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Dr. David Lee Book Signing
David Lee, Director of The Kampong
Will be discussing his new book
Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Colors
Wednesday, April 16 – cocktails at 6:30 PM
Lecture & Signing at 7:00 PM
Presented by Books & Books
As featured in their monthly newsletter
http://www.booksandbooks.com
Nature’s Palette has been heralded by Oliver Sacks as “a spacious book, full of wonders and wonders, in which the scientific and the personal, the poetic and the historical, come together in the most delightful way.” It is the culmination of David’s many years of study of the science of plant color and was recently awarded best scholarly book in biology and medicine for 2007 by the American Association of Publishers
Copies of Nature’s Palette will be on sale and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Kampong.
Limited seating an reservations are required.
RSVP to Iliana Leon 305.442-7169 or ileon@ntbg.org
By Wednesday, April 9th
See brochure: Nature's Palette
NSF 5-Year Young Investigator Award
Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Heithaus accepted the College’s offer to become Director of FIU’s Marine Science Program, effective Dec. 28, 2007. The Marine Science Program is a two-year-old interdepartmental program that presently includes faculty from the Dept. of Biological Sciences and the Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The program is based in the new Marine Science Building on FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. Dr. Heithaus succeeds the Interim Director of the Marine Science Program and Professor of Biological Sciences, Dr. Joel Trexler.
Dr. Heithaus studies the behavioral ecology and conservation of “charismatic marine megafauna,” including sharks, sea turtles, dolphins, dugongs (Australian relatives of the manatee), and seabirds. He is among the researchers who pioneered the use of an underwater video camera, popularly known as the “Crittercam,” that can be attached directly to the backs of large vertebrates to allow them, in effect, to film their own behavior. more...
Pioneering New NSF-Sponsored Socio-Ecological Research Course
For the Spring 2008 semester, Dr. Laura Ogden (Department of Sociology/ Anthropology) will co-teach a pioneering new interdisciplinary course on socio-ecological research methods, cyber-linked with students and researchers across North America,. The course, sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research Program, will use the latest cyber-technologies to join students and researchers from various universities. For additional information, contact Dr. Ogden or see the course website.
Congratulations, Alex Angee, Cynthia Hernandez, and Emily Hogue!
Two students from Sociology/Anthropology won first place in the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists' (NAPA) Student Paper competition. Alex Angee and Cynthia Hernandez won the award for a paper they produced on their work concerning wage theft among immigrant workers in South Florida's nursery industry. The work is being done with the direction of Bruce Nissen and Carol Dutton Stepick under the auspices of the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP) which is part of the Labor Center. And in more good news, Ph.D. candidate Emily Hogue won second place in the same competition.
FIU Physicist Reveals an Inherent Mott Metal-to-Insulator Transition
In the October 26 issue of SCIENCE (volume 318, page 615), Professor Jiandi Zhang of the Department of Physics, in collaboration with his colleagues, Rob Moore, V. B. Nascimento and E. W. Plummer at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK), R. Jin and D. Mandrus at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), as well as J. Guo, G.T. Wang and Z. Fang at the Institute of Physics in Beijing, China, demonstrates that a purely electronic Mott metal-to-insulator transition occurs at a crystalline surface of a transition-metal oxide. Read more... |
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Editor's Choice Award for Best Article
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At the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Santa Fe on October 26, 2007, Dr. Janat Parker and Dr. Lorraine Bahrick received the Editor's Choice Award for Best Article in the Journal of Cognition and Development for their article: McDermott Sales, J., Fivush, R., Parker, J., and Bahrick, L. (2005). "Stressing Memory: Long-Term Relations Among Children's Stress, Recall and Psychological Outcome Following Hurricane Andrew." Journal of Cognition and Development, 6(4), 529-545.
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| In the opinion of the Editor of the 2005 Volume and the Board of Directors of the Cognitive Development Society, this article best exemplified: (1)relevance to issues of broad interest, (2) substance of the argument, (3) quality of expression, and (4) ingenuity of ideas or approach. |
The US Peace Corps Recognizes the FIU Environmental Studies’ Masters International Program
At a special ceremony held on the FIU campus on September 26th, 2007, the US Peace Corps (PC) recognized the Environmental Studies Department for its excellent service and commitment to the Masters International Program (MIP) jointly offered by FIU and PC. On behalf of the Department, Dean Mark Szuchman received the Certificate of Recognition from the PC Atlanta Regional Office Manager Mr. Kenton Ayers.
The students of MIP get one year graduate training at FIU in forestry, natural resource management, and sustainable development and then serve the PC for two-three years as volunteers in a foreign country. On their return from the PC they will complete the remaining graduate work to earn their master’s degree in Environmental Studies. FIU and PC has had this joint program for the last nine years and several students have benefited from the program.
(L-R) Kenton Ayers (PC Regional Manager), Kiki Mutis (former MIP student), Joel Heinen (Chair of the Environmental Studies Department), Maria Marasigan (an MIP student), Mark Szuchman (Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences), Mahadev Bhat (Graduate Program Director).
FIU is so proud that Dr. Steven Heine is a member of the Golden Panther family that we are featuring him in a “Best in Class” ad campaign that is running in The Miami Herald. Read more...
The Clotilde Ribeiro de Sant'Anna Memorial Poetry Scholarship
Florida International University's Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that Denise Sebesta Lanier, who is a student in the MFA Program, has been announced as the winner of The Clotilde Ribeiro de Sant'Anna Memorial Poetry Scholarship for her poem "Kryptonite, Fashion Sense, & Special Pie."
Mrs. Marina Hansen donated three scholarships to The Biscayne Bay Campus' Excellence Fund. One is a $1000 scholarship in honor of her mother, Clotilde Ribeiro de Sant'Anna, a poet who was also a single mother of eleven children.
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