ASC Announces Recipients of the 2006-07 Harlan Hatcher Awards

Posted on: 01/08/2007

Jacqueline Jones Royster, Executive Dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006-07 Harlan Hatcher Memorial Awards for Excellence: Donald J. Cegala, John R. Giffin, Berl R. Oakley, N. Geoffrey Parker, and Elizabeth A. Stasny.

The Harlan Hatcher Memorial Fund for Academic Excellence was established July 12, 2002, with gifts from Mrs. Anne Hatcher and her family from Ann Arbor, Michigan, in honor and memory of Dr. Harlan Hatcher, an alumnus and former Dean of Arts and Sciences of The Ohio State University and then President of the University of Michigan from 1951 until his retirement in 1967.

The Harlan Hatcher Memorial Awards for Excellence are presented in recognition of distinguished, sustained, and balanced achievements in the areas of teaching, research, and service.The purpose of the awards is to honor those individuals in the Arts and Sciences who, over a period of years, have developed a noteworthy profile, with exceptional strength in research and teaching, and who serve as role models for younger colleagues and students.

Winners of the 2006 Harlan Hatcher Memorial Awards for Excellence

Professor Donald J. Cegala

School of Communication

Donald J. Cegala (Ph.D. Florida State University, M. A. Purdue University, B. A. University of Wisconsin) is a professor in the School of Communication and the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University.He has been on the Ohio State faculty for over 30 years.Dr. Cegala is the former Chair of the Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association and is a member of the OSU Institute for Primary Care Research and the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center.He has served as a consultant and grant reviewer for the National Cancer Institute, and has received federal funding for his own research.He has published over 45 book chapters and articles in academic journals, and is known internationally for his research on physician-patient communication, particularly with respect to patient communication skills interventions.

Professor John Giffin

Department of Dance

John Giffin has received choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council for his creative work, which includes five full-evening pieces, a commission from Rhythm in Shoes and a co-production with the Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus. He has danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal, Agnes DeMille's Heritage Dance Theatre, and Brigadoon in NYC and toured internationally with the Wuppertal Dance Theater directed by Pina Bausch. His movement commentary to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire was shown on WOSU-TV, and with Victoria Uris he co-directedIgor & Svetlana which was premiered at the Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. He received a B.F.A. in dance from the Juilliard School of Music and an M.A. in dance from The Ohio State University where he is a professor in the Department of Dance. He teaches composition, techniques of ballet and social dance, and Labanotation. He has directed works of Antony Tudor, Agnes DeMille, Charles Weidman, and Anna Sokolow from Labanotation scores.

Professor Geoffrey Parker

Department of History

Geoffrey Parker was born in Nottingham, England, and holds B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University.He is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University and an associate of the Mershon Center. His biography, Philip II (1978), is now in its fourth edition (Chicago, 2002) with translations into Spanish (multiple editions since 1984), Czech, Dutch, Italian, and Polish; and The Grand Strategy of Philip II (Yale University Press, 1998; paperback edition 2000) won the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society of Military History. His other books include The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: The logistics of Spanish victory and defeat in the Low Countries Wars, 1567-1659 (Cambridge, 1972; revised edition 2004); The Dutch Revolt (revised edition, New York, 1984); The Spanish Armada (with Colin Martin, revised and expanded edition, Manchester, 1999);and two collections of essays, Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659. Ten studies (revised edition, London, 1990), and Success is never final: empire, war and faith in early modern Europe (New York: Basic Books, 2002). All have been translated into Spanish. In total, he has written, edited, or co-edited 33 books and published over 100 articles and book chapters.He has also presented more than 200 lectures at universities and conferences in America (North and South), Europe, and Japan. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1984, and in 1992, the King of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in recognition of his work on Spanish history. He has held both a John Simon Guggenheim and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2006, he won an Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching at The Ohio State University.

Professor Berl Oakley

Department of Molecular Genetics

Berl Oakley grew up in rural North Carolina and won an Angier B. Duke Scholarship to attend Duke University where he received a B. S. degree in botany.He was the winner of a Marshall Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom, where he received a Ph. D. in cell biology from the University of London for work on mitosis in microalgae with Professor J. D. Dodge.After a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. I. B. Heath at York University in Toronto working on the structure of mitotic apparatuses in algae, he moved to Rutgers Medical School (now Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) where he participated in the development of genetic studies of mitosis under the mentorship of Prof. N. R. Morris.Dr. Oakley joined the Department of Microbiology of The Ohio State University in 1982 and was a founding member of the Department of Molecular Genetics when it was formed in 1987.He has served as a member of the Faculty Council, University Senate, Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, and as Interim Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics.Nationally, his service includes memberships of U. S. Department of Agriculture and National Institutes of Health grant review panels.His work at OSU has focused on genetic and molecular genetic studies of mitosis and the cytoskeleton using the fungus Aspergillus nidulans as a model organism.His lab is best known for the discovery of gamma-tubulin and the demonstration that this protein is key to the assembly of the mitotic apparatus.A paper from his lab characterizing gamma-tubulin was chosen as a landmark paper in cell biology, one of the most significant papers of the first forty years of the American Society for Cell Biology.Dr. Oakley was named an Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar in 2003 and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005.His lab is currently working on mechanisms of fungal growth and the role of gamma-tubulin in mitotic regulation.

Professor Elizabeth A. Stasny

Department of Statistics

Elizabeth Stasny’s work is motivated by applications in the social sciences; in particular, missing data in large-scale sample surveys. She is a professor in the Department of Statistics and also serves as the associate faculty director of the Ohio State Center for Survey Research. She holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University.