Great Valley announces new CEO, associate dean
After a national search, William D. Milheim has been appointed campus executive officer and associate dean at Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies. Milheim, a faculty member at Penn State Great Valley since 1991, had been serving as acting CEO during the past year.
A specialist in instructional technology, Milheim joined Penn State Great Valley as program coordinator and assistant professor of instructional systems and advanced to academic division head of education before being named acting CEO.
Before joining Penn State Great Valley, he was assistant director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies and assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at Bloomsburg University.
In 1994, Milheim received the College of Education Outstanding Faculty Award and in 1996 he earned the Great Valley Award for Teaching Excellence. In 1990, he won the Young Academics Award of the National Society for Performance and Instruction.
A graduate of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, Milheim earned master's and doctoral degrees at Kent State University. He is a resident of Chester Springs, Pa.
Professor is head of Gittlen Cancer Research Institute
Dr.
Gary A. Clawson, professor of pathology and biochemistry and molecular
biology, has recently been named the director of the Jake Gittlen Cancer
Research Institute at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Clawson has
been the acting director since March 1998.
Clawson, a member of the faculty in Penn State's College of Medicine since 1991, is also chief of the Division of Experimental Pathology. He received his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University and later earned his medical degree from the University of Miami. He has received numerous honors throughout his career including the Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute. Clawson has authored nearly 100 scholarly publications and his major areas of interest focus on early changes in carcinogenesis.
The Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Institute was created to promote excellence in cancer research and education, and allows researchers to embark on projects exploring the mechanisms and underlying process of cancer. The College of Medicine has a comprehensive cancer research program in place. Members of the Gittlen institute have been extremely successful in generating competitive funding -- capturing more than $550,000 per member over the last year. Gittlen institute members also are members of the Division of Experimental Pathology in the College of Medicine.
Reorganization leads to appointment of department heads
The College of Communications has changed its administrative structure and created four academic departments: Advertising/Public Relations; Film/Video and Media Studies; Journalism; and Telecommunications.
One interim and three permanent department heads have been appointed to oversee those new units. They are: Robert Richards, associate dean for undergraduate education and faculty development, now interim head of the Department of Journalism; Robert Baukus, associate professor, will head the Department of Advertising/Public Relations; Mary Mander, associate professor, will head the Department of Film/Video and Media Studies, which will continue to offer majors in both areas; and Patrick Parsons, associate professor, will head the Department of Telecommunications.
Richards, who joined Penn State's faculty in 1988, has served as professor-in-charge of the journalism program for the past year and was named associate dean last spring. In addition, he is the founding co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment and director of the Penn State Washington Program. He teaches courses in media law, broadcast news, and media and government.
Baukus, who has taught and conducted research at Penn State since 1987, specializes in marketing communications, advertising campaigns, media planning and advertising research methods. He has served as professor-in-charge of the advertising/public relations program for the last two years.
Mander joined Penn State's faculty in 1980 as an assistant professor of speech communication. In 1987, she was made an associate professor of media studies. She currently teaches history and theory of mass media and cultural foundations of communications.
Parsons, who has served as professor-in-charge of the telecommunications program for the past two years, came to Penn State in 1985. He teaches and conducts research in the general areas of media technology and social change, and media ethics and responsibility.
Landscape architecture department head named
Brian Orland, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named department head and professor of landscape architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture. He will assume the position on July 21. Eliza Pennypacker vacated the position to become the head of the Division of Campus Planning and Design for Penn State..
While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Orland served on the Faculty Senate, the Executive Committee for the Graduate College and campus committees for the environment and computing. A founding member of the University Environmental Council, he also helped lead the development of specializations in the human dimensions of environmental systems and in computing for the arts.
Orland was a Visiting Research Fellow in 1989 and 1996 at the University of Melbourne. He has received numerous awards and his publication record includes chapters in several books and many journal articles. He has published in the area of environmental perception and has directed the development of computer software for visualization. He has an active program of research in environmental modeling and visualization.
Orland received his B.A. in architecture; his B.Arch. from the University of Manchester; and his master of landscape architecture from the University of Arizona. He is a registered architect and has worked in many areas, including Botswana, Tanzania and El Salvador. He has directed and managed the Imaging Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois for 15 years, one of the best-known and largest centers specializing in the application and evaluation of information systems for environmental management.