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04/26/03
Appointments and Elections
John Wikswo, the Gordon A. Cain University Professor, has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of CardioMag Imaging Inc. of Schenectady, New York. Wikswo was invited to attend the Superconducting RF Workshop on Modular Cryopackaging in Melbourne, Fla., Feb. 4-5, where he served as the reporter for the working group on Electromagnetic Isolation and Shielding. At the March meeting of the American Physical Society, in Austin, he presented two contributed talks: “Challenges of single ion channel biosensors,” with Fredrick Sachs of State University of New York and the University of Buffalo, and “Effect of a plunge electrode during field stimulation of cardiac tissue,” with co-authors Marcella Woods, graduate student; Veniamin Sidorov, research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Deborah Langrill, graduate student at Oakland University; and Bradley Roth, of Oakland University. March 5, Wikswo presented an invited talk on “High-Content Toxicology Screening Using Massively Parallel, Multi-Phasic Cellular Biological Activity Detectors,” at the DARPA ADT/CBS 2003 Annual PI Conference in Breckenridge, Colo. Co-authors were Franz Baudenbacher, research assistant professor of physics; Robert Balcarcel, assistant professor of chemical engineering; David Cliffel, assistant professor of chemistry; Sven Eklund, research associate in the chemistry department; Igor Ges, research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Owen McGuinness, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics; Ales Prokop, research professor of chemical engineering; Randall Reiserer, research associate in biomedical engineering; David Schaffer, graduate student; Mark Stremler, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Roy Thompson of the United States Army ECBC/SBCCOM in Aberdeen, Md.; and Andreas Werdich, graduate student. These talks are posted at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lsp/recent_talks.htm.
Awards and Honors
Doug Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs, professors of special education at Peabody College and investigators in the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, received the 2003 Special Education Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children at its national conference April 11 in Seattle, Wash.
Papers and Presentations
James F. Blumstein, Centennial Professor of Law and director of the Health Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, gave one of two framing presentations to begin a series of hearings on health care and competition in Washington D.C. in February. The Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of Justice have launched a joint initiative on health care and competition law, and these federal antitrust enforcement agencies plan to hold a series of hearings on the issues. At the lead-off program, “Perspectives on Competition Policy and the Health Care Marketplace,” Blumstein and other leading academic authorities in the field developed the issues for consideration and provided views on the important issues of competition policy facing the enforcement agencies in the health care field.
Gordon Gee, Chancellor, will deliver the 110th Commencement address at Utah State University May 3 and will receive an honorary doctorate.
Peter C. Hodgson, Charles G. Finney Professor of Theology, presented “A Half Century of Theology: Personal Reflections” during a graduate colloquium honoring his retirement April 23. Hodgson traced his intellectual odyssey through seminary and graduate school, his early years on the Divinity School faculty, the personal impact of black, feminist and liberation theologies, his works of constructive theology, among other recollections.
Sheree C. Wright, University counsel, gave a presentation to the Tennessee College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine on the Americans with Disabilities Act Oct. 4-5, 2002. Wright was a panelist and presented at the “Nashville November Roadshow” Nov. 7, 2002 for the Tennessee Bar Association/Continuing Legal Education Program. She presented “Ethics and Professionalism in Government Practice to the Nashville Bar Association/Continuing Legal Education Program and participated in a panel discussion Dec. 6, 2002. She presented an ethics program at the “Real Estate/Environmental Seminar” of the Tennessee Bar Association/Continuing Legal Education Program Jan. 16. She participated in a panel discussion at the Lawyers’ Association for Women Continuing Legal Education Program on Ethics Feb. 7. She presented “What Would You Do If...Under The New Rules” for the Nashville Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program and participated in a panel discussion Feb. 18.
Professional Activities
John Johns, associate professor of guitar and chair of the department, recently performed concerts at the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts in Seymore; at the Middle Tennessee State University Guitar Festival in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; at Burritt on the Mountain Museum in Huntsville, Ala.; and at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, Tenn. He has also been invited to perform a concert and teach at the Chitarra Imperia International Guitar Festival to be held in Imperia, Italy in June.
Publications
Paul B. Miller, senior lecturer in Spanish and comparative literature, co-authored the chapter “Literature and Popular Culture” in Understanding Contemporary Caribbean.
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