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Alumni News — 60s
In an April event described as a celebration of “the best
of human achievement,” renowned writer Joyce Carol
Oates MA'61 received one of five 2003 Common Wealth
Awards of Distinguished Service for her many contributions to literature,
and shared $250,000 in prize money, which comes from a trust. Oates
has produced a prolific and sometimes controversial body of work
that has earned her the National Book Award and nominations for
both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. She's maintained a full-time
academic career as well, teaching since 1978 at Princeton University.
This year, the International Radio and Television Society Foundation
honored Christopher Sterling '65, MS'67, PhD'69
with its Stanton Fellow Award. He's a professor of media and
public affairs, as well as the director of the graduate telecommunications
program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Who's a new Guggenheim fellow? Thomas Woolsey '65
can make that claim. As a professor at Washington University in
St. Louis, Missouri, he teaches neurology, neurological surgery,
anatomy, neurobiology, cell biology, physiology, and biomedical
engineering. His fellowship work will involve compiling a “living
work” for brain researchers.
For the past five years, Karen Kramer Hein '66
has carried out William T. Grant's dream — to support
and foster understanding of human well-being, development, and potential
— as president of the New York City-based William T. Grant
Foundation. Now Hein has stepped down, and will focus on global
peace education efforts, beginning with public service in Mongolia,
China, and Bhutan.
Do you know any students — eighth-grade through pre-college
— who'd like to improve their academic standing? If
so, Milwaukeean Edward Anhalt '67 offers
for your consideration his new book, Raise Your GPA One Full Grade
(Writers Club Press, studyskillz.com)
— a twelve-hour course that boosts students' chances
for success. Anhalt has also created Banking on Kids (bankingonkids.com),
a program that teaches children about fiscal responsibility by creating
their own banks.
The American Academy of Microbiology has welcomed three Badgers
as new fellows. Paul Kolenbrander MS'67, PhD'69,
of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, was recognized in the
field of oral microbiology. Paul Ludden PhD'77,
of the University of California-Berkeley, has made important strides
in understanding nitrogen fixation. And UW-Madison bacteriology
Professor Robert Landick was honored for his contributions
to understanding the process of transcription pausing.
After years of researching American affluence, urban development,
and urban decline, Richard Ratcliff MS'68, PhD'73
has become an associate professor emeritus in the Maxwell School
of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse [New York] University.
Since 1987, he's been the associate director for research
and director of graduate studies for the school's Program
on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts.
Dan (Delano) Villanueva MS'68, PhD'70
writes that after a thirty-year career with the International Monetary
Fund, he retired as an adviser in 1999. Prior to that, he was the
director of research for the South East Asian Central Bank's
Research and Training Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Villanueva
is now an economic policy consultant in Washington, D.C.
The National Council on Rehabilitation Education has selected
Philip Browning PhD'69 to receive its 2003
Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Education Award. A professor
and head of Auburn [Alabama] University's rehabilitation and
special education department, he was also named Alabama's
Outstanding Special Educator in 1996.
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