Pesut

Jeffries

Boland

• Daniel Pesut, professor in the Department of Environments for Health, has been appointed associate dean for graduate programs at the School of Nursing. He is the current president of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

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• Pamela Jeffries, associate professor in the Department of Adult Health at the School of Nursing, has been appointed associate dean for undergraduate programs at the school. Her major contributions in research and scholarship of teaching are focused on innovative pedagogies in nursing education using technology and simulated learning for content delivery, skill application and promotion of clinical diagnostic reasoning.

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• Donna Boland, associate professor in the Department of Adult Health, has been appointed to the newly created position of associate dean for evaluation at the School of Nursing. She is the former associate dean for undergraduate programs at IUSON for more than 15 years. Her expertise is in the areas of curriculum design and evaluation and in outcome assessment of student learning.

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Plummer

Rawl

• Martel Plummer has been named assistant dean for student services at the School of Nursing. Plummer was formerly an assistant dean at the Herron School of Art and Design. She also has served as an associate director of academic programs at the IU Center on Philanthropy, and director of student services and graduate programs at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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• Mary Fisher has been appointed chair of the Department of Environments for Health at the IU School of Nursing. As a professor in the department, she is known for her innovative teaching, using the Web and problem-based learning methods. She has served as president of the IUPUI Faculty Council (2002-2004) and senior co-secretary of the University Faculty Council (2004).

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• Susan Rawl has been appointed to the newly created position of assistant dean, Center for Nursing Research and Scholarship, IU School of Nursing. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Adult Health. Her research is in the area of behavioral oncology, with a special emphasis on colorectal cancer, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health; she also is an investigator with the Mary Margaret Walther Program for Cancer Care Research and a member of the IU Cancer Center Adult Oncology Program.

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• Dr. Christopher Weaver, School of Medicine, has been awarded the National Faculty Teacher of the Year Award by the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting in New York City May 23. The award recognizes the contributions of a junior faculty member to the education of emergency medicine residents. Qualities considered include commitment to teaching, contributions to the residency program and involvement in state or national activities to promote resident education. Weaver, who graduated from the IU School of Medicine in 2000, is the assistant residency program director and Wishard Memorial Hospital site coordinator for the IUSM emergency medicine residency, which is the second largest such program in the nation.

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• Dr. Frederick Rescorla has been appointed director of the IU School of Medicine's Section of Pediatric Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at Riley Hospital for Children. He succeeds Dr. Jay Grosfeld as surgeon-in-chief. Grosfeld was the only director to hold the position following his appointment in 1972.

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• Dr. Kimberly Applegate, a pediatric radiologist at Riley Hospital for Children, was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Radiology at a formal convocation ceremony April 10 during the ACR 82nd annual meeting and chapter leadership conference in Washington, D.C. She is an associate professor of radiology and director of pediatric radiology research at the IU School of Medicine and a research scientist at Regenstrief Institute Inc.

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• Dr. George Stookey, Distinguished Professor emeritus of dentistry and former director of the School of Dentistry 's Oral Health Research Institute, served as co-president and host of the 52nd Congress of the European Organisation for Caries Research, the world's leading group of scientists in the field of cariology (dental decay). About 350 scientists from throughout the world convened at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown hotel July 6-9 to discuss the results of 146 recent investigations in the field. A dozen IU researchers -- 10 from the Oral Health Research Institute and two from the Department of Medicine -- were among the primary presenters. http://www.iupui.edu/news/releases/050629_dentistry.htm

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• Robert H. Kasberg Jr., director of admissions at the School of Dentistry, has been appointed the school's associate dean for student affairs. He replaces Margot Van Dis, who served in the associate deanship for eight years before deciding to return to her full-time IU teaching post as a professor of dental diagnostic sciences. Kasberg will continue in his role as admissions director.

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• Ulla Connor, English, is one of five expatriate Finns featured in the June issue of the Finnish edition of Reader's Digest (Valitut Palat, circulation 1 million). Connor is director of the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, a part of the IU School of Liberal Arts. Others profiled include a Japanese senator, a basketball player in Italy, a business guru in Switzerland and a Hollywood stylist. Each has a successful career abroad, but all are relatively unknown to the general public in their native Finland.

Here's an excerpt from the article, translated into English:

"I am just a poor country girl from the village of Kattilainen in the Kymi-valley," says Professor Ulla Connor, who now lives in Indianapolis . . . She is one of the most celebrated Finns to achieve a renowned career at a university overseas.

Ulla Connor is a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). "She is not only a research linguist, but also an educator," says Kari Sajavaara, professor emeritus of applied linguistics at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. "As the world becomes increasingly international, linguistic problems in the workplace become more common. Ulla Connor has done pioneering work to solve such problems."

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• The chemistry department at the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI has changed its name. The new name, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is more descriptive of the health/life sciences aspect of both the curriculum and career paths open to students and graduates, officials said."We are strategically located in a metro area with a large health and life sciences industry. Chemists play a large role in that industry and IUPUI graduates are employed across a broad spectrum of the health/life sciences industry," said Frank Schultz, chair of the department.