Of Note

Sabbaticals
David Ericson and Clayton Robarchek, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, have been granted sabbaticals for academic year 1999-2000.

Faculty granted semester-long sabbaticals for the next academic year are:

Barton School of Business:
Michael Foran *
Frederic Kraft *

College of Education
Frances Clark **
Ruth Hitchcock *
Barbara Hodson *
Susan Kovar **

College of Engineering
Jharna Chaudhuri *
Jorge Talia **

College of Fine Arts
David Schepps *
Nicholas Smith *

Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dennis Burns **
Gayle Davis *
Gary Greenberg *
Wendell Leavitt *
Louis Medvene **
Eunice Myers *
Richard Spilman *

* indicates fall 1999 semester

** indicates spring 2000 semester

 

Election

Denise Maseman, interim chair and assistant professor, dental hygiene, was elected vice president of the Central Regional Dental Testing Service at the 1999 annual meeting.

Exhibition

Ronald Christ, professor of painting and drawing, School of Art and Design, has 15 works in painting, drawing and lithograph print included in the exhibition “Ronald Christ: Selected Works 1976-1999” at the Alumni Gallery of the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri until May 7. Christ is a 1972 KCAI graduate. During exhibition opening activities, he presented a slide lecture on the development of his work and conducted classroom critiques.

 

Grants

Donald Blakeslee, professor, anthropology, has received $3,426 from the city of Augusta for the project “Archaeological Testing.”

Elaine Hanna, associate director, Center for Technology Application, has received $712,994 from the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center/National Institute of Science and Technology for the project “MAMTC Wichita Regional Office-Year 9.”

Andra Katz, assistant professor of criminal justice and director, Regional Community Policing Training Institute, has received $99,000 from the Justice Department for the project “Community Policing Domestic Violence Conference.”

Viswanathan Madhavan, assistant professor, industrial and manufacturing engineering, has received $168,300 from the Army Research Office for the project “Instrumentation Request: High Speed Infrared Focal Plane Array Camera.”

Gregory Meissen, psychology professor and executive director, Self-Help Network, has received $64,959 from the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services for “Project Access-1999.”

John Tomblin, assistant professor, aerospace engineering, has received $187,000 from Iowa State University/FAA for the project “Damage Tolerance of Composite Sandwich Airframe Structures.”

 

Corrections

Jorge Talia, College of Engineering, was promoted to professor. His name was misspelled in the of note section of Inside WSU April 2.

William Hendry, associate professor, biological sciences, received $18,000 from the Flossie E. West Memorial Trust for his project “Determining the Role of Stromal: Epithelial Dynamics in Estrogen-Dependent Uterine Cancer.” The amount was incorrect in the March 19 issue of Inside WSU.

We apologize for any inconvenience that resulted from the errors.