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the UW Press). He has judged many region-
al creative writing competitions and served
on the Wisconsin Arts Boird's Creative
Writing Grant Screening Committee.
He has -received several perfect student
evaluations and has won the Wisconsin
Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching
Award    and   the  Wisconsin    Student
Association's Teaching Award.
Charles R. Bentley
A.R Crary Professor of Geophysics
As a glaciologist, Bentley fias been instru-
Evert i., an .intern tionally distinguished
plant anatomist and the world's authority
on phloem, the tissue that conducts sugars
in plants.He is an accomplished structural
botanist who expands the significance of his
work by relating it to physiology. He has
published nearly 200 articles, reviews and
book chapters, and is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. A Guggenheim
Fellow in 1965-66, Evert was also the recip-
to introduce faculty and students to the
"inquiry mode" of teaching, which empha-
sizes active problem-solving inquiry and
learning through writing.
Gernsbacher holds office in every profes-
sional organization in her field. Her
committee work has included the Social
Studies Divisional Committee and the
Graduate School Research Committee. She
has organized three international confer-
ences for scholars in psycholinguistics to
present their latest research. m
Pope, Konrad selected Librarians of the Year
Nolan Pope and Lee Konrad'have been named. the 1998
Librarians of the Year by their peers in the UW-Madison
Librarians' Assembly. The annual awards, created in 1989, recognize
outstanding contributions to campus library services by two unclas-
sified staff members of the General Library System. The first is
awarded to an individual who has worked for the system more than
10 years; the second recognizes service of less than 10 years.
Pope was cited for "providing vision and guidance to establish
the UW-Madison library system as a leader in library automation
among academic institutions."
The associate director of the General Library System for
Automatio, Pope joined the GLS staff in 1985. He has overseen the
development of MadCat (formerly NLS), the networking of PCs
and CD-ROM resources, the use of a Web-based front end to library
resources, the integration of CIC resources, and the new Virtual
Electronic Library (WebZ).
Pope began his professional library career with the University of
Florida library system in the late 1970s, where he worked in circu-
lation and reference. He soon became the head of systems and
computer-based operations there.
At UW-Madison, Pope has immersed himself in a wide range of
responsibilities within the library, the campus, UW System, the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and national arenas.
He served as special assistant for library automation under the Office
of Academic Affairs for UW System in 1991-92. He has also been
on the National Information Standards Organization board of direc-
tors since 1992 and has chaired the Standards Development
Committee during that time.
He has served as the Standards Committee chair for the American
Society for Information Science; as chair of the CIC Library
Ailtomation Directors Group; and serves on the CIC Virtual
Electronic Library Steering Committee.
The Chinese University Development Project invited Pope to lec-
ture and consult in a management seminar on library automation.
He was a Mortenson Foundation Fellow, traveling to Moscow to
consult on automation with the Library for Foreign Literature. He
also spent time planning and consulting in Kiev, Ukraine.
Lee Konrad, director of the College Libtary Computer and Media
Center, joined the GLS staff in 1993. Konrad earned a bachelor's
degree in history and a master's in library science from the UW-
Madison. Before going to College Library, he held -positions at
Steenbock and Law libraries.
Konrad was instrumental, along with Library User Education
Coordinator Abigail Loomis, in developing CLUE (the computer-
assisted library user education program) that introduces
undergraduates to the UW library system. He was among the first
library staff to teach users about using the Internet.
He has published several articles in library journals since 1992,
one of which was selected among the "top 20 [library] instruction
articles" for 1996 by the American Library Association. Konrad was
commended for "always being on the forefront in understanding and
applying technology to librarianship and instruction." m
nomics. He joined the faculty in 197  --
and is internationally recognized fbo [A
the development of statistical tests that  r
can detect patterns in seemingly ran-
dom data, and for his theoretical work
on economic stability, optimal plan-
ning and inflationary bubbles.
Craig joined the faculty of the
Medical School in 1979. She is the
Elizabeth Caveat Miller Professor and
the Steenbock Professor of microbio-
logical sciences. Craig studies proteins;
in particular, she is known for her work
on heat shock proteins and the proteins
responsible for folding and assembling
other proteins in cells.
Dove is a professor of oncology and
medical genetics at the McArdle
Laboratory for Cancer Research. He
joined the faculty here in 1965 and
holds   the    George     Streisinger
Professorship of Experimental Biology.
He is an authority on the genetics of
cancer, the genetics of the biological
clock and has developed powerful ani-
mal models for cancer research.
Frey is the Robert H. Abeles
Professor of biochemistry and co-direc-
tor of the UW-Madison Institute for
Enzyme Research. He joined the facul-
ty  here in   1981 and    is known
internationally for pioneering the stere-
ochemical analysis    of  enzymatic
reactions essential to metabolism and
biological energy transduction.
Rabinowitz is the Edward Burr Van
Vleck Professor of mathematics. He
joined the faculty here in 1969 and has
been widely recognized for his deep
influence on the field of nonlinear
analysis and his work in ordinary and
partial differential equations. n
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