FALL
Assistant research scientist Karla Daniels's abstract on HIV-induced T-cell syncytia is selected for inclusion in the 1998 ASCB Press Book of Selected Biomedical Research Summaries, placing her project among the year's top one percent.	History professor Sarah Hanley wins the American Political Science Association's prize for the year's best article on politics and history.
For the second year in a row, the UI team wins the College Bowl competition sponsored by the American Statistician Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.	Professor Ursula Delworth receives the American Psychological Association's Leona Tyler Award for her achievements in counseling psychology.
Professor Robert Yager wins the Consejo Cultural Mundial's Jose Vasconcelos World Award of Education for his pioneering work in science education.	Professor David Wacker is named one of the top ten behavior analysts in the world by the American Association of Behavior Therapy.
Leslie Schwalm, associate professor of history, receives both the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Association of Southern Women Historians and the Letitia Woods Brown Prize from the Association of Women Historians. Mark Blumberg, associate professor of psychology, receives a 1998 Gold Medal Award from the American Psychological Foundation.	Professors Nancy Andreasen, psychiatry, and Vasu Nair, chemistry, are elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Gary Rosenthal, associate professor of internal medicine, is one of six individuals nationwide selected as a Department of Veterans Affairs Senior Quality Scholar.	Engineering professor Gregory Carmichael is the first recipient of the Recognition Award from the International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality.
History professor Malcolm Rohrbough wins the 1998 Caughey Western History Association Award for Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation, followed in March 1999 by the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Prize.	The Center for the Book is named winner of the American Printing History Association's Institutional Prize for 1999. The National Archives commissions the center in the spring to provide special paper for rehousing the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and five other documents central to the history of the United States.
Hawkeye offensive lineman Derek Rose is selected one of 17 National Scholar-Athletes by the National Football Foundation and the College Hall of Fame. Connie Delaney, associate professor of nursing, is inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. Professor Steven Luck receives the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience.	The College of Dentistry receives the American Dental Association's Geriatric Oral Health Care Award for the vital outreach service of the Geriatric Mobile Dental Unit.
Peter Snyder, assistant professor of internal medicine, wins the American Heart Association's Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Young Investigators for his work on the molecular mechanisms of hypertension.	Professor Dorothy Johnson, art and art history, is elected to the board of directors of the College Art Association of America.
WINTER
The Museum of Art's "Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being" is recognized by the International Association of Art Critics as runner-up for Best Art Show Organized by a U.S. Museum Outside of New York.	Professor Arthur Miller, director of the Iowa Social Science Institute, becomes the first American political scientist elected to membership in the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
Rita Frantz, professor of nursing, receives Springhouse Corporation's Sharon Baranoski Founder's Award for the overall pursuit of excellence in the field of wound management.	Ph.D. student Debra Schutte receives the Journal of Gerontological Nursing's first Edna Stillwell Writing Award.
The muscular dystrophy research of Kevin Campbell, professor of physiology and biophysics, is featured in the journal Cell, and Campbell's appointment as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator is extended to 2004.	Frederick J. Antczak, professor of rhetoric and associate dean of liberal arts, begins a two-year term as president of the Rhetoric Society of America.
Professors Edwin Stone and Wallace Alward, ophthalmology, and Val Sheffield, pediatrics, earn the New York Academy of Medicine's Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize for their study, "Identification of a gene that causes primary open angle glaucoma."	Professor Harold P. Adams, neurology, is elected to a four-year term as director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The political science faculty is ranked fourth in the nation for the quality of its publications by PS: Political Science and Politics.
Law professor Peter Blanck is named to the national employment policy team sponsored by the federal Rehabilitation Research and Training Center.	Professor John Casko becomes president of the American Board of Orthodontics.
The business college's Henry B. Tippie School of Management is ranked 25th among programs in North America and Europe by the Financial Times of London.	Associate professors Paul McCray, pediatrics, and Virend Somers, internal medicine, are elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Professor David L. Brown, head of the Department of Anesthesia, is elected president of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia.	Professor Jennifer R. Niebyl, head of obstetrics and gynecology, is elected president of the Society of Gynecological Investigation.
Bernard Sorofman, clinical hospital pharmacist, is named one of only six American Pharmaceutical Association Fellows.	Professor Arthur M. Krieg, internal medicine, receives the Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology.
Alan Christensen, associate professor of psychology, is selected to receive the American Psychosomatic Society's Early Career Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine Award for 1999.	Professor Mary Hendrix, head of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, is elected president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Professor Peter Nathan, psychology, is honored by the scholarly division of the Association of American Publishers for his Guide to Treatments That Work.	Assistant professors Ted Herman and Jarkko Kari, computer science, and Sharif Rahman, mechanical engineering, receive National Science Foundation awards for Faculty Early Career Development.
Professor Robert Linhardt is given the Volwiler Research Achievement Award by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.	Professor Jerald Schnoor, civil and environmental engineering, is elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Professors Gary Koretzky and David A. Schwartz, internal medicine, are elected to the Association of American Physicians.	Physics professor Lou Frank delivers the UI Presidential Lecture, "Small Comets and Our Origins: The Ecstasy and Agony of the Scientific Debate."
SPRING
Professor Irith Pomeranz, electrical and computer engineering, is elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.	Professor Gerard Rushton, geography, is awarded Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the Association of American Geographers.
John Lundell, coordinator of the UI Injury Prevention Center, is appointed to the simulator technology review panel of the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council.	Recent Ph.D. recipients win national awards for their dissertations: David Cheshier, communication studies, from the National Communication Association, and Kristin Sturdevant, counseling, rehabilitation, and student development, from the American Educational Research Association.
History professor Linda Kerber is named Radcliffe College's first recipient of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Field of Women, Gender, and Society.	Dwight Codr, a recent B.A. in English, wins an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies for graduate work.     Professor Jacques Bourgeacq is named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Ministry of Education for the promotion of French culture in the United States and abroad.
Sharif Rahman, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is named co-winner of the Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award by the Mechanics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Professor Constance Berman, history, is selected for an NEH summer seminar in art and archeology.	Professors Leighton Pierce, communication studies, and Katherine Tachau, history, receive 1999 Guggenheim Fellowships.
UI dance students Shouze Ma and Sara Semonis each have pieces selected for performance at the regional meeting of the American College Dance Festival, where both dances receive Special Recognition Certificates of Merit for Performing and Choreographic Excellence.	Professor Ching-Long Lin receives a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Graduate student Lise VanderVoort, communication studies, is awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education for doctoral work.
David Fitzgerald, assistant director of Career Development Services, is named the 1999 Liaison of the Year by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.	The Palliative Care Center, a unit devoted to meeting the unique needs of patients requiring end-of-life care, opens within the John and Mary Pappajohn Clinical Cancer Center of UI Hospitals and Clinics.
John Kimmich-Javier, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, wins two awards in the Pictures of the Year competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association.	Lee Simon, graduate student in the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, wins the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) Lorraine Hansberry Award for the nation's best student-written play about the African American experience. Professor Michael Kolen, measurement and statistics, is elected president of the National Council on Measurement in Education.
Professor John Westefeld, psychological and quantitative foundations, is named a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Professor Robert G. Robinson, head of the Department of Psychiatry, receives the American Psychiatric Association's Prize for Research. Professor Donald W. Black, psychiatry, receives the George Winokur Clinical Research award from the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists.	Tadeu Coelho, associate professor of music, is one of three judges in the international Flute Talk Competition in Chicago, and his CD of 20th-century Mexican chamber music for the flute is released.
Professor Richard De Puma, art and art history, wins a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend for research on Etruscan forgeries.	Robin Bierman and Amy Cook, radiation therapists at UIHC, win first prize in the annual competition sponsored by the Chicago Area Radiation Therapists.
Dare Clubb, visiting assistant professor of theatre arts, wins an Obie for writing and directing Oedipus, produced off-Broadway in the fall of 1998.	Sarah England, assistant professor of physiology, receives the Ruth Salta Junior Investigator Award from the American Health Assistance Foundation.
Jorie Graham, professor of creative writing, is elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining eight other members of the UI faculty in this elite body.	Melanie Dreher, dean of the College of Nursing, is appointed to the first Council of Public Representatives of the National Institutes of Health.
Professor Henry Paulson, neurology, is selected as an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar.	Waldraud Maierhofer, associate professor of German, receives an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for study in Germany.
Medical student Eduardo Avila wins a Bristol-Myers Squibb Academic Medicine Fellowship, one of only 26 medical students in the nation to earn this research opportunity.	Professor Donald Heistad, internal medicine and pharmacology, is named winner of the American Physiological Society's Carl J. Wiggers Award for his contributions to cardiovascular research.
Professor Joel L. Horowitz, economics, receives a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, in recognition of the international significance of his research.	Marilynne Robinson, professor of creative writing, wins the 1999 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay for her essay collection, The Death of Adam.
SUMMER
University Librarian Sheila Creth receives the 1999 Library and Technology Association's Gaylord Award for her leadership in the development of the University's Information Arcade. The Department of Psychology is named Department of the Year by the American Psychological Association for Graduate Students.	Graduate student Kristin J. Brandser wins a $1,500 Women's Studies Dissertation Grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Gary Althen, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, winds up a three-year term on the executive committee of the NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Anil K. Sood, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is awarded a two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health with co-funding from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.	Professor Carolyn Stewart Dyer, journalism and mass communication, and graduate student Karla Tonella each receive first-place awards for their web sites in the Third Annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Web Site Design Competition.
Professor Stuart Weinstein, orthopaedic surgery, receives the American Orthopaedic Association's Award for Distinguished Achievement in Orthopaedic Research.	Graduate students Michael Dumanis, J. Clark Farmer, Kathleen Man, and Salvatore Scibona win Fulbright Fellowships for study abroad for the 1999-2000 academic year.
Geography student Kate Ramsden, with support from a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates grant, studies the ecological response to climate change in Glacier National Park.	With Professor Diana Gannett as director, the School of Music hosts 500 bassists from 25 different countries at the International Society of Bassists convention.
Barbara Dewey, director of Information and Research Services, wins the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's outstanding essay prize.	Dentistry professors Christopher Squier and Philip Wertz are awarded a two-year NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant to work with colleagues at universities in Hungary and Turkey.
Professor Charles Clark, orthopaedic surgery, assumes the presidency of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons.	Professor Mark Arnold, chemistry, is named to a National Institutes of Health study section for a four-year term. Professors Ronald M. Lauer, pediatrics, and Allyn L. Mark, internal medicine, receive the American Heart Association's Award of Meritorious Achievement.
Fulbright awards go to faculty members James Giblin, history; Vera Loening-Baucke, pediatrics; John Peters, communication studies; Bradley Sagen, planning and policy studies (emeritus); Mary Wilson, internal medicine; doctoral student Catherine Rymph; and staff members Kim Nielsen, physical therapist, and Clifford Missen, systems analyst.	Graduate student Priscilla McKinley receives the Melva T. Owen Scholarship from the National Federation of the Blind.   Professor Vijay Goel, biomedical engineering, is elected chair of the American Society of Engineering and Education and central U.S. representative of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine.
Professor Jasbir S. Arora, civil and environmental engineering, receives a State-of-the-Art Civil Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Professor David H. Hussey, radiology, is named president of the American Radium Society, to be followed in January 1999 by the presidency of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.	The School of Art and Art History launches a new digital studio and classroom, directed by New York media artist Ebon Fisher.