On Campus
- Faculty and Staff News
October
31,
2003 Vol. 56, No. 18
C. Peter Goplerud
III, professor of law, has been appointed to the Conference
Planning Committee of the Board of Directors of the Sports Lawyers Association.
He also participated in the annual Advisory Board Meeting of the National Sports
Law Institute at Marquette Law School.
Karen Wallace,
circulation/reference
librarian and instructor of librarianship
for the law school, had the article "Beyond the Newsletter: Concrete Guidelines
and Innovative Ideas for Effective Promotion" accepted for publication in
Public Libraries, the journal of the Public Library Association. It will appear
in the
May/June 2004 issue.
Neil D. Hamilton,
the Dwight D. Opperman chair of law and director of the Agricultural Law Center,
was honored Oct. 13 for his work on sustainable agriculture and local
food systems. He was presented with the Second Annual International Local Food
Award at a banquet in Des Moines, sponsored by the National Catholic Rural Life
Conference and other groups working on sustainable agriculture issues. Hamilton
gave a presentation on "Trade, Hunger and Local Food" as part of the
ceremony.
Lisa Martin-Hansen,
assistant professor of education, made two presentations at the Iowa Science
Teachers Section in Des Moines on Oct. 16. The first presentation
was titled "Attacking Misconceptions in Science." The second presentation
addressed "Issues-Based Science."
Ronald Torry,
associate
professor of pharmacology, is co-author of a clinical
research paper titled "Altered Expression of VEGF and Its Receptors in Normal
Saphenous Vein and in
Arterialized and Stenotic Vein Grafts." The paper has been published in
the American Journal of Surgery. Torry collaborated on the paper with Glenn Hunter,
M.D., professor of physiology and surgery, and his colleagues at the University
of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
Nancy Stefani, director
of gift planning, conducted a gift-planning seminar titled "Giving
Today to Benefit Tomorrow" at the Best Western Starlite Village in Fort
Dodge, Iowa, on Sept. 18. Attendees were local attorneys, trust officers, life
insurance agents, financial planners and development officers. She also attended
the recent annual conference for the National Committee On Planned Giving in
Cincinnati, Ohio, where she hosted a roundtable on current gift-planning issues.
Robert Hunter, professor
of law, gave a Continuing Legal Education lecture during the Drake Law Alumni
Weekend on a variety of First Amendment issues, including "How
Money Talks Has Become an Established Principle of Free Speech." Last May
he was a visiting professor for a week at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen,
Scotland, where he taught an undergraduate law class, conducted a seminar for
law faculty, and was a judge for the international graduate law students in their
moot court competition.
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