modern period. Dubrow has been a member of the Department of English faculty since 1990.

Anne Hoffman, UW-Stevens Point, $49,122 from UW-Oshkosh for "Collaborating Campus Tobacco Reduction Plan." Hoffman is assistant director of the office of student health promotion.

Robert Korth, UW-Extension-Lake Program, $386,085 from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for Lake Management Educational and Organizational Assistance. Korth is a lake specialist for the program, part of the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership, a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Wisconsin Association of Lakes and UW Extension. The program is located at UW-Stevens Point's College of Natural Resources.

Melvyn Rousseau, UW-Stevens Point, $264,695 from the U.S. Department of Education for the Education Support Program. Rousseau is director of the program.

Jasmine Saros, UW-La Crosse, $97,876 from the National Science Foundation via Lehigh University for research on the "Interactive effects of UV radiation and temperature on pelagic foodwebs." Saros is an assistant professor of biology research.

Wayne Swanger and Tom Fischer, UW-Oshkosh, $40,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for a fourth year of a project entitled "Wisconsin Teacher Supply and Demand." Their total funding to date is $163,090. Swanger and Fischer are both faculty in the College of Education and Human Services.

Henry Wojnicki, UW-Stevens Point, $394,456 from the U.S. Department of Education to operate Upward Bound through May 2003. Wojnicki is the program director for Upward Bound.

Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, UW-La Crosse, $850,770 from the U.S. Department of Education via CESA #12 for a Teaching American History Grant. Zeisler-Vralsted is a professor of history.

UW-Eau Claire, mathematics and computer science departments, $400,000, from the National Science Foundation to develop the Excellence in Mathematics and Computer Science Scholarship Program.

UW-Extension, a $382,632 two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for violence prevention programs in two high-crime Waukesha neighborhoods.

Bob Carney, Lise Graham and Dianne Morrison, UW-La Crosse, "Can We Still Find Long-term Care Financing Without Buying a Policy, and Do We Want To?" published in the journal Managerial Finance, Fall 2002. Graham is the chair of the department of finance; Carney is a professor in the department, and Morrison is an instructor.

Michael Dombeck, UW-Stevens Point, "From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy," with two other nationally known conservationists, Island Press, Washington D.C. Dombeck is a professor of Global Environmental Management at UW-Stevens Point and UW System Fellow of Global Conservation.

Karin Fry, UW-Stevens Point, "The Role of Aesthetics in the Politics of Hannah Arendt," published in the journal Philosophy Today. Fry is an assistant professor of philosophy.

Barbara Harbach, UW-Stevens Point, "On Our Way Rejoicing," a collection of organ music, Augsburg Fortress Press, Minneapolis. Harbach is a visiting professor of fine arts.

Jearold Holland, UW-La Crosse, "Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective," Burnham Inc., Publishers, Chicago. Holland is associate professor and chair of the recreation management/therapeutic recreation department.

David Riley, UW-La Crosse, "The Object of Data Abstraction and Structures (using Java)," Addison Wesley, Boston. Riley is chair of the computer science department.

Robert Rogers, UW-Stevens Point, "The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks," co-authored with Paul S. Johnson and Stephen R. Shifley, CABI. Rogers is a professor of forestry.

John Thomson, UW-Madison, "Lichens of Wisconsin," Wisconsin State Herbarium, Madison. Thomson is an emeritus professor of botany.

Alek Toumi, UW-Stevens Point, "Maghreb Divers: Langues, littératures et représentations des Maghrébins," Peter Lang Publishing, New York City. Toumi is an assistant professor of French.

M. Cecilia Wendler, UW-Eau Claire, "The HeART of Nursing: Expressions of Creative Art in Nursing," Center Nursing Publishing of Sigma Tau International. The book is a compilation of original stories, poems and visual artworks by nurses about their profession. Wendler is an associate professor in the department of nursing systems.

Kimberly Barrett, associate vice chancellor for student development and diversity, UW-Eau Claire. Barrett was vice provost for student affairs at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

Anne Basting, director of the Age and Community Center, UW-Milwaukee. Basting was a fellow at the Brookdale Center on Aging in New York.

Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for administration, UW-Madison. Bazzell was secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Joanne Berg, registrar, UW-Madison. Berg was serving as interim registrar.

Charles Casey, president of the American Chemical Society. Casey is a chemistry professor at UW-Madison.

Erik Christianson, director of communications, UW System. Christianson was the acting director of communications.

Greg Diemer, vice chancellor for business affairs, UW-Stevens Point. Diemer was assistant chancellor for business affairs.

Michael Dombeck, elected to the Board of Trustees of The Johnson Foundation of Racine. Dombeck is a professor of global environmental management at UW-Stevens Point and UW System Fellow of Global Conservation.

Sharon Dunwoody, associate dean for social studies in the Graduate School, UW-Madison. She has held the position on an interim basis since May 2001.

Bernice Durand, associate vice chancellor for diversity and climate, UW-Madison. Durand is also a physics professor.

Debbie Durcan, appointed to the Collegiate Management Institute Futures Task Force of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers. Durcan is the UW System vice president for finance.

Greg Fischer, manager of the Aquaculture Demonstration Facility, UW-Superior. Fischer was director of the Red Cliff Tribal Natural Resources Program and Fish Hatchery Program.

Al Fish, associate vice chancellor, UW-Madison. Fish was administrative officer and associate athletic director for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics since 1989.

Scott Frazier, president of the Wisconsin Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. He is the director of physical education at UW-Stevens Point.

Lynn Freeman, director of academic advisement, UW-Oshkosh. She was the associate director of the undergraduate academic advising center at Stanford University.

Erhard Joeres, interim director of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison. Joeres is a professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering and environmental studies.

Ronald Lostetter, elected to 14-member Board of Directors of Central Association of College and University Business Officers. Lostetter is vice chancellor for administration and finance at UW-La Crosse.

Marc Messina, controller, UW System. Messina was UW System grants coordinator.

Rhonda Montgomery, chair of gerontology, UW-Milwaukee. Montgomery was chair of the Ph. D. in Gerontology and director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Kansas.

John Reid, director, University Police and Security, UW-Whitewater. Reid was captain and second in command of the university police department at the University of Arkansas.

Richard Telfer, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, UW-Whitewater. Telfer was associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and served as interim provost.

Christine Thomas, appointed to the state Natural Resources Board. Thomas is associate dean for academic affairs for the College of Natural Resources at UW-Stevens Point.

Bob Tomlinson, vice chancellor for student affairs, UW-Stevens Point. Tomlinson was assistant chancellor for student affairs.

Keith White, associate director of admissions, UW-Madison, President-Elect of the National Association of Collegiate Admissions Counseling.

Barbara Wolfe, elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Wolfe is a professor of economics, public affairs and population health sciences at UW-Madison.