Vanderbilt University Register: Faculty Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AERA PARTICIPANTS

The American Educational Research Association held its annual meeting April 1014 in Seattle. Throughout the summer, the Register will list faculty and students who participated in the conference and the titles of their presentations.

Paul A. Cobb, professor of education, Kay McClain, assistant professor of mathematics education, and Jose Luis Cortina, graduate student, presented "Understanding Means and Ratios as Measures." Deborah Schussler, graduate student, presented "A Study of an Alternative School: Viewing School through the Eyes of the Students." Marietta Del Favero, graduate student, presented "Influences on Multiple Perspective-taking in Administrative Behavior Among Academic Deans in Research and Doctoral Institutions."

APPOINTMENTS

Daniel M. Fleetwood, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected to serve on the 2001 Fellow Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). As a member of the committee, Fleetwood will make recommendations to the IEEE Board of Directors of nominees to be awarded the fellow grade of membership. To receive fellow designation, nominees must demonstrate exemplary professional qualifications and experience, and make important contributions to their fields.

AWARDS

David D. Mohning, director of student financial aid and assistant professor of the practice of education, was recently honored by the Tennessee Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators as the recipient of the organization's Distinguished Service Award. At its spring conference, the association's membership, comprised of 420 individuals who work in student financial aid for institutions and organizations throughout the state of Tennessee, bestowed this award on Mohning in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the student financial aid profession.

Mohning

Sandra Braber-Grove, manager of audio-visual services and technical support specialist at the Law School Information Technology Services, was an invited faculty speaker at the "Internet Basics for the Tennessee Attorney" continuing legal education seminar offered by the National Business Institute at the Union Station Hotel April 26.

Vivien Casagrande, professor of cell biology, psychology, and ophthalmology and visual sciences, and a Kennedy Center investigator, was invited to speak at a symposium, "Antropoid Origins" sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The event was held April 2021 at the Powdermill Nature Reserve in Pennsylvania, a nature preserve owned by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. A major focus of the symposium was the contribution of vision to the evolution of the brain of human ancestors. Casagrande's talk was titled "Conservation and Change in Primate Vision." A book based on the symposium will be published in 2002.

Harold G. Maier, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, was invited to deliver the 15th Blain Sloan Lecture on International Law at Pace Law School, White Plains, N.Y., Feb. 15. The paper, titled "The Cuban Democracy Act: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?" questioned the political and economic utility of the United States embargo against trade with the Republic of Cuba. The paper will be published in an upcoming issue of the Pace Law Review.

Luigi Monga, professor of French and Italian, presented "Venezia e la Spagna di Filippo II: crisi e speranze di una politica," at the XXI Annual Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia April 22.

Guoliang Yu, associate professor of mathematics, presented a talk titled "The Baum-Connes Conjecture for Hyperbolic Groups" at the Quantization and Non-commutative Geometry Conference, held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkley, Calif., April 2229.

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.