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Staters Peter Schiffer, associate professor of physics, has been elected vice chair of the American Physical Society Topical Group in Magnetism and Its Applications. The position will lead to Schiffer's becoming chair of the group in 2004. Pat Shipman, adjunct professor of anthropology, is one of four anthropologists nationwide elected this year as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. According to the society, Shipman was honored for her "distinguished contributions to paleoanthropology and for communication of findings in that field to the profession and the educated public." Shyam Sundar Suthuraman, associate professor of communications and director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, won the "top paper" award in the Information Systems Division of the International Communication Association. His paper, "Orienting Response and Memory for Web Advertisements: Exploring Effects of Pop-up Window and Animation," was co-authored by Fangfang Diao, who earned her master's degree in speech communication from the University in 2001 and is a doctoral student at Rutgers University. Bruce Trinkley, professor of music, received the Marshall Bartholomew Award at the 40th National Seminar of the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses at Purdue University. The award is presented "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of men's chorus music." In addition, "Opera.com.edy," a new opera with music by Trinkley and words by Jason Charnesky, graduate student in English, was premiered by the University of Evansville Opera Theatre. The Opera Theatre also performed "opera.com.edy" for elementary and high schools in Kentucky and Indiana. "Cleo," a one-act opera by Trinkley and Charnesky, was performed as the featured new work at the National Opera Association Convention in Philadelphia. |