FYI

Richard Insel, has been appointed director of the Center for Human Genetics and Molecular Pediatric Disease, part of the Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences. He will lead a team of 12 scientists who will study a variety of diseases that are caused by damaged genes, with a special focus on diseases that affect children--such as birth defects, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes.

Insel, a pediatric immunologist, has served as director of the Strong Children's Research Center since 1993; he joined the University in 1977. He also was one of three Rochester researchers who, in the early 1980s, developed the vaccine that has virtually wiped out Haemophilus influenza type b, the disease that is a leading cause of meningitis in preschoolers.

Jeffrey Tucker, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a summer research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a fellowship from the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) at the University of Michigan. The NEH grant will support Tucker's continued research for his book on African-American writer Samuel R. Delany, a well-known science-fiction novelist whose works address social and racial issues. He will use the DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his research while he spends the 2000-2001 academic year at Michigan.

Ralph Manchester, director of University Health Service and associate professor of medicine, has been named vice president of the American College Health Association (ACHA) for a one-year term.

A study showing a dramatic increase in the number of children with behavioral and emotional problems--and contending that psychosocial problems are becoming the centerpiece of pediatric primary care for school-age children--was published in the June issue of Pediatrics. The study's co-author is Thomas McInerny, associate chair for clinical affairs at the Children's Hospital at Strong.

Stacey Kole, associate dean for M.B.A. programs and associate professor of economics and management at the Simon School, has been honored in the 1999 Journal of Financial Economics best-paper contest. Kole was awarded second place in the Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations for her paper titled "Deregulation and the Adaptation of Governance Structure: The Case of the U.S. Airline Industry," co-authored by Kenneth Lehn of the University of Pittsburgh.

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