Tuesday, February 8, 2005, Volume 22, Number 9
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Linda Belote,
professor of anthropology presented an invited paper entitled Que Hacen
2000 Saraguros en EE.UU. y Espana? at the International Conference on
Migracion, Transnacionalismo e identidades: La Experiencia Ecuatoriana,
sponsored by FLACSO (La Facultad Latino Americano de Ciencias Sociales)
in Quito Ecuador on Jan 18, 2005. She also attended the installation of
Dr. Luis Macas as president of CONAIE, the Confederation of Indigenous
Nations and Peoples of Ecuador, on January 14. Professors Eve Browning, Department of Philosophy
and Ron Marchese, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, recently
returned from their J-term direction of the third Classical Study Tour
of Greece. Twenty-ive students visited a number of archaeological and
historical sites from ancient Delphi and Olympia to the Monastery of St.
Paul and the monastic community of Mystras near Sparta. The tour also
included a nature hike in the largest natural oak forest in Europe, exploration
of natural habitat areas for migrating birds, and exploration of the mountains
and valleys of Arcadia. The course was coordinated through Carol Threine,
International Education. Next year’s package is now available. Julie R Etterson, assistant professor, Department of Biology, published “Evolutionary potential of Chamaecrista fasciculata in relation to climate change: I. Clinal patterns of selection along an environmental gradient in the Great Plains.” in Evolution, vol. 58, pp. 1446-1458. 2004. She published “Evolutionary potential of Chamaecrista fasciculata in relation to climate change: II. Genetic architecture of three populations reciprocally planted along an environmental gradient in the Great Plains.’ in Evolution, vol. 58, pp. 1459-1471. 2004. She also published “Population differentiation and hybrid success in Campanula americana: geography and genome size,” with L.F. Galloway in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 18, pp. 81-90. 2004. Dalibor Froncek, associate professor, Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, has been appointed a member of the Programme
Committee of MISTA 2005, the Second Multidisciplinary International Conference
on Scheduling: Theory and Applications to be held in New York in August
2005. Ron Marchese, professor, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, provided a recent chapter on ethnoarchaeology to be
published as a second volume in Ethnography and Archaeology. Norbert Norman, environmental health &
safety specialist, gave a presentation entitled “Public Access Defibrillation
Program for a Medium Sized University” at the “Symposium 2005,
Best Practices in Risk Reduction for Colleges and Universities” at
the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He will give the
same presentation at the “2005 Campus Fire, EMS, and Security/Law
Enforcement — Professional Development Conference” in April
at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Alexis Pogorelskin has been awarded a Faculty
Summer Research Fellowship and a matching McKnight Summer Fellowship in
order to conduct research on the topic The Mortal Storm: FDR and Hollywood
on the Eve of War. Rajiv Vaidyanathan, associate professor, Department of Marketing, was appointed executive director of the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) effective January 1, 2005. The Association for Consumer Research, founded in 1969, has a mission of advancing consumer research and facilitating the exchange of scholarly information among members of academia, industry, and government worldwide. With over 1700 active members, it is the largest and most prestigious organization of consumer researchers in the world. ACR sponsors a North American conference, global conferences each year in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, and other conferences on consumer policy, consumer satisfaction and demographic issues in marketing. The group publishes Advances in Consumer Research: Proceedings of the North American Conference.
See next issue.
See next issue. J.A. Endrizzi, H. Kim, Paul M. Anderson,
professor Emeritus, and E.P. Baldwin published a manuscript
entitled “Crystal Structure of Escherichia coli Cytidine Triphosphate
Synthetase: a Nucleotide-Regulated Glutamine Amidotransferase/ATP-Dependent
Fusion and Target for Anti-Cancer and Anti-Parasitic Drugs” in the
journal Biochemistry 43, 6447-6463 (2004).
Kendall B. Wallace, professor, recently chaired two congressional briefings on Capital Hill in Washington DC. The topic for both briefings was public health safety concerns resulting from current regulatory policy governing the consumption of dietary supplements. The Senate briefing occurred January 31 and was sponsored by Senator Richard Durbin (D. Illinois). On February 1, the briefing was conducted in the U.S. House of Representatives, sponsored by Representatives Henry Waxman (D. California) and Susan Davis (D. California). COLLEGE
OF PHARMACY, DULUTH
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