Ronald M. Levin, J.D., the Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law, recently spoke at the annual seminar of the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference in Ocean City, Md., addressing the American Bar Association initiatives affecting the administrative judiciary. Levin, chair-elect of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, also spoke at the annual Administrative Law Conference in Washington, D.C., on the section's plan to conduct a major study of the Administrative Procedure Act. Additionally, he presented a report on the proposed Federalism Accountability Act of 1999. É
Robert B. Thompson, J.D., the George Alexander Madill Professor of Law, recently testified before the House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials as part of its hearing on "Increasing Disclosure to Benefit Investors."
Richard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering, recently received a two-year $199,982 grant from the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command for his project titled "Lightweight Metal Matrix Composites for Structural Applications." É
Thomas J. Baranski, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology, recently received the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science Award. Baranski will receive $100,000 per year for up to three years to fund his research in the departments of internal medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology. É
A conference honoring the 65th birthdays of four pioneers in quantum many-body physics --among them John W. Clark, Ph.D., professor of physics, and Manfred L. Ristig, Ph.D., adjunct professor of physics, both in Arts & Sciences --recently was held in Manchester, England. The five-day conference, which also feted Alpo J. Kallio and Sergio Rosati, celebrated the honorees' combined 150-year working life in the field. Willem H. Dickhoff, Ph.D., professor of physics, was among the speakers.
Karen Parker-Davis, instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy at the School of Medicine, recently was elected to the representative assembly of the American Occupational Therapy Association. The association includes more than 52,000 occupational therapists and assistants, who work with people experiencing physical and mental disabilities in a wide range of settings, including industry, hospitals, nursing facilities, home health agencies and schools.
Carol Diaz-Granados, Ph.D., research associate in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, recently was elected president of the Eastern States Rock Art Research Association and to the board of the American Rock Art Research Association.
Michael M. Greenfield, J.D., the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law, has been inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. The professional association is dedicated to the improvement and enhancement of the skill and practice of consumer financial services law and the ethics of the profession. Membership is limited to lawyers who have achieved pre-eminence in the field and who have made repeated and substantial contributions to the promotion of learning and scholarship through teaching, lecturing and published writings. Greenfield's casebook, "Consumer Transactions," also won the association's prestigious Writing Award.
Wanda Hampton, administrative assistant for capital projects and records in the Office of Facilities Planning and Management, recently received the John E. Simon Award for Excellence in Business Administration from Maryville University. The award is given to the student who has demonstrated academic excellence, as determined by the faculty. Hampton is slated to complete work on the degree in December 2000.
Ginger Marcus, senior lecturer and coordinator of the Japanese Language Program in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, recently chaired the 12th annual conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese held at Washington University. The title of the conference was "J2K: Designing Japanese Curriculum for the New Millennium."
John C. Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Professor of Neurology, director of the Memory and Aging Project and co-director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, recently received a Distinguished Achievement Citation from Ohio Wesleyan University. He was honored for his important contributions to the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and the progress he and his colleagues have made in understanding the disease and the aging process. Morris graduated in 1970 from Ohio Wesleyan where, as an undergraduate, he was a champion wrestler and a member of several honor societies.
James Roth has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Police Department, according to Don Strom, chief of police. Roth is responsible for the Field Operations Division, which handles patrol, special event planning and building security, among other responsibilities.
Shankar M.L. Sastry, Ph.D., professor of metallurgy and materials science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, recently received a three-year $404,000 grant from the Naval Air Warfare Center for his project titled "Equal Channel Angular Extrusion Processing of Gamma Titanium and AL-6AL-4V Alloy for Improved Performance."
Todd J. Stewart, M.D., a fellow in neurological surgery, recently received the Synthes Award for Research on Spinal Cord and Spinal Cord Injury from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. The association, which has more than 5,400 members in the United States and Canada, honored Stewart at its annual meeting in San Francisco. Stewart gave a presentation on using embryonic stem cells to repair the injured spinal cord. He works in the laboratory of John McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurology and director of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit.
Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and adviser for the University's American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student chapter, and Cynthia Chew, a May 2000 graduate and chair of the planning committee, were chief among the organizers of the Mid-America AIChE Regional Conference. The conference, hosted recently by the University's AIChE student chapter, was attended by more than 125 students from the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa, Iowa State University, the University of Missouri at Columbia and University of Missouri at Rolla. Twenty-four student papers were presented in the student research competition, which was followed by a team competition on a chemically propelled car.
Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor of biomedical engineering, recently was elected president of St. Louis-Lyon Sister Cities Inc. The mission of the organization, founded 25 years ago, is to foster cultural, educational and commercial contacts among the citizens of St. Louis and Lyon, France.
Frank C-P Yin, Ph.D., M.D., the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, recently was awarded a four-year $869,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study titled "Regional Biomechanical Properties of Cells" and a $30,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "St. Louis Program for Gender Equity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)." Yin also has received the Women's Group Coalition's Everyday Hero Award, given to one student and one faculty member each year from nominations made by faculty, students and staff. Yin was recognized for presenting a gender-balanced perspective in the classroom and promoting gender equity in his field.