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College of Science Student
Awards for 2009
Spring 2009 Dean's List: The College of Science has announced the
dean's list for Spring 2009. Congratulations to the students who
made the list. The dean's lists for
Fall 2008, Spring 2008,
Fall 2007, Spring 2007,
Fall 2006,
Spring 2006,
Fall 2005,
Spring 2005,
Fall 2004, Spring 2004,
Fall
2003, Spring
2003, and Fall
2002 are also available.
Students
Liam
Dorney,
Matt Racine and
Roxana Hickey were featured on the
University of Idaho home page.
Read about
former
ASUI
President Jon Gaffney, who graduated in May 2008 with
degrees in mathematics and history.
Bryan Wilson, who graduated with a math
degree in May 2009,
won a national Goldwater Scholarship.
More
information.
The University of Idaho placed 55th out of more
than 500 schools participating in the 2008 Putnam Competition,
which is the premier annual undergraduate competition in
mathematics.
FACULTY
AND STAFF NEWS
College of Science Faculty
and Staff Awards for 2009
Hejun Kang, assistant professor of geography,
won the 2009 Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Transportation Geography
from the Association of American Geographers. The title of her
dissertation is "Moving Beyond the Individual: Activity-Based
Modeling of Time Use and Travel Behavior Incorporating
Intra-Household Interactions." Professor Kang earned her Ph.D. at
McMaster University and joined the University of Idaho faculty in
2008.
Congratulations to
Dr. Larry Forney of the
Department of Biological Sciences and
Dr. Paul Joyce of the
Department of Mathematics on winning university faculty awards.
Dr. Forney won the University of Idaho Award for Excellence in
Research or Creative Activity. Dr. Joyce won the Donald
Crawford Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award.
More
information.
Congratulations to Zachary Blurton, assistant
director of college recruiting and student relations, on winning an
Outstanding Employee Award for 2009.
Dr. Dennis Geist of the Department of Geological
Sciences was featured in a recent
press release from the Charles Darwin Foundation regarding a
volcanic eruption in the Galapagos Islands.
Congratulations to the following College of Science
faculty who have earned tenure and/or promotion:
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Gary Johnson - promoted to Professor of Geological Sciences
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Barrie Robison - promoted to Associate Professor of
Biological Sciences, with tenure
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Deborah Stenkamp - promoted to Professor of Biological
Sciences
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Hong Wang - promoted to Professor of Mathematics
Dr. Zaid Abdo of Mathematics and Statistics
is being featured on the University of Idaho home page.
More information.
The Department of Chemistry has acquired a new
gas chromatography-mass
spectrometer for undergraduate teaching for the new chemistry
forensics option.
More
information.
Dr. James Nagler and Dr. Joe Cloud of the Department of
Biological Sciences have published a paper on the effect of
human birth control chemicals on rainbow trout populations.
More
information.
Dr. You Qiang of the Department of Physics and
Dr. Andrzej Paszczynski of the
Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry
have won a $732,000 grant from the Department of Energy to
develop methods to use highly magnetic nanoparticles to extract
radioactive materials from spent nuclear fuel.
More
information.
Dean Scott Wood has published results of his
research on acidic waters.
More
information.
Dr. Erica Bree Rosenblum of the Department of
Biological Sciences has published a paper on her research on an
ancient fungus that is killing frogs in large numbers.
More
information.
The university has received a five-year, $15
million NSF EPSCoR grant to study the impact of climate change
on water resources in Idaho. This is the largest grant
received by the university. Dr. Von Walden of the
Department of Geography is directing the project.
More
information.
Dr. Chien Wai of the Department of Chemistry has
developed technology using supercritical fluids to recover
enriched uranium from radioactive waste.
More
information.
A team of faculty from the university's
Initiative for Bioinformatics and
Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) has won a $9.7 million grant from
the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Larry Forney of the
Department of Biological Sciences is directing the project,
which is a renewal of the Center
of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant first awarded in
2002.
More
information.
Dr. Dennis Geist, professor and chair of
Geological Sciences, is working on a project studying undersea
volcanoes near the Hawaiian Islands.
More
information.
Dr. Larry Forney and colleagues in the
Departments of Biological Sciences, Mathematics, and Statistics have
published important new research on the health impacts of
microbial ecology in the human vagina.
More
information.
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