On Campus - Faculty and Staff News March 10, 2000 - Vol.52, No. 38 William S. E. Coleman, professor of theatre arts, was a guest of the American Cinema Foundation for its E Pluribus Unum Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on March 2. At that time he officially received his Best Screenplay award for "Out of the Night." The foundation honors writing and productions that "address fundamental values in a positive manner." Tanya Bartholomew, associate director of the Law School's Center for Legislative Practice, has been appointed to the Council of Scientific and Health Advisors, a new state panel whose task is to consider the scientific basis of health policy and other matters. Ismael Hossein-zadeh, associate professor of economics, was quoted in an article by Louis Uchitell in The New York Times on Jan. 16. He was interviewed by Uchitell after presenting a paper titled "Making Sense of the Current U.S. Economic Expansion" at a gathering of the Union for Radical Political Economics in Boston on Jan. 7. Klaus Barschat, professor of physics, recently published two papers. The first, which appeared in The Physical Review A, was titled "Excitation of Ar 3p5 4s - 3p5 4p Transitions by Electron Impact." The second paper, which was published in Computer Physics Communications, was titled "Simulation of Collisionally Excited Atomic States." This paper was co-authored by David Loveall, a senior from Sheldon, Iowa; Melissa Hamley, a senior from Oak Grove, Mo.; and Bruce Miller, AS'99. Thomas Rosburg, assistant professor of biology, had a manuscript published in the last issue of the Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science. It was titled "Community Composition of Dry Prairie in Iowa and Southeast Nebraska." He also presented two invited seminars at Iowa State University. The first, for ISU's Department of Forestry, was titled "Restoring the Prairie Landscape: Lessons from the Interstate 35 Prairie Reconstruction in Story County." The second presentation, for ISU's Department of Plant Pathology, covered "Use of Remote Sensing as a Tool in the Conservation of Prairie Biodiversity." Missy DeYoung, Web editor, was a presenter at a recent Stamats Conference in Austin, Texas, on the subject of "Using Interactive Media to Effectively Market Colleges and Universities." She spoke at a preconference session titled "Integrating the Web: Theory and Practice Merge," using Drake's Web site as a model of how it can be successfully done. Dan Alexander, associate professor of math, and Thom Swiss, professor of English, gave an invited talk at the University of South Carolina Conference on Teaching With and On The Web on Feb. 20. Alexander gave a paper on and Swiss discussed an institutional analysis of Drake's successful Web-based Program. Marc Ryser, assistant professor of piano, was in Switzerland in late February for performances of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in the Salle Paderewski (Lausanne), and the Fondation Gianadda (Martigny) with the Sinfonietta de Lausanne under the direction of Jean-Marc Grob. T.K. Lin, professor of history, presented a paper titled "Taiwan Approaches to Taiwan-China Relationship" at a conference on "Rethinking the Cross-Strait Relationship" held Feb. 10-13 in Tarrytown, N.Y. The conference, hosted by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, was sponsored jointly by the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Stories | Faculty & Staff Notes | Calendar