Notables
Marijke Breuning, associate professor of political science, will have her review of The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, edited by Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kanesteine, and Claudio Fogu, published in the December issue of Political Psychology.
Taner Edis, associate professor of physics, presented talks on “Science and Religion in Islam” at Ryerson University, Wilfred Laurier University, and the University of Toronto at Mississauga (all in Ontario, Canada), Sept. 27 and 28.
Jerrold Hirsch, professor of history, just had published, “Before Columbia: The FWP and American Oral History Research,” in Oral History Review 34 (2007): 1-16.
Marc Rice, associate professor of music, has had his paper “Selective Memories: When Music Informants Create their Own Historical Realities” accepted for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, to take place in January 2008.
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) announces Amy Schroeder, a senior biology major from Ballwin, Mo., is one of the recipients of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2007. Fifteen students mentored by members of ASPB were selected to receive the fellowship. The $3,000 fellowship permits each student to devote full-time effort to his or her research project for a 10-week period during the summer. The award also includes $500 to the mentor for lab supplies, a free student membership in ASPB until August 2008, and travel grant assistance to attend the 2008 ASPB Plant Biology meeting. There were 24 Category A (research and doctoral universities) applicants and 10 Category B (master’s universities, baccalaureate colleges, and associate of art colleges) applicants for a total of 34 highly competitive projects. Schroeder received one of the Category A awards for the project titled “Roles of Conserved Serine and Tyrosine Residues in the Active Site of Tyrosine Ammonia-Lyase.” Joseph Jez of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis will serve as Schroeder’s research mentor.
Taner Edis, associate professor of physics, presented talks on “Science and Religion in Islam” at Ryerson University, Wilfred Laurier University, and the University of Toronto at Mississauga (all in Ontario, Canada), Sept. 27 and 28.
Jerrold Hirsch, professor of history, just had published, “Before Columbia: The FWP and American Oral History Research,” in Oral History Review 34 (2007): 1-16.
Marc Rice, associate professor of music, has had his paper “Selective Memories: When Music Informants Create their Own Historical Realities” accepted for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, to take place in January 2008.
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) announces Amy Schroeder, a senior biology major from Ballwin, Mo., is one of the recipients of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2007. Fifteen students mentored by members of ASPB were selected to receive the fellowship. The $3,000 fellowship permits each student to devote full-time effort to his or her research project for a 10-week period during the summer. The award also includes $500 to the mentor for lab supplies, a free student membership in ASPB until August 2008, and travel grant assistance to attend the 2008 ASPB Plant Biology meeting. There were 24 Category A (research and doctoral universities) applicants and 10 Category B (master’s universities, baccalaureate colleges, and associate of art colleges) applicants for a total of 34 highly competitive projects. Schroeder received one of the Category A awards for the project titled “Roles of Conserved Serine and Tyrosine Residues in the Active Site of Tyrosine Ammonia-Lyase.” Joseph Jez of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis will serve as Schroeder’s research mentor.
