Webcam  |  VU Homepage  |  VUMC  |  Exploration  |  Jobline  |  Parking  |  People Finder  |

02/11/03

Awards and Honors
Carolyn Hughes, associate professor of special education, and co-authors Guy Gilberts, special education teacher at the Othello School District In Washington; Martin Agran, professor of special education at the University of Iowa; and Michael Wehmeyer, associate professor of special education at the University of Kansas, received the 2002 Thomas G. Haring Award Dec. 12, 2002, in Boston at the 2002 TASH Conference for their article “The Effects of Peer Delivered Self-Monitoring Strategies on the Participation of Students with Severe Disabilities in General Education Classrooms,” which was published in the Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps. The Thomas G. Haring Award is a $1,000 award established by Norris Haring, one of the founders of TASH, and his wife, Dorothy, in memory of their son, Thomas. The purposes of the Thomas G. Haring Award are to promote research and scholarly activity in the field of severe disabilities, and to recognize excellence among researchers within the field.

Appointments and Elections
Michael Aurbach, professor of art, has been elected president of the College Art Association. The CAA is a national organization of more than 14,000 individual artists, art historians and other visual arts and museum professionals.

Bill Ivey, the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished University Visiting Scholar, has been named chair of the board of directors for the National Recordings Preservation Foundation. The non-profit organization will promote and raise funds for the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.

Papers and Presentations
W. James Booth, professor of political science, made two invited presentations on “Memory and Justice” to the University of California Humanities Research Institute Jan. 13-14.

Jeffrey Schoenblum, professor of law, recently delivered the Nottingham Lecture on “Theories for Determining and Regulating Cross-Border Marital Property Rights.” The Nottingham Lecture is the premiere academic lecture sponsored in the English Commonwealth relating to international banking, offshore finance and individual tax law. Previously, only English and Canadian professors had delivered the lecture. Schoenblum’s lecture addressed the considerable difficulties generated by cross-border marriages with regard to property rights of the spouses. In particular, the disparate approaches of the U.S., British Commonwealth and civil law were examined as well as their respective theoretical underpinnings.

John Wikswo Jr., Gordon A. Cain University Professor, presented a joint physics and applied physics colloquium titled “The Physics of the Heart” at Stanford University Nov. 19. Dec. 4, he presented a shorter version of the talk at one of the Vanderbilt Houston Alumni Fall Alumni Luncheons. Earlier versions of these talks are available at www.vanderbilt.edu/lsp/ recent_talks.htm.

Professional Activities
Colleen Conway-Welch, dean of the School of Nursing, recently attended the Macy-Morehouse Conference on Primary Care for the Underserved at the new National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and was part of the planning committee for the conference. It was designed to open a forum of discussions concerning the current status of primary care for underserved populations.

Publications
James P. Dobbins, research associate in civil and environmental engineering, and Mark D. Abkowitz, professor of civil and environmental engineering, published “Development of an Inland Marine Transportation Risk Management Information System” in Transportation Research Record No. 1782.

Georgene Troseth, assistant professor of psychology and human development, delivered an invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Jan. 8. Her talk, “Through a Glass Darkly: Young Children’s Understanding of Video,” detailed her research on children’s development of early symbolic understanding.

Jason H. Moore, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, recently authored “Cross validation consistency for the assessment of genetic programming results in microarray studies,” a chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and “Quantitative trait linkage analysis,” a chapter in an edited volume titled Approaches to Gene Mapping in Complex Human Diseases. Moore and graduate students Tricia A. Thornton and Marylyn D. Ritchie authored “Basic statistics,” a chapter in Current Protocols in Human Genetics. Moore presented the following papers: “Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Is an Ideal Discriminator of Discrete Clinical Endpoints using Multilocus Genotypes” at the 10th World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 10; “Concordant Results of Microarray and Gene Mapping Studies in Human Autoimmune Disease” at the 52nd annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, Oct. 17; “A Novel Strategy for Selecting Optimal Subsets of SNPs for the Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions” at the 2002 annual meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society in New Orleans, Nov. 16; “Computational Approaches for Detecting and Characterizing Gene-Gene Interactions” at the 2003 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in Lihue, Hawaii, Jan. 3; “Symbolic Discriminant Analysis of Proteomics Data” at the second annual conference on Protein Informatics: From Database to Prediction in San Diego, Jan. 14 Moore served on the scientific committee for the first European Workshop on Evolutionary Computing and Bioinformatics.

In Memoriam
Herbert M. Shayne, board member at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, died Jan. 27. He was 76. Services were held Jan. 30 at Temple Sanctuary in Nashville. Memorial donations may be made to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

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.