Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Jennifer Bomberger, a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth
Medical School, was awarded the Ann Weinberg Research Fellowship from the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for her work dedicated to combating the disease.
Bomberger, a member of Professor Bruce Stanton’s laboratory, is also being
honored for her outstanding work in the field of physiology with the Young
Investigator Award from the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Both
the fellowship and the Young Investigator Award were presented in recognition
of Bomberger’s investigations into the effects of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa
toxin on viral antigen presentation in cystic fibrosis airway cells.
Bomberger’s findings propose that a toxin from the bacteria, which alters the
immune response to viruses, is the cause of severe chronic infections.
Ethan Dmitrovsky, the Andrew Wallace Professor of
Pharmacology and Toxicology and professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical
School, has been named a Clinical Research Professor by the American Cancer
Society (ACS). This honor, awarded to only two or three people annually, is the
ACS’s leading grant award. It recognizes a researcher’s contributions to
science and to patient care, and supports his or her work in mentoring future
generations of researchers. The multiyear grant will support Dmitrovsky’s
ongoing studies of innovative ways to treat and prevent lung cancer. His team
is particularly interested in understanding the pathways and mechanisms of
retinoids—natural or synthetic compounds derived from vitamin A used in cancer
therapy and prevention—and their effects on lung cancer biology and treatment.
Dmitrovsky also serves on the board of scientific counselors of the National
Cancer Institute and has been on the scientific advisory board of the Lance
Armstrong Foundation.
Lilian T. Mehrel ’09 and Emmanuel Mensah
’09 have been selected by the Davis Foundation for its 100 Projects
for Peace initiative. Mehrel’s project is “Peace in the Middle East: A Film
Festival.” She will run a series of workshops with Arab and Jewish Israeli
teenagers in the Tel-Aviv/Jaffa region to assist them in the filming and
editing of their own stories, which will culminate in a film festival
showcasing their work. Mensah’s project, “Youth Empowerment Program: Bringing
Vision to Action,” will take him to Ghana, where he will work with the Ghana
Youth Leadership Alliance, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization he
co-founded, to empower youth to become leaders in the fields their country
needs most. Both students will receive $10,000 from the Davis Foundation to
support their projects.
Megan Paradise ’08 won the John Omohundro Undergraduate
Student Paper Prize at the Northeast Anthropological Association (NEAA) last
month at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Paradise’s paper was titled
“Social Constructions of ‘Quality’ in Subsistence Agriculture and Food
Production: A Case Study from Himachal Pradesh, India.” This is the third
undergraduate paper prize Dartmouth anthropology students have won in as many
years from the NEAA.
Professor of English Lou Renza received the 2008 Faculty
Member of the Year Award from Dartmouth’s Lambda Rho chapter of the Order of
Omega Greek national Greek honor society. A member of the Dartmouth faculty
since 1970, Renza studies 19th- and early 20th-century American literature,
with a focus on literary theory and autobiography. He teaches courses on
subjects including American Prose, Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and Bob
Dylan.
Several Dartmouth faculty and students were recognized for their volunteer
efforts at the annual 2008 Campus Compact for New Hampshire Presidents’ Awards.
The Prison Project at the Tucker Foundation received The
Presidents’ Leadership Award for the student-led initiative that has been in
operation since 1984. The Prison Project has worked with women who are
incarcerated at the Southeastern Vermont Correctional Facility. Andrew
Garrod, chair of the education department and executive director for
the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program, received the Presidents’
Good Steward Award. Through the SEAD program, more than 2,000 undergraduates
have mentored urban and rural disadvantaged high school youth from across the
United States. Mark Detzer, a clinical psychologist and
assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School,
received the Presidents’ Community Partner Award for his work with and
co-founding of Steps Toward Adult Responsibility (STAR), a project that
connects adolescents who have chronic illnesses with Dartmouth College students
who also are challenged by long-term illnesses.
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