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Richard L. Schiefelbusch, distinguished professor emeritus and founding director of Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at KU, received the Sertoma International Howard P. House award for excellence and achievement in the field of communication disorders at the organization’s convention in Scottsdale, Ariz., on July 27.
Schiefelbusch is a world leader in speech-language pathology, language development and disorders, special education, and research in mental retardation. He guided the development of the Kansas Bureau of Child Research from a small, nonacademic division to an eminent three-campus interdisciplinary research, training, and service institute from 1955 until his retirement in 1990.
He also oversaw the establishment of the speech and hearing clinic at KU, now the Schiefelbusch Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, and the Intercampus Program in Communicative Disorders.

Paul Willhite, Ross H. Forney distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, has been selected to receive the John Franklin Carll Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
The award, which recognizes distinguished achievements that advance either petroleum engineering technology or professionalism, will be presented to Willhite during the 2001 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 in New Orleans. The award has been presented annually since 1957.
Willhite has been on the KU faculty since 1969 and is co-director of KU’s Tertiary Oil Recovery Project and co-director of the KU Energy Research Center. He co-wrote a text on enhanced oil recovery with Don Green, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.

Two faculty members at the Information & Telecommunication Technology Center received distinguished teaching awards for 2000. Christopher Allen, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received the Ned N. Fleming Trust Award for distinguished teaching, scholarship and service. John Gauch, associate professor of EECS, received the Archie and Nancy Dykes Award. The award for undergraduate teaching and mentoring.

Oread Editor Emily C. Forsyth recently placed in a national student magazine contest, sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. She won second place in the service and information category with her article “Intentions for Prevention.”

Susanne Shaw, professor of journalism, received a presidential award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Will Norton, Jr., president of AEJMC, presented the award at the organization’s recent convention. Shaw is executive director of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Since the early 1980s, she has focused on how to get representatives of a diverse group of media and journalism/communication education organizations to work together to set standards that will accurately assess the quality of journalism/mass communication units.

Angie Carr, assistant director for Organizations and Leadership, received a certification from CAMPUSPEAK, Inc., a national training and development firm based in Denver, Colo. Carr will consult with the organization throughout the coming year, helping fraternity and sorority systems at colleges and universities nationwide in their community-building efforts.

Kurt Thurmaier, associate professor of public administration, spent six weeks in May and June conducting field research on Polish and Ukrainian local government budget reforms. Before returning to Kansas he presented an invited paper at Leiden University, the Hague Campus, at an international seminar on central budget offices. The papers are the basis for a book to be published next year. Thurmaier’s is the only chapter on subnational budget offices.

Gunda Georg, distinguished professor of medicinal chemistry, received the Sato Memorial International Award. The Sato Award was established to encourage the development of pharmacology, therapeutics and pharmaceutical sciences. Each year, the award is presented to an individual who has made significant contributions in one of those three areas. Georg received her award at a recognition ceremony in Sapporo, Japan in March.

Paul Meier, associate professor in theatre and film, published “Vocal Clarity in the Outdoor Theatre,” with Kate Foy, in “The Voice in Violence And Other Contemporary Issues in Professional Voice and Speech Training,” edited by Rocco Dal Vera, published by Applause Books and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, New York. He also participated in a panel, “Technology in Speech/Dialect Training: Three Approaches,” with Eric Armstrong and Natalie Baker, at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, in Chicago, in which he demonstrated the use of The International Dialects of English Archive in classroom teaching.

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