February 9, 2001
Fr. Gary Braun, director of the Catholic Student Center, recently received the Great Preacher Award from the Aquinas Institute of Theology. This award is given annually to recognize a priest whose compelling and imaginative preaching powerfully engages listeners. Ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in 1977, Braun has been at the University for 10 years and was appointed Director of Catholic Campus Ministries for the archdiocese by Archbishop Justin Rigali in 1994.
Barna A. Szabo, Ph.D., the Albert P. and Blanche Y. Greensfelder Professor of Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a four-year, $577,545 Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant for a study titled "Mathematical and computational framework for a virtual fabrication environment for aircraft components." Research will be performed in collaboration with the Machining Development Laboratory, Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Center, Boeing Phantom Works, St. Louis.
Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and director of the Center for Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, will receive the 2001 Flynn Prize on Wednesday. The University of Southern California awards this prize, which carries a cash award of $10,000, to a "scholar who has connected social work research to other fields or new contexts, creating demonstrable change in social well-being." Sherraden's work on asset-based policy has attracted bipartisan political support, garnered support from the philanthropic community, led to state and federal policy development in the United States and contributed to policy proposals in other countries, most recently in the United Kingdom.
Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, recently received one of two Outstanding Research Awards from the Society for Social Work and Research. A committee of scholars representing various areas of expertise in social work research reviewed hundreds of articles published in more than 90 academic journals in 1999 before selecting "The Likelihood of Poverty Across the American Adult Life Span" as an outstanding example of social work research. The article was published in the journal Social Work.
Gerard M. Doherty, M.D., associate professor of surgery, recently edited "Surgical Endocrinology" with Britt Skogseid, M.D., Ph.D., of University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden. The textbook was published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, and has received a four-star rating from Doody's Review Service. It includes contributions from Jeffrey Moley, M.D., Terry Lairmore, M.D., and William Clutter, M.D., of the School of Medicine.
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