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Victor
Ambros, professor of genetics at Dartmouth Medical School, was one
of 54 new fellows elected to the American Academy of
Microbiology (AAM) this month. The AAM is the honorific leadership group
within the American Society for Microbiology. Fellows are elected through a
peer-reviewed process, based on their records of scientific achievement and
contributions to the field of microbiology. Ambros is widely recognized for his
groundbreaking studies of gene regulation and received the Lewis S. Rosenstiel
Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research in 2005. He was also
recently elected a member of the National Academy of
Sciences.
A scholarship in the name of Professor of Education Andrew
Garrod has been established at the University of New Brunswick for
students from war-torn countries. The first winner of the A.C. Garrod
Scholarship, a Bosnian of mixed Bosniak (Muslim) and Serb heritage from Travnik
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will study business at UNB Fredericton. Garrod is
director of Dartmouth's Teacher Education
Program, taught English and directed student drama productions at Saint
John High School in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, from 1962 to 1978, and
has a long-standing concern with the aftermath of war in the Balkans.
Charles
Hutchinson, John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging
Technologies emeritus and dean of Thayer School emeritus,
and Associate Professor of Engineering Tillman
Gerngross, co-founders of GlycoFi Inc., have been recognized by
the New Hampshire High Technology Council
(NHHTC) as Entrepreneurs of the Year, for their contributions to the
advancement of technology-based business in New Hampshire. Hutchinson,
GlycoFi's CEO, and Gerngross, the company's chief scientific officer, will be
honored at the NHHTC's annual awards banquet June 4. GlycoFi, which recently became a wholly
owned subsidiary of Merck & Co. Inc, specializes in developing yeast-based
protein therapeutics. Glycofi's major advances include the complete
humanization of the glycosylation pathway in the yeast Pichia
pastoris, research conducted in partnership with Thayer School and Dartmouth Medical School.
Professor and Chair of Russian Lev
Loseff's new
biography of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, Iosif Brodsky: Opyt literaturnoi
biografii (Essay in literary biography), was featured on the cover of the
May 2 edition of the Times Literary Supplement (London). Reviewer
Andrew Kahn wrote, "Lev Loseff's new study is the best single literary
biography of the writer yet to have appeared in any language ... Loseff gets us
closer to his subject than any other account by integrating a reliable
narrative of the facts (enhanced by useful chronologies at the back of the
book) and a penetrating study of Brodsky's poetry and prose." The book was
published in Russian by Molodaya Gvardiya publishers and the English-language
version is currently being reviewed by Yale University Press. Loseff was a
close friend of Brodsky's dating back to their young adult lives in the Soviet
Union. Brodsky, who died in 1996, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1987 and served as the poet laureate of the United States from 1991 to 1992.
Loseff received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000 to support the completion of an
annotated edition of Brodsky's works. He teaches courses on 19th- and
20th-century Russian literature, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, and has been a member
of the Dartmouth faculty since 1979.
Evan Michals '07 created a 30-second educational video that
recently took second place in the EDUCAUSE/Internet2
Security Task Force 2007 Computer Security Awareness Video Contest.
Michals's video is a public service announcement aimed at incoming college
students titled "Whoa, That's Awkward." Michals is a film and television
studies major who also works at the Student Computing Help Desk in
Baker/Berry Library. He received an $800 prize for his work and the sponsoring
organizations will use his video in their own education efforts. The video is
available for
viewing.
The New Hampshire College and
University Compliance Assistance Cooperative Program (NHC3UA) has
received a 2007 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Merit
Award. The Offices of Environmental Health and Safety at
Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire (UNH) founded the NHC3UA in 2005
with the support of a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to help New
Hampshire's colleges and universities comply with occupational and
environmental laws and regulations. The NHC3UA provides practical assistance
through on-site environmental and occupational health and safety audits.
"Environmental Merit Awards are among the highest honors the EPA can
bestow to recognize environmental accomplishments," says Robert W. Varney,
regional administrator for EPA's New England Office.
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