2002 Recipients

• John A. Cardea, MD
  Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University
  
  John A. Cardea's roots are in the WVU College of Arts and Sciences where he earned a pre-med degree in 1962. He then earned his medical at the WVU School of Medicine in 1966. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery in the School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, and he is now professor of orthopedic surgery there. He specializes in total joint replacement and reconstructive surgery.
  A native of Welsh, W.Va., Dr. Cardea is a national leader in orthopedics. He has published 26 journal articles and is a sought-after speaker who has given lectures worldwide. His current research interests involve clinical research in various techniques for joint replacement and in the development of new materials and products useful in orthopedic surgery.
  He serves as the chairman of the Board of MCV Physicians and has been selected to serve on the board of the VCU Health System by the Governor of Virginia.



• Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D.
  Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
  
  Laura L. Carstensen earned her B.A. in psychology in 1978 from the University of Rochester. She then came to WVU to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in life-span development psychology in 1980 and 1983 respectively. While at WVU, she began research on the topic of social isolation among older adults, a topic that she has continued to explore throughout her career. She is known internationally for her work addressing the social and emotional functioning of older adults across cultures.
  Dr. Carstensen began her career as an assistant professor at Indiana University and later took a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to joining the faculty at Stanford University. She directs the Life-Span Development Lab at Stanford, and she served as the Barbara D. Fineberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender from 1997 to 2001.
  During the past 18 years, Dr. Carstensen has received grant support totaling $3.7 million. As a beginning assistant professor, she received the National Institutes of Health New Investigator Research Award.



• Harlan R. Janes
  Retired Vice President, ACNielsen
  
  Harlan R. Janes received his Regents B.A. degree from WVU in 2001 after a lifetime of significant professional accomplishments. A graduate of Shinnston High School, Mr. Janes first attended WVU in 1959. By 1963, he had completed 103 credit hours in a variety of majors and decided to leave the university to accept a position with the ACNielsen Company. Janes stayed with the company until his retirement in 1999 as vice president of global marketing, in the retail measurement services division.
  By the early 1970s, Mr. Janes had invented and commercialized the measurement of "sales per million ACV" market research measure and helped foster the transition from manual to scanner data collection. Both methods soon became industry standards as ACNielsen was acknowledged as the top market measurement company in the world. From 1974, to 1999, Mr. Janes assumed nine different executive positions within the company.
  For the remainder of his professional career he "re-engineered the way clients received technical support." He aided the firm with overseas expansion in more than 25 countries and was heavily involved in training business leaders on a worldwide scale to asses customer satisfaction.
  His last major responsibility with ACNielsen was devoted to identifying best practices for global account management and ensuring that the firm would be able to meet the future needs of global marketers. The company now serves more than 9,000 clients in 100 countries.



• Thomas A. Lyson, Ph.D.
  Professor of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
  
  Thomas A. Lyson graduate from the WVU College of Arts and Sciences with B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology in 1970 and 1972 respectively. He then earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Michigan State University in 1976.
  Dr. Lyson's career has mainly focused on the discipline of rural sociology. He currently holds the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professorship in the Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University, where he teaches a variety of introductory freshman-level courses through advanced graduate seminars. For the past nine years, he has been director of the Farming Alternatives Program at Cornell, which promotes "civic agriculture."
  Dr. Lyson recently completed a three-year term as editor of Rural Sociology, a top journal in the field, and he is current associate editor of the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. He is the author of six books and more than 85 journal articles and edited book chapters. Currently he is overseeing $500,000 in grant-funded research projects supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.



• David D. Meisel, Ph.D.
  Distinguished Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Geneseo
  
  David D. Meisel graduated from the college's Department of Physics with a B.S. in 1961; he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in astronomy from Ohio State University. Meisel was a research associate at Leander McCormak Observatory at the University of Virginia prior to joining the Geneseo faculty as an assistant professor in 1970.
  He has been a prominent astronomer for nearly three decades, beginning with his investigation of the Comet Kohoutek. Meisel's recent work has focused on meteor, upper atmospheric, and space science research, including collaborative endeavors with researchers from Penn State, Rochester Institute of Technology, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and the Swedish Institute for Space Physics. As a lead astronomer on a project that has provided the first evidence that micro-meteors originating outside the solar system are affecting the Earth's atmosphere, Meisel made the discovery that our solar system is not as isolated as has been previously believed.
  Active as a researcher, writer, and speaker, his papers have appeared in a variety of national and international journals, including Icarus, Science, Nature, Solar Physics, and The Astrophysical Journal. Meisel is a fellow of the British and Canadian Royal Astronomical Societies, a member of the International Informatics Academics in Kazan and Moscow, a national lecturer through the Harlow Shapely Visiting Lectureship Program, and the executive director of the American Meteor Society. His contributions in this field have extended the development of instrumentation, analytical methods, and spectroscopic techniques that influence the way astronomers conduct research today.



• Mark Royden Winchell, Ph.D.
  Professor of English, Clemson University
  
  Mark Royden Winchell has demonstrated the goals of a broad-based liberal education. He has had a career filled with outstanding accomplishments in teaching, service, and research in a variety of areas within the discipline of English. His major areas of scholarship and teaching are in American literature, Southern literature, and 20th century literary criticism.
  Besides serving as a professor of English at Clemson University, Winchell has published 10 books and is working on two more. In the past 20 years, he has had more than 100 poems, essays, and book reviews published, written nine book chapters, and penned 14 inserts for reference books. He also has given nearly 50 presentation worldwide.
  Dr. Winchell graduated with a B.A. in 1971 and a M.A. in 1973, both in English, from the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University in 1978.