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September 20, 1999
DuBois Aurbach Hargrove Plummer AWARDS
Donna L. Hoffman, associate professor of management (marketing), and Thomas P. Novak, associate professor of management (marketing), were voted the top two Internet scientists by over 600 United States and European scientists and marketing managers.
The survey was conducted by Professor Uwe Kamenz of the ProfNet Institute for Internet-Marketing in Dortmund, Germany, as part of a unique live world wide study tour of the Internet. Professor Kamenz is currently visiting the United States and interviewing the top 10 Internet marketing scientists as well as leading Internet firms such as Intel, and Yahoo. The results of the study tour will be broadcast on the Web as the tour unfolds at www.visionmaker.de/. This effort is sponsored by BHF-Bank, Blazesoftware, Bull, Candle Corporation, Lighthouse Multimedia, LIV Augenoptik Westfalen/Lippe, VisionMaker
APPOINTMENTS
Raymond N. DuBois Jr., Mina Cobb Wallace Professor of Cancer Prevention and director of Gastroenterology, has been named co-chair of a National Cancer Institute panel to outline priorities in colorectal cancer research. DuBois has also been named to a seven-member scientific advisory board of the new National Colorectal Alliance, a private organization spearheaded by NBC’s Katie Couric to raise awareness of colorectal cancer and funding to support research.
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
Michael Aurbach, associate professor of fine arts, is participating in two important group shows this fall. Sculpture from his “Secrecy Series” will be shown at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va., and in a national juried exhibition entitled “Contemporary Relics” at the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon, Va. In October, Aurbach will present a paper titled “Some Assembly Required” at the Southeastern College Art Conference, to be held at Old Dominion University. In November, he will lecture about his work and conduct a graduate seminar at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Roy L. DeHart, professor of medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (VCOEM), delivered in August an invited lecture titled “Airline Passengers with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity” and co-chaired the session on Medical Emergency/Passenger Health at the 47th International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine in Budapest, Hungary.
Erwin Hargrove, professor of political science, is participating in two ongoing oral history projects centered on the U.S. presidency. The first, at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, involves interviews with members of George Bush’s White House staff and is being done in cooperation with the George Bush Foundation. The second is a study of presidential transitions funded by the Pew Charitable Trust and based at the University of Maryland. Political scientists’ interviews with key members of past White House staffs are designed to develop a prescription for better ways for new adminstrations to move into a new presidency.
Michael D. Plummer, professor of mathematics, was invited to speak on “Connectivity of Graphs Embedded in Surfaces” at the Clemson Mini-Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatories and Computing, held Sept. 17-19 at Clemson University and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
Peter Veruki, director of career planning and placement at the Owen Graduate School of Management, has had his book The 250 Job Interview Questions You’ll Most Likely Be Asked ... And The Answers That Will Get You Hired published on audiocassette by Listen & Live Audio.
