Names & Faces

Patricia A. Ganz, professor of health services at the School of Public Health; professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine; and director of cancer prevention and control research at the Jonsson Cancer Center, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. This month, she will also receive the American Cancer Society's Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding contributions to the field of cancer.

Judy D. Olian, dean of the Anderson School of Management, is the 2007-2008 chair of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International. The association has been the premier accrediting body for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting since 1916. She has been an AACSB board member since 2001.

Kris Gutierrez, professor of education at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been appointed to a three-year term on the U.S. Department of Education's Reading First advisory committee. The Reading First program focuses on putting proven methods of early reading instruction into classrooms and assists states and school districts in establishing scientifically based reading programs for K-3 students.

The American Political Science Association presented Mark Q. Sawyer, associate professor of political science, with its 2007 Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science published in 2006 that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. His book, "Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba" (Cambridge University Press, 2006) was one of two books recognized jointly with this award.