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Terry Hoeppner (left) and his wife,
Jane, were greeted by
Dr. Andy Hipskind, head team physician for the Office of
Intercollegiate Athletics, at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington
last month. View the news conference announcing his appointment
at this Web site: http://iuhoosiers.com/football/news/04-05/fb12-17-04.html
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• Terry Hoeppner, who led Miami (Ohio)
University to a pair of consecutive Mid-American Conference East
Division titles and bowl game appearances for the first time in
30 years, was named the 26th head football coach of the IU Hoosiers
in mid-December.
• Giancarlo Maiorino, comparative literature,
and Dov-Ber Kerler, Germanic studies and Jewish
studies, have won prestigious awards from the Modern Language
Association of America (MLA), which met in late December in Philadelphia,
Pa.
Maiorino won the 35th annual James Russell Lowell Prize for his
book, At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes
and the Picaresque Art of Survival, published by Penn State
University Press. The prize honors a literary or linguistic study,
a critical edition of an important work or a critical biography.
Kerler received the second Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize
for an outstanding scholarly work in English in the field of Yiddish.
The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish was published
by Oxford University Press.
The two awards were among 16 presented at the annual MLA meeting
Dec. 28.
• Computer scientist David Wise
has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Wise and 19 others were selected in 2004 for making significant
advances in both the theoretical and practical aspects of computing
that are having lasting effects on the lives of citizens throughout
the world. Wise was specifically selected because of his “leadership
in the computer science community and contributions to functional
programming languages.”
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The fellows will be recognized during an awards ceremony in June.
“Wise has contributed to some of the most fundamental new ideas
in the theory of programming languages, including work done in
our department with Daniel Friedman on the concepts
of representing infinite objects,” said Andrew Hanson, chair of
the Department of Computer Science. “His work has helped to make
our department a recognized center of innovations in the concepts
of programming languages.”
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• Don Hossler, School of Education, stepped
down from his position as co-director of the Student Information
Systems project on Jan. 1 and will be leaving his position as
vice chancellor for enrollment services on July 1. Hossler, who
has served as vice chancellor since 1997, will return full time
to teaching in July.
• Daniel Mindiola, chemistry, Sun
Kim, informatics, Aurelian Craiutu,
political science, Massimo Scalabrini, French
and Italian, and Liese van Zee, astronomy, have
been named 2005 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award winners. The
award recognizes the achievements of junior faculty who have committed
themselves to the teaching and service missions of the university
while also developing nationally recognized programs in research/creative
activity, and to advance their distinction as scholars or artists.
• Les Lenkowsky, SPEA, published “Voter
Turnout Efforts Won’t Pay Off on Election” in the Chronicle of
Philanthropy. Read the article online:
http://philanthropy.com/
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• IU President Emeritus John Ryan has
had a fellowship named in his honor by the State University of
New York (SUNY). SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Thomas Egan and
Chancellor Robert King announced the establishment of the Chancellor
John W. Ryan Fellowship in International Education. Ryan was King’s
predecessor at SUNY.
The board appointed Ryan interim SUNY chancellor in July 1996.
Ryan was then appointed chancellor of SUNY on a permanent basis
in April 1997 and served through December 1999. He was president
of IU from 1971-1987.
• Two of the eight instruments selected
to go on a Mars science mission have IUB geologists behind them,
NASA announced in mid-December. One of the devices will provide
scientists with a closer look at Mars and the other will explore
the materials that comprise Mars. The mission is slated for launch
in 2009. The mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program,
which will deliver a mobile laboratory to the surface of Mars
to explore a local region as a potential habitat for past or present
life.
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Schieber |
Scientists know roughly what chemical elements exist on Mars,
but little of how they’re organized into minerals and rocks. To
begin addressing that deficiency, IUB geologist David
Bish is working with colleagues from Los Alamos National
Laboratory, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory to develop a miniature X-ray diffractometer that can
provide mineralogical fingerprints of the Martian surface. Typical
X-ray diffractometers are the size of large refrigerators—way
too large for NASA’s diminutive rovers. So far, the team has gotten
the device down to toaster-size, which is, remarkably, still too
big.
“We’ve got to get the diffractometer down to the size of a soda
can,” said Bish, who holds the Haydn Murray Chair in applied clay
mineralogy.
Sedimentologist Juergen Schieber’s contribution
will be a wide-angle microscopic camera for imaging rocks, soil,
frost and ice at resolutions never before achieved. Schieber will
be working with Ken Edgett of Malin Space Science Systems on the
project.
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