Tributes--IPFW

Bruce Kingsbury, biology, has received a $12,000 grant for the "Cline Massasauga Project" from the Nature Conservancy; a $4,000 grant for "Landscape Visualization of Herpetofaunal Recovery" from the Nature Conservancy; a $5,000 grant for the "Sensitive Herpetofauna Website" from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; a $11,000 grant for "Habitat Conservation Guidelines for Midwest Herpetofauna" from PARC; a $75,020 grant for "Ecology and Conservation of Massasauga in North Michigan" from the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR); and a $40,630 grant for "Status and Ecology of Northern Indiana and Ohio Population of the Copperbelly Water Snake: Year II" from the Ohio and Indiana DNR funds. He published "Snakes of Indiana" (with Brian MacGowan), for Purdue University Extension in the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, No. 173, and "Massasauga Ecology and Conservation in Northeastern Indiana" (with John Marshall), in the Final Report for the Indiana DNR. He gave four presentations: "Wetland Management for Reptiles and Amphibians" at the regional Wetland Reserve Program workshop at the National Resources Conservation Service in Saginaw, Mich., May 24; "Case Study: The Copperbelly Water Snake" at the Mid-South Regional Workshop on State Conservation Agreements in Frankfort, Ky., and at similar meetings around the country as a case study; "Habitat Use and Spatial Ecology of the Copperbelly Water Snake" and "Movements and Macrohabitat Selection in Fen Wetlands by the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake" at joint meetings of the Herpetologist’s League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles in Indianapolis, July 28-30.

George Mourad, biology, has received a $50,000 Trask Innovation Award research grant for "Overproduction of Isoleucine and Leucine in Plants" for stipends for research assistance and supplies. He co-presented "A Fluoroorotic Acid-Resistant Mutant of Arabidopsis Specifically Defective in the Uptake of Pyrimidine Bases" at the International Conference on Arabidopsis in Madison, Wis., June 23-27, and co-published "The DNA Nucleotide Sequence of Three New Genes Encoding the Key Enzyme Isopropylmalate Synthase that Controls the Biosynthesis of the Amino Acid Leucine" and "Molecular Cloning and Sequencing of a Third Full Length cDNA Clone (IMS3) Encoding Isopropylmalate Synthase (IPMS-3) of Arabidopsis Thaliana" in GenBank. The publications can be viewed(Enter accession numbers AF327647 and AF327648 in search box at this site):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Robert McCullough, sociology and anthropology, has received a $7,938 grant for "Preliminary Reconnaissance of Approximately 300-Acres for the Cooper County Power Plant Project in Cooper County, Mo." from Montgomery-Watson and a $29,913 grant for "Proposal to Conduct Phase 2 Archaeological Testing of Sites 15-Ga-63 and 15-Ga-65 within the Steele Bottom Area Near Ohio River Mile 520 in Gallatin County, Ky." from the Nugent Sand Company. He received a $50,053 grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. He presented "Preliminary Report of Archaeological Findings at an Antebellum African-American Farmstead in Southern Indiana" at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in New Orleans, April 20, and gave a "Preliminary Report on Two Circular Enclosures Excavated in Indiana" at the Midwest Archaeological Conference in LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 12-14. His work on "Late Prehistoric Villages in Northern Indiana" was featured in the Fisher Daily Ledger, Oct. 26, and in the Indianapolis Star, July 13

 

Paladino

Frank Paladino, biology, has received a $83,640 grant for "Leatherback Turtle Nesting Ecology and Physiology" funded by the Center for Field Studies, Earthwatch, and a $1,036,000 grant for a Central American Center for Marine Conservation and Consolidation of Parque Marino Las Baulas in Costa Rica from the Goldring Family Foundation. He published "The Effects of Nest Environment on Calcium Mobilization by Leatherback Turtle Embryos During Development" (with J. Bilinski, R. Reina, and J Spotila) in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Vol. 130A, 2001, and "Changes in Gonadal and Adrenal Steroid Levels in the Leatherback Turtle During the Nesting Cycle" (with D. Rostal, J. Grumbles, K. Palmer, and Spotila), in General and Comparative Endocrinology, Vol. 122, 2001. He was named "Speaker of Year" by the Indiana Academy of Science and presented "Life and Death on Turtle Beach" at its annual meeting at IPFW, Nov. 9.

Mary Helen Thuente, English and linguistics, presented "United Irish Artifacts and Icons" at the American Conference for Irish Students meeting in New York City.

Karol Dehr, Katherine Freeland, Jennifer Parker and Mark Sidey, English and linguistics, presented "Priming the Pump: Exposing Hidden Assumptions and Identifying Explicit Perceptions in Beginning Composition" at the Indiana Teachers of Writing Conference in Bloomington, Oct. 12.