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Around the College
April 2008
The latest awards and accomplishments of faculty, staff and students around the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- English
- Geography
- History
- Physics
- Psychology
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Women’s Studies
- Zoology
Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Patricia Kricos has been invited to lecture at the recently
formed
American Association of Geriatric Otolaryngology meeting, which will be held in Orlando on April 30. Her lecture is entitled, “Best Practices in Audiologic Rehabilitation for Older Adults.” She has also been invited to speak at the August 2008 symposium Innovations in Hearing: The Aging Patient, hosted by the American Association of Geriatric Otolaryngology in Orlando, Florida - Doctoral student Michelle Troche has been selected to receive one of 16 Student Fellowships to attend the sixth annual NIDCD-supported “Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology.” The research symposium consists of a cutting-edge keynote presentation with commentary and discussion; an invited topically-related platform session with commentary and discussion; a Student Fellow poster session in which Troche and the other NIDCD Fellows will present and discuss their research.
English
- Pamela Gilbert’s “Dangers Lurking Everywhere: Sex Offenders as Pollution” appears in Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination.
- Norman Holland has published, with Murray Schwartz (Emerson College), Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars. It is published online by the PsyArt Foundation and is available through www.knowthyselfdelphiseminars.com.
- David Leavitt was named one of four finalists for the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award, the largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the U.S., for his novel The Indian Clerk. He will receive $5,000 and be honored at special ceremony in Washington, D.C. in May.
- Judith Page gave an invited paper at the University of Southampton Research Forum (UK) titled “Gardening in Grasmere: Dorothy Wordsworth at Dove Cottage, 1799–1802.”
- On March 11 Gregory Ulmer lectured on electracy at Georgetown University, where he also consulted with the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.
Department of Geography
Department of Geography Website
- Doctoral students Andrea Gaughan, Cerian Gibbes, and Luke Rostant and their Namibian colleagues were one of only 12 teams selected from more than 200 submissions to the START Pan African Committee grant from the National Science Foundation / U.S. Climate Change Science Program. The $11,000 award will be used to study landscape processes and biodiversity change along the Kwandu River in Caprivi, Namibia.
- Ph.D. student Jaclyn Hall was recognized as the best graduate student presenter at this year's Florida Society of Geographers meeting and is donating her prize to sponsor two African graduate students’ travel to the inaugural meeting of the East African Ecological Society, which she helped organize.
Department of History
- Graduate student Leslie Poole is starring in a new PBS documentary about writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ famous boat trip down the St. Johns River back in the 1930s. The film will air on PBS April 14, 9 p.m., and April 23, 11 p.m. It will also run at the Hippodrome State Theater starting April 18.
Department of Physics
- The American Physical Society (APS) has named Professors Mark Meisel and Richard Woodard as Outstanding Referees. The highly selective award program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals.
- The international Cryogenic Dark Matter Search team, of which Tarek Saab is a member, recently announced it has regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. The CDMS experiment, conducted a half-mile underground in a mine in Soudan, Minn., again sets the world’s best constraints on the properties of dark matter candidates. It is sensitive enough to hear WIMPs—weakly interacting massive particles—even if they ring the ‘bells’ of their crystal germanium detector only twice a year. WIMPs are leading candidates for the building blocks of dark matter, which accounts for 85 percent of the entire mass of the universe.
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology Website
- Recently retired professor Donald Dewsbury will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association’s History of Psychology division at its annual meeting in August.
- Philip and Osnat Teitelbaum's book, Does Your Baby Have Autism?, has been published by Square One publishers.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
- Shifra Armon delivered the Sarah Ison Center for Women and Gender Studies Lecture at the University of Mississippi on March 3, 2008. The title of her illustrated talk was “Don Quixote and the Construction of the Imperial Subject.”
Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research Website
The UF Digital Library Center launched a new digital collection in March, Radical Women in Gainesville, just in time for Women’s History Month. The collection was created by English alumna Leila Adams, who completed the project under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Trysh Travis. The exhibit documents the valiant history of feminists who helped reform the conservative Gainesville college town in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. The collection is comprised of photos, oral histories, self-published newsprints, newsletters, brochures, notes from feminist organizations and other original documents. Check it out at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?s=rwg&m=hitletter.
Department of Zoology
The Biological Sciences Team was recognized with a 2008 Prudential Davis Productivity Award from the University of Florida for streamlining laboratory learning through web-based applications. Team members included staff members Kevin Hulen, Leila Long, Tangelyn Mitchell, led by Assistant Dean Margaret Fields.