Fleetwood

Awards and Honors

Dan Fleetwood, chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been honored as a distinguished alumnus of the Purdue University College of Science. In announcing Fleetwood’s selection, Purdue noted his electronics inventions and influential research throughout his career.

Irek W. Kusmierczyk, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Doctoral Fellowship for 2007-08 to conduct research comparing sub-national environmental cooperation around the Baltic Sea and Great Lakes region. The fellowship is valued at $20,000.

Diane Neighbors, director of the Vanderbilt Child Care Center, has received the 2007 Children’s Champion Award from the Nashville Area Association for the Education of Young Children. The award recognizes individuals whose professional or volunteer activities have resulted in the enhancement of services and educational opportunities for young children in Davidson County.

READ 180, a reading software program created by Ted Hasselbring, research professor of special education, has won a Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) Codie Award for “Best Reading/Language Instruction Solution.” The SIIA uses both journalists and peer-company reviews to identify leaders and innovators across the software, digital content and education technology industries.

Papers and Presentations

Dan Reschly, professor of special education and chair of the department, delivered the Annual Legends Award General Session address at the annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists held in New York.

Thomas A. Schwartz, professor of history, delivered the Harold Holmes Dugger Lecture at Southeast Missouri State University. His talk was titled  “Troubles in the Family: U.S.-European Disputes in Historical Perspective.”

Professional Activities

Michael Aurbach, professor of art, conducted a graduate seminar at the University of California-Berkeley. Aurbach delivered the 2007 William R. Young Lecture at Brescia University in Owensboro, Ky. This spring, he made guest artist presentations at the University of San Francisco, Marshall University in Huntington, W.V., and Birmingham-Southern College. In February, Aurbach chaired a session about studio artists’ perceptions of academic expectations at the annual College Art Association conference in New York. In June, Aurbach will have a solo exhibition of his sculpture at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Del.

Susan M. Barone, assistant director of Vanderbilt’s English Language Center, participated on the panel “Strategies for Academic and Professional Success” at the biannual meeting of the Global Legal Skills Conference held in Chicago.

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