Vol. 38, No. 18

3-4-2004
By: onCampus staff

News briefs

Vet Med dean search committee named
Barbara Snyder, interim executive vice president and provost, has announced the appointment of a search committee for the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Robert Brueggemeier, dean of pharmacy, is chair of the committee. Committee members are: Alicia Bertone, professor of veterinary clinical sciences; James DeWille, professor of veterinary biosciences; Maurice Eastridge, professor of animal sciences; Grant Frazer, associate professor of veterinary preventive medicine; Beth Kellogg, president-elect of the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association; Judith Kleen, director of finance and budget, College of Veterinary Medicine; Michael Lairmore, professor and chair of veterinary biosciences; Elizabeth Lutmerding, student; Stephen Reed, professor of veterinary clinical sciences; Linda Saif, Distinguished University Professor of veterinary preventive medicine; Allison Snow, professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology; and Caroline Whitacre, professor and chair of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics. John A.E. Hubbell, associate dean of the college and professor of veterinary clinical sciences, has been appointed interim dean, effective April 1, pending approval of the Board of Trustees.

First Glenn service-learning scholar named
The John Glenn Institute has named Andy Furco, a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Service-Learning Research and Development Center at that school, as its first John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning. Furco earned the distinction through a nationwide competition, the first of 25 that the institute will host over the next three years. The new program, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, recognizes scholars from any discipline whose scholarship contributes to advancing the understanding of or adoption of service-learning in K-12 classrooms. Furco currently is leading a two-year study exploring how service, which is often assigned as a punitive measure, can be turned into a positive and meaningful experience for suspended and expelled K-12 students. The institute will use knowledge generated by Furco and other John Glenn Scholars to publish advisories conveying essential findings in concise form accessible to the public.

Search committee for TWP director announced
A search committee to find the next director of The Women’s Place has been named. Barbara Snyder, interim executive vice president and provost, has appointed Kathryn Haller, associate general council, Health Sciences Administration, and chair of the President’s Council on Women’s Issues, as chair of the committee that will find the successor for Judy Fountain, who will retire in June. Committee members are: J Henderson, director of compensation, Office of Human Resources; Kay Bea Jones, associate professor, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture; Joan Kisling, assistant director, Office of Enrollment Services, Student Financial Aid; Maria Miriti, assistant professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology; Linda Mizejewski, chair, Department of Women’s Studies and professor of English; Rebecca Nelson, associate director, Multicultural Center; William Saam, chair, Department of Physics; Jeanne Tao, graduate student; and Tony Tripodi, dean, College of Social Work.

SBS names Huber Faculty Fellows
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences has selected three new Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows. Recipients are Brenda Dervin, professor of journalism and communication; Richard Gunther, professor of political science; and Catherine Stoney, professor of psychology. In its sixth year, the program acknowledges and rewards the strongest scholars on the SBS faculty. It is named in honor of Joan Huber, who in her own scholarly career and as dean of SBS from 1984-1992, set the highest standards for faculty. Dervin is an internationally known scholar whose recent research projects focus on developing an innovative approach to communication research called sense-making methodology. Gunther is one of the world’s leading experts on Spanish politics and on the process of democratization throughout the world. Stoney is a prolific researcher who has two specific areas of focus, both of which investigate the psychological, behavioral and cognitive factors that influence vulnerability to the initiation and progression of cardiovascular disease.

Bloomfield, Welker named ‘Local Legends’
Clara Bloomfield, an internationally recognized expert in leukemia and lymphoma and cancer scholar, and Mary Jo Welker, a leader in the support and development of family medicine at the Medical Center, were honored as “local legends” by the American Medical Women’s Association at its annual meeting in San Diego Feb. 6. The local legends project is a partnership between the AMWA and the National Library of Medicine designed to celebrate the accomplishments of America’s women physicians. Bloomfield, holder of the William Greenville Pace III Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at Ohio State and senior adviser to the Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, has spent most of her career identifying chromosomal abnormalities in leukemia and lymphoma and how they can influence patient care. Welker is a visible and dynamic leader in all aspects of family medicine. She serves the community through numerous administrative and policy positions as well as a busy practice. She is associate dean for primary care, a professor of clinical family medicine, chair of the department of family medicine at Ohio State and director of the university’s network of 20 primary care sites.

African-American MBA enrollment ranked No. 1
The Fisher College of Business was the top-ranked program in both percentage of African-American students and progress of African-American student enrollment, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, which recently ranked African-American MBA student enrollment at the nation’s 25 highest-ranked business schools. With a 150 percent increase in the number of African-American MBA students from 1999-2003, Fisher College countered the overall trend of declining African-American student enrollment. According to the journal, African-American MBA student enrollment nationwide has dropped by almost 11 percent since 1999. In addition, Fisher College had the highest percentage of African-American MBA students with 10.3 percent.

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