Vanderbilt University Register: Faculty Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AWARDS

Karen Ann Krieger, assistant professor of piano, has had her solo piano composition, "A Saturday Swing," published by Alfred, selected for the National Federation of Music Clubs auditions. She was also seen this past fall on Nashville Public Television in an educational series called Music to Our Ears, performing with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra Trio.

W. Michael Milom, adjunct professor of law, has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 20012002. He is with the Music Row office of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP. He concentrates his practice in the areas of intellectual property and entertainment law.

APPOINTMENTS

Benoit Dawant, associate professor of electrical engineering and associate professor of computer engineering, has been appointed to the steering committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers publication Transactions on Medical Imaging. He has also been appointed for a second term as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Ann P. Kaiser, professor of special education, professor of psychology, and director of the Research Program on Communication, Cognitive, and Emotional Development at the John F. Kennedy Center, was guest editor for the November 2000 Behavioral Disorders Journal Special Issue: Assessing and Addressing Problems in Children Enrolled in Head Start.

Kaiser

PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Keith R. Aronson, post-doctoral resident at the Vanderbilt Psychological and Counseling Center, was first author of "Feeling Your Body or Feeling Badly: Evidence for the Limited Validity of the Somatosensory Amplification Scale as an Index of Somatic Sensitivity." The article is currently in press at the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. Co-authors are L. Feldman Barret and K.S. Quigley.

Erwin C. Hargrove, professor of political science, emeritus, published "The American Presidency and the British Prime Ministership as Institutions: an American Perspective" in the February 2001 issue of the British Journal of Political Science. Hargrove is also a board member and participant in a continuing series on presidential oral histories covering the Reagan, Bush and Clinton presidencies at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Hargrove

Stanley B. Link, assistant professor of the philosophy and analysis of music, delivered his paper, "Looking Through the Ear: Musical and Auditory Encodings of Seeing in Film" in November at the Toronto 2000 meeting of the Society for American Music.

Link

Laura R. Novick, associate professor of psychology, published "Spatial Diagrams: Key Instruments in the Toolbox for Thought" in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 40, D.L. Medin, editor. Novick was co-author with D.L. Morse of "Folding a Fish, Making a Mushroom: The Role of Diagrams in Executing Assembly Production" in Memory and Cognition, Vol. 28.

Peter Jipsen, assistant professor of mathematics, will present a talk titled "Computational Aspects of Residuated Lattices" at the conference on Lattice-ordered Groups and f Rings at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. Feb. 27-March 3.

Victoria J. Risko, professor of educ ation, is co-editor (with Karen Bromley of SUNY-Binghampton) of Diverse Learners: Viewpoints and Practices. This collaborative effort describes and analyzes projects in place in K-12 classrooms and teacher education programs throughout the United States.

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Carl F. Smith Jr., senior lecturer in music composition and theory, lectured to the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science on "Linear Development: Teaching, Thinking, Painting, Composing (Music and Verse)" at their annual conference on Star Island in August 2000.

Items for the Faculty and Staff Notes column should be sent to Tara S. Donahueby campus mail to 708 Baker Building, by e-mail to tara.s.donahue@vanderbilt.edu or by fax to 343-7313.