CAPS director is interim dean of students

Frank DeSalvo, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, has been named interim dean of students.

DeSalvo came to the university in 1991. He holds a doctorate in social work from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in social work from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a bachelor’s degree from St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa.

KUCR expands administrative staff

Kevin Boatright and Jeanne M. Rooney are assuming new roles at the KU Center for Research.

Boatright, who has served as associate executive vice chancellor for external affairs since 2002, has been named director of research communications. He will assume the position May 2. Boatright will direct research communications at the Lawrence campus, including the KUCR Web site and publications, and planning initiatives and promotional, news and event activities.

Jeanne M. Rooney, who comes to KU after five years with UMB Bank as vice president and director for nonprofit financial and advisory services, is assistant vice provost for research and director of finance for KUCR. Her duties include developing a strategic financial plan for budgeting, cash management, forecasting, debt financing, risk management and financial analysis.

General counsel taps KU HIPAA coordinator

Lisa E. Hoebelheinrich will join the KU general counsel’s Lawrence office May 16 as assistant general counsel. Hoebelheinrich has served as HIPAA coordinator for KU since 2002. Hoebelheinrich holds a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from KU.

Ceremony honors geriatrics professor

Douglas Woolley, associate professor of family and community medicine at the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, was formally vested April 15 with the Delos V. Smith Jr. Fellowship in Community Geriatrics. The presentation took place during the annual Family Medicine Spring Symposium.

Ron Gillam to join Life Span Institute

Ron Gillam, professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Texas at Austin, will join the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders as a full professor in summer 2006. Gillam also will be a senior scientist with the Life Span Institute. He is currently the principal investigator on a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders clinical trials grant that compares the outcomes of computer-assisted and clinician-directed language intervention programs.

Former MU staffer joins Continuing Ed

Jim Peters will join the School of Continuing Education as the director of marketing and development on April 25. He wrote a best-selling book on Arlington National Cemetery and has worked in publications and marketing at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Journalism dean hires assistant

Cindy Vinyard began work April 7 as the new administrative assistant to Ann Brill, dean of journalism. Vinyard held similar positions with women’s basketball coaches Marian Washington from 1998 to 2004 and Bonnie Henrickson in 2004-05.