Submitted by: Nancy S. Barrett, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Informational Report Student, Faculty and Academic Staff Achievements

I. ACHIEVEMENTS

A. STUDENTS

Engineering senior Nick Allen led the Wayne State Warriors with an 18th place individual finish at the 2003 NCAA Championship meet held November 22, 2003 in Cary, North Carolina. It was the best men’s NCAA Championship cross-country finish in Wayne State History.

A team of three law students won the Region VI qualifying rounds of the National Moot Court competition held on November 15 and 16, besting fourteen teams from seven other Great Lakes-area law schools. The winning team— Brian Anderson, Kevin Carlson, and David Hammel—earned the highest overall score during the two-day competition, which was hosted by Wayne State. Anderson also received the nod for Best Oralist among the competitors.

Michael Boettcher, a graduate student in Urban Planning, is the winner of the American Planning Association Distinguished Leadership Award for student planners.

Katheryn "Katy" Monthei, senior in the Department of Theatre, won the 2004 W. Oren Parker Award for Scene Design, presented by the Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). One award is given annually and Ms. Monthei is the first woman to win.

B. FACULTY AND ACADEMIC STAFF

Margaret Posch, College of Education, director of the Life-Centered Curriculum in Education (LCCE) project funded through the Empowerment Zone, was profiled in the "Detroiter Magazine" for LCCE's efforts to promote community engagement.

John Hartig, College of Engineering, is the editor of a new book entitled, “Honoring the ’. The book is a collection of essays, including two by Hartig, that elucidate the history of the River and its assets.

Donald Silversmith, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed Fellow with the U.S. State Department’s Nuclear Verification and Compliance Treaty division.

Ece Yaprak, associate professor of Engineering Technology, received a special certificate of recognition from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for her research contributions made through the NASA Faculty Fellowship Program.

Ronald Gibson, professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed president of the American Society of Composites.

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Robert Conway, College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, performed as keyboardist in the band accompanying the fall 2003 touring production of the musical Mamma Mia! at Detroit’s Fisher Theatre.

David Magidson, College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, was lauded in the Nov. 23 issue of the Detroit Free Press for his direction of the Hilberry’s current production of Glengarry Glen Ross. The paper gave the production three of four stars and described it as riveting and the best ensemble piece seen at the Hilberry in some time.

Jennifer Bondy, University Libraries, was appointed Programming Co-Chair and Archivist for the Council of Program Advisors

Robert Abrams, Professor of Law, moderated a panel entitled “Groundwater Laws and Policies for the 21st Century” at a conference on “The National Water Crisis: Beneath the Surface,” which was sponsored by the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes at the University of Toledo College of Law.

William Burnham, Professor of Law, spent several days in Moscow during the Fall semester, where he was invited to address the Working Group on the new Russian Criminal Procedure Code and law teachers from all over Russia on the first anniversary of the new Code. While in Moscow, Burnham gave a lecture for a class of law students and teachers at the Russian State Law Academy at the invitation of Professor Paulina Lupinskaya, one of the chief architects of the Code. All the presentations were delivered in Russian.

David Moran, Assistant Professor of Law, spoke to the Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s Criminal Practice Program on recent developments in Fourth Amendment law in November. Moran’s teaching and litigation career was featured in the November 2003 issue of Hour Detroit. He was also named one of eleven Michigan Lawyers of the Year by the publication Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

David Moss, Assistant Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor of Law, spoke at the 18th Annual Midwest Clinical Teachers Conference (“Hard Choices in Hard Times: Crafting Creative Solutions”) in St. Paul, Minnesota regarding ”How (and Whether) To Make Scarcity An Explicit Focus of Clinical Teaching.”

Kerry Tedesco, a graduate research assistant and a 2002 graduate of the pharmacy program at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Science, was sworn in at the Wayne County Pharmaceutical Association Annual Meeting as President of the Association by Dean Beverly J. Schmoll.

David Bach, associate professor of pharmacy practice was appointed to the Board of Pharmacy Licensing.

David Reynolds, Labor Studies Center, conducted two workshops on "Living Wage Enforcement Efforts" at the National Living Wage Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

Board of Governors Agenda February 4, 2004 3 John McGinnity, assistant professor of Physician Assistant Studies was reappointed by the American Academy of Physician Assistants to the National Institutes of Health (National Heart Lung Blood Institute) Coordinating Committee of the National Heart Attack Alert Program for a three-year term (2004-2007).

The Department of Athletics was ranked eighth in the country in the first NACDA Directors’ Cup Standings. Wayne State finished the 2002-2003 academic year in 32nd place, its highest finish in school history.

II. EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The University Press hosted author book signings with Marcy Fisher, Dr. Charles Hyde, and David Chardavoyne. Free gift wrapping and tours of the Undergraduate Library were also available.

The University Press held an event and reading on December 5, 2003 in honor of former Wayne State University Board member Murray Jackson and his new collection of poetry, Bobweaving Detroit. Readings of Jackson’s work by many of Detroit’s best- known poets took place.

The College of Engineering’s annual fundraiser, Night of the Stars, attracted 23 corporate and individual sponsors and raised about $38,000 in net income for the College. Three distinguished alumni were inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame: George J. Dellas, vice president of Quality Assurance & Customer Satisfaction at American Axle & Manufacturing; Michael Bolon, vice president of Engineering, Design and Development for General Dynamics Land Systems; and Bill Marras, professor of Bioengineering at Ohio State University.

Congressman Joe Knollenberg visited the College of Engineering’s Smart Sensor and Integrated Microsystems lab on November 10, 2003. Wayne State President Irvin D. Reid presented Congressman Joe Knollenberg with the “Champion of Science” award for his support of science and engineering research at Wayne State.

The Wayne State section of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) hosted the group’s fall regional conference November 14 to 16 at the Detroit Marriott Hotel. Some 700 members – engineers, college and pre-college students, and alumni attended.

On Monday, January 12, 2004, the Wayne State University Law School hosted a symposium entitled “Perspectives on Michigan Judicial Elections”. Open to the public, the symposium featured diverse panels that examined various issues related to contemporary judicial election campaigns. The symposium’s keynote address was given by Dennis W. Archer, current president of the American Bar Association and formerly Mayor of Detroit and Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Other participants included Detroit Renaissance president Paul Hillegonds, Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley, former Michigan State Bar president Reginald M. Turner, Jr., Michigan Democratic Party chairman Melvin Butch Hollowell, Michigan Chamber of Commerce senior vice president Robert S. LaBrant, and Wayne State University Law School Associate Dean Christopher J. Peters.

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The College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs held a reception for Dolores Huerta, December 10, 2003. President Reid and the Board of Governors Chair, Paul Massaron, brought greetings and Ms. Huerta gave a rousing talk. The Mexican Counsel, Antonio Meza Estrada, was in attendance. The next day, Ms. Huerta was the guest of honor at a luncheon at the Reuther for selected faculty and students. Provost Barrett, BOG Emerita Millie Jeffrey, and Elisabeth Reuther were also present.

Voces de CBS, the CBS Choir, performed at the WSU Holiday Lighting Ceremony, as well as conducted outreach performances at the Hispanic MBA Christmas Caliente Toys for Tots Drive and at LA SED Senior Center Holiday Celebration and CBS co-sponsored "La Parranda," a fundraising and cultural program during the month of December.

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