Credits

Marc L. Greenberg, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, gave two days of lectures on "Language and Identity in Eastern Europe" in June at the summer school in American studies at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. He also delivered the paper “Phonetic Evidence in Western South Slavic for the Development of the 'Old Acute'” in July at the International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology in Zagreb, Croatia.

Haskell Springer, professor emeritus of English, will receive the 2005 Career Achievement Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at an upcoming faculty reception. Springer, whose research area is 19th-century American literature, taught at KU for 36 years. Late in his career, he created a course on digital interactive literature, the first of its kind. He also mentored students in the University Scholars Program.

Paulyn Cartwright, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is lead principal investigator and KU is the lead institution for the National Science Foundation research project “Assembling the Tree of Life: An Integrative Approach to Investigating Cnidarian Phylogeny.” Seven institutions are participating in the five-year project, funded by a $2.85 million grant of which KU receives $1.6 million. Daphne Fautin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Allen Collin, historical zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution, are co-grant recipients.

Tana Brown, associate professor of occupational therapy in the School of Allied Health, was among the community-partner honorees at the Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare annual meeting July 21 in Kansas City, Kan.

Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, published two articles, “Culture Against Society” in the July/August issue of Society; and “From Classification to Indexing: How Automation Transforms the Way We Think” in the October-December 2004 issue of Social Epistemology.

Jo Hardesty, director of Legal Services for Students, was re-elected secretary of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association Student Legal Services section at a conference July 27 in Toronto.

Rebecca Schulte, university archivist at Spencer Research Library, presented “Data Warehouses and Archives: What Is the Relationship in the University Environment?” Aug. 19 at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in New Orleans.

Arne Koch, assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures, published "Realismusdefinitionen im interkulturellen Dialog: Freytags Soll und Haben und Reinhold Solgers Anton in Amerika" in Forian Krobb's 150 Jahre 'Soll und Haben.' Studien zu Gustav Freytags kontroversem Roman.

Howard Mossberg, former dean of pharmacy and emeritus vice chancellor of research, has been honored with a professorship in his name at the School of Pharmacy. Madison “Al” and Lila Self of Hinsdale, Ill., established a fund with KU Endowment in honor of Mossberg's 37-year career. The first person appointed to the professorship will specialize in pharmacogenomics, the study of how individual human genetic factors affect responses to pharmaceutical drugs.

Mechele Leon, assistant professor in theatre and film, published the article “The Poet and the Prince: Revising Molière and Tartuffe in the French Revolution” in the summer 2005 issue of French Historical Studies.

Sharon Gernon, housemother for Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at KU, received the Housemother of the Year award Aug. 4 at the fraternity's 166th general convention in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Sarah Goodwin Thiel, digital imaging librarian, presented the paper “Collection Features: A New Approach to Collection Promotion” at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Pre-conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries meeting June 22 in St. Louis.

Richard Fyffe, assistant dean of libraries for scholarly communication, presented “Libraries and Scholarly Publishers in an Open Access Environment” at the American Institute of Biological Sciences annual council meeting and special meeting on open-access publishing in Washington, D.C., in May.