NIDRR Grantee and Staff Recognition

The NCDDR continues to share the recognition given to NIDRR-funded researchers and their staff. The items presented in The Research Exchange demonstrate the wide variety and prestige of special awards made to staff members of NIDRR-funded projects across the country.

All grantees are encouraged to send this information to the NCDDR for future issues. Send email to ncddr@sedl.org, call 1-800-266-1832, or use the online form available on the NCDDR Web site: http://www.ncddr.org/forms/submitrecog.html

The National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns (NAMRC), a division of the National Rehabilitation Association (NRA), awarded Priscilla Sanderson, Director of the American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (AIRRTC) at Northern Arizona University, a T.K. Bridges Practitioner Award for exceptional commitment and service to multicultural populations. The award was presented to Ms. Sanderson by NRA President, Dr. L. Robert McConnell, during the annual NAMRC conference in New Orleans in July 2003.

AIRRTC was also honored with a 2003 APEX Award for Publication Excellence for its 32-page four-color conference program, prepared for the April 25-26, 2002 "Wisdom of the Storyteller" national research capacity building and state-of-the science conference it hosted in Washington, DC.

Communications Concepts, Inc. gives APEX awards to professional communicators based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. The "Wisdom of the Storyteller" conference program received the award under the category of Conference and Meeting Materials.

The conference program was created and designed by the AIRRTC conference planning committee: Priscilla Sanderson, Dr. Lee Gaseoma, Julie Clay, John Sargent, Winona Reid, Jackie Bisbee, Reva Shircel, Rebecca Holland, Dr. Bobbie Atkins, Dr. Madan Kundu, Dr. Sylvia Walker, Elmer Guy, Tom Davis, Mari Guillermo, David Miles, Treva Roanhorse, Connie Berg, and John Cheek.

The cover featured a commissioned painting by Joe Maktima of a grandmother storyteller with eleven children huddled around her as she tells stories (see picture above). In the words of artist Maktima, "With the storyteller concept in mind and the understanding of the mission of AIRRTC, I opted to portray the storyteller image surrounded by youths from some of the many different Native tribes of the United States, some in their Native dress, others in more modern attire. Understanding the work and goals of AIRRTC, and conference objectives for which this artwork was specifically created, I've portrayed some of the children with physical disabilities."
For more information, contact AIRRTC Director Priscilla Sanderson at:
Priscilla.Sanderson@NAU.EDU or John Sargent: John.Sargent@NAU.EDU

Glen White, the PrincipaI Investigator of the RRTC on Full Participation in Independent Living and Co-Director of the RIIL Project, was asked to be one of three speakers for the closing session of this year's American Public Health Association (APHA) conference to be held in November. Some 13-15,000 public health professionals across various disciplines are expected to attend the 131st Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Dr. White has been active in the APHA's Disability Forum and is the current Chair. He will discuss disability and public health, with the opportunity to highlight issues of consumer control and participatory research. White will share the dais with Dr. Julie Gerberding (Director of the Centers for Disease Control) and another speaker who will address the genome and future directions. For more information, contact Glen White at glen@ku.edu

Michael Stein, J.D., Ph.D., Merit Switzer Fellow in 2001-2002, will be a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School during the academic year 2004. Dr. Stein will be working on both domestic and international disability rights issues. In addition, twelve publications have emerged from his term as a Switzer Fellow. The two most recent publications include "The Law and Economics of Disability Accommodations," to appear in the Duke Law Journal, and "Labor Markets, Rationality, and Workers with Disabilities" which will be a chapter in John Donohue's book, Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law. For more information, contact Dr. Stein, Associate Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School: mastei@wm.edu

Dr. Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D., was awarded an endowed professorship at the University of Iowa College of Law, the Charles M. and Marion Kierscht Professorship. Charles M. Kierscht is a 1962 law graduate who has led the college's Iowa Law School Endowment Campaign for the 21st Century since 1997. A gift from Kierscht and his wife Marion created this new professorship.

Blanck is director of the Law, Health Policy & Disability Center that has several NIDRR grants. He is Principal Investigator for IT Works as well as Technology for Independence: A Community Based Resource Center. He also serves as one of five Co-Principal Investigators for the RRTC on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. The University of Iowa News Service's original Press Release is available online: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/june/0618blanckgittler.html

For more information, please contact James L. Schmeling, Associate Director of the Law, Health Policy & Disability Center: James-Schmeling@uiowa.edu

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