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Staters The University has been honored with two awards for its online educational program. Of the five major awards presented at the Eighth Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, "The Power of Online Learning: The Faculty Experience," Penn State garnered an Award for Excellence in Online Faculty Satisfaction for the UniSCOPE (University Scholarship and Criteria for Outreach and Performance Evaluation) project and an Award for Excellence in Online Cost Effectiveness. A panel of educators selected UniSCOPE "Multidimensional Model for Review of Scholarly Activity" for the Excellence in Online Faculty Satisfaction award "for implementing and sharing a multidimensional model that regards faculty's teaching, research and service activities as a continuum of scholarship." Drew Hyman, professor of public policy and community systems, serves as chair of the UniSCOPE Learning Community which developed the model. Team members were: Theodore R. Alter, associate vice president for outreach, director of Cooperative Extension and associate dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences; John E. Ayers, professor of plant pathology; Erskine H. Cash, professor of animal science; Donald E. Fahnline, associate professor of physics; David P. Gold, professor emeritus of geology; Elise A. Gurgevich, Keystone 21 project coordinator; Peter C. Jurs, professor of chemistry; Robert O. Herrmann, professor emeritus of agricultural economics; Drew Hyman, professor of public policy and community systems and chairman of the UniSCOPE Learning Community; David E. Roth, associate professor of engineering; John D. Swisher, professor emeritus of education; M. Susie Whittington, former associate professor of agricultural and extension education at Penn State and now associate professor human and community resource development at Ohio State University; and Helen Smiciklas-Wright, professor of nutrition. Team members for the Award for Excellence in Online Cost Effectiveness were John T. Harwood, senior director of Teaching and Learning with Technology, and William L. Harkness, professor emeritus of statistics, for their report "Mixed Delivery Model Proves Cost-Effective," which details their work on creating and sharing cost-effective practices for the development of an online version of the Introduction to Statistics course. Paul Weiss, professor of chemistry and physics, has been appointed a member of the editorial board of the American Institute of Physics journal Review of Scientific Instruments. Weiss will serve the journal, which concerns scientific instruments, apparati and techniques, for a three-year term in this position. Weiss also recently presented invited talks in Japan. In Nagoya, at the 2002 International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials, he presented "Measuring and Controlling Molecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Electronics." In Tokyo, at the University of Tokyo Institute of Solid-State Physics, he presented "Exploring and Controlling the Atomic-Scale World." |