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Anthropologist Jeanne Sept became the 13th dean of the faculties
on the Bloomington campus Aug. 1, replacing dean emerita Moya Andrews.
Sept was an associate dean of the faculties from 2000-2003 and has
been chairperson of the Department of Anthropology since 2003. A
paleoanthropologist, Sept has been an innovator and federal grant
recipient in educational technology and has published and presented
extensively on the topic. Her Web site was recognized as one of
the best instructional sites by Archaeology magazine.
Stephen Jacobson, chemistry, has been awarded the 2004
Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award for outstanding research,
publication record and the impact his work will likely have in
the field of analytical chemistry. Earlier this year, he received
the Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology
Transfer.
Al Anderson, a SPEA visiting professor, was interviewed
Sept. 9 by the Beijing office of the Voice of America concerning
a broadcast that it is developing on the escalating problem of
prostitution in China. He also has been invited to be a foreign
adviser to the Institute of STD/AIDS Prevention and Control in
the Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
Changchun, PR China. (See story, page 1)
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| Gillespie |
Bassoonist Michael McCraw is the new director of the Early
Music Institute at the School of Music. Following a restructuring
of the department, McCraw will partner leadership responsibilities
with colleague Wendy Gillespie, a viola da gamba virtuoso,
who is assuming the role of academic chair of the Department of
Early Music. McCraw is cited in the newest edition of Groves
Dictionary of Music and Musicians as one of the most important
early bassoon players and pedagogues working today. For more on
EMI, go to this Web site:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/apps/press/index.php?id=427
Rafael Reuveny, SPEA, was interviewed by the Voice of
America, Sept. 16 for Talk to America. The interview can
be accessed online in the program archives for that date:
http://www.voanews.com/talktoamerica/
Maria Masalerz, a geologist with the Indiana Geological
Survey, is the inaugural recipient of the Organic Petrology Award,
presented at the 56th annual meeting of the International Committee
for Coal and Organic Petrology in Budapest, Hungary, last month.
The award was given “in recognition of her outstanding contributions
to organic petrology and leadership in promoting the development
and applying innovative methodologies to the study of coal.”
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| Jackson |
Jason Jackson, folklore and ethnomusicology, is principal
investigator for a grant that has been funded by the Institute
for Museum and Library Services. The grant project, “One Hundred
Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record,” will publish a Kiowa tribe
pictorial history executed in the “ledger art” style. It will
feature drawings in colored pencil executed on 80 loose sheets
by the Kiowa artist Silver Horn.
Daniel Reed, folklore and ethnomusicology, has been awarded
the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal
Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI).
The award is for the book, Dan Ge Performance Masks and Music
in Contemporary Côte d’Ivoire. The RAI is the world’s oldest
scholarly association dedicated to anthropology.
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Move over, Hamilton’s Mythology. Make room for Hansen’s
Handbook of Classical Mythology, published earlier this
year by ABC-CLIO. William Hansen, classical studies, has
written an introduction to the mythological world of the Greeks
and the Romans, combined with a chronology of myths and a dictionary
of key characters, objects and events. The book begins by exploring
the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then
provides a detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the creation
of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age—plus an illustrated
mythological dictionary listing every significant character, place,
event and object.
Gary Hieftje, chemistry, has added yet another triumph
to his list of 2004 honors; he has received the Monie A. Ferst
Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology chapter of Sigma
Xi. The honorarium and medal are given each year to a scientist
who has inspired his or her colleagues to significant scientific
achievements. It is presented during a day-long symposium focusing
on the achievements of the winner’s former doctoral students.
Loren Rullman began his duties as executive director
of the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU Auditorium in August,
succeeding Winston Shindell who retired this summer after 23 years
in the position. Rullman was formerly director of university unions
at the University of Michigan, where he was responsible for the
management and operations of three unions: Michigan Union, Michigan
League and Pierpont Commons.
Ann Wesley, director of marketing at public television
station WTIU, has taken on the added responsibility of director
of marketing for NPR-affiliate radio station WFIU.
Donald Kuratko has been named executive director of the
Kelley School of Business’ Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship
and Innovation. Kuratko will begin his appointment Jan. 1 after
completing the semester as head of the entrepreneurship program
at Ball State University. He also will hold the Jack M. Gill Chair
in Entrepreneurship and teach as a professor of entrepreneurship.
Paul Hazel, director of the IU Bookstore, is serving
as a trustee on the board of the National Association of College
Stores, headquartered in Oberlin, Ohio.
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