On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
January 21, 2000 - Vol.53, No. 31
Missy DeYoung, Web editor, served on a panel of experts in interactive and Web-based technology at a recent meeting of Ad Pros. Panel members discussed reasons for utilizing interactive and Web-based technology, preferred design tactics and strategy for working the Web into a marketing mix. In addition, the panel addressed emerging technologies.
Joan Hitzel, interim director of career services, discussed the value of internships in growing Iowa's labor market during a radio talk show aired on Dec. 18 on KBBG. The show was sponsored by the Iowa Bankers Association, Small Business Administration and Small Business Development Centers.
Martin D. Begleiter, professor of law, gave a presentation to the Des Moines Estate and Financial Planners on Jan. 18. He discussed the new Iowa Trust Code in a speech titled "In the Code We Trust-Some Trust Law for Iowa at Last."
Ronald Torry, associate professor of pharmacology, has been appointed to serve as a grant reviewer for the Vascular Wall Biology Peer Review Group of the American Heart Association.
Dennis Goldford, associate professor of politics and international relations, moderated the Jan. 18 Caucus Luncheon and Straw Poll sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute.
Klaus Bartschat, professor of physics, has published a paper in Physical Review Letters titled "Propensity Rules for Angular Momentum Transfer in Electron-impact Excitation and De-excitation." David Loveall, a senior computer science major from Sheldon, Iowa, is co-author of the paper. In addition, Bartschat has been appointed by the National Science Foundation to a grant review panel for proposals on "Information Technology Research." It's a new initiative with an expected funding level of $35 million to $105 million a year to address the problem pointed out in a report by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that federal support for longterm information technology has been "dangerously low." He will go to Washington, D.C., in February and May to review grant proposals.
Thomas E. Baker, James Madison chair and director of the Constitutional Law Center, published an article titled "At War with the Constitution: A History Lesson from the Chief Justice" in volume 14, number 1 issue of the BYU Journal of Public Law (1999). The article was a review of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's book All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime, which was the subject of his Opperman Lecture last year.
Leonard P. Good, professor emeritus of art, has two paintings included in the University of Oklahoma School of Art Faculty Exhibition 2000 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman, Okla. The exhibit runs from Jan. 22 through March 15.
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