Five faculty members have been appointed distinguished professors at Wayne State University. The new appointments bring the number of distinguished professors at the university to 14.

Receiving the appointments are professors Timothy Bates of Grosse Pointe Park, James Hartway of Southfield, Jeanne Lusher of Rochester Hills, William Hase of Grosse Pointe and George Ziegelmueller of Royal Oak.

Faculty named to the rank of distinguished professor were nominated by their college deans. Their credentials were reviewed by the vice president for academic affairs and President David Adamany and upon the president's recommendation they were formally appointed by the WSU Board of Governors.

Once named a distinguished professor faculty receive an annual allocation to support their work. For fiscal year 1998 they will receive $4,100 per person.

Tim Bates

Tim Bates, an authority on minority business development and entrepreneurship in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, joined the Wayne State faculty in 1994 with a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of labor and urban affairs.

He earned doctoral and master's degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor's degree in economic history from the University of Illinois. He chaired the economics department at the University of Vermont and served as chairman of the urban policy analysis graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Bates has written several landmark books on minority business, including Race, Upward Mobility and Self-Employment; Banking on Black Enterprise (now in its fifth printing); and Black Capitalism.

Often sought out by national media for expert comment, he has been published in numerous journals and is a consultant to many government agencies. He has received research grants from such agencies and organizations as the U.S. Small Business Administration, the city of Chicago, the state of New York, the Joint Center for Political Studies and the Ford Foundation.

James Hartway

Music Professor James Hartway directs the division of composition and theory and is nationally known for his 45 major commissions.

His "Cityscapes" concerto for jazz quartet and orchestra, commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In addition, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit commissioned his "Fanfare and Hymn" to mark the papal visit of John Paul II and was premiered by a 1,200-voicechoir and orchestra during a national telecast of the Pope's visit to the Silverdome.

Hartway's compositions have been performed throughout the world and he has received the American Society of Composers and Publishers Standard Panel Award annually since 1977. He holds awards and grants from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Arts.

As an educator he has received the Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievements, the WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award and a WSU Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. In 1992 he was elected to lifetime membership in the WSU Academy of Scholars, of which he currently is president.

Hartway received bachelor's and master's degrees from WSU and a doctorate in music from Michigan State University. He joined Wayne's faculty in 1971 as an instructor and was awarded tenure in 1976. He was promoted to full professor in 1985.

William Hase

Chemistry Professor William Hase is a leader in the field of computational chemistry. He has co-authored two books, published approximately 150 original research papers, contributed to many national and international conferences and has received numerous national and international awards.

Among those are an Outstanding Performance Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and recognition as one of 100 outstanding graduates of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State University. He holds a fellowship in the American Physical Society and has been elected to lifetime membership in the WSU Academy of Scholars. In addition to the NSF, his research has been supported by Ford Motor Co. and the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Hase came to Wayne State in 1973 as an assistant professor. He was awarded tenure in 1978, when he also was promoted to associate professor. He was named a full professor in 1981.

Hase earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1967 and a doctoral degree from New Mexico State in1970.

Jeanne Lusher

Pediatrics Professor Jeanne Lusher has served as director of the hematology/oncology division at Children's Hospital of Michigan since 1984.

She also chairs the medical and scientific advisory council of the National Hemophilia Foundation, where she was medical director from 1987 to 1994.Lusher's innovative research has resulted in a significant number of publications and has been well-funded by entities such as the Initial Institute of Health and the Hemophilia Foundation of Michigan.

A member of some 11 professional organizations, she was a WSU Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellow in 1987 and received the Lawrence M. Weiner Award in 1990. Additionally, she has held the Marion I. Barnhart Professorship in thrombosis-hemostasis research at WSU since 1989.

Lusher earned a bachelor of science degree with high honors from the University of Cincinnati, graduating first in her class in 1956. She also holds a medical degree (1960) from Cincinnati.

George Ziegelmueller

Communication Professor George Ziegelmueller consistently directs a nationally recognized WSU program in debate in forensics - last year two teams he coached qualified for the National Debate Tournament and his squad was ranked seventh in the nation. He received a $66,000 award from The Open Society Institute in support of the Detroit Public School Debate League and his text on debate and rhetoric has been one of the leading works in this field for many years.

Ziegelmueller joined WSU in 1957 as an instructor, receiving tenure in 1964 as an associate professor and being promoted to full professor in 1968. An undergraduate at DePauw University, Ziegelmueller received his master's from Southern Illinois University and his doctorate from Northwestern University.

The recipient of numerous national awards, Ziegelmueller received the WSU College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Service Award in 1996 and also holds an Alumni Faculty Service Award and a President's Award for Excellence in Teaching from WSU.