Notables

Week of Nov. 1, 2010

Kelly Anne Barnes, PhD, has received a one-year, $40,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association for research titled “Cortico-Striatal Functional Connectivity in Children and Adolescents With Tourette Syndrome: A Resting-State Functional Connectivity MRI Study.” She will conduct research under the mentorship of Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD, the A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein Associate Professor of Developmental Neurology and associate professor of radiology, of anatomy and neurobiology and of pediatrics. …

Under the guidance of Ed Hiss, PhD, administrative officer of the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, the department has received a three-year, $393,795 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a project titled “Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Program in Chemistry. …

Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has joined the advisory board of the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. Founded in 1990, the institute promotes Finnish visual arts, design and architecture throughout North America and is supported by an annual endowment from the Finnish Ministry of Education. …

Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor and chair of electrical and systems engineering, has received a four-year, $827,820 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Design and Implementation of Position-Encoded 3D Mircoarrays.” …

Joseph Orkin, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $5,617 grant from the Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology, a one-year, $3,500 grant from the Lewis & Clark Fund for Exploration & Field Research, and a one-year, $3,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Landscape Genetics of Gibbons and Leaf Monkeys in China.” …

Nabeel Yaseen, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology and immunology, organized and hosted the 2010 meeting of the Vertebrate Nuclear Pore Working Group, a biennial gathering of principal investigators from North America whose laboratories study vertebrate nucleoporins and nuclear transport.


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