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Scholz tapped to serve by U.S. Treasury

Susan Scholz

Susan Scholz, associate professor of business and Harper Faculty Fellow, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Treasury to study the effects of financial restatements.

The study will look at the impact of public company financial restatements and the reasons behind them. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson discussed the need for a better understanding of the issues earlier this year.

Scholz will examine the factors behind public company financial restatements, describe them, analyze their impact and evaluate their significance.

Scholz was chosen through a competitive bidding process.

Klein wins distinguished teaching award

Robert Klein

The Association of American Medical Colleges awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award on Nov. 3 to Robert Klein, professor of anatomy and cell biology and associate dean for professional development and faculty affairs at the KU Medical Center.

The award recognizes the significant contributions to medical education made by gifted teachers. Klein, the first teacher from KU’s School of Medicine to receive the award, was nominated by Barbara Atkinson, executive dean, and Glen Cox, vice dean and senior associate dean for educational and academic affairs.

Up to four awards will be granted each year. Each winner will receive a $10,000 grant. The nominating institution will receive $2,500 for teaching activities, and the School of Medicine’s chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical student honor society, will receive a stipend of $1,000 for its activities.

Jones chosen for finance transparency board

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has appointed Charles Jones, director of KU’s Public Management Center in Topeka, to the Public Finance Transparency Board. The board, created by the Kansas Legislature earlier this year, will oversee the creation of a new central computer system and searchable Web site for state agency expenditures and revenues, bonded indebtedness and other budgetary information.

Jones, who is also a member of the Douglas County Commission, has a bachelor’s degree from KU and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The Public Management Center is a unit of KU Continuing Education.

Hemenway elected to AAU executive committee

Chancellor Robert Hemenway has been elected to the 11-member executive committee for the Association of American Universities, an organization representing 60 of the nation’s most prestigious research universities as well as two major universities in Canada.

The committee is charged with general oversight and functioning of the Washington, D.C.-based organization. Committee member terms of appointment are for two or three years. Hemenway’s is for three years.

On the executive committee with the KU chancellor are chair Graham B. Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University; vice chair Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University; Robert M. Berdahl, AAU president; Henry S. Bienen, past chair, president of Northwestern University; Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University; David B. Frohnmayer, president of the University of Oregon; Richard C. Levin, president of Yale University; Heather Munroe-Blum, principal of McGill University; James W. Wagner, president of Emory University; and Henry T. Yang, chancellor of the University of California-Santa Barbara.

The AAU focuses on issues that are important to research-intensive universities, such as research funding, research policy issues and graduate and undergraduate education.

Johnson earns Phoenix Award for the arts

Ted Johnson, professor emeritus of French and Italian, was inadvertently omitted from the Nov. 5 Oread article about winners of Phoenix Awards for the arts. Johnson won in the arts advocate category.

Johnson was a faculty member from 1968 to 2001, and teaches a freshman honors tutorial class. He is well known for leading a walking tour of campus on stop day, and for leading tours at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Rick, Susanne Clement to leave libraries for Utah

KU Librarians Rick and Susanne Clement have accepted new appointments with Utah State University. Rick, head of special collections at KU Libraries, has accepted the position of dean of libraries, and Susanne, head of collection development, has accepted the position of director of the Quinney Library, a privately endowed library that is part of the College of Natural Resources. Both appointments are effective July 1.

Rick will retire and Susanne will resign after the spring semester. At that point, interim leadership will be announced.

Rick joined the department of special collections at KU Libraries in 1986, and he has served as head of that department since 2000. He is also bibliographer and courtesy professor for the English department. Susanne joined KU Libraries in 2003 as a social science librarian. She was promoted to head of collection development in 2004. She is the bibliographer for the communication studies and political science departments.

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In June 1945, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, a 1901 alumna, and her husband, Texas oilman Joseph R. Pearson, donated $200,000 to help build student housing. In the next 15 years, two residence halls and three scholarship halls opened. One residence hall, named for her, still houses women; the other, named for him, now is home to the School of Education. Pearson, Grace Pearson and Sellards scholarship halls were named for members of their families. For more, see www.buildings.ku.edu.