Of note
Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor and chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, has received a one-year, $26,880 grant from Aginova Inc. for research titled “Networked Portable Personal Aerosol Sensors.”…
Kim A. Carmichael, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, has been elected to the board of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in St. Louis. He sees patients at the Washington University Diabetes Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He will serve a three-year term on the ADA board. …
Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences, has received a four-year, $441,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Collaborative Research: A Broadband Seismic Experiment to Image the Lithosphere Beneath the Gamburtsev Mountains and Surrounding Areas, East Antarctica.”
Speaking of
John Drobak, J.D., the George Alexander Madill Professor of Law, professor of economics in Arts & Sciences and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and John O. Haley, J.D., the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law, spoke at the Conference of the Global Economic History Network in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on Sept. 20-22. Drobak was the discussant for the first panel of the conference. Haley’s presentation was titled “Law’s Evolution: Why Private Law Thrives in Western Europe and Japan.” …
Carter C. Revard, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, gave a paper titled “Translating (or Pixelating) an Anglo-Norman Misogynist’s Monologue Into Modern English (Hip-Hop) Verse” at the The Tenth Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. The conference — titled “Lost in Translation?” — was hosted by the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, July 17-22. Revard did further research on medieval manuscripts in July and August at the British Library in London and at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.