Conevery Bolton Valencius, Ph.D., assistant professor of history in Arts & Sciences, will receive the 2003 George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in environmental history from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH). Valencius will receive the award for her book The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) during an awards banquet March 29 at the ASEH annual conference in Providence, R.I. The book also received a favorable review in the March 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. …
Sharon Chinault, predoctoral trainee in cell biology and physiology, has received a two-year, $38,000 predoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Mechanism, Specificity, and Function of G Protein Coupled Receptor Dimerizations.” …
Vivek Mittal, predoctoral trainee in cell biology and physiology, has received a two-year, $38,000 predoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of RGS14.” …
Christina Jacobsen, predoctoral trainee in pediatrics, has received a two-year, $38,000 predoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Role of Cardiac Transcription Factor GATA-4 in Foregut Development.” …
Andrew Bowman, predoctoral trainee in cardiology, has received a two-year, $38,000 predoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Characterization of Four-Chambered Heart Dynamics by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” …
Xuhui Zeng, research associate of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $38,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “The Functional Association Between Betal Subunit and Calcium Regulatory Sites in BK Channels.” …
Mara Chavolla, clinical fellow of pediatrics, has received a two-year, $73,531 postdoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Role of Neurokinins in Lung Inflammations.” …
Franck Aimond, postdoctoral fellow of molecular biology and pharmacology, has received a two-year, $81,412 postdoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Involvement of Kv Beta Subunits in the Generation of the Transient Outward K Currents in Mouse Ventricular Myocytes.” …
Sandeep Jain, clinical fellow of cardiology, has received a one-year, $33,815 postdoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Role of Functional and Biochemical Changes in Connexin43 in Ischemic Preconditioning.” …
Muslum Akgoz, postdoctoral fellow of anesthesiology, has received a three-year, $73,531 postdoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Molecular Basis of G Protein Interaction with Receptors.” …
Angela Ferguson, postdoctoral fellow in cell biology and physiology, has received a three-year, $73,530 postdoctoral fellowship from the Heartland Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for research titled “Function of the Murine Cdc25 Phosphatases.” …
Alan Shiels, Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a three-year, $918,000 grant from the National Eye Institute for research titled “Lens Major Intrinsic Proteins in Hereditary Cataract.” …
Steven M. Rothman, M.D., the Ernest and Jane G. Stein Professor of Developmental Neurology, has received a two-year, $358,340 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research titled “Real Time Cellular Imaging of Seizures.” …
Kathleen Bethin, M.D., Ph.D., instructor in pediatrics, has received a one-year, $30,000 Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society Abbot Clinical Scholar Award. …
Douglas Braaten, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $120,000 FELLOW Grant from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.