Adelaide Ferguson, assistant vice president for International Programs at Temple and assistant dean for Graduate and International Legal Programs at the Beasley School of Law, was honored by the Jewish Social Policy Action Network on Nov. 14. Ferguson, who received the award along with her husband, Alan Lerner, was recognized for teaching law to foreign students and for her work in international human rights.
Dave Conant, WRTI executive director and morning drive host, received the 2007 Radio Milestone Award on Nov. 1, as part of the March of Dimes’ Achievement in Radio Awards, held in Philadelphia.
President Ann Weaver Hart has been named chair of the Commission on International Programs for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Hart will officially take over as chair during NASULGC’s annual meeting in New York City, held Nov. 11–13.
Enrique Hernandez, the Abraham Roth Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine, was elected to the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania Medical Society for a four-year term (2007–2010).
Renee Hobbs, broadcasting, telecommunications and mass media professor in the School of Communications and Theater, was named Outstanding Media Educator by Common Sense Media, a group committed to helping parents and children become more judicious in their media choices, at its annual award ceremony in San Francisco. Hobbs was acknowledged for her national leadership and lifetime achievement in the area of media literacy education.
Howard Myrick, professor of broadcast, telecommunications and mass media in the Department of the School of Communications and Theater, will be chairing the Pennsylvania Public Television Initiative’s strategic planning committee. Armed with a $250,000 grant from the Commonwealth, Myrick will be overseeing a study that will culminate with a strategic plan for the Pennsylvania Public Television Network and an assessment of the network’s interoperability.
The School of Communications and Theater received nine top 10 rankings in eight different research specialties according to a recent study done by the Communication Institute of Online Scholarship. These rankings were based on faculty publication records and the departmental affiliations for the faculty.
The Broadcast, Telecommunications and Mass Media Department was ranked seventh in critical theory, ninth in demographics research, and ninth in visualization; the Department of Journalism was ranked third in mass communication research on the Pacific Rim, sixth in mass communication research on Asia, ninth in visualization and 10th in intercultural research; and the Strategic and Organizational Communication Department was ranked ninth in public relations and presidential figures.
Temple University Hospital has been named an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. The ASMBS Center of Excellence designation recognizes surgical programs with a demonstrated track record of favorable outcomes in bariatric surgery. To earn a Center of Excellence designation, TUH underwent a series of site inspections during which all aspects of the program’s surgical processes were closely examined and data on health outcomes was collected. Upon review, the Surgical Review Corporation, an organization dedicated to pursuing surgical excellence, recommends approval of the designation for those surgeons and facilities whose practices and outcomes meet the stringent demands set forth by SRC for ASMBS.
The Criminal Justice Department ranked sixth most productive faculty in the country in the area of criminal justice and criminology in the 2007 Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index published in the latest edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. This represented an improvement over last year’s seventh place ranking.
Jacqueline Zinn, professor of risk, insurance and healthcare management at the Fox School of Business, has been elected to the board of directors of Temple University Physicians, the clinical faculty practice plan at the Temple University School of Medicine.
Temple University’s report “Campus Safety & You” was cited as a model in the state of Wisconsin’s recently published “Governor’s Task Force on Campus Safety.” Temple’s report “provides students with a single source for campus crime and practical information about safe behavior, how to report a crime and where to find assistance.” The report is published annually by Campus Safety Services.
Zdenka Delalic, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, was the faculty advisor to the IMAPS Temple student chapter that won first place for its booth at the 40th IMAPS International Symposium on Microelectronics held in November in San Jose, Calif. The chapter includes students from electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical discipline of engineering, and computer and information science. At the symposium, the students presented 16 interdisciplinary posters of their work and a prototype of a totally implantable insulin pump that was designed and developed by chapter members.
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