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Startup Edgeflow Inc. has appointed Rongquing Hui, an optical scientist at KU, Bill St-Arnaud of Canaire Inc. national research optical network, and Ken Wiggelsworth, a venture capital investor, to a new advisory board.

Janet Campbell, general manager of KANU, was elected secretary of the Kansas Public Broadcasting Council at its annual meeting June 4 in Wichita.

Gov. Bill Graves recently announced the appointment of Mark McCune, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the KU School of Medicine, to the state Board of Healing Arts. McCune is president of Kansas City Dermatology and Skin Surgery Center in Overland Park and dermatology chairman at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Fred Woodward, director of the University Press of Kansas, was a guest speaker at a forum at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in May. He gave a talk titled “Packaging Presidents: A Publishing Perspective.”

Christopher Morphew, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, has been appointed to an advising committee for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. The Associates Program, supported by the Ford Foundation, brings together a diverse group of professionals from academia, government and foundations.

Several researchers in the Department of Geology received awards last month at the annual American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Society for Sedimentary Geology conference in Denver: Paul Enos, Merrill Haas distinguished professor of geology, was awarded the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal for Excellence in Sedimentology; Robert Goldstein, Haas distinguished professor of geology, and Evan Franseen, associate scientist with the Kansas Geological Survey and courtesy professor of geology, both received honorable mention for their poster presentations at the convention; and Tim Carr, senior scientist with the Kansas Geological Survey and adjunct professor of geology, was named head of the Society for Sedimentary Geology Foundation.

Alan Black, professor of urban planning, was recently named a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He was welcomed as a member of the College of Fellows on the basis of individual achievements in the field of urban and rural planning at a ceremony in New Orleans.

David Cook, acting director of the Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth at the KU Medical Center, was named to the KAN-ED User Advisory Council. The council will make recommendations to the Board of Regents on issues of development, implementation and administration of the KAN-ED network. The KAN-ED act, signed into law by Gov. Bill Graves earlier this year, makes the Kansas Board of Regents responsible for the creation, operation and maintenance of a broadband network between schools, libraries and hospitals.

The Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellows in 2001-02 are Elaine Gerbert, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures; Jill Kuhnheim, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Sherry Fowler, assistant professor of art history; and Marjorie Swann, assistant professor of English. Tanya Hartman, assistant professor of art, is the Creative Work Fellow.

Larry Skelton, the director of the Kansas Geological Survey’s well sample library in Wichita, has been recognized by the Scholarship Foundation of the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies.
Skelton was named the Honorary Award Winner for the Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies. The award consists of two $4,000 scholarships that will be given to two earth-science graduate students to be selected by Skelton. Skelton will be recognized at the Rocky Mountain Federation’s annual meeting in June in Roswell, New Mexico.
The award is for Skelton’s public service and educational activities in mineralogy and the earth sciences. Skelton has been director of the Survey’s Wichita facility since 1981. The facility collects, archives, and loans rock samples from oil and natural gas wells drilled in the state. The collection includes samples from more than 130,000 Kansas wells.

Lynn Watney, a geologist at the Kansas Geological Survey, will be awarded Iowa State University’s Distinguished Achievement Citation this fall.
The award is presented annually by the Iowa State University Alumni Association to recognize alumni who are nationally or internationally known for contributions in their fields. It is the highest award presented to an alumni by the Iowa State Alumni Association.
Watney, an Iowa native, has undergraduate and master’s degrees in geology from Iowa State, and a doctorate in geology from KU. He has been a staff member at the Survey since 1976.

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