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01/13/03

Appointments and Elections
Leonard Bradley, lecturer in public policy, was appointed to a 17-member Transition Advisory Committee on Education by Governor-elect Phil Bredesen. The committee will advise the selection of a commissioner of education and will identify education issues needing both immediate attention and longer-range consideration.

Arthur M. Mellor, Centennial Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was elected as a fellow with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics “for pivotal contributions to fundamental and engineering aspects of gas-turbine combustion and solid rocket propellants, for his role as an outstanding educator and mentor,” according to the AIAA.

Norman Nash, library budget officer, recently completed his appointment on Governor-elect Phil Bredesen’s transition team on military affairs.

Norman B. Urmy, executive vice president for clinical affairs at the Medical Center, was named to an advisory group by Governor-elect Phil Bredesen to seek potential candidates for top positions in his administration.

H. Martin Weingartner, Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Finance, emeritus, was recently elected a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The award is for lifetime achievement and recognizes the organization’s most distinguished members. The recently established award was presented to Weingartner, an inaugural recipient, at the INFORMS conference luncheon Nov. 18 in San Jose, Calif.

Awards and Honors
Carolyn Hughes, associate professor of special education, and co-authors Guy Gilberts, assistant professor of special education at Chadron State College, Martin Agran, professor of special education at the University of Northern Iowa, and Michael Wehmeyer, assistant 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.

John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt, recently received Martin Methodist College’s seventh-annual Ned McWherter Award for Excellence.

Papers and Presentations
Amy Achterhof and Megan Nicklaus, career advisers in The Career Center, presented the workshop “New Professionals Speak Out!” at the recent annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Colleges and Employers held Dec. 2-4, 2002, in Biloxi, Miss.

Ana Regina Andrade, research associate in the Center for Mental Health Policy at VIPPS, presented “Geographical Exclusion in Rural Areas of El Salvador: Its Impact on Labor Market Outcomes” at the Economics Summit/Workshop Dec. 3, 2002. Anabella Lardé de Palomo, chief of the Social Studies Unit at the Department of Economic and Social Studies at the Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development and Lissette Calderón, research assistant at the Department of Economics and Social Studies at FUSADES were co-authors of the paper.

James Guthrie, professor of public policy and education, chair of the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations and director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy, spoke to an audience of Texas policymakers and education professionals about the future of Texas education finance Dec. 2, 2002.

John Johns, associate professor of guitar and chair of the guitar department, recently presented concerts in Arlington, Va., Washington, D.C., Nashville and at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski. He also presented concerts for the Knoxville Guitar Society, the Springfield Guitar Society in Springfield, Ill., and gave four performances of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra at War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville.

Stanley B. Link, assistant professor of the philosophy and analysis of music, was invited in October 2002 to give a colloquium at Wesleyan University titled “The Ear’s I: The Soundtrack and Cinematic Subjectivity.” His visit to Wesleyan included a guest lecture in their computer music course on some of his own recent musical works. In November 2002, Link delivered his paper “A Lack of Intimacy: Popular Music and the Filmic Personality Disorder” at the inaugural conference of UT Austin’s Center for American Music. Also in November, his piece for soprano, recitation and tape, Groundswell, was given its off-campus premiere by Amy Jarman, professor of voice, at the Third Practice Festival of contemporary music in Richmond, Va. In December 2002, his composition Returning, for computer-generated tape, will be programmed on the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Chicago.

John C. McCauley, executive director of risk and management insurance, and Sandy Bledsoe, associate director of risk and management insurance, made presentations during a recent conference of the Tennessee Society for Healthcare Risk Management. McCauley discussed health-care risk management at the 2002 Healthcare Conference of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Julie Ervin Sharp, associate professor of the practice of technical communication, recently gave a presentation titled “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Students’ Kolb Learning Styles” to the annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education in Montreal, Canada.

Suzanna Sherry, professor of law and Cal Turner Chair in Law and Leadership, delivered a paper titled “The Character of Judges” at a conference at Wake Forest Law School in October 2002. The conference was organized to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court case establishing judicial review, and included some of the pre-eminent constitutional scholars in the country.

The following faculty and graduate students from the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s annual conference in Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 20-24, 2002. At the ASHE International Forum, Stephen P. Heyneman, professor of international education policy, presented “Higher Education and Corruption;” Heyneman, Michael K. McLendon, assistant professor of public policy and higher education, and Timothy C. Carboni, lecturer in higher education, conducted a symposium “The Effects of Changes in the State Regulatory Environment on Higher Education in Kazakhstan.” At the ASHE Conference, McLendon and James Hearn, professor of public policy and higher education, presented a symposium on “The Politics of United States Higher Education: Toward a Contemporary Research Agenda;” John M. Braxton, professor of education, Carboni, Hearn, and graduate students Amy Hirschy, Molly Deuterhaus and Meaghan Mundy, presented a symposium on “Multiple Influences on College Student Learning.” Nathaniel Bray, graduate student, presented “Faculty Members’ Perceptions of Administrative Norms for Academic Deans,” and McLendon and Erik Ness, graduate student, presented the survey “State Restructuring of Higher Education: Evidence from the Most Recent National Survey: 1995-2002.”

Professional Activities
Bob Cramer, associate director of the career center, co-chaired the recent annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Colleges and Employers held Dec. 2-4, 2002, in Biloxi, Miss.

Joseph H. Hamilton, Landon C. Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics and director of the Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, recently organized and chaired the Third International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei held on Sanibel Island, Fla., Nov. 3-9, 2002. Hamilton and Akunuri V. Ramayya, professor of physics, were co-authors of 15 papers presented at the conference.

Sam McClain, sergeant of auxiliary services at the Vanderbilt University Police Department, recently graduated from the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety’s School of Police Staff and Command. The 10-week program is designed to prepare top- and mid-level law enforcement managers and supervisors for senior agency positions.

Publications
Carolyn S. Breda, research associate at VIPPS, recently had an article titled “Service Access Through Juvenile Courts” published in Focal Point, a publication of the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, Portland State University.

Kenneth K. Wong, professor of public policy and education and associate director of Peabody Center for Education Policy, recently published the following articles: “The New Politics of Urban Schools,” a chapter in an edited volume of Cities, Politics, and Policy: A Comparative Analysis, published by the Congressional Quarterly Press; and “The Big Stick: How Chicago Reversed its Descent,” in the Winter 2003 issue of the journal Education Next. Wong gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management in Dallas in November. His presentation was titled, “Rethinking Strategies to Narrow the Achievement Gap.”

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.