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March 2009
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College News
Spring 2009 Outstanding Leadership Awards for Graduating Seniors
- Vanessa D. Douyon
Department of Sociology - Mary Ratliff
Department of Political Science - Jeremy Grossman
Departments of English and Political Science - Jared Hoffman
Departments of Political Science and Psychology - Jonathan J. Sheffield, Jr.
Departments of Political Science and Philosophy
Honorable Mention
- Evan W. Lauteria
Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research - Davier Rodriguez
Department of Sociology
Doctoral Dissertation/Mentoring Award Winners
The life of the university is greatly enhanced by the quality
of our doctoral students, and they take their direction from
our many outstanding faculty members. In an effort to
continue to promote doctoral studies and to recognize
excellence in doctoral student mentoring by our faculty,
awards are given each year to five faculty doctoral advisors
selected on a competitive basis. The CLAS Doctoral Dissertation
Advisor/Mentoring Award winners for the 2008-2009 competition
were:
- Marc Branch
Department of Psychology - Lisa McElwee-White
Department of Chemistry
You can find their photographs and personal statements on the Graduate School web site.
Three UF Students Win Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation named three UF students as scholarship recipients for the 2009-2010 academic year -- out of a total 278 scholarships awarded to undergraduate sophomores and juniors across the U.S. This is the fourth year in a row that UF has had three Goldwater Scholars.
UF’s winners are Mehrnoush Arrar, a chemistry junior; Miorel Palii, a junior in interdisciplinary studies (biochemistry, physics, and computer science); and Christopher Marth, a sophomore with a dual major in microbiology and chemistry.
Goldwater Scholars are selected on the basis of academic merit from over
1,000 applicants in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering.
Established in 1986, this scholarship encourages outstanding students to
pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and
engineering.
Chemistry
- Randy Duran was decorated as Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the nation of France. He was awarded this honor for the excellence of his research programs and the important contributions that he has made to France-American cooperation in science. Dr. Michel Israel, Scientific and Technological Counselor of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., conferred the medal to Dr. Duran.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Communication Sciences and Disorders Website
- Doctoral student Teresa Pitts, MA CCC-SLP, was awarded the 2009 New Investigator Grant for meritorious scientific research in swallowing and swallowing disorders. Her winning presentation was entitled: Somatosensory Cortical Evoked Potentials from the Oral-Pharyngeal Wall: Healthy and PD. Dysphagia Research Society. Pitts, T.E., Hegland, K., Chan, S., Sapienza, C., & Davenport, P.
- The National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) represented
CSD in the 2009 Relay for Life, raising over $7,000 and becoming the
second most fundraising team at the event. The
team was also the highest online fundraising team per capita, and their
camp site was also nominated by cancer survivors
as the best site.
English
- John Cech’s collection of Aesop’s Fables, with illustrations by the French artist Martin Jarrie, has been published by Sterling Publishing. The volume is a selection and retelling of 36 fables, from the hundreds attributed to Aesop, with a biographical/critical note about this oracular and elusive presence in Western literary history.
- Pamela Gilbert’s “The Idea of the City: Epilogue” appears in The Idea of the City, ed. Joan Fitzpatrick (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009). 199–205. Her review of Metropolis on the Styx: Underworlds of Urban Culture 1800–2001, by David Pike, appears in The London Journal 34.1 (2009): 76–77. Her review of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction, by Andrew Mangham, appears in Victorian Studies 51.1 (Autumn 2009): 158–59.
- Terry Harpold’s essay “Squiggle Games” appears in Prepare for Pictopia, eds. Peter Thaler and Lars Denicke (Berlin: Pictoplasma Publishing, 2009). 62–65.
- Emeritus Professor Norman Holland’s essay “Spider-Man? Sure! The Neuroscience of Suspending Disbelief,” appears in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 33.4 (2008): 312–20.
- R. Brandon Kershner’s chapter “Newspapers and Popular Culture” appears in James Joyce in Context, ed. John McCourt (Cambridge: CUP, 2009). 299–309.
- In “Tomorrow’s Literary Superstars Today,” David Leavitt and Subtropics receive high praise on The Daily Beast WWW site.
- Judith Page’s essay “Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘gratitude to insensate things’: Gardening in the Grasmere Journals” appears in The Wordsworth Circle 39 (Winter/Spring 2008).
- On March 6, Maureen Turim gave an invited lecture, “Visual Thinking of the Avant-Garde Film,” at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. The lecture was part of the “Rudolf Arnheim: Art and the Moving Image” colloquium.
- Gregory Ulmer’s “Chora Collaborations” appears in a special issue of Rhizomes 18 (2008) based on the Invent-L Conference, Gainesville (February 2007).
Mathematics
- A team of students representing the University of Florida recently finished twelfth in the Putnam Competition, a national math contest for undergraduates. Team members Jeff Yelton, Masahiro Nakahara, and Andrew Wright skipped the SEC football championship game and competed with teams from 405 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States. Finishing ahead of UF were teams from Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech. Many Putnam participants have gone on to have distinguished careers in mathematics and science; several Putnam winners have also won the Nobel prize, the Fields medal, or the MacArthur fellowship.
Physics
- Former High Energy Theory student Kyoungchul Kong was awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) by the Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA). The OYRA award recognizes excellence in research by outstanding young ethnic Korean physicists in North America who are working at research-doctorate institutions, and industrial and government laboratories.
Oral History
Office manager Roberta Peacock received a Division-level Superior Accomplishment for her service to the program.
