Laurels

The video program "Bred for Furrow: Draft Animals," produced by I.T. Creative Communication Services staffers Ken Casey and Chris Sarason, has captured a first-place award at the Charleston International Film Festival. Casey and Sarason produced the three-part film series for use in international agricultural development courses. Former agricultural engineering graduate student Eve Iverson, a student of Professor William Chancellor, was the writer and associate producer for the project. Ray Lucas of Creative Communication Services and graphic artist Karen English-Loeb also contributed to the production. The program illustrates how using draft animals for agriculture in emerging nations can transform subsistence farming into agricultural surplus.

The Council of The American Physical Society has named three in the physics department as Fellows. Professor Ching Yao Fong was elected due to his pioneering work in developing theoretical models and applying them to computational studies of the fundamental electronic and vibrational properties of semiconductor systems. For his contributions to the theory of electronic and vibrational properties of solids and for building and leading dynamic research groups, Professor Barry Klein was made a Fellow. And Robert Shelton, a professor as well as vice chancellor for research, was named a Fellow for his contributions to low-temperature, high-pressure studies of superconducting and magnetic materials.

Competing with the many universities in the Western United States, UC Davis received nine district awards in December from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Laurie Lewis of Editorial Design received an Award for Excellence for the Annual Fund holiday card. Liz Arnold from the School of Medicine Alumni Association received an Award of Excellence for the Legislative Committee "Resident for a Day" Program. Awards of Distinction went to Lewis and Scott Ahrens for the Teaching Prize Gala package; to Lewis for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Viewbook; to Ahrens with Public Communications assistance for materials for the department open house, to News Service members Karen Watson and Susanne Rockwell for Headlines, a publication about UC Davis news highlights; and to Carol Cruzan Morton of News Service for her article in "Save Mono Lake" the UC Davis Magazine. In addition, Kari Millar from the Graduate School of Management received two Awards of Distinction for the Daytime MBA recruitment brochure and the Business Partnership Program.

For his distinguished teaching, research and administrative career as well as his many contributions to science leadership and development, Howard Ferris has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Nematology. The professor of nematology, who teaches plant nematology, researches in the fields of ecology, population dynamics, crop-loss assessment, integrated pest management, sampling and mathematical approaches to basic and applied aspects of nematology.

Emil Rodolfa, psychologist and associate director of the counseling center, has been elected president of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agents. This national organization represents doctoral-level psychology internship training programs. Rodolfa was also appointed as a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral Internship Centers Standards and Review Committee. The association facilitates high-quality training in professional psychology and developed national standards for and resolves problems associated with the selection of doctoral level interns.

Michael Singer, professor of soil science in the land, air and water resources department has been named a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. The award was presented at the society's annual meeting in St. Louis.

Dean Simonton, professor of psychology, has been named the recipient of the 1996 Rudolf Arnheim Award from the American Psychological Association. The annual award is given to a "senior scholar who has made outstanding contributions to psychology and the arts."