Harold R. Oaks
Biology and Agriculture
BYU‘s Natural Products Research Group, headed by botany professor Rex G. Cates, is studying natural plant chemicals for possible use in medicinal products. Nearly 60 students from the colleges of Biology and Agriculture; Physical and Mathematical Sciences; and Family, Home, and Social Sciences are involved in searching for new drugs and treatments.
Professor Alan R. Harker is the new chair of the Microbiology Department.
Education
David L. McPherson, ’67, professor and chair of audiology and speech-language pathology, has been named a fellow of the American Speech Language-Hearing Association.
Tina Taylor Dyches, ’86, assistant professor of counseling psychology and special education, received the Wendy F. Miller Autism Professional of the Year Award from the Autism Society of America.
web:byu.edu/news/releases/archive01/Oct/autism.htm
Engineering and Technology
Associate professor of civil and environmental engineering Norman L. Jones, ’86, received the national Walter L. Huber Award for his research on groundwater modeling.
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
With a team of investigators from Child Protective Services and counselors from Family Preservation Services, associate professor of social work Elaine Fish Walton, ’66, recently completed a project designed to keep children out of foster care by increasing the time social workers spend working with families.
web:byu.edu/news/releases/archive01/Aug/Socialworkers.htm
Ramona O. Hopkins, ’75, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, has used advanced quantitative brain imaging techniques and verbal and memory tests to explore long-term outcomes of carbon monoxide poisoning on specific parts of the brain.
web: byu.edu/news/releases/archive01/Oct/hopkins.htm
Sally H. Barlow, professor of psychology, was elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). Barlow has also been elected president of the APA‘s Division 49, which oversees group psychology and group psychotherapy.
web: byu.edu/news/releases/archive01/Oct/barlow.htm
Fine Arts and Communications
Harold R. Oaks, ’60, professor of theatre and media arts, has been invited to join the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Oaks is also serving as president of the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People with offices in Stockholm, Sweden.
web: byu.edu/news/releases/archive01/Sep/oaks.htm
Communications professor Laurie J. Wilson, ’80, received the 2001 Outstanding Educator Award from the Public Relations Society of America.
Health and Human Performance
Daniel D. Ferguson, associate professor of recreation management and youth leadership, was honored by the National Therapeutic Recreation Society (NTRS) for his work as director at large of theNTRS board of directors.
Physical education professor Ruel M. Barker, ’64, was named the Utah Football Official of the Year in 2000 by the National Federation Officials Association. Barker was the inaugural recipient of the Ruel Barker Leadership Award, an award created by the Utah County Football Officials Association that will be presented annually in his name to a deserving official.
Michael D. Barnes, ’89, associate professor of health sciences, has been appointed to develop action plans for Healthy People 2010, which establishes national priorities for preventing disease and promoting health.
Health sciences assistant professor Rosemary Thackeray and associate professor Michael D. Barnes, ’89, have been appointed cochairs for the social marketing and health communication section of the Society for Public Health Education.
Humanities
Linguistics professor Lynn E. Henrichsen, ’73, has been appointed chair of the Department of Linguistics.
English professor Jesse S. Crisler has been named the new director of the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature.
Law School
The eighth annual International Law and Religion Symposium at the J. Reuben Clark Law School gathered 49 delegates from 28 countries to discuss 20 years of implementation of the 1981 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion and Belief.
web: lawnews.byu.edu/article.tpl?sku=18
Marriott School
U.S. News and World Report and the Public Accounting Report ranked the BYU undergraduate accounting program sixth and third, respectively, in the nation for the second consecutive year.
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In August a team of BYU students was named the national champion at the sixth annual Deloitte & Touche National Student Case Seminar. The participants, Shawn R. Anderson, ’02, Joelle N. Critchfield, ’01, Tamralyn Davis, ’01, Daniel J. Hopkin, ’02, Samuel J. Mulliner, ’02, and Ned A. Prusse, ’02, are all graduate students pursuing master of accountancy degrees.
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The Marriott School’s MBA program was named the best buy among regional business schools in the October 15 issue of Forbes. The magazine surveyed 20,000 graduates from 104 top national and international business schools.
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As part of geology professor Jeffrey D. Keith’s research team, BYU graduate student Matthew P. Harper, ’01, pulls a fresh lava sample from an active flow in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Geology professor Jeffrey D. Keith, ’77, led a group of students on a field-study trip to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to gather newborn rock—part of 20 years of research aimed at understanding the formation of copper, silver, and gold deposits. Keith will publish an article on the topic early next year in the geology journal Mineralium Deposita.
Nursing
Assistant professor Catherine R. Coverston, ’69, was named the 2001 Outstanding Doctoral Student at the University of Utah.
Ryan W. McDonald, ’01, and Mary M. Davis, ’01, both seniors in nursing, were elected to leadership positions on the National Student Nursing Association.
Religious Education
The 30th annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, entitled “Covenants, Prophecies, and Hymns of the Old Testament,” featured over 40 presenters representing BYU, BYU—Idaho, BYU—Hawaii, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, the Church Educational System, and other Church scholars.
Correction: In the fall 2001 issue of BYU Magazine (p. 15), Stephen T. Nelson, ’84, should have been listed first, being the principal investigator on a successful grant proposal to establish a radiocarbon laboratory at BYU. Coinvestigators Ronald A. Harris, and Matthew A. Mabey, ’89, should also have been acknowledged.