Elected President Mary Sue Coleman has been re-elected to the board of Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. The board provides strategic guidance, directs the setting of priorities, and ensures Internet2 continues to meet the needs of the research and education community. The consortium promotes the missions of its members by providing leading network capabilities and partnership opportunities that promote development, deployment and use of Internet technologies. Award James Vincent, professor of environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health, will receive the Donald E. Cummings Memorial Award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association at the annual Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition in June in Minneapolis. It is given for outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of the profession of industrial hygiene. Vincent will present the Cummings Memorial Lecture, “Graduate Education in Occupational Hygiene: Past, Present and Future.” Named Two faculty have been named fellows of the New York Academy of History: Deborah Dash Moore, director of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History; and Rebecca Zurier, associate professor of history of art and faculty associate in the Program in American Culture. Dr. Timothy R.B. Johnson has been named president of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He assumed the office on March 7 and will serve a one-year term. Johnson is the Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children, professor of women’s studies, research professor in the Center for Human Growth and Development, and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynocology. Inducted Dr. Betsy Foxman, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, will be inducted March 25 into the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health Alumni Hall of Fame. She will be honored for substantial and distinctive contributions to the public health field.
