Offices and Awards

Karim Abdel-Malek, associate professor, Jingzhou Yang, graduate assistant, Emad Tanbour, adjunct assistant professor, mechanical and industrial engineering; and Richard Brand, professor, orthopaedic surgery, recipients of the Arch T. Colwell Award for best paper from the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Karim Abdel-Malek, associate professor, Zan Mi, graduate assistant, and Kim Farrell, master's candidate, mechanical and industrial engineering, recipients of the Most Valuable Professional Award from EON Reality, a Sweden-based company.

Dan Clay, associate professor of counseling psychology, recipient of the Presidential Alumni and the Sister Timothy Kirby Benedictine Spirit awards from the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minn.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, ranked 13th in the United States among civil engineering research institutions.

Antonio R. Damasio, professor of neurology, recipient of the Nonino Prize for an international author in the arts and sciences from Nonino Distillatori, Italy.

Richard De Puma, professor of art and art history, appointed Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer and inaugural Cinnelli Lecturer in Etruscan and Italic Archaelogy by the Archaeological Institute
of America.

Whitney S. Goldner, fellow, Thomas O'Dorisio, professor, Joseph Dillon, assistant professor, internal medicine; Edward Mason, professor of surgery emeritus, recipients of the Best Paper Award 2002 from the journal Obesity Surgery.

Joseph Greiner, registered nurse; Linda Q. Everett, associate director and chief nursing officer of UI Hospitals and Clinics; Ellen Cram, associate director of intensive and specialty services; Marita G. Titler, director of research quality and outcomes management, UIHC; and registered nurses Laura Cullen, Lynn Comried, Cheryl Bombei, and Jane Greiner, recipients of an Innovations in Clinical Excellence Award from Sigma Theta Tau International.

Julie Jessop, assistant professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, named to the Advanced Manufacturing Research Collaborative Cluster Bio Working Group by the Iowa Business Council.

Witold F. Krajewski, professor of civil and environmental engineering, recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award in Water Resources from the Iowa State Water Resources Research Institute.

Cynthia Lewis, associate professor of education, recipient of the Edward B. Fry Book Award from the National Reading Conference.

Tarrell Portman, assistant professor of education, appointed to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' School Counseling Statewide Committee.

Richard Shields, associate professor of physical therapy and rehabilitation science, appointed to the Foundation for Physical Therapy board of trustees.

UI WorkLife, co-recipient of the Iowa Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award for businesses and nonprofit organizations with more than 100 employees.