Nursing Prof Appointed
Kathleen Mooney, professor in the U’s College of Nursing, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Board.
The Institute of Medicine is part of the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Cancer Policy Board addresses issues that arise in prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
According to Mooney, the board considers issues that may be barriers to ensuring that patients receive quality cancer care or that may hinder research advances.
“Studies produced by the cancer board become policy pieces that are published and distributed to governmental groups and other organizations concerned with cancer research and cancer-care delivery,” she said.
Capecchi Wins Top Award
On May 9, President George Bush named Mario Capecchi, distinguished U professor of human genetics and biology, as a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Fourteen scientists and one engineer were named by Bush to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research. The honorees will receive the medals at a White House ceremony in the near future.
The recognition honors Capecchi’s work using gene targeting methods in mice to study and change genes in a living organism.
U Physicist, Chemist Win Honors
U physicist Pierre Sokolsky won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, while Dean of Science Peter Stang gained recognition as the ninth most-often-cited chemist worldwide out of 11,343 in his field of research.
Sokolsky, an astrophysicist specializing in the study of mysterious ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays that bombard Earth’s atmosphere, was among 184 scientists, artists and scholars selected in June as winners of the 2002 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellows are appointed on the basis of past achievement and a promising future.