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On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
May 30 , 2003 Vol. 55, No. 45


Chiu-Ling Lin, professor of piano and chair of the music department, has been selected to give the Stalnaker Lecture next fall. The lecture series, established to honor the memory of Luther Stalnaker, dean of liberal arts from 1944 to 1955, is sponsored by the emeriti faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Bruce Martin, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of English, has received the Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Sara Walker, assistant professor of accounting practice, has received the David B. Lawrence Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in the College of Business and Public Administration.
C. Kenneth Meyer, the Thomas F. Sheehan distinguished professor of public administration, has received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Lon Larson, the Windsor professor of pharmacy administration, has been selected as the Teacher of the Year in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Marie Klugman, professor of statistics, has been selected by pharmacy students as the Teacher of the Year outside the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Renae Chesnut, assistant professor of pharmacy practice and assistant dean for student affairs, has been selected as Mentor of the Year in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Christine Myers, instructor of pharmacy practice, has been named Faculty Preceptor of the Year in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
DeeAnn Wedemeyer-Oleson, PH'99, has been named Preceptor of the Year in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
June Felice Johnson, associate professor of pharmacy practice, was an invited speaker on a panel at the second annual Des Moines Health Policy Forum on May 12. The forum was sponsored by Des Moines University, Mercy Medical Center and Central Iowa Health System. The lecture topic presented by the national president of the American Diabetes Association was "Diabetes - A Model for Intervention in Chronic Disease."
Neil Hamilton, director of the Agricultural Law Center and the Dwight D. Opperman distinguished professor of law, delivered a paper titled "Forced Feeding: Inventorying New Legal Issues in the Biotechnology Policy Debate" as part of a international conference on Biodiversity and Biotechnology on April 4 sponsored by the Washington University Law School and the Danforth Center in St. Louis. On April 10, Hamilton participated in a keynote panel discussion on the "Politics of Food" at the 25th annual meeting of the International Culinary Professionals in Montreal, Canada.

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