Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Andrew
Friedland, professor and chair of the environmental studies program, has
been named to the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) lead review panel of the Clean Air Science Advisory
Committee. As a member of the 20-person panel, he will work to assess current
research about how lead moves through the environment in food, soil, and fresh
water habitats, and how it impacts humans. The panel will compile a report that
will be used when the EPA considers revising the lead air quality criteria.
Friedland's expertise focuses on lead levels in forests, including soils,
vegetation, and water.
Norman Berman and Leslie Fall, associate professors of
pediatrics, received an Innovation in Clinical Medical Student Education Award
from the Northeast Group on
Educational Affairs, a regional organization of the Association of Medical Colleges, for their work
on the Computer-assisted Learning in
Pediatrics Project (CLIPP). The program achieved the potential of
computer-assisted instruction through collaborative development and
implementation of Web-based virtual patient cases that comprehensively teach
the pediatric clerkship curriculum. CLIPP has been widely accepted at more than
80 institutions, with use by more than 10,000 medical students this year.
John Flanagan, a biochemistry postdoctoral fellow, and Neil
Ganem, a biochemistry graduate student, were recipients of the 2005 E. Lucile
Smith Award for Excellence in Biochemistry in March. The award recognizes
members of the biochemistry department for their outstanding departmental
community service and scientific achievements. Flanagan, a member of Associate
Professor of Biochemistry Charles Barlowe's laboratory, was
honored for organizing the postdoctoral seminar series for the molecular and
cellular biology (MCB) departments and for his contributions to understanding
the mechanisms of membrane fusion in the early secretory pathway of yeast
cells. Neil Ganem, a student in Duane Compton's laboratory, was
recognized for his work on the MCB Graduate Program committee and minority
recruiting initiative as well as his contributions to understanding the
mechanisms of chromosome segregation during cell division.
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