Professor Francois Abboud, head of internal medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center, receives the American Heart Association’s 1999 Research Achievement Award and the 2000 American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine.

Faith Adiele, a graduate student in the Nonfiction Writing Program, is cowinner of the 1999 William R. Espy award for Naptime, in recognition of works-in-progress with a Pacific Northwest setting.

The American Psychological Association gives awards to two psychology professors: Peter Nathan, the 1999 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge; and Alan Christensen, the 1999 Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology.

Psychiatry professor Nancy C. Andreasen receives the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Merit Award for the Phenomenology and Classification of Schizophrenia from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Marvin Bell, professor of creative writing, is named Iowa’s first Poet Laureate by Gov. Tom Vilsack.

Shelley Berc, professor of cinema and comparative literature, receives a $100,000 grant from the National Theatre Artist Residency Program for research at the Maine Maritime Museum.

UI student Aaron Bossler is one of three medical students nationwide to receive the Experimental Pathologist-in-Training Award from the American Society of Investigative Pathology.

Willard L. Boyd, professor emeritus of law, is inducted as a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Robert Brennan, professor of education and director of the Iowa Testing Programs, is recognized for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement by the board of the National Council on Measurement in Education.

Associate provost for health sciences and professor of nursing Kathleen Buckwalter and Kevin Campbell, professor of physiology and biophysics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, are elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. Campbell is also named a fellow in the Biophysical Society’s first class of society fellows.

Gregory Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, receives a Distinguished Guest Professor Award from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture to serve a three-month residency at Kyoto University.

College of Dentistry faculty members Stephen Stefanac, Robert Margeas, David Drake, and William Synan are named to Omicron Kappa Upsilon, a national dental honor society.

The College of Medicine wins a Silver Achievement Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Antonio Damasio, professor of neurology, receives the Ariens Kappers Medal from the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research. Damasio’s book, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, is named to the New York Times List of Notable Books for 1999.

Robin L. Davisson, assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology, receives a Career Investigator Award from the American Heart Association.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is recognized for research excellence by the editorial board of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology and receives a $5,000 Department Research Initiative.

Marilyn Dispensa, former graduate assistant at the Hardin Library’s Information Commons who’s now a program analyst in Information Technology Services, Jim Duncan, head of the Information Commons, and Jerry Moon, associate professor of speech pathology and audiology, are awarded first place in the Sandoz/Slice of Life Student Software Development Competition.

Patrick Durgin, an undergraduate English honors student, received a Jacob Javits Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The fellowship will cover his graduate school expenses for four years.

Lou Eichler, business manager of the UI’s central mail system, is honored with the creation of an award program in his name from the National Association of College and University Mail Services. He also receives the Industry Excellence Award for colleges and universities from the U.S. Postal Service.

Kristine Fitch, associate professor of communication studies, wins the 1999 Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association for Speaking Relationally.

Shannon L. Fogg, a graduate student in history, receives the Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for research at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaustmitsuhiro Memorial Museum.

Marsha Forys, reference librarian, is selected to attend "Immersion 00," a learning seminar, through a national competition of the Association of College and Research
Libraries Institute for Information Literacy.

Two graduate students and four undergraduates win Fulbright Program scholarships to conduct research abroad: Ned Bertz, a doctoral student in history, to study everyday interactions between Africans and Indians in Tanzania; Carrie Messenger, an M.F.A. student in creative writing, to conduct research in Romania to complete a story collection; Lana Zak, to study racial identity in Korea; Susan Bridenstine, to study economic decisions made by Colombian immigrant women in Venezuela; Lisa Gihring, to study the mass media’s images of Russian women engaged in politics in Moscow; and Nicholas Regiacorte, to complete a collection of poems dealing with emigration and translation in Italy.

Six professors are awarded Fulbright Scholar Awards to teach and conduct research abroad: Thomas M. Cook, professor of preventive medicine and environmental health, to visit the Slovak Republic; Denise Keyes Filios, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, to visit Tunisia; Joy E. Hayes, assistant professor of communication studies, to visit Mexico; Richard P. Horwitz, professor of American studies, to visit China; Peverill Squire, professor of political science, to visit Hungary; and James Throgmorton, associate professor of urban and regional planning, to visit Germany.

John C. Gerber, professor emeritus of English, receives one of six awards named for him, recognizing exemplary service and leadership to the Conference on College Composition and Communication, part of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Bruce Gronbeck, the A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address, wins the 1999 Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award from the National Communication Association.

Professor and space physicist Don Gurnett wins a $4-million NASA contract in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to develop and use radar in a search for underground water on Mars.

David M. Hall, postdoctoral fellow in exercise science, wins the 1999 Young Investigator Award from the Oxygen Society, an international scientific organization.

Joseph Hill, assistant professor of internal medicine and pharmacology, wins the AstraZeneca Young Investigator Forum in Cardiovascular Research.

Engineering professor Forrest Holly is elected president of the International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research.

Lawrence Hunsicker, professor of internal medicine, receives the 2000 Roche Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Society of Transplantation, honoring a senior investigator who has made enormous contributions to the field of transplantation medicine and immunobiology.

Naomi Iizuka, visiting faculty member in the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, and Ehud Havazelet and Z.Z. Packer, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni, are among ten winners of the 1999 Whiting Writers’ Awards.

Two veterans of the International Writing Program–Amalia Kahana-Carmon and Meir Weiseltier–win the 2000 Israel Prize, the top civilian award in Israel.

Robert P. Kelch, dean of the College of Medicine, receives the Merit Award, and Louis Crist, director of the college’s Office of Continuing Medical Education Division, receives the John F. Sanford Award from the Iowa Medical Society for their contributions to the field of medicine.

Kevin Kelley and Bryan Less of the University Video Center and graduate student David Gould win a regional Emmy from the St. Louis Mid-American Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for The Search for Meaning, a 26-program series for public television on healthy living.

The American Historical Association honors history professor Linda Kerber with two awards: the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for best work in women’s history and/or feminist theory and the Littleton-Griswold Prize for best book in any subject on the history of American law and society, in recognition of her 1998 book No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.

Richard E. Kerber, professor of internal medicine and associate director of the department’s Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, is recognized as a Year 2000 Honoree of Emergency Cardiovascular Care by the American Heart Association.

Karl Kirby, a third-year medical student, wins first prize in a national competition, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest.

Gov. Tom Vilsack presents printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, emeritus professor of art and art history, with the Iowa Award, the state’s highest citizen award.

Judith Liskin-Gasparro, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, wins the 1999 Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Patricia Lounsberry, program director in cardiovascular health assessment, is the first Iowan named to the board of directors of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Janet Mapel, a pediatric nurse practitioner at University Hospital School, is named Outstanding Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Iowa Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Carolyn McConnell, a graduate student in the Nonfiction Writing Program, is cowinner of the 1999 William R. Espy award for Water II: Lake, in recognition of works-in-progress with a Pacific Northwest setting.

Professor Gerald J. McGowan, clinical associate professor in family medicine, is named the 1999 Medical Educator of the Year by the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians.

Three professors win fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Paula A. Michaels and Michel Gobat, assistant professors of history, and Janet G. Altman, professor of French and Italian.

Several Nonfiction Writing Program students and graduates are tapped for awards: Faith Adiele wins the $2,000 Millennium Essay Award from Creative Nonfiction for her essay "Lessons in Killing for the Black Buddhist Nun"; Cecile Goding receives the Magazine Association of Georgia Competition 2000 Gold Award for Best Essay for "Six Degrees of Fluency," published in The Georgia Review (Fall 1999); Brian Lennon receives the Associated Writing Programs Prize for Nonfiction for his book City, to be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2001; and Leslie Roberts’ nonfiction piece "The Entire Earth and Sky" has been selected for inclusion in Experiencing Nature, an anthology of creative nonfiction to be published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam in 2001.

The Old Capitol Museum web site receives the 1999 Web Site Award from the Iowa Division of Tourism and the Travel Federation of Iowa.

The Panhellenic Council and the student fund-raising organization Dance Marathon receive the Governor’s Award for Volunteerism.

Ray Parrott, professor and head of Russian, wins the 1999 Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Profession from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

The Oval Hour, a collection of poetry by Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Kathleen Peirce and published by the University of Iowa Press, receives the 1999 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Paul Pomrehn, professor and interim head of community and behavioral health in the College of Public Health, receives a Special Recognition Award from the Association
of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.

Michael Putnam, a UI graduate student in Germanic languages and literature, wins a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst grant from the German government to study dialectology in Germany.

Lauren Rabinovitz, a professor in the Departments of Cinema and Comparative Literature and American Studies, is awarded a grant from the NEH in support of her project "Yesterday’s Wonderlands: Introducing Modernism to America."

Robert G. Robinson, professor and head of psychiatry, receives the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Annual Research Award.

Victor G.J. Rodgers, associate professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, receives the 1999 Distinguished Service Award from the Minority Affairs Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

UI graduate student Brigitte (Gitti) Hecker Salamni receives the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award from the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools/UMI for "The ‘Hinterland’ of Calabar: Art History of the Cross River Region of Nigeria."

Curt D. Sigmund, associate professor of internal medicine and physiology and biophysics, receives the Henry Pickering Bowditch Lectureship, awarded to an outstanding physiologist in the United States under 42 years of age.

Fred Skiff, associate professor of physics and astronomy, is elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

The campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists receives the 1998-99 National Outstanding Campus Chapter Award.

Padmini Srinivasan, director of the School of Library and Information Science, receives a two-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health to design methods to improve searching on medical databases.

The State Health Registry of Iowa, directed by Charles Lynch, professor of epidemiology, earns a Gold Standard Award from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.

Frederick Stern, professor of mechanical engineering and researcher in the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, is elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Bonnie S. Sunstein and Kathryn F. Whitmore, associate professors in the College of Education, are elected to leadership posts within the National Council of Teachers of English–Sunstein as a trustee of the organization’s Research Foundation and Whitmore as chair of its Nominating Committee.

UI art students Peter Axelsen, Jered Sprecher, and Christopher Thomas are selected for inclusion in the 2000 edition of New American Paintings: The MFA Manual, published by Open Studios Press.

UI senior Alissa Swango is selected as one of the top 10 journalism students in the country, winning a $10,000 scholarship from the Scripps Howard Foundation.

Anna Tauke, a junior in electrical and computer engineering, is selected by the National Science Foundation as one of 10 U.S. undergraduate students who will spend the summer at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Switzerland.

UI Health Care physician-researchers Harold Adams and Donald Heistad receive American Heart Association awards.

The UI student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) receives the AIChE Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the seventh year in a row, while Joseph Mohr, a senior in chemical engineering, is one of only 15 students across the country to receive an AIChE scholarship.

University alumni Christopher Smith and Sarah Price receive the 1999 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for their film American Movie.

In the Visual Design in Print category, The University of Iowa Foundation wins a gold award for the Hancher newsletter and a bronze award for the fall 1999 issue of Dividends from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The foundation also receives four awards from the University and College Designers Association for its 1999 annual report, annual reports for the College of Medicine and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, a table kiosk for The President’s Club Assembly, and the fall 1999 Hancher newsletter.

Jessica Wach, a senior music education student, wins the Collegiate Brass Competition of the Music Teachers National Association.

David P. Wacker, professor of pediatric psychology at University Hospital School, receives the Applied Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Applied Behavioral Research, one of his profession’s highest honors, from the American Psychological Association.

Michael J. Welsh, professor of internal medicine and physiology and biophysics and a Howard Hughes Investigator, is inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

Science education professor Robert E. Yager wins the Iowa Mathematics Science Coalition’s highest award for a lifetime of contribution to science education in Iowa.

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, professor of Asian languages and literature, receives a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS/SSRC/NEH) to study 1945 to 1955 Japanese cinema.

Rose Mary Zbiek, associate professor of mathematics and education, is the recipient of the third annual Thomas N. Urban Research Award, which recognizes outstanding educational research efforts in Iowa.