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Gottlieb honored as legal leader
David Gottlieb, professor of law and associate dean of clinical programs for the School of Law, has been recognized as a 2009 Legal Leader by a Kansas City legal newspaper.
David Gottlieb
Gottlieb received the award from the Daily Record for his role as a legal scholar. The award honors faculty or staff at area law schools who demonstrate leadership through their work with the justice system, research or scholarship or teaching and inspiring others.
Gottlieb has been a professor at the School of Law since 1979. He teaches criminal procedure, international human rights and refugee and asylum law, among other courses. He studies guideline sentencing and the death penalty and is nationally recognized for his leadership in clinical legal education.
From 1979 to 1999, he led the law school’s signature clinical program, the Paul E. Wilson Defender Project. That program is now led by one of his former students. Under the auspices of the Defender Project, faculty members and students defend the civil rights of prisoners and pursue justice on behalf of those who were wrongly convicted of crimes.
Gottlieb was instrumental in creating the law school’s newest clinical program, a medical-legal clinic housed in the Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care Clinic that provides legal services to indigent patients referred by their physicians. He is its director.
Fautin elected VP of species ‘supreme court’
Daphne Fautin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology has been elected vice president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Sometimes referred to as the “supreme court” of species identification, the commission is the world’s top governing body on the oversight of naming of new species.
Frost lands director position at National Science Foundation
Victor Frost, the Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has taken on a position as
Victor Frost
After 11 years, Frost stepped down as director of KU’s Information and Telecommunication Technology Center in August. ITTC-affiliated faculty generated more than $55 million in research expenditures under his leadership. Frost has held senior administrative positions with ITTC and a predecessor lab since 1987.
Frost is the fifth electrical engineering and computer science professor to work within federal research agencies. For more than a decade, the department’s faculty have helped set the nation’s research agenda in computing, communications and sensors.
Stull receives anthropology distinguished service award
Donald Stull, professor of anthropology, has received the Society of Applied Anthropology’s Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award for 2009. The award was presented March 20 during the society’s annual meeting in Santa Fe, N.M., to honor Stull’s service to the organization and his contributions to applied anthropology in general. Stull was president of the society between 2005 and 2007 and was editor of the group’s flagship journal, Human Organization, from 1999 to 2004. Nationally, Stull is recognized for his research on the meat and poultry industries in North America and the impact of industrial agriculture on farmers and rural communities, particularly rapid community growth accompanying rural industrialization. More recently, his research has focused on the impact of the end of the federal tobacco program on tobacco farmers in his home state of Kentucky. His books include “Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America,” written with Michael Broadway in 2004, and “Any Way You Cut it: Meat Processing and Small-town America,” published by the University Press of Kansas in 1995. Stull edited the 1995 book with Broadway and David Griffith. These books drew heavily on their 1988-90 Ford Foundation study of “Changing Ethnic Relations in Garden City, Kansas.”Old joins clerkship for medical students
Jerry Old has joined the School of Medicine-Wichita faculty as associate professor and director of the new geriatrics clerkship for medical students. Previously, Old was on the faculty at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and was in private practice for 25 years in Arkansas City. In addition, he is corporate medical director for Hospice Care of Kansas.
"I'm thrilled the university recognizes the need to train medical students in the field of geriatrics. My wife and I are delighted to be back in the Wichita area,” Old said.
Rick Kellerman, family and community medicine chair and professor, said, “Dr. Old is an award-winning teacher and published author. His experience, knowledge, and expertise will provide a very positive influence on our medical students.”
Altieri returns to KU in research administration
Joanne Altieri, director of the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration at Iowa State University, has been named assistant vice provost for research administration in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, effective July 1. Responsibilities of the position include management of proposal services, contract negotiations and post-award services. She succeeds Barbara Armbrister and will report to Vice Provost Steve Warren.
Joanne Altieri
Altieri has been at Iowa State since 2006. She previously worked for 17 years in a progression of research administration positions at KU. In 2005, she was assistant vice provost for contract negotiations and research compliance before leaving to serve a year in the Peace Corps.
Altieri’s background includes a bachelor’s in Spanish from KU, as well as secondary teaching certification. She is continuing graduate work toward a master’s degree at Baker University.
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