Howard Dean to Deliver Address to UVM's Class of 2009 (up^)
Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and recent chair of the Democratic National Committee, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Vermont's 205th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The university will present Dean with an honorary degree at the event. Dr. Howard Dean served the State of Vermont as a six-term governor, 1991-2003, and served the Democratic National Committee as chair for the past four years. Dean took the national stage as a candidate during the 2004 presidential primaries, drawing wide voter interest early in the campaign with his strong stand against war in Iraq. Though his run for the nomination was not successful, the Dean campaign's use of the Internet to build support revolutionized the use of technology in presidential campaigns. Read more at http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=News&storyID=13582.
UVM Chemist Wins Alfred P. Sloan Award (up^)
University of Vermont chemist Rory Waterman was selected for a research award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, one of the nation's most prestigious prizes for outstanding early career scientists. Waterman's experiments in catalytic bond formation of elements, like finding new ways to create bonds in phosphorous, have been at the forefront of an important area of basic chemistry research. His work promises to be of great value in fields ranging from drug delivery to LED lights. The Sloan Research Fellowships have been awarded since 1955, initially in only three scientific fields: physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Since then, 38 Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields; and 14 have received the Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. Full story at http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=News&storyID=13656.
Budget Cuts Announced for FY 2010 (up^)
On Friday, February 20, the University of Vermont announced details of its plan to cut $10.8 million from next year's general fund budget. The University is eliminating vacant positions, increasing student/faculty ratios modestly to achieve a long-planned target, curtailing some administrative programs, and making a limited number of layoffs. In addition to cuts in the University's general operating budget, reductions are also being implemented in income/expense activities supported by non-tuition fees and other income. The majority of the cuts will take effect on June 30, 2009. The budget plan also includes investments to support students and families and to sustain UVM's plan for high-quality, diverse enrollment during a period of economic stress in Vermont and around the world. Full story at http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=News&storyID=13685.
Strong, Stalberg Candidates for Prestigious Awards (up^)
Men’s hockey Catamounts Dean Strong and Viktor Stalberg, two of the top men's hockey student-athletes in the nation, are candidates for two of college hockey’s most prestigious awards. Dean has 3.18 cumulative grade point average as an agriculture and resource economics major and was named to the Hockey East All-Academic Team in 2006-07 and 2007-08. He is one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award for men's hockey. Fans can vote for him through March 26 by going to http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/hockey_2008_09/ or they can text H0C10 to 839863. Viktor Stålberg is among the national and Hockey East leaders in goals and points, while boasting an impressive 3.6 grade-point average in business administration at UVM. Viktor is a leading candidate for the Hobey Baker Award, and the website promoting his candidacy is located at http://www.PickVik.com. Read more at http://www.uvm.edu/~sportspr/?Page=News&storyID=13678.
Student Athletes Post 3.0 for 13th Straight Semester (up^)
UVM student-athletes posted impressive numbers in the classroom for the fall semester of 2008. They combined to earn a 3.12 grade point average, marking the 13th consecutive semester the department has earned a 3.0 GPA or better. Vermont, which has won four straight America East Academic Cups (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), had 13 teams earn GPA's of 3.0 or better in the fall. The women's teams combined to post a 3.210 GPA, while the men's teams weren't far behind, registering a 3.000 GPA. The UVM men's and women's ski teams took top honors among all Vermont teams. The men's ski team posted a GPA of 3.426, while the women had a department best 3.566 team GPA. Individually, 63 percent of the UVM student-athletes earned over a 3.0 GPA for the fall and 59 student-athletes earned a 3.8 GPA or better, including 14 posting a perfect 4.0 for the semester.
Campus Kudos (up^)
Vikas Anathy, research associated in pathology, is first author on a paper titled "Redox amplification of apoptosis by caspase-dependent cleavage of glutaredoxin 1 and S-glutathionylation of Fas" in the January 26 online edition of the Journal of Cell Biology. Lead author on the article is Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, professor of pathology. Co-authors include Scott Aesif, M.D./Ph.D. student; Amy Guala, lab research technician in pathology; Marije Havermans in pathology; Niki Reynaert, visiting scholar in pathology; and Ralph Budd, professor of medicine and director of immunobiology.
David Brock, assistant professor of rehabilitation and movement science, co-authored a paper titled "Association Between Insufficiently Physically Active and the Prevalence of Obesity in the United States" in the January 2009 Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
Mary Cushman, professor of medicine, is the lead author of a November 2008 Annals of Neurology article titled, "Estimated 10-Year Stroke Risk by Region and Race in the United States: Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Risk."
An article by Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin, chair of the Department of Education, will be published in Qualitative Research in 2009. The article, in press now, is titled, "Learning from Dumbledore's pensieve: Metaphor as an aid in teaching reflexivity in qualitative research." Gerstl-Pepin is also author of a chapter titled, "When worlds collide: Navigating poverty, scholarship and motherhood," in the forthcoming book Trajectories: The Social and Educational Mobility of Education Scholars From Poor and Working Class Backgrounds.
Diane U. Jette, professor and chair of rehabilitation and movement science, authored an article in the February 2009 issue of the journal Physical Therapy titled, "Use of Standardized Outcome Measures in Physical Therapist Practice: Perceptions and Applications." Co-authors are James Halbert, Courtney Iverson, Erin Miceli, and Palak Shah, all doctoral in physical therapy students graduating in May.
Richard G. Johnson III, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies in the College of Education and Social Services, authored the book A 21st Century Approach to Teaching Social Justice: Educating for both Advocacy and Action and the co-authored Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class.
Rodger Kessler, research assistant professor of family medicine, published a paper titled "Across the Great Divide: Introduction to the Special Issue on Psychology in Medicine" in the January Journal of Clinical Psychology.
A paper titled, "Accountability in Governance Networks: Implications from Hurricane Katrina," co-authored by Christopher Koliba, associate professor in Community Development and Applied Economics and his former graduate student, Russell Mills, won the best unpublished paper on public accountability and ethics from the Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh. Koliba also recently published a paper titled, "Communities of Practice as an Empirical Construct: Implications for Theory and Practice" in the International Journal of Public Administration.
Dennis Mahoney, professor of German, published "'Tails of Hoffnung': Transatlantische Metamorphosen unterdrückter Menschlichkeit in Marc Estrins Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa" in Kulturökologie und Literatur. Beiträge zu einem transdisziplinäären Paradigma der Literaturwissenschaft (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008). Mahoney analyzes Marc Estrin's creative "recycling" of possible variations of Kafka's works in his novel.
Wolfgang Mieder , professor of German and Russian, published "'New Proverbs Run Deep': Prolegomena to a Dictionary of Modern Anglo-American Proverbs" in the proceedings of the 1st Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs. In the article, Mieder presents the procedures for putting together the first comprehensive collection of modern Anglo-American proverbs for which he and his collaborators, Frank Shapiro, Jane Garry (both Yale University) and Charles Doyle (University of Georgia) secured a contract with Yale University Press. Professor Mieder is also the author of "Sein oder Nichtsein" — Das Hamlet—Zitat in Literatur, Übersetzungen, Medien und Karikaturen, a book that traces occurrences of the famous quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet,"To be, to be or not to be, that is the question," in translations, parodies, poems, advertisements, graffiti or headlines.
Jane Okech, assistant professor, Department of Integrated Professional Studies, is the lead author of a March 2009 article in the Journal for Specialists in Group Work titled, "The experiences of expert group work supervisors: An Exploratory Study." Her co-author on the paper is Deborah Rubel, an assistant professor of counselor education at Oregon State University.
Denise Pickering, assistant professor of integrated professional studies, has been invited to be a panelist at the American Counseling Association Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in March on "ism" intersects with heterosexism and homoprejudice. Pickering, who is a member of the Transgender Committee developing transgender competencies for the counseling profession, will represent sexism/transgender issues. Pickering will also co-chair the second Social Justice Summit for the 2009 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference in San Diego, Cal. in October 2009.
Helga Schreckenberger , professor and chair of the German and Russian departments, is the author of "'Heimat,' Exile, and Modernity in Carl Zuckmayer's Vermonter Roman." Schreckenberger reads the novel as Zuckmayer's literary exploration of the existential consequences of exile for individual identity. Schreckenberger also published "The Destruction of Idyllic Austria in Wolf Haas's Detective Novels," in Crime and Madness in Modern Austria: Myth, Metaphor and Cultural Realities (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Katharine Shepherd, associate professor of education, published a co-authored article, "Preparing school leaders to build and sustain engagement with families and communities" in The 2008 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, and was invited to submit a book chapter, " Leading beyond labels: Re-defining the principal's role through a social justice framework," in a recent book by Richard Johnson III, assistant professor of education, Transformative Leadership: Preparing Students for Global Social Justice.
Lance Smith, an instructor in integrated professional studies, had an article titled "Social Privilege, Social Justice, and Group Counseling: An Inquiry" published in the Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 33, 351-366 that was also accepted for presentation at the 26th Annual Winter Round Table on Cultural Psychology and Education at Columbia University. The editors of The Journal For Specialists in Group Work invited Smith to be a reviewer for an upcoming special issue entitled "Social Justice Issues in Group Work."
Jesse C. Suter, research assistant professor of education, published a number of co-authored articles in journals in 2008 and the following this year: "Recent research on paraprofessionals in inclusion-oriented schools" in the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation (currently in press); "Special education personnel utilization and general class placement of students with disabilities: Ranges and ratios." in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Cynthia C. Reyes had an article titled "El Libro de Recuerdos [Book of Memories]: A Latina Student's Exploration of Self and Religion in Public School" in Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 43, No. 3, pps. 263-285. Reyes also published an article, "Disturbing the Waters": Using Relational Knowledge to Explore Methodology," in The Journal of Educational Foundations, Vol. 22, No. 3-4.
Rory Waterman, assistant professor of chemistry, published a cover article in Dalton Transactions, a leading European chemistry journal. The article, "Metal-phosphido and -phosphinidene complexes in P—E bond-forming reactions," describes a selection of recent advances in the developing field of metal-mediated reactions that catalyze bonds between phosphorous and other elements.
Alan Wertheimer, professor emeritus of political science and senior research scholar in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, has recently published (with Govind Persad and Ezekiel Emanuel) "Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions," in The Lancet (2009) 373: 423-31.
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