Notables

Week of March 28, 2011

Bruce A. Carlson, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $581,304 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Synaptic Mechanisms for the Processing of Temporal Codes.” …

Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of genetics, has received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Hope Center for Neurologic Diseases for research titled “Cis-Regulatory Mapping of Dominant Human Retinal Neurodegenerative Disorders.” …

Steven Fazzari, PhD, professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $92,500 grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking for research titled “Resurgence of Keynesian Macroeconomics: New Perspectives.” …

Young Min Kim, a fourth-year medical student, won third place for a poem, titled “Late February,” in the 2011 William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition for medical students sponsored by the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. …

Carter Revard, PhD, professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, has been selected for a four-week residency May 31-June 27 at the Château de Lavigny International Writers’ Residence in Lavigny, Switzerland, to finish work on a collection of poems titled From the Extinct Volcano, a Bird of Paradise. The Château de Lavigny hosts a maximum of six writers per four-week session and offers four annual sessions.

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