The University of Kansas

Chancellor Robert Hemenway received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, May 5. The chancellor, a 1963 University of Nebraska at Omaha graduate, delivered the school’s commencement address.

David Darwin, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of civil engineering, presented the keynote speech at the fall 2000 Convention of the Korea Concrete Institute. The speech was titled “Fracture of High-Strength Concrete: Implications for Structural Applications.” Darwin also received the 2000 American Society of Civil Engineers’ State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award for the paper “Design Guide for Partially Restrained Composite Connections.” The paper appeared in the October 1998 issue of Journal of Structural Engineering.

The latest writing by Bill Tuttle, professor of American studies, “Racial Violence in Chicago and the Nation,” was published in Racism magazine. Tuttle was also the featured speaker April 19 at the Thurgood Marshall Law Day here at KU. The event focused on “Education, Opportunity and the Law.”

Luis Corteguera, associate professor of history, had an article, “Popular Politics in Composite Monarchies: Barcelona Artisans Against Hoarding (1580-85),” published in Social History. Corteguera has also been awarded a fellowship at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He will spend the next year there working with the 42 other fellowship scholars and working on his book, Before God and King: Ordinary People in Politics in Early Modern Spain.

Associate professor of music Walter Clark was selected by music and dance department graduate students to receive the annual Teacher Appreciation Award.

Clarinetist Larry Maxey will perform as a featured artist at the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium June l5. Maxey and his wife, Linda, a concert marimbist, gave a concert in the Solo and Chamber Music Series at Pittsburg State University March 9. Alice Downs of the piano faculty collaborated with Maxey on his portion of the program.

Professor of physics and astronomy Thomas Cravens has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an organization with about 35,000 members. He will be recognized at a banquet at the union’s meeting in June.

John Simmons, collection manager for reptiles and amphibians at the KU Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, will receive the American Association of Museums’ Superior Voluntary Service award at the association’s annual meeting in May. The award honors Simmons for his professional dedication and service to the museum field as a peer reviewer in the association’s Museum Assessment Program and Accreditation Program.

Barbara Romzek, associate dean of CLAS and professor of public administration, and Jocelyn Johnston, associate professor of public administration, presented a paper, “State Contracts with Nongovernmental Organizations: An Explanatory Model of Accountability Effectiveness,” at the Fifth International Research Symposium on Public Management at the University of Barcelona in April.

Jonathan Clark, distinguished professor of history, was appointed visiting professor in history and advisor to the center of humanities research at the University of Northumbria, England. Clark also attended the annual meeting of the American Society for 18th Century Studies and presented a paper on “Barbarism, Religion and the History of Ideas.”

Gary Clark, professor of special education, presented workshops on planning for youths with disabilities in their transition from school to adult living in the community at three universities in Taiwan in March. He spoke at the three major teachers’ colleges, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipee, National Changhwa Normal University and National Kaohsiung Normal Univesity. Clark was also honored by the Council for Exceptional Children Division on Career Development and Transition for his career contributions as a part of the organization’s 25th Anniversary Gala and Dinner celebration in April in Kansas City.

Robert E. Foster, director of bands, recently returned from Singapore, where he served as an evaluator for the high school bands of Singapore. The Educational Ministry of Singapore commissioned Foster to compose two new band compositions to be published by Warner Bros. Publications, which were performed at the National Band Festival. He was in Singapore in April, where he served on an international panel of adjudicators, which included band leaders from Australia, Japan, and Sweden. The panel heard and evaluated 117 bands in 5 days, and then worked with the band directors in sessions designed to help improve their bands. The trip was sponsored by the Singapore Educational Ministry and Warner Bros. Publications.

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