LehighNow Volume 02, Issue 16

              LEHIGHNOW
May 15, 2002
Volume 2, Issue 16
Annual awards honor faculty excellence
IN BRIEF
HONORS/AWARDS
2002 dinner
recognizes top
Lehigh staff
Several Lehigh staff
members were honored at
the 2002 Staff Recognition Dinner held on
Thursday, May 9.
William Michalerya,
associate vice president
for government relations
and vice provost for
research,received the
Lehigh University
Distinguished Service
Award for significant
contributions to the
Lehigh community.
Stacy Stainbrook,
assistant to the provost
and director of the
provost's office, received
the Alfred Noble
Robinson Award for
outstanding performance
in service and unusual
promise of professional
achievement.
Karen G. Krajczar,
secretary in the admissions office, received the
ERAC Distinguished
service award in recognition of outstanding
service by a staff member.
Roseann Corsi,
coordinator of public
relations for athletics,
received the Paul J. Franz
Award for excellence in
performance and
dedication and devotion
to Lehigh.
Rosemary Makosky,
administrative coordina-
Please see STAFF page 3
Lehigh University recently
honored nine members of
the faculty for excellence in
teaching, research and
service.
The award winners
include: Peter G. Beidler,
professor of English, who
received the Eleanor and
Joseph F. Libsch Research
Award; James A.
Dearden, professor of
economics, who received
the Carl R. and Ingeborg
Beidleman Research
Award; George J. DuPaul,
professor of education and
human services, who
received the Eleanor and
Joseph F. Libsch Award;
Scott Gordon, associate
professor of English, who
received the Christian and
Mary F. Lindback Award for
Distinguished Teaching; and
Mayuresh V. Kothare,
assistant professor of
chemical engineering, who
received the Alfred Noble
Robinson Award.
Also honored were Judith
N. Lasker, professor of
sociology and anthropology,
who received the Hillman
Faculty Award; Linda
Lowe-Krentz, associate
professor of biological
sciences, who received the
Hillman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Advising; Harvey G.
Stenger, professor of
chemical engineering, who
received the Stabler Award
for Excellence in Teaching;
and George P. White,
associate professor of
education and human
services, who received the
Hillman Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising.
For more information,
please go to www.lehigh.edu
Students win
AP Award
A group of Lehigh students
recently learned that their
radio spots work for Prof.
Al Wurth that aired on
WDIY-FM earned them an
award from the Associated
Press.
The Pennsylvania
Associated Press
Broadcaster's Association
granted the award in the
category of public affairs.
The students will receive
the award at a ceremony on
June 8 in Harrisburg.
Jim DeSouza, news
director for WDIY, worked
with Wurth and the
students for the series of
radio spots that dealt with
land-use issues in the state
ofPennsylvania.
The students are: former
undergraduates Charlotte
Lomax '01 and Christine
Metz '00, graduate
students Francesca
Paterek and Kristy
Weidner, and teaching
assistant Ellie Smith.
"Naturally, we were
elated when we heard that
the students' work had
received this award," said
Wurth, professor of political
science at Lehigh. "In effect,
instead of producing a
conventional course's
research report or term
paper, the students produced news features to air on
local public radio. We're
happy to see their considerable efforts have been
recognized."
The relationship between
Lehigh and WDIY-FM was
initiated in the spring of 2000
as a collaborative project
between the political science
department and the station
in an experimental class and
community outreach
experiment, with the help of
Lehigh's former Ventures
program. The concept was
developed by a committee
that included Hannah
Stewart-Gambino, then
director of graduate studies,
now associate dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences;
then-department chair Frank
Davis; and former WDIY
News Director Dina
Weinstein.
In replacing Weinstein at
WDIY, DeSouza further
encouraged and developed
the project with the Spring
2001 group, which was the
first set of students nominated for the AP award,
Wurth said.
"Only one of the students
I worked with had any
previous journalism experience," recalls DeSouza. "Yet
to a person, they delved into
all sides of these issues and
produced well-rounded
stories. It was a pleasure to
work with them."
The feature spots
produced as part of this
course covered land use
issues, with a focus on
Lehigh Valley applications.
Topics addressed were
historic districts, funding of
open-space preservation,
multi-munincipality
cooperative land use
planning, and the proposed
expansion of Route 22.
This semester's group of
seven students has already
produced seven new features
that have aired on WDIY, and
several more are in production.