Five University professors have been named fellows
in the 2004-05 Academic Leadership Program of the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium
of Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago
designed to promote academic excellence in the member
universities through resource sharing and collaboration.
The leadership program aims to develop the leadership
and managerial skills of faculty on CIC campuses
who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative
promise.
The UI fellows are:
Catherine Cole, professor of marketing and a Henry
B. Tippie Fellow in the Tippie College of Business,
has chaired the Department of Marketing since 2002.
She teaches a variety of subjects, including international
marketing, at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Her
research focuses on consumer behavior, especially
on the differences between older and younger consumers.
She also is codirector of a U.S. Department of Education
grant to internationalize the business school curriculum.
Marcella David, professor of law in the College
of Law, was serving as associate dean of admissions
in the College of Law when she was selected this
summer to serve as interim associate provost for
diversity. Before joining the UI faculty in 1995,
she was a clerk for a federal judge and worked as
a litigation associate for a New York law firm. Her
primary area of scholarship is international law
and human rights; she also teaches courses that draw
on her litigation experiences. In addition to her
work in admissions, David has served for three years
as the director of an externally funded pre-law program
administered and hosted by the
College of Law.
Craig C. Porter, professor (clinical) of pediatrics
and director of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology
and Hypertension in the Carver College of Medicine,
was on the faculty at The Johns Hopkins University
before coming to Iowa in 1990. He served as a member
of the College of Medicine Executive Committee for
seven consecutive years, three of them as its chair.
He has been a member of the Faculty Senate, one of
its councilors, and its secretary.
Margaret Raymond, professor of law in the College
of Law, has served as president of the Faculty Senate,
as chair of an ad hoc committee investigating the
handling of an allegation of sexual assault made
against a prominent UI athlete, and as an active
member of numerous University committees, including
a task force charged to recommend significant University
budget cuts. Her research interests include constitutional
criminal procedure and the professional responsibility
of lawyers. She clerked for a judge in the U.S. Court
of Appeals and a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
and practiced as a commercial litigator and criminal
defense lawyer before joining the UI faculty in 1995.
James C. Torner, professor and head of epidemiology
in the College of Public Health and professor of
surgery in the Carver College of Medicine, was on
the medical faculty at the University of Virginia
before joining the UI faculty in 1991. His research
focuses on the prevention of mortal and disabling
diseases and conditions including central nervous
system cancers, heart disease, stroke, birth defects,
osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, aging, reproductive
disorders, and traumatic injuries. He has served
as chair of the Faculty Senate Government Relations
Committee, member of the Presidential Selection Committee,
and cochair of the Provost Selection Committee.
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