IUB faculty and staff tributes and appointments

Baker’s honor is the first such degree to be awarded by Western University.

As director of SPEA’s international programs, Baker has been involved in establishing public and environmental affairs as academic disciplines in the U.S. and other countries and, since 1999, he as worked with Western University to develop its first undergraduate and graduate degree programs in public administration and in law.

Baker’s international contributions are many. He was co-founder and dean of the School of Development Studies, Norwich, England, and has designed the master’s in public administration (MPA) degree program for New Bulgarian University, Sofia; Universidad Privada de Bolivia; University of Sevilla, Spain; and the Development Studies School at the University of East Anglia in England. He also helped redesign part of the environmental program at KIMEP, Almaty, Kazakhstan; the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Khartoum, Sudan; and the Development Studies Program at the University of Lesotho in southern Africa.

His current projects include the book Other Times: Other Places, an account, with former Soviet Army officer Mykola Polonski, of their two missions to Africa during the Cold War. He is also writing A World of Difference: The Next Ten Years, a view of geopolitical change over the next decade, scheduled for publication next year, and is co-writing with Dean James McMaster Small States in a Big World, also to be published in 2003.

 

Robel

Lauren Robel, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Law, will become the acting dean of the school, effective July 1. She will fill the vacancy created after the current dean, Alfred Aman, announced that he would step down June 30 to accept a fellowship at Princeton University. Robel, who served once before as acting dean of the school in 1998, is also the Val Nolan Professor of law. She received her law degree from IU in 1983 and then served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jesse Eschbach, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Robel joined the IU faculty in 1985.

David Williams, chemistry, has been named the recipient of the Tracy Sonneborn Lecture Award for 2002, by the dean of the faculties. The award is given to faculty who have achieved local, national and international distinction in both teaching and research.

P. Andrew Evans is the recipient of the 2002 Pfizer Award of Creativity in Organic Chemistry sponsored by Pfizer and Warner Lambert. This award is given to members who have distinguished themselves through significant creative contributions to the area of organic research and through excellence in graduate student training.

 

Hossler

Don Hossler, formerly vice chancellor for enrollment services on the Bloomington campus, is now an assistant vice president for academic affairs. He is involved in the university’s ongoing effort, beginning in 1998, to redesign both its student information systems and the administrative structures required to support the new system. As part of those efforts, he is working with UITS to coordinate the functional implementation of the new student information system across all campuses and manage the transition into this new information environment.

Charles Reigeluth, instructional systems technology, is the recipient of the Association for Education Communication and Technology Distinguished Service Award. The award, which is the highest given to a member or friend of AECT, is earned for lifelong contribution in educational technology for scholarship, research, contribution, practice and development of theories to advance the field.

 

Fischman

Rob Fischman, School of Law, has had an article, “Stumbling to Johannesburg: The United States’ Haphazard Progress Toward Sustainable Forestry Law,” published in the most recent issue of the Environmental Law Reporter. The reference to Johannesburg identifies the location of the upcoming 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Environmental Law Reporter is publishing a series of articles by academics to evaluate the United States’ progress toward sustainability since the 1992 Earth Summit in a variety of fields. Fischman’s contribution dealing with forestry will be collected with the others and published in a book later this year.

 

Dove

Kent Dove, vice president for development at the IU Foundation, has been awarded the Wells Legacy Award, the organization’s most prestigious staff award. Dove has been a leader in the field of professional philanthropy and is author of several major publications, including the now standard reference, Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign.

Robert Jennings, Kelley School of Business, has been appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. The Nasdaq Stock Market lists more than 4,100 companies and trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market.

 

Hopkins

Kendra Hopkins, investment and tax accountant for the IU Foundation, is the recipient of the IUF’s Pinnell Award for Excellence. She was cited for her role in the foundation’s annual audit and in creating a new pooled-fund pricing system.

Jeff Fisher, director of the Center for Real Estate Studies at the Kelley School, and doctoral alumnus Clark Maxam had a paper, “Pricing Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities,” selected as the most outstanding paper in the 2001 volume of the Journal of Property Investment and Finance. They will travel to London this month to attend the awards ceremony at Lord’s Cricket Ground.

 

Morris

Matt Morris, major gifts officer and development assistant to the president of the IU Foundation, has been awarded the IUF’s Cosgrove Award for Teamwork. Morris was honored for coordinating the development activities of the IU Office of the President, and those of the foundation and development staffs on all IU campuses.

Ron Stephenson, Kelley School of Business, has been inducted into Medical Distribution Solutions, Inc.’s Medical Distribution Hall of Fame. The organization provides information to the distribution sales and marketing community involved in serving primary, acute and long-term care markets.

William Wang, director of information technology at the School of Music, has earned certifications from Microsoft Corporation as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows/2000 and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator. He is responsible for implementation of school-wide IT policies and coordination of IT services and infrastructure.

 

Thiede

Jaci Thiede, executirve director of development marketing services at the IU Foundation, is the recipient of the IUF’s Heighway Award for Leadership. She was honored in particular for organizing a new department and for helping to establish a women’s initiatives program.

B.J. Irvine, head of the Fine ArtsLibrary, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America at the annual conference of the organization last month. The award honors outstanding and sustained service to the profession through leadership, research, teaching and collection development.
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