Faculty and staff tributes—IUPUI

Rowland “Tony” Sherrill, religious studies, has been named the first holder of the Millennium Chair at the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts. The chair, established in 2001 with a gift to the Campaign for IUPUI, is reserved for professors of international stature who exemplify the highest use of the liberal arts to advance the public good. Sherrill’s scholarly and research interests focus on religion and American cultural expression; he is the author of Road-Book America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Philip Cochran, a former Penn State business professor, has been named the new Thomas W. Binford Chair in corporate citizenship. The chair is named for the Indianapolis business leader and philanthropist and came about as a joint development campaign by the Center on Philanthropy and the Kelley School of Business. Cochran is the founding president of the International Association for Business and Society.

Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald, pediatrics, has been named the 2003 Distinguished Clinician Award winner by the American Gastroenterological Association. The award will be presented later this month in Orlando, Fla., during Digestive Disease Week, the largest international conference devoted to the science and practice of gastroenterology. Fitzgerald is the director of the Gastrointestinal, Hepatology and Nutrition Division at Riley Hospital for Children.

Dr. Clement J. McDonald, director of the Regenstrief Institute and professor of medical informatics, has been elected to the board of regents of the American College of Physicians, the national organization of doctors of internal medicine and the second largest physician group in the United States.

Dr. Douglas McKeag, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and director of the IU Center for Sports Medicine, will receive the “Citation Award” from the American College of Sports Medicine in San Francisco at the organization’s 50th annual meeting, May 28-31. He is being recognized for “his pioneering achievements in defining, practicing, teaching, organizing and bringing to universal recognition the discipline of primary-care sports medicine in the United States.”

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) has selected Trudy Banta, vice chancellor for planning and institutional improvement, recipient of the Sidney S. Suslow Award, the highest honor that the AIR bestows on one of its members for his or her scholarly contributions to the field of institutional research.

 

Pesut

The Northern Illinois University Alumni Association has named Daniel Pesut, chair of the Department of Environments for Health at the IU School of Nursing, the recipient of the Year 2003 Outstanding Alumni Award for the College of Health and Human Sciences. Seven alumni award recipients are selected annually from each of the university’s academic colleges based on outstanding professional and personal accomplishments, as well as involvement in civic, cultural or charitable activities. Pesut recently made nursing history as the first male president-elect of the world’s largest nursing organization, Sigma Theta Tau International, which has 423 chapters at 520 colleges and universities worldwide. His two-year term as president begins in November. He is co-author of Clinical Reasoning: The Art and Science of Creative Thinking (1999).

The group of writers and artists who focus on IU’s information technology news and accomplishments for all campuses recently were recognized for their work by the Society for Technical Communication (STC). In the Technical Art, Publications, and Online Communications Competition held by the STC Chicago Chapter (its 30th annual competition), the UITS Communications and Planning Office (CPO) won six awards, including a Distinguished Award in the annual report category.

By earning an award for Distinguished Technical Communication, the TransPAC Annual Report, produced by Maria Morris and Gregory Moore, is automatically qualified for submission into the STC International Competition.

The Chicago chapter is the fourth largest chapter in the STC, which is an international, not-for-profit educational and professional organization with more than 25,000 members worldwide. The awards and honorees:

Technical Art Awards
Annual Report—Excellence
TransPAC Annual Report
Maria Morris, Gregory Moore, James Williams

Catalog Design—Merit
UITS Services Directory
Les Teach, Christine Fitzpatrick, Jan Holloway

Promotional Materials Design—Merit
Oncourse Brochure
Angie Quick, John Herrin, Jay Fern

Technical Publications Awards
Annual Reports—Distinguished
TransPAC Annual Report
Maria Morris, Gregory Moore, James Williams

Informational Materials—Excellence
Human Resource Services brochure
Kevin MacDonald, Mique Keller (HRMS), Gregory Moore, Maria Morris

Promotional Materials—Merit
Pervasive Technology Labs Media Kit
Julie Wernert, Maria Morris, Karen Adams

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