Vanderbilt University Register: Faculty Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AWARDS AND HONORS

Delbert Mann, member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and 1941 graduate
of the University, was honored with the Directors Guild of America's Honorary
Life Member Award at the DGA Awards in Los Angeles March 9. The award is given
in recognition of "outstanding creative achievement, or contribution to the
DGA or the profession of directing." Mann is a past president of DGA and an
Academy Award-winning director.

ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

Michael Aurbach, professor of fine arts, has been elected president of the College Art Association, which represents more than 14,000 art history professors and more than 1,000 institutions, including universities and museums across the United States. Through both the CAA and the Southeastern College Art Conference, Aurbach has been actively involved with the development of professional guidelines and standards for artists, art historians and museum professionals for many years. Prior to becoming president he served as a member of CAA's board of directors and as vice president for committees. Since 1997, he has coordinated CAA's annual conference mentoring program known as the Career Development Workshop.

Aurbach

John Bransford, Centennial Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Learning Technology Center, was recently named to the Board of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Anne L. Corn, professor of special education, has been appointed to the Tennessee Interagency Professional Educators' Consortium. The committee is charged with reviewing and making recommendations on the recruitment, personnel preparation and retention of special educators in Tennessee.

Corn

Jan Rosemergy, director of communications and community relations for the Kennedy Center, has been appointed to the newly created State Developmental Disabilities Planning and Policy Council by Elisabeth Rukeyser, commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. The council will advise the DMHDD Council on the three-year plan, policy, budget requests, and developing and evaluating the service systems for individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Kenneth K. Wong, professor of public policy and education, was invited by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to give the keynote address at its annual statewide conference on school improvement Feb. 25-26 in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Wong's address was titled "Title I School-wide Reform as a Lever to Promote Accountability, Equity, and Innovation: A Review of the Knowledge Base." Hundreds of teachers, principals and administrators from schools with a high percentage of low-income children across the state attended the conference.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Camilla P. Benbow, dean of Peabody College, professor of psychology and Senior Fellow at the Kennedy Center, served on a National Research Council panel on Advanced Study of Mathematics in American High Schools. The panel recently released a report titled "Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools."

Gordon Gee, Chancellor, will lead a series of educational sessions with other prominent members of the Nashville community for a new program called the Circle of Hope. The program, organized by the Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, will help generate awareness of cystic fibrosis. The educational sessions will begin April 17.

Gee

PUBLICATIONS

Jonathan I. Charney, professor of law and Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law, authored "The Use of Force Against Terrorism and International Law," which was published in the October 2001 issue of the American Journal of International Law.

IN MEMORIAM

Edward A. Martin, associate professor of the practice of human and organizational development, emeritus, and former assistant coach for the Commodore men's basketball team, died Feb. 25. He was 75. Services were held March 1 at Kean Hall on the campus of Tennessee State University.

Martin

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