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10/28/02

Appointments and Elections
William G. Christie, dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, is one of three newly elected members of the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council. The board provides leadership and direction in setting a strategy that leverages the council’s core competencies and focuses on service to GMAC constituents.

Paul A. Cobb, professor of education, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Education.

Bill Ivey, the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, has been named program facilitator for the executive education program Leadership Music.

Papers and Presentations
Alfredo J. Artiles, professor of special education, gave the keynote address at the annual conference of the New England Bilingual Special Education Network in Providence, R.I., in October. The title of his address was “Sociocultural influences in the disproportionate representation of English learners in special education.”

Mark Ellingham, associate professor of mathematics, is scheduled to present the invited talk “Triangular embeddings of complete graphs” at a special session of the 2002 American Mathematical Society Fall Southern Section Conference at the University of Florida in Orlando, Nov. 8-10.

David Ernst, professor of physics, the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, presented a talk titled “Neutrino Masses and Mixings: an Overview” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science held in Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 26-29. Ernst served as a representative of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists at the meeting, also served as co-organizer, together with with Luz Martinez-Miranda of the University of Maryland, of a session titled “Physics: From Life to the Frontiers of the Universe,” served as a mentor in the program titled “Inquiry, Apply, Interview, and Enroll: The Complete Program on How to Go to Graduate School,” and served as a judge of the student poster sessions.

Mary Ann Horn, associate professor of mathematics, presented a talk titled “Modeling of antibiotic resistant nosocomial infections” at the Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville Oct. 10-13.

Jason H. Moore, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, presented the following papers: “Strategies for Identifying Gene-Gene Interactions in Cardiovascular Disease” at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, Aug. 8; “Non-Traditional Statistical Approaches for the Analysis of High-Dimensional Genetic Data” at the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings in New York City, Aug. 15; “Symbolic Discriminant Analysis for Mining Gene Expression Patterns: The Importance of Cross-Validation Consistency” at the Workshop on Evolutionary and Neural Computation in Bioinformatics in Granada, Spain, Sept. 7; “Cellular Automata and Genetic Algorithms for Parallel Problem Solving in Human Genetics” at the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature in Granada, Spain, Sept. 11.

John Wikswo, the Gordon A. Cain University Professor, presented a colloquium titled “Vacuum Pair Production/Annihilation and Cardiac String Dynamics,” at the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colo., Aug. 22. There he was one of the organizers of a three-week workshop on Wave Dynamics in Biological Excitable Media. July 28, he presented at the Aspen Institute the Heinz R. Pagels Memorial Lecture on “The Physics of the Heart.” Sept. 24, he presented a talk on “Experimental and Computational Requirements for Post-Genomic Integrative Cellular Physiology” at the Intel Workshop on Early Disease Detection in San Francisco, Calif. All three talks are available online at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lsp/recent_talks.htm.

Publications
William Partridge, professor of human and organizational development, his wife Maria Clara Mejia, and several of their social science colleagues around the world co-authored Incorporating Social Dimensions into Bank-Supported Projects, volume one. The sourcebook for World Bank officials and their counterparts was recently published at www.worldbank.org/socialanalysis.

In Memoriam
Charles A. Kiesler, Vanderbilt provost from 1985 to 1992, died in San Diego Oct. 11. Funeral services were held Oct. 14 in California.

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