Recognition for the Dartmouth faculty, staff and students
ARTS AND SCIENCES
Michael S. Gazzaniga, David T. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor
and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, was elected President of
the American Psychological
Society, which works to advance a science-first approach to psychology.
Gazzaniga's work in mind-brain relationships has shaped understanding of human
intellectual ability in a biological context. His election was announced in
August. As a California Institute of Technology graduate student, he was
involved in the study of the "split-brain" phenomenon, which revealed
that the human brain is divided into two hemispheres, each with its own
specialization and area of control over the body. He has continued this work
during his academic career, and he is regarded as the founder of the field of
cognitive neuroscience. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1961.
DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL
Paul McKie DMS '06 received one of 16 fellowships from the Stanley J. Sarnoff Endowment for
Cardiovascular Science, Inc. to conduct laboratory research full time
during the 2004-05 academic year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Mckie
will work in a cardiorenal laboratory with John Burnett, investigating
biomarker molecules that may help doctors predict and diagnose heart failure.
At Dartmouth he is paired with Alan Kono, Assistant Professor of Medicine
(cardiology) and a member of the Sarnoff Endowment's Scientific Board, who will
oversee McKie's progress and advise him as he develops his career.
William A.
Nelson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family
Medicine, was recognized and honored by the Veterans Health Administration
(VHA), when it created the William
A. Nelson Award for Excellence in Health Care Ethics in June. Nelson worked
for nearly 30 years and was Chief of the Ethics Education Service, addressing
clinical, organizational, and research ethics issues at the National Center for
Ethics in Health Care, which serves as the primary ethics resource to the VHA.
The award will be given annually to an employee of the VHA who demonstrates
long-term commitment to ethics in health care practice. Nelson is project
director of the Rural Ethics Initiatives at Dartmouth Medical School, which is
supported by the Veterans Rural Health Initiative.
Michael
Whitfield, Assistant Professor of Genetics, received a grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research to fund his
study of the "Genome-wide Programs of Cell Growth and Division" in
July, which will attempt to further characterize all the genes in the human
genome that are regulated during the cell-division cycle. The study will focus
on identifying those genes that expressed differently between cancer and
normal cells. The foundation also named Whitfield a V Scholar. The V Foundation
is named after the late Jim Valvano, basketball coach, author, sports
commentator, cancer patient and cancer-research advocate.
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