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Achievements

University staff and faculty are accomplishing great things every day. See
who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Offices and Awards

Clar Baldus, program associate in the College of Education, received the Iowa and Gifted Association Distinguished Service Award for 2009.

R. William Field, professor of occupational and environmental health and epidemiology in the College of Public Health, was appointed to the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health.

Sadie Greiner, associate director for planning, design, and construction in Facilities Management, has been named a Forty Under 40 Award honoree for 2009 by the Corridor Business Journal.

Brian Hand, professor of science education in the College of Education, was inducted into the Iowa Academy of Education in a ceremony at the University of Northern Iowa.

Andrew Kusiak, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the College of Engineering, has been appointed to the editorial board of the new journal IEEE Trans on Sustainable Energy.

Debora Liddell, associate professor and program coordinator for the Student Development Program in the College of Education, has been recognized as a Diamond Honoree by the American College Personnel Association Foundation.

John Lundell, deputy director of the Injury Prevention Research Center and professor of  occupational and environmental health in the College of Public Health, was elected to a second term as treasurer of the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association.

Mark Penno, professor of accounting in the UI Tippie College of Business, received the 2009 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association.

Carroll Reasoner, interim vice president for legal affairs and general counsel, received the Pillar of the Community award from Waypoint Services for Women, Children, and Families.

Jerry Schnoor, Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, and two students have won a SERDP/ESTCP Project of the Year award from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Iowa Alumni Magazine received a silver award in this year’s Pride of CASE V awards in the Excellence in Feature Writing, Individual category for the article “House of Cards” (written by Tina Owen, edited by Kathryn Howe).

 

Publications and Creations

College of Dentistry

Marcos-Arenal JL; Rivera EM; Caplan DJ, preventive and community dentistry; Trope M: an article, “Evaluating the paper point technique for locating the apical foramen after canal preparation,” Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics 108, 2009.

 

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

For a list of recently published books and compact discs, go to www.clas.uiowa.edu/books.

Ames WM; Larsen SC, chemistry: an article, “DFT calculations of the EPR parameters for Cu(II) DETA imidazole complexes,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics11(37), 2009.

Annapureddy HVR; Margulis CJ, chemistry: an article, “Controlling the outcome of electron transfer reactions in ionic liquids,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B113(35), Sept. 3, 2009.

Baltrusaitis J; Jayaweera PM; Grassian VH, chemistry: an article, “XPS study of nitrogen dioxide adsorption on metal oxide particle surfaces under different environmental conditions,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics11(37), 2009.

Barry BM; Gillan EG, chemistry: an article, “A general and flexible synthesis of transition-metal polyphosphides via PCl3 elimination,” Chemistry of Materials21(19), Oct. 13, 2009.

Friestad GK, chemistry; Lee HJ: an article, “Trans-2,5-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans via addition of carbon nucleophiles to the strained bicyclic acetal 2,7-dioxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane,” Organic Letters11(17), Sept. 3, 2009.

Hill SE; Bandaria JN; Fox M; Vanderah E; Kohen A, Cheatum CM, chemistry: an article, “Exploring the molecular origins of protein dynamics in the active site of human carbonic anhydrase II,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B113(33), Aug. 20, 2009.

Maierhofer W, German: an article, “‘Another Play On Salem Witch Trials:’ Lion Feuchtwanger, Communists, and Nazis,” Comparative Drama, 2009.

Navea JG; Xu SH; Stanier CO; Young MA, Grassian VH, chemistry: an article, “Heterogeneous uptake of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D-4) and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D-5) onto mineral dust aerosol under variable RH conditions,” Atmospheric Environment 43(26), August 2009.

Runge MB; Yoo J; Bowden NB, chemistry: an article, “Synthesis of comb tri- and tetrablock copolymers catalyzed by the Grubbs first generation catalyst,” Macromolecular Rapid Communications30(16), Aug. 18, 2009.

Topczewski JJ; Neighbors JD; Wiemer DF, chemistry: an article, “Total synthesis of (+)-Schweinfurthins B and E,” Journal of Organic Chemistry74(18), Sept. 18, 2009.

 

College of Public Health

Benza RL; Coffey CS, biostatistics; Pekarek DM; Barchue JP; Tallaj JA; Passineau MJ; Grenett HE: an article, “Transforming growth factor-beta polymorphisms and cardiac allograft rejection,” Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 28(10), October 2009.

Johnson MT; Guidroz JA, surgery; Smith BJ, biostatistics; Graham MM, epidemiology; Scott-Conner CE, surgery; Sugg SL, oncology; Weigel RJ, surgery: an article, “A single institutional experience of factors affecting successful identification of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer patients,” Surgery 146(4), October 2009.
 
Uc EY, neurology; Rizzo M, neuroscience; Anderson SW, neurology; Dastrup E, Sparks JD, Dawson JD, biostatistics: an article, “Driving under low-contrast visibility conditions in Parkinson disease,” Neurology 73(14), October 2009.

Zhang W; Zhang Y; Chaloner K, biostatistics; Stapleton JT, infectious diseases: an article, “Imputation methods for doubly censored HIV data,” Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 79(10), 2009.
 
Zhu Y, radiation research lab; Kalen AL; Li L; Lehmler HJ, Robertson LW, occupational and environmental health; Goswami PC, radiation research lab; Spitz DR, Aykin-Burns N, radiation oncology: an article, “Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-induced oxidative stress and cytotoxicity can be mitigated by antioxidants following exposure,” Free Radical Biology & Medicine, September 2009.


University staff

Sherman BD, broadcasting services: two articles, “Mûrissements d'époque” and “Brahms et le cor,” Diapason 573, October 2009.

Weaver J, University of Iowa Libraries: an article, “From Barrio to ‘¡Boicoteo!’: The emergence of Mexican American activism in Davenport, 1917–1970,” The Annals of Iowa 68(3), Summer 2009.


Longevity Awards

Staff Council’s service recognition program acknowledges all P&S and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Longevity Award winners receive a certificate and letter of appreciation from the Office of the President.

Award winners for October are listed below.

25 Years

  • Michele Alpen, general surgery
  • Steven Newell Bowers, campus technology services
  • Linda Considine, nursing
  • Marilyn Coulter, food service
  • Jill Cretsinger, University Hygienic Laboratory
  • Denise Davis, clinical hospital pharmacy
  • Paul Davis, Facilities Management
  • Joan Felkner, clinical cancer center
  • Samantha Havel, journalism and mass communication
  • Paul Heath, management and business development
  • Marilyn Jennewein, law library
  • Pamela Kostle, University Hygienic Laboratory
  • Marty Krall, pediatrics
  • Gary Kramer, educational placement
  • Michael Last, University Hygienic Laboratory
  • Cathy Levelle, patient financial services
  • Carl Merry, Office of the State Archaeologist
  • Linda Monroe, Center for Disabilities and Development
  • Julie Music, ophthalmology
  • Ray Newkirk, Facilities Management
  • Pamela Roberts, pathology
  • Patricia Schuller, ophthalmology
  • Carolyn A. Smith, nursing services
  • Francis Stumpf, pathology
  • Judith Suman, nursing
  • Paul Swihart, ophthalmology
  • M. Catherine Till, computer science
  • Vicki Webber, anesthesia

30 Years

  • Beverly Berg, finance
  • Kathleen Bugg, maintenance and engineering
  • Denny Drees, pathology
  • Thomas Dunn Jr., intercollegiate athletics
  • Jacqualine Gordon, nursing
  • David Hackbarth, environmental health and safety
  • Pauline Harrison, university counseling
  • Jim Hudachek, environmental and guest services
  • Janet Koch, nursing
  • Robin Luckett, nursing
  • Beverly Mathes, nursing
  • Ruth Wittkop, ambulatory surgery center
  • Margaret Young, residence hall custodial services
  • Jan Zinkula, nursing

35 Years

  • John Bryant, University Hygienic Laboratory
  • Jeanette Gent, nursing
  • Virginia Melroy, law library
  • Patricia Moore, centralized transcription service
  • Laura Price, internal medicine
  • John Staley, hospital administration
  • Deborah Stratton, neurology
  • Linda Walker, patient financial services
  • Kathleen Williams, otolaryngology

40 Years

  • Mary Villhauer, food and nutrition services

 

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