On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
June 16, 2000 Vol. 53, No. 3
Judith Allen, professor of psychology, has received the Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Tony Marston, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has received the Centennial Scholar Award, which is given in alternate years to faculty members in the liberal arts for distinguished achivements as scholars.
Deborah Symonds, associate professor of history, has been selected to deliver the Stalnaker Lecture next fall.
Bradley Meyer, associate professor of management, has received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Marie Klugman, associate professor of statistics, has received the Oustanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in the College of Business and Public Administration.
James Dodd, associate professor of accounting, has received the Harry I. Wolk outstanding Faculty Scholar Award because of the quality and quantity of his scholarship.
Lon Larson, professor of pharmacy administration, has been named Teacher of the Year in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
James Lindberg, professor of chemistry, has been selected by pharmacy students as Teacher of the Year outside the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Julie Suiter, associate clinical professor of pharmacy, is the first faculty member to receive the Preceptor of the Year Award in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Klaus Bartshat, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professor of physics, recently presented an invited talk titled "Simulations of Excitation, Ionization, and Ionization-Excitation in Electron-Atom Collisions" at a workshop on "Computational Challenges in Atomic and Molecular Physics." It was held May 4-6 at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. An extended version of that talk was presented on May 24 at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University in Russia.
Neil D. Hamilton, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professor of law and director of the Agricultural Law Center, spoke to the Indianola Men's Garden Club on May 16. He discussed "The Role of Gardening in Creating Community." On May 18, Hamilton was the keynote speaker at an Iowa State University Extension in-service training session for federal agricultural employees on the issue of sustainable agriculture. His talk in Ames was titled "Environmental Stewardship, Economic Profitability and Social Concerns: The Three Elements of Sustainable Agriculture."
Jason Masteller, security officer, received a Crime Fighter Award at a ceremony at Nollen Plaza on May 17. He helped Des Moines police make an arrest in a robbery case.
Thomas E. Baker, professor of law and director of the Constitutional Law Center, was the moderator and a panelist on a program for high school students and teachers broadcast over the Iowa Communications Network on April 13. The program, titled "Rights at the Schoolhouse Gate: Students and Privacy," was sponsored by the Center for Law and Civic Education of the Iowa State Bar Association and the Close Up Foundation. In March, Baker delivered a paper titled "A Generation Spent Studying the U.S. Courts of Appeals: A Chronology" at a symposium at the University of California at Davis. The symposium focused on "Managing the Federal Courts - Will the Ninth Circuit be a Model for Change." Baker also co-taught a Supreme Court Seminar at Drake Law School with Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in February.