Notables

Week of Dec. 6, 2010

Of note

Cindy Grimm, PhD, associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $213,923 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Collaborative Research: Biological Shape Spaces, Transforming Shape into Knowledge.” …

Fang Liu, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $95,224 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for research titled “The Role of ER71 in Determining Flk-1+mesoderm Fate to Hematopoietic/endothelial Versus Cardiac Cell Lineages.” …

Ignacio Sánchez Prado, PhD, assistant professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, has received the Latin American Study Association Mexico Section’s 2010 Humanities Book Prize for his book Naciones Intelectuales: Las Fundaciones de la Modernidad Literaria Mexicana 1917-1959 (Purdue University Press, 2009). The book is a revisionist history of the emergence of the literary field in Mexico. …

Xiang Tang, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, was awarded the Andre Lichnerowicz Prize for notable contributions in the field of Poisson geometry July 26 at the International Conference on Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The prize is awarded every two years to two researchers within eight years of earning their doctorates. …

Simine Vazire, PhD, assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Blind Spots and Bright Spots in Self-Knowledge.” …

Douglas A. Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $173,894 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Geophysical Study of Ice Stream Slick-Slip Dynamics.”

Obituary

Robert K. Crane, PhD, who discovered oral rehydration therapy while working in the Department of Biological Chemistry from 1950-1962, died Oct. 31, 2010, in Tennessee. He was 90.


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