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 Kudos...Highlights of recent achievements of URI faculty and staff members: The Conference on College Composition and Communications (CCCC) recently selected Elizabeth Miles to receive the 2000 CCCC James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award. Miles, an associate professor in the English Department's College Writing Program, completed her dissertation on "Building Rhetorics of Production: An Institutional Critique of Composition Textbook Publishing" while at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. The award was established nine years ago to recognize a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process through research or scholarly inquiry or adds to the body of knowledge in composition studies. CCCC is a constituent group for college teachers of writing within the National Council of Teachers of English. Three URI faculty members recently received awards for their work in the field of entomology at the 71st annual meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America. Roger LeBrun, professor in the department of plant sciences, received the Society's Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching for inspiring many students to study entomology through his lively and humorous teaching style. Richard Casagrande, also a professor in the department of plant sciences, received an award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management, acknowledging the innovative programs he has developed at URI since 1976. Howard Ginsberg, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey based at URI, was also named Natural Resources Researcher of the Year in the Northeast Region by the National Park Service. William J. Ohley, professor of electrical engineering, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health to serve as a member of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Ohley will review grant applications submitted to the Institutes, make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate National Institutes of Health national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their fields of science. Ohley will serve a four year term beginning on July 1. The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, edited by URI Graduate School of Oceanography volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson, received an award for excellence by the Association of American Publishers. The encyclopedia, published by Academic Press, took the prestigious award in the Geography and Earth Science Division for 1999. Sigurdsson joined the URI faculty in 1974. He has authored more than 120 articles in scientific journals and overseen more than 35 research proposals funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the National Geographic Society. Malcolm L. Spaulding, professor and chairman of ocean engineering, was re-appointed to serve an additional two year term (1999-2001) on the Marine Board of the National Research Council's (NRC) Transportation Research Board. Dr. Spaulding was initially appointed to the Marine Board in 1996. During his tenure on the board he has served as liaison to the Ocean Studies Board and the Marine Board's Coastal Engineering Committee. He has also served as chairman of the Marine Board's Committee on the Marine Transportation of Heavy Oil. Spaulding has been a faculty member at URI since 1973. By Jennifer Smith Submissions for Kudos can be sent to The University Pacer, URI Dept. of Communications, 22 Davis Hall, Kingston Campus, or by e-mail to: Jredlich@advance.uri.edu. |
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