Inside Iowa State
June 9, 2000
Honors
Veishea faculty, staff and T.A. of the year honored
Carol Fuhler, assistant professor of curriculum
and instruction; Ilene Carlson, secretary in animal science;
and James Rudd, graduate assistant in chemistry, were honored
during an April 13 reception as the Veishea faculty member,
staff member and T.A. of the year, respectively.
Committee appointment
Fred Borgen, professor of psychology, has been
appointed to the American Psychological Association's (APA)
Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment, through
2002. The nine-member committee monitors technical,
professional and social policy issues about developing and
using psychological tests and assessment techniques.
Distance teaching award
W. Robert Stephenson, professor of statistics, has
received the Technical Education Program Outstanding Distance
Learning Faculty Award from General Motors. The award is
given annually to one faculty member who teaches distance
education courses to General Motors employees (more than 150
distance learning teachers from colleges and universities
throughout the country were eligible). Stephenson teaches an
introductory course in ISU's statistics master's degree
program one day a week on campus, which is videotaped and
shipped to General Motors plants throughout the country.
State advisory committee
Rand Conger, professor of sociology and
psychology, and Roy Johnson, associate professor of
management, have been named to the Director's Council of
Scientific and Health Advisors, Iowa Department of Public
Health. Composed of scientists around the state, the group
will research health-related issues, such as the causes or
solutions to the issue of medical errors.
Phi Kappa Phi inductees
Four Iowa State faculty members, along with more than 200
students, were inducted this spring into the ISU chapter of
Phi Kappa Phi. The faculty members are Thomas Hill,
vice president for student affairs and adjunct assistant
professor of educational leadership and policy studies;
Kay Palan, assistant professor of marketing; Peter
Rabideau, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences and professor of chemistry; and Katherine Thomas-
Thomas, associate professor of health and human
performance. Phi Kappa Phi is a national honor society which
recognizes superior scholarship in all academic
disciplines.
Fellowship recipient
Yong Lee, professor of political science,
completed a 60-day fellowship in Japan sponsored by that
country's equivalent of the National Science Foundation, the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Lee conducted
research on reform being carried out in Japan's science and
technology policy.
Alumnus of the year
Karl Gschneidner Jr., senior metallurgist at Ames
Laboratory and an Anson Marston distinguished professor of
materials science and engineering, has been named Science
Alumnus of the Year 2000 by the University of Detroit Mercy's
College of Engineering and Science. Gschneidner received a
bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Detroit
and is a leading expert in rare-earth metals and alloys, the
theory of alloy phase formation and magnetic refrigeration.
New book
History professor George McJimsey has written the
latest in a series of books on the administrations of United
States presidents. The University of Kansas Press published
McJimsey's The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
this spring in a series that began in the late 1960s. In his
fourth book, McJimsey describes the successes and failures of
FDR's land-mark administration, offers a new perspective on
the New Deal and explores Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on
his presidency.
Book project
Peggy Mook, professor of foreign languages and
literatures, will use a $4,000 summer stipend from the
National Endowment for the Humanities and a spring 2001 grant
from the American Philosophical Society to complete her book,
The Kastro: The Late Minoan IIIC through Orientalizing
Pottery,which will be accompanied by a CD-ROM.
She will visit Crete this summer and next spring to complete a ceramic chronology for the end of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in eastern Crete.
Best financial aid office in the state
The Office of Student Financial Aid has received
the John Moore award from the Iowa Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators for 2000. The award recognizes
the most outstanding student financial aid office in the
state. Iowa State was honored for its use of technology to
provide quality student service. Since spring 1999, students
have been notified of their financial awards via e-mail and
been able to access their financial aid records and
application forms on the Web. This year the service was
expanded to include the financial aid renewal process.
Schuh named institute fellow
John Schuh, professor and chair of educational
leadership and policy studies, has been named a fellow for
the 2000 Summer Institute on the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) Databases. NCES is the primary
federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to
education in the United States.
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