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12/09/02

Awards and Honors
Mary Fran Hazinski, assistant in surgery and pediatrics, was recognized for her contributions as Emergency Care Conference senior science editor at the National Emergency Care Conference for American Heart Association in Dallas.

Cliff Joyner, director of Vanderbilt Real Estate, was recently named to the Nashville Post’s 2002 All-Nashville Commercial Real Estate Team.

Steven H. Smartt, director of the division of sponsored research, was selected to receive the National Council of University Research Administrator’s Award for Distinguished Service.

Robert Wheaton, director of environmental health and safety, was named Member of the Year by the Campus Safety Division of the Association of Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Professionals.

Papers and Presentations
Marvin M. Chun, associate professor of psychology, presented a lecture titled “Interactions Between Attention and Memory in the Human Brain” at the “Helmholtz Lecture Series” at the Helmholtz Institute in the Netherlands Oct. 4.

R. Wilburn Clouse, associate professor of leadership, policy and organization, presented a research paper titled “Creating Entrepreneurial Learning Environments” at the Global Changes in Engineering Conference for the American Society for Engineering Education at the European Society for Engineering Education in Berlin Sept. 30-Oct. 6. He received a sub-contract titled “Entrepreneurs in Action: A Team Development Process, from the School of Engineering at Tennessee Technological University and the National Science Forum.

Paul H. King, associate professor of bioengineering and mechanical engineering and associate professor of anesthesiology, and Richard C. Fries of Datex-Ohmeda Corp. co-authored a book titled Design of Medical Devices and Systems, which was published by Marcel Dekker Press. King was organizer and co-chair of the design session at the 2002 Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society/Biomedical Engineering Society. He presented the ASEE/SEFI meeting poster titled “Biomedical Engineering Design Course Content” Oct. 4 in Berlin. He also presented the paper “Concept Mapping Applied to Design,” co-authored by graduate research assistant Joan Walker, at 2002 IEEE-EMBS/BMES meeting in Houston Oct. 23.

Ararat Osipian, graduate student, spoke about international student issues at the 2002 Annual National Conference of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students hosted by Washington University in St. Louis Nov. 6-10.

Helmut F. Pfanner, professor of German, presented an invited paper on “Austrian Exiles in the New York Times 1933-1949” at a conference on Austrian literature at the Université de Metz, France. At the invitation of the Vorarlberger Literaturarchiv, an expanded version of the same paper was presented at the Vorarlberger Landestheate in Bregenz, Austria.

Jean Reese, librarian at the Peabody Library, presented a talk titled “From Nancy Drew to Internet Detectives and Madison Finn: The Internet in Juvenile Fiction” at the Internet Librarian Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Reese published an article titled “Web Enhanced Foreign Language Learning: C’est Si Bon!” in the November-December issue of MultiMedia Schools.

Carol Swain, professor of law and political science, spoke in Washington, D.C., to staff of the U.S. Department of Education Agencies. She was invited to speak by Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Gerald Reynolds, who has organized a series of speakers to speak to his organization. Swan spoke about affirmative action and her new book, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration. Her speech also was broadcast via teleconference to the 12 enforcement offices of the Office for Civil Rights, located throughout the United States.

Guoliang Yu, professor of mathematics, presented a colloquium talk titled “The Novikov Conjecture and Geometric Properties of Groups” at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign, Ill., Oct. 23. Yu also presented a talk titled “Secondary classes in K-theory of group C* algebras’’ at the Wabash Functional Analysis Conference in Indiana Oct. 26.

Professional Activities
Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, served on the organizing committee for the National Research Council Workshop on Information and Communication held Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in Washington, D.C. The workshop identified challenges and opportunities facing the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering. The National Research Council consists of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and its medical equivalent, the Institute of Medicine.

Don H. Doyle, Nelson Tyron Jr. Professor of History, was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Rome to tour in Italy related to his new book, Nations Divided: America, Italy and the Southern Question, University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Items for “Faculty and Staff Notes” should be sent to Jessica Howard, via e-mail to jessica.howard@vanderbilt.edu, via fax to 343-7313 or by mail to the Vanderbilt Register, 708 Baker Building, 110 21st Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37203.