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SPEA is pleased to welcome our new faculty:

IUB
Melissa Clark - Lecturer
Christopher Hunt - Clinical Professor
Nicole Quon - Acting Assistant Professor
Michael Rushton - Associate Professor
Henry Wakhungu - Lecturer

IUPUI
Greg Arling - Visiting Associate Professor
Laura Littlepage - Clinical Lecturer
William M. Plater - Chancellor’s Professor and Director, Workshop on International Community Development
Adrian Sargeant - Professor
Jim White - Clinical Lecturer

David Audretsch, IUB, received the “Achievement in the Arts Award” from Drew University (Madison, New Jersey) on June 3, 2006.

Lisa Blomgren Bingham, IUB, received the "Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award" on June 29, 2006 from the International Association for Conflict Management and the Harvard Project on Negotiation. The award recognizes a scholar whose research has had a significant impact on the practice of negotiation and conflict management.

On July 27, Indiana University Kokomo signed a partnership agreement with Babcock University (BU) in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. BU President Kayode Makinde, accompanied by Vice President for Development and Strategy Olukunle Iyanda and Vice President for Finance Luke Onuocha, came to the Kokomo campus to finalize the agreement with IU Kokomo Chancellor Ruth Person. Robert Dibie, IUK, helped initiate the partnership, after delivering the keynote address at a Babcock University conference in June 2006. Babcock University Nigeria recently invited Dibie to serve as the editor of its Journal of International Politics and Development.

The National Association of State Foresters has announced that their Urban Forestry Current Achievement Award has been renamed the Burney Fischer NASF Urban Forestry Current Achievement Award at the National Meeting in 2006. Also, on August 22 the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Board approved a $5,000 agreement with SPEA (PI - Burney Fischer, IUB) for urban forestry internships for 2006-07. The primary purpose of the internships is to assist the city forester in conducting a citywide street tree inventory using i-Tree, a US Forest Service state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed, urban and community forestry analysis and benefits software suite.

Ron Hites, IUB, has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Hites was invited to attend the annual board meeting on May 22 in conjunction with IAGLR 2006.

Kirsten Grønbjerg, IUB, was quoted in The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne) in “Get on board: Non-profits would benefit from stronger board leadership,” by Karen Francisco on June 30 and also in the Evansville Courier & Press piece, “Survey reveals nonprofit challenges,” by Lydia X. McCoy on July 3.

Les Lenkowsky, IUPUI and IUB, was interviewed by numerous papers in connection with his Gates and Buffett articles this summer and story about the head of Oracle Corp withdrawing a $100 mm grant from Harvard. They include: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newark Star-Ledger, L'Express, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Business Week Online, Toronto Globe & Mail, and the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald. Les also did TV spots on WTHR (Indy) and the Nightly Business Report (PBS). To link to an interview done with “All Things Considered” (NPR), go to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5516260.

Evan Ringquist, IUB, was quoted in “Top of the News” in the Star Business Mid-Day Update: “IU public policy expert gives new state energy plan ‘high marks’. The state energy strategy unveiled by Gov. Mitch Daniels this morning should receive ‘high marks,’ says Evan Ringquist, a professor in IUB’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The plan is ‘long overdue’ and ‘hits most of the right marks,’ Ringquist said in a statement. The plan, ‘Hoosier Homegrown,’ aims to produce electricity, natural gas and transportation fuels from Indiana coal and biomass instead of buying coal, natural gas, and other petroleum fuels from elsewhere.”