VOL. 23, NO. 14	FEBRUARY 6, 1998

David Liss

• David Liss, former director of government affairs for Bell Atlantic Corp., has been appointed executive director of technology transfer at Columbia’s Center for Advanced Technology. In that role, which he assumes Feb. 23, Liss will help bring the benefits of Columbia’s research to the companies and people of New York State. “Columbia’s advances in medical informatics and computing will strengthen New York’s economy and create jobs,” Liss said. In his post at Bell Atlantic, which he held for nine years, he played a key part in bringing federal dollars to New York for telemedicine and advanced telecommunications technologies and in preserving the U.S. Army’s Rome Labs from federal cutbacks.

• Jane Waldfogel, assistant professor of social work, discussed the President’s child care initiative, which was a focus of the recent State of the Union address, on National Public Radio. She also taped an interview about welfare reform for WABC-TV’s “Heart of the Matter,” scheduled to air on Feb. 8. Waldfogel is also assistant professor of public affairs at SIPA.

• John P. Allegrante, professor of health education at Teachers College and associate professor of clinical health (sociomedical sciences) at the School of Public Health, took office recently as president of the Society for Public Health Education at the society’s annual meeting in Indianapolis. He is a behavioral scientist and internationally recognized specialist in health education.

• Chien-Shiung Wu, the late Columbia physicist who disproved conservation of parity in a famous 1956 experiment, has been named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Wu, who died last February at the age of 84, will be honored along with 20 other noted women in a July ceremony at the hall in Seneca Falls, N.Y., that also marks the 150th anniversary of the first women’s rights convention in that town. The new inductees will join 136 women previously selected for their contributions to the progress and freedom of women.

• Patricia de Groot, program coordinator at the Institute on Western Europe in the School of International and Public Affairs, will participate in the Fullbright International Education Seminar for Administrators in Germany in April. She will be among 25 people who will travel in Germany and then meet in Bonn with their German counterparts who are participating in a similar seminar on U.S. higher education in May.