For the Record: Cheers Once each month, Cheers recognizes achievement of consequence among faculty, staff and students, as well as 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. Items not included for reasons for space will be published in the next Cheers. --------------------------- Honors, awards and appointments --------------------------- Arts and Sciences Owen Phillips, Decker Professor of Science and Engineering in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Phillips' specialty is fluid dynamics, which ranges from the study of gigantic ocean waves to the behavior of atmospheric turbulence. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and the American Meteorological Society, which awarded him the Sverdrup Gold Medal in 1974. Phillips is a past editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Barbara J. Culliton, Times-Mirror Visiting Professor in The Writing Seminars since 1990, was inducted into Sigma Xi as an honorary member at the society's annual meeting in San Diego. Culliton is the 18th person initiated to honorary status since the Scientific Research Society was founded 109 years ago. At a ceremony in Milan in January, Culliton was inducted, as an honorary member, into the Italian Society of Molecular Medicine. Nursing Associate professor of nursing Fannie Gaston-Johansson has been named director of extramural academic relations. The position involves linking the school with other nursing schools in the country and abroad. Nursing instructor Marie Kirwin received certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a community health nurse. Assistant professor of nursing Linda Pugh was the primary investigator of a study supported by Mead Johnson Nutritionals called "An Experimental Study to Minimize Fatigue and Enhance Breastfeeding." Nursing instructor Rosemarie Wood recently received certification from the American Nurses' Association as a clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing and the American Heart Association in advanced cardiac life support. --compiled by Mike Field