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Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

Kathy Redcher-Bowling, Education, weight-lifting coach and student won the grand prize in the Def Leppard sweepstakes. Prizes included a trip to Las Vegas and a guitar autographed by the band.

Scholarship

Monica Freeman, Global Education, participated in a Fulbright International Education Administrators Program in June. She was one of four international education professionals chosen in the United States to travel to Korea to study the Korean educational system and to share information on the U.S. educational system.

Katherine D. McReynolds, Chemistry, will have her paper published in the journal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education entitled "Glycobiology: How to Sugar-Coat an Undergraduate Advanced Biochemistry Lab."

Roy Dixon, Chemistry, and William DeGraffenreid, Physics and Astronomy, gave a presentation, "Effects and use of spray electrification in aerosol charge detection for HPLC," at the 30th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques in June in San Francisco.

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, published a collection of poetry in English and Italian titled "Don't Waste My Beauty/Non guastare la mia bellezza," inspired by the Venetian master, Titian, whose painting is reproduced on the cover. The Italian was rendered by Barbara Carle. This book won the National Frascati Award, Foreign Section, in 2000. It is published by Caramanica in Italy.

Jamie Kneitel, Biological Sciences, co-authored two research articles recently published in Okios titled “Disturbance alters the effects of habitat isolation on biodiversity in aquatic microcosms” and “Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source-sink metacommunities.”

In the News

Chris Taylor, Physics and Astronomy, was interviewed on Pluto’s planet status on radio station KFBK on Aug. 24 and he appeared live on KCRA Channel 3’s evening news and News10’s morning show.