Notables

Week of Aug. 30, 2010

Of note

Bruce Backus, assistant vice chancellor for environmental health and safety, was named president-elect of the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) at the CSHEMA conference in Baltimore in July. CSHEMA is dedicated to continual improvement of environmental health and safety at colleges and universities and provides information-sharing opportunities, continuing education and professional fellowship to people with these responsibilities in the education and research communities. …

Eugene H. Rubin, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry, and Charles F. Zorumski, MD, the Samuel B. Guze Professor and head of Psychiatry, received a first-place award from the American Medical Writers Association for their book Demystifying Psychiatry. …

William F. Tate IV, PhD, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Education, received a Presidential Citation for his “expansive vision of conceptual and methodological tools that can be recruited to address inequities in opportunity to learn” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in May. …

Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has received a one-year, $1,198,524 grant from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources for research titled “Integrated Two-Photon/Confocal/Photoacoustic Microscopy.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …

Carol Camp Yeakey, PhD, professor of education in Arts & Sciences and director of the Center on Urban Research and Public Policy, received a Distinguished Career Contribution award from the American Educational Research Association at its annual meeting in May.

Speaking of

Henry D. Royal, MD, professor of radiology, delivered the Robert Lull Memorial Lectureship June 7 at SNM’s 57th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.


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