Appointments Gov. Jennifer Granholm has appointed School of Social Work Professor Michael Reisch to the Governor’s Task Force on Children’s Justice. The task force reviews and evaluates state investigative, administrative and judicial handling of cases of child abuse, specifically child sexual abuse. Task force members include law enforcement representatives, health and mental health professionals, child advocates, those involved in child protective services, people who work with children with special needs, parents and court-appointed special advocates. The Social Science Research Council named Michael Traugott—professor of communication studies and research professor at the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research—to the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting. The commission is a nonpartisan independent initiative intended to bring scholarly research, knowledge and perspective to bear in assessing the conduct of the Nov. 2 election. Awards James H. Vincent, professor of environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry—the largest European-based organization for the advancement of chemical sciences. Vincent is an authority on aerosol science, exposure assessment, and environmental and occupational health. The Michigan chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) recently awarded Taubman College of Architecture Urban Planning graduate student instructor Michelle Laboy the 2004 Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship. Each year the seminar awards three scholarships honoring females in transportation fields, one of which honors a graduate student. Laboy accepted the award at the WTS’s scholarship fund-raiser and awards banquet Nov. 5 in Lansing. The Record welcomes submissions for Accolades, including photographs (must be at least 200 dpi). Publication is at the discretion of the editor.
