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Robert Cefalo
Professor of obstetrics and gynecology and assistant dean for graduate medical education at the School of Medicine, Cefalo has been appointed chair of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Incorporated in 1930, the board issues certifications to physicians who demonstrate knowledge and professional competence in obstetrics and gynecology. Cefalo will use his four years of experience as board president as he moves into his new role as chair. Duties of the chair include overseeing the board and its evaluations of certification candidates.
Beverly Errede
Professor of biochemistry, Errede has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology. The academy is the only honorific leadership group devoted entirely to microbiologists and the science of microbiology. More than 1,300 Academy Fellows from more than 27 countries have been elected and each has demonstrated scientific excellence, originality and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative achievement. The academy recognizes scientists for distinguished achievements in microbiology and provides microbiological expertise in the service of science and the public.
Jeffrey Lieberman
Professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and radiology, and director of the Mental Health and Neuroscience Clinical Research Center at the School of Medicine, Lieberman received the highest research award given by the American Psychiatric Association. He was recognized for his research on the neurobiology and pharmacology of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. The APA Award for Research in Psychiatry covers the full range of psychiatric research. The APA also honored Lieberman, who serves as vice chair for scientific affairs in the Department of Psychiatry, with the Alexander Gralnick Award for Research in Schizophrenia. This award honors an individual for overall contributions to research into the discovery and treatment of the earliest signs of schizophrenia.
Frank Morgan
Executive programs director at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, Morgan has been elected president and chair of the board of the International University Consortium for Executive Education (UNICON). Founded in 1972, UNICON is a consortium of international business schools with substantial executive education programs. The 67 member schools include Carolina, Harvard, Stanford, Duke and 21 other universities outside the United States on five continents. Morgan also is on the management faculty at Kenan-Flagler.
James Smith
Professor of finance, Smith was recognized by the Forecasters Club of New York for having the most accurate economic forecast of any club member during the past year. The organization includes most top New York commercial and investment bank economists, as well as consultants, economists and business professors. About 75 people belong to the club. Smith's forecasts were among the top 10 in 11 of the 13 categories. His prize from the club was a bottle of Pommery, an expensive French champagne.
Ronald Strauss
Professor and chair of the Department of Dental Ecology in the School of Dentistry, Strauss won the 1998 Distinguished Service Award of the American Cleft-Palate-Craniofacial Association. Strauss's research has focused on the social impact of chronic health problems with specific interest in dental conditions, craniofacial anomalies and HIV/AIDS.
Mary C. Sturgeon
Professor and chair of art, Sturgeon has received a Fulbright grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the U.S. Information Agency. Sturgeon is among 2,000 American grantees who will travel abroad for the 1998-99 academic year through the Fulbright program. Her award will pay for a year in Greece. The Fulbright program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas to "increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries."
Camilla Tulloch
Associate professor of orthodontics at the School of Dentistry, Tulloch has received an award for the best clinical research article in her field in 1997 from the American Association of Orthodontics. For the past decade, Tulloch has been conducting a long-term clinical study of the benefits of early treatment for children with buckteeth. Supported by the National Institutes of Health, she is trying to learn whether clinicians really can alter children's facial development so that their upper and lower jaws grow more proportionately.
UNC Press
Pickett's Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon has won the prestigious Forrest C. Pogue Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the Eisenhower Center for American Studies to the best book on the history of the U.S. Army published during the previous year.
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