Bierbaum

Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, has been appointed vice chair of the United Nations Sigma Xi Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. The group advises the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development on the best measures to arrest or reverse global warming.

The Industrial Designers Society of America has appointed Shaun Jackson, associate professor in the School of Art & Design, as 2005 National Conference chair. Jackson will organize the teams and themes that make up the society's biggest annual event.

Awards

Dutta

Debasish Dutta, professor of mechanical engineering, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) Design Automation Award at the ASME Design Automation Conference Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Salt Lake City. The award was given in recognition of his "fundamental and sustained contributions to design automation research in the areas of computational geometry, geometric modeling and manufacturing process planning, and for promoting global product development in engineering education."

Gillian Mayman, information services librarian at the School of Public Health, has been awarded a National Library of Medicine Fellowship for Informationist Training, beginning in January.

Mayman will pursue an individually tailored program that will include working with local health departments in Michigan to assess information needs and to develop online, competency-based informatics resources.