Notables

Edward J. Bedrick, professor of statistics, will be named a fellow of the American Statistical Association during the annual awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings in New York City Aug. 13. This year, 48 members of the association were accorded the fellows honor.

“It is a great honor to be named a Fellow of the ASA,” Bedrick said.

“A lot of credit for the award should go to my collaborators, colleagues and my family for their constant support of my work.”

The citation reads as follows: “Edward J. Bedrick, Professor of Statistics, University of New Mexico: For outstanding contributions in the area of statistical diagnostics and biserial correlation, for contributions to the application of statistics through consulting, and for service to the profession.”

The American Statistical Association (ASA), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second oldest professional society in the United States.

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Music Professor Bradley Ellingboe recently received a third award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

The award, ASCAP Plus, is given “to assist and encourage writers of serious music.” The cash award is granted by an independent panel and based upon the value of the each writer’s catalog of original compositions, as well as recent performances.

The panel judged Ellingboe’s body of work. This includes more than 60 published pieces of choral music sung at schools and churches around the country. “It is humbling to be recognized by my peers in the musical world for the third year in a row,” he said.

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Roberto Gomez, M.D., associate dean in the School of Medicine’s Office of Cultural and Ethnic Programs, attended the
3rd Annual Hispanic Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. in June.

The purpose of the summit, sponsored by the U.S. Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force, is to provide Hispanic leaders from across the country an opportunity to network and share ideas with congressional Democrats.

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Carla Herman, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor and chief of the Gerontology Division in the UNM School of Medicine (SOM) Department of Internal Medicine, is one of five national geriatric leaders to be awarded the 2002 Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP) award.

The ADGAP, through funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, has developed a three-year training program to increase the leadership skills of geriatric program directors through intensive formal training, close mentorship and strong peer-support.

Drs. John Trotter and Sanjeev Arora in the SOM will serve as Hermann’s local mentors. A national mentor will be appointed.

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Paul Nathanson, director of the Institute for Public Law, has been appointed to the board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) which is dedicated to promoting “…the development and operation of a legal framework in countries through the world that furthers the healthy functioning of not-for-profit organizations as part of civil society.”

Founded in 1992, ICNL works with local partners in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. The next ICNL board meeting will take place in early December in Budapest.

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Sherman Wilcox, associate professor, Department of Linguistics, has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee on Web-based Materials on Language of the Linguistics Society of America, an organization created to advance the scientific study of language.  Wilcox has been instrumental in fostering expansion of American Sign Language (ASL) courses to satisfy second language requirements in U.S. colleges and universities.