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- Faculty and Staff News
August
1,
2003 Vol. 56, No. 6
Mike Mahon, sports
information director at Drake University, has been selected by the U.S. Olympic
Committee to serve as a press officer for the Pan American
Games in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, Aug. 1-15. The 14th annual Pan
American games will feature approximately 7,700 athletes from 42 nations in North
America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean competing in 38 sports,
including all 31 Olympic sports. More than 650 U.S. athletes are expected to
compete. Mahon served as a USOC press officer for track and field at the 1992
Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. He also was
a USOC press officer for track and field at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg,
Canada, as well as the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.
Jack Gerlovich,
professor of education, has been invited to serve as the chair for the safety
section of the International Bicentennial Chemical Education Conference
to be hosted at Iowa State University in July 2004. The conference is expected
to draw thousands of participants from all over the world. He and Rahul Parsa,
professor of statistics, also will be sharing the status of their national indexing
project as part of their ongoing research.
Stuart Shulman, assistant
professor of environmental science and policy, will direct a discussion session
at a fall
workshop on e-rulemaking at the National
Science Foundation. At the workshop on Sept. 4-5, a team of researchers from
the social, political and computational sciences will meet as part of a government
research project designed to inform the development of www.regulations.gov. The
workshop, sponsored this year by the Environmental Protection Agency's eRulemaking
Initiative, is the third annual meeting of researchers and rulemaking practitioners
based on an advisory group model. The discussion led by Shulman will be "agenda-setting" in
nature. After the workshop, Intranet-facilitated threaded discussions will become
the basis for a broader, ongoing, open and transparent public debate about the
use of information technology in the rulemaking process.
Lee Jolliffe, associate
professor of journalism, coached two students whose undergraduate papers in Fall
2002's Honors 097 were accepted in blind refereed national competition
against faculty and graduate students. The paper by Lexi Walters, JO'03, also
won the John Clogston Memorial Award from the academic group (the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) for best research on media
and disabilities. Walters' paper, "Invisible, Unnoticed, or
Idolized: Disability Education Coverage in McCall's and Good Housekeeping," was
presented at the association conference on July 31. The paper by senior Julie
Collins, "An Analysis of Vietnam War-Related Coverage in Good Housekeeping and McCall's Magazines," was
to be presented today (Aug. 1) to the Magazine
Division.
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