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Steinberg
gets book prize
The book Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
by Ted Steinberg, professor of history and law, has won
the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award in the nature/environment
category.
In his book, Steinberg explores how nature has influenced history.
Pyle
receives honors
Marsha Pyle, associate professor of dentistry, has been
named vice chair of the American Dental Education Association
(ADEA) session planning committee and chair elect of the ADEA
council of facilities.
Pyle recently published an article, "Changing Perceptions of
Oral Health and Its Importance to General Health: Providers Perceptions,
Public Perceptions, Policymaker Perceptions" in Special Care
in Dentistry.
In addition, she serves as a mentor to three students in geriatric
dentistry who recently swept the top awards in the Arthur Elfenbaum
Essay Contest of the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry.
Bala
discusses India
A lecturer in the departments of history and religion, Poonam
Bala recently explored the impact a U.S.-Afghanistan alliance
might have on the Indian-Pakistan conflict.
She participated in the panel "India and Pakistan and the Kashmir
Dilemma" at the City Club. Bala explored past and present causes
of the conflict between India and Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir,
including the pre-independence rule of India under Great Britain.
She also talked about what role the United Nations could play
in ameliorating the situations.
Townsend
named fellow
Aloen Townsend, associate professor of social work at
the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has been elected
a fellow of the behavioral and social sciences section of the
Gerontological Society of America.
Townsend also was named a National Research Mentor for the John
A. Hartford Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Geriatric Social
Work.
Panel
appoints Fitzpatrick
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor
at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been named
to the Health Action AIDS advisory board of Physicians for Human
Rights.
Earlier this year Fitzpatrick led a group of students from the
Bolton School to Uganda to study ways that nation is dealing with
the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly through the use of nurses
as primary caregivers.
Weiss
joins committee
Michael A. Weiss, professor and chair of biochemistry
at the School of Medicine, has been appointed to the publications
committee of the Biophysical Society, a professional organization
with nearly 7,000 members in the United States and 45 countries.
Committee appointments are for three-year terms.
Alum
wins econ award
Edward Prescott, who received his master's degree in operations
research from CWRU in 1963, has been awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers
Prize in Economics.
Prescott is the Regents' Professor in the University of Minnesota's
economics department and economic adviser to the Federal Reserve
Bank of Minneapolis.
Previts
influential in field
Accounting Today has named Gary Previts, professor
of accountancy and associate dean for undergraduate and integrated
study programs at the Weatherhead School of Management, one of
the 100 most influential people in the accounting profession.
The list honors educators, regulators, firm partners, financial
and technology mavens, association heads, politicians, prosecutors
and consultants who are considered agents of change in the profession.
Zerai
speaks to geologists
Biniam Zerai, a CWRU graduate student in the department
of geological sciences, shared with geologists from across the
country how CWRU is exploring ways to bury some of the 150 million
tons of carbon dioxide emitted annually from Ohio's coal-burning
power plants.
Zerai discussed the project, "Geochemical Reactions for Sequestration
of CO2 in Ohio's Deep Saline Aquifers," during the poster session
of the 114th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America
in Denver.
Fuel
cell symposium held
CWRU and the newly formed Case Advanced Power Institute
with its established and growing research capabilities can help
Ohio take the lead in the burgeoning fuel cell industry, according
to a recent symposium.
The second annual Ohio Fuel Cell Symposium illustrated ways in
which Ohio's existing universities, industries and entrepreneurs
can work together to further mobile, portable and stationary fuel
cell applications.
Panelists and speakers at the event included CWRU faculty and
representatives from businesses across the country.
Armitage
tops in teaching
Keith Armitage, associate professor of infectious diseases
at the School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland,
has been selected by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME) as one of 11 outstanding program directors in
the nation to receive the ACGME's Parker J. Palmer "Courage to
Teach" award.
He and the other recipients of the award will be honored at a
dinner February 10, 2003, at the Hotel Sofitel located in Rosemont,
Ill.
Ratcheson
to lead society
Robert Ratcheson, the Harvey Huntington Brown Jr. Professor
and chairman of the department of neurological surgery, became
president of the Society of Neurological Surgeons for 2002-2003
at its recent annual meeting in Toronto. He served as treasurer
of the society from 1996-2001.
Prion
center hosts media
A medical writer for the Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper,
Maura Lerner spent a day and a half observing the National
Prion Surveillance Center at CWRU, the nation's only center
testing for evidence in the United States of the presence of a
new variant Creutzfeld Jakob disease, the human version of mad
cow disease.
The center is located at the School of Medicine's Institute of
Pathology and is directed by Pierluigi Gambetti, professor
of pathology.
Panel
discusses security
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones from Ohio's 11th District joined
two public administration and public policy scholars in the discussion,
"Who's in Charge of Homeland Security? The Organizational Challenge
to American Governments" earlier this month during a forum sponsored
by CWRU's Center for Policy Studies.
Other speakers included Joseph White, CWRU's Luxenberg
Family Professor of Public Policy, who addressed the costs and
benefits of the nation's new Department of Homeland Security.
Event
covers menopause
Learning the latest medical information about menopause was the
subject of a recent program sponsored by the CWRU School of Medicine
and the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Faculty teaching in the program included Wulf H. Utian,
the Arthur H. Bill Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Biology
and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the CWRU School of Medicine and
executive director and honorary founding president of NAMS.
Narsavage's
study cited
Georgia Narsavage, associate professor of nursing and
director of the master's degree program at the Frances Payne Bolton
School of Nursing, has received the Allied Respiratory Professionals
award for her abstract, "Normative Study of the Pulmonary Functional
Status Scale (PFSS)."
The study determined the effectiveness of the PFSS in classifying
normal levels of function in older adults.
Fiske
law lecture given
Although women have been entering the legal profession in steadily
greater numbers in recent decades, they still face significant
obstacles to advancing in the profession.
Sheila Wellington, president of the research organization Catalyst,
discussed these findings recently when she delivered the 2002
Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lecture at the School of Law.
Krauss
to speak at AAAS
Lawrence Krauss, chair and Ambrose Swasey Professor of
Physics, has been invited as one of only a few scientists nationwide
to present a topical lecture at the 2003 American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting February
13-18 in Denver.
His presentation will be on "Scientific Ignorance as a Way of
Life: From Science Fiction in Washington to Intelligent Design
in the Classroom."
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