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Lois Baker, senior health sciences editor in the Office of University Communications, was elected a fellow of the 5,500 member American Medical Writer’s Association (AMWA) at the spring meeting of the organization’s board of directors. Fellowships recognize members who have made substantial contributions to the goals and activities of AMWA and to their profession.
Nancy J. Smyth, dean of the School of Social Work, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the St. Louis Group, an association of the country’s outstanding graduate schools of social work. The St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research and Education has a membership of more than 50 accredited graduate or combined graduate social work programs. All of the programs in the St. Louis Group are in institutions that belong to the Association of American Universities, hold Carnegie-Research Extensive status and/or spend at least $3 million annually in direct costs for research, excluding training grants.
James L. Hoot, professor and director of the Early Childhood Research Center in the Graduate School of Education, has been elected president of the Association for Childhood Education International. He will serve a two-year term. Hoot has been a member of the association for more than 30 years and was instrumental in establishing branches in Ethiopia, Finland, Hong Kong and Hungary.
Matthew Notarian, a doctoral student in the Department of Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a rare predoctoral Rome Prize to fund research in ancient studies at the American Academy in Rome. Notarian, who will take up residence at the academy in September, received the award for his project “Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Latium: An Archaeological and Social History of Praeneste, Tibur and Tusculum,” an archaeological study of town life in the region directly outside of Rome during the early Roman Empire. Another UB classics doctoral student, Rachel van Dusen, was the recipient of the 2007-08 Jesse Benedict Carter/Samuel H. Kress Foundation PreDoctoral Rome Prize fellowship from the academy. She recently returned from Rome, where she worked at the academy and the University of Barcelona on her project, “Central Apennines: A History of Cultural Change in the Highlands of Central Italy,” which will contribute to her doctoral dissertation about cultural change in the Central Apennines of Italy between the eighth and first centuries B.C. Both students are conducting their research under the guidance of archaeologist Stephen L. Dyson, UB Distinguished Professor and Park Professor of Classics.