For the Record Cheers--Milestones--University Policy on Nondiscrimination--Announcement Concerning Minutes ----------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers recognizes achievement of consequence among faculty, staff and students. A separate section records some promotions and new hires. We welcome contributions submitted in writing accompanied by a telephone number. Submissions may be edited for length, clarity and content. Honors, awards and appointments ----------------------------------------------------------------- Arts and Sciences Craig A. Townsend, professor and former chairman of the Department of Chemistry, was awarded an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award for 1995 by the American Chemical Society. Four Hopkins faculty members have received National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Eytan Bercovitch, assistant professor of anthropology, received a $30,000 award to research agency and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea. Marcel Detienne, professor of classics, received a $30,000 award to research Apollo in the field of polytheism. Daniel H. Weiss, assistant professor, History of Art, was awarded $30,000 to research the language of art in the age of Louis IX. Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library was awarded $328,515 to digitize the Lester S. Levy collection of popular American sheet music from the 19th century and make these materials available on the Internet. The project is headed by Cynthia Requardt, head of Special Collections. Central Administration Provost Joseph Cooper has been selected for an at-large position on the board of directors of the Consortium of Social Science Associations. Dr. Cooper was also recently selected to serve as a board member for the Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, a private nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization devoted to promoting a better understanding of the U.S. Congress and its leaders. Homewood Student Affairs Football co-captain and senior defensive lineman Michael House was selected to the 1994 GTE Academic All-America First-Team. House also earned first-team honors in 1993. He has maintained a 4.0 grade point average as a biology major and plans to attend medical school next fall. Freshman soccer forward Eric West was named to the NCAA Division III All-America third team. The only freshman selected to any of the All-America teams, West was the top scorer for the Blue Jays, who went all the way to the NCAA Championship game. Medicine Jerry L. Spivak, professor of medicine and oncology, has been elected a councillor of the American Society of Hematology. Public Health Floyd R. Bryant, associate professor of biochemistry, will serve as a member of the Biochemistry Study Section, Division of Research Grants, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, for the term beginning Sept. 20, 1994, and ending June 30, 1998. Professor of population dynamics Connie Nathanson has received a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. The three-year award will fund Dr. Nathanson's research project, "Disease Prevention as Social Change: A Comparative Study of Public Health Policy-making in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and France." John S. Santelli, adjunct assistant professor of maternal and child health and medical epidemiologist in Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Baltimore City Health Department, was elected chairman of the American School Health Association's editorial board for a three-year term. David H. Schwartz, assistant professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, has received a $250,000 grant from an Austrian company, IMMUNO-AG, to study the evolution of HIV envelope sequence diversity in HIV-infected recipients of envelope-based vaccines. Dr. Schwartz also has been asked to serve on the National Institutes of Health study section reviewing applications for the National Cooperative Vaccine Development Group Contract Awards. Changing places, new faces ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jean S. Kan, professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, has been named director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Stephanie Reel, senior director of information services at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been named acting vice president for information services. Robert Seidel, former special assistant to the director of the Institute for Policy Studies, was recently promoted to administrator for teaching programs at the institute. In his new position, Seidel will also manage the master's program for Policy Studies. Louise Thompson, director of the Medical Records Department at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston for the last eight years, has been appointed administrator of medical records for the Johns Hopkins Health System. John D. Cramer has joined the Office of Communications and Public Affairs at the Medical Institutions as a senior media relations representative. He will cover medicine, surgery and other departments of JHMI and assist with media relations services. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Milestones: Retirements and Anniversaries ----------------------------------------------------------------- Staff members who retired or celebrated a five-year anniversary with the university last month are listed below. Anyone with a question about the staff recognition program should call the Office of Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs at 516-6060. Homewood ----------------------------------------------------------------- Retiree Thompson, Nancy W., 15 years, Philosophy 30 years of service Ford, Suzanne W., JHU Press 20 years of service Brown, Karen L., Chemical Propulsion Information Gleason, E. Joseph, MSE Library Petroff, Marilynn A., MSE Library 15 years of service McGill, Donald E., Security Willis, Regina, Johns Hopkins Club 10 years of service Farlow, Martha L., JHU Press 5 years of service Coblentz, Robin D., History Fliegel, Constance A., Physics & Astronomy Kreger, Marlin R., Mind-Brain Institute Stierhoff, Dolores Joan, Accounting Hygiene and Public Health ----------------------------------------------------------------- 30 years of service Niswander, Kathleen, Epidemiology 15 years of service Clow, Lawrence W., International Health 10 years of service Merritt, Alice Payne, Population Communication 5 years of service Doughman, Janice, Health Policy & Management Dugan, Susan H., Population Communication Medicine ----------------------------------------------------------------- Retirees Gause, Hilda, 39 years, Surgery Leech, Edward B., 12 years, Maintenance Seidl, William J., 30 years, Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences 20 years of service DiPaula, Anthony F., Jr., Medicine 15 years of service Garner, Ivy Linwood, Welch Medical Library Lee, Bella, Ophthalmology Lord, Margaret D., Endocrinology Merrell, Martha, Public Affairs 10 years of service Brown, Delores, Oncology Nicholson, Lisa Ellen, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Orem, Stephanie D., Ophthalmology Pindell, Sheila Deneen, Medicine 5 years of service Bell, Edmund B., Maintenance Craig, Maureen G., Orthopedic Surgery Glab, Cheryll Lynn, Alumni Affairs Goldsborough, David, Medicine Green, Lesia A., Pediatrics Hueg, Wesla T., Medicine Jones, Gloria J., Medicine Krick, Joseph D., Maintenance MacMurray, Adele L., Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine Matthews, David M., Maintenance Puyear, B. Janette, Ophthalmology Summerville, Joseph, Maintenance Webb, Michael, Psychiatry-Behavioral Pharmacology Yienger, Richard, Pathology ----------------------------------------------------------------- Johns Hopkins University Nondiscrimination Policy ----------------------------------------------------------------- "The university and the Office for Civil Rights have reached agreement on the following statements on the university's nondiscrimination policy for inclusion in all publications distributed to students, including the catalogs and applications of the various divisions": The Johns Hopkins University admits students of any race, color, sex, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status to all of the rights, privileges, programs, benefits and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the university. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, homosexuality, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status in any program or activity, including the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs and athletic and other university administered programs or in employment. Accordingly, the university does not take into consideration personal factors that are irrelevant to the program involved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Questions regarding Title VI, Title IX and Section 504 should be referred to Yvonne M. Theodore, affirmative action officer for the university, who is responsible for coordination of equal opportunity programs, 205 Garland Hall, 516-8075. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "The following statement may be used for applications, brochures and other publications in which, because of space limitations, a shorter version of the policy statement is necessary": The Johns Hopkins University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, homosexuality, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status in any student program or activity administered by the university or with regard to admission or employment. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Questions regarding Title VI, Title IX and Section 504 should be referred to Yvonne M. Theodore, affirmative action officer for the university, 205 Garland Hall, 516-8075. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Minutes To Appear On JHUniverse ----------------------------------------------------------------- The "Gazette" will no longer publish minutes of advisory council, advisory board or academic council meetings. Records of these official proceedings will now appear on JHUniverse. To place minutes on JHUniverse, send a disk in WordPerfect 6.0 format to the "Gazette," 212 Whitehead Hall, Homewood campus. Council and board minutes can be accessed on JHUniverse at an address to be announced. For more information, call the "Gazette" at 516-8514.