NIDRR Grantees and Staff Receive Recognition

The NCDDR congratulates each of the following NIDRR grantees and staff members. All grantees are encouraged to contact the NCDDR with information to share in future issues of The Research Exchange.

Staff members of the RRTC on Secondary Complications of Spinal Cord Injury of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Spain' Rehabilitation Center received awards and recognition this past year. Dr. Amie Jackson is Principal Investigator of the RRTC. For additional information on these items, please contact Barbara Key at (205) 934-3283 or by e-mail: key@sun.rehabm.uab.edu

• Ken B. Waites, MD, microbiologist, was installed as Secretary-General and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM). The IOM is composed of more than 500 microbiologists representing 48 nations, and was founded in 1974 to promote cooperative study of the smallest free-living organisms, dissemination of information useful to the study of mycoplasmal disease, and support of mycoplasmal research. Dr. Waites started his two-year term in July, 1998.
• Michael J. DeVivo, DrPH, received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers at their annual meeting in Las Vegas on September 9, 1998.

The RRTC on Supported Employment (1993-1998, completed and replaced by the RRTC on Workplace Supports), Virginia Commonwealth University, was named to the 1998-99 CASE National Media Fellowship program of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The Fellowship was awarded for the proposal "Supported Employment: A Model for Moving Individuals with Disabilities into the Workforce ". The fellowship, conferred in 1998, is one of 27 awarded for the coming academic year in a variety of disciplines. VCU's fellowship will allow interested reporters to come onto campus to learn more about supported employment. Dr. Paul H. Wehman is Principal Investigator of the RRTC. For additional information, please contact Teri Blankenship at 804-828-1851.

Dr. Sylvia Walker, Principal Investigator of the Howard University RTC for Access to Rehabilitation and Economic Opportunity (HURTC), received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Queens College, City University of New York, on July 23, 1998 for her contributions to the field of disability research. For additional information, please contact Dr. Walker at (202) 806-8086 or by e-mail: swalker@law.howard.edu

Steven J. Taylor, PhD, Principal Investigator of the National Resource Center on Supported Living and Choice (Syracuse University, Center on Human Policy), received a 1998-1999 visiting Professorship at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Taylor taught a summer course on Disability Policy and U.S. Trends, based on NIDRR-funded projects. A monograph based on the course is scheduled for publication (in Japanese). For additional information, please contact Dr. Taylor at (315) 443-3851 or by e-mail: stay1o01@mailbox.syr.edu

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