April
14: Spring Open House for Admitted
Students
April
26: Maryland Day 2003. College contact:
Gene Ferrick (gferrick@deans.umd.edu)
May
16-18: The American Society for Microbiology
- Education Section
10th anniversary meeting, co-sponsored
by the College. Campus contacts: Spencer
Benson (sb77@umail.umd.edu)
and Ann Smith (as38@umail.umd.edu)
June
6-8: Mid-Atlantic Immunobiology Meeting.
Graduate students and post-doctoral
fellows are strongly encouraged to
attend this on-campus meeting and
orally present their work. In addition,
the meeting invites world-class immunologists
to give the keynote symposium. Campus
contact: Wenxia Song (ws98@umail.umd.edu)
June
22-25: BIO 2003 Annual Convention,
Washington Convention Center. The
world's largest biotechnology conference,
organized by the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, will bring together
20,000 life-sciences leaders from
around the world. See www.bio.org/events/2003/
for more information.
September
6: Academically Talented Open House
September
26: Visit Maryland Day
October
13 (Columbus Day): Visit Maryland
Day
October
25: Academically Talented Open House
November
11 (Veterans Day): Visit Maryland
Day
ARABIDOPSIS
MINISYMPOSIUM
The
4th Annual Arabidopsis Minisymposium
will be held on campus on Saturday,
April 12th. This Minisymposium will
highlight the latest work of Arabidopsis
researchers from nine regional universities,
institutes and companies. It will
also include a poster session. Topics
will include plant defense, signal
transduction, development, physiology,
genomics and gene expression. For
the complete program, registration
and further details, please go to
www.life.umd.edu/labs/ATRIUM/Minisymposium03.html.
Registration, lunch and refreshments
will be provided free of charge to
participants.
GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE
We are saddened by
the passing away of a long-time supporter
and alumnus of the University, Winifred
Gahan. She was 92 years old. Winifred
very generously left more than 30%
of her estate to the Gahan Fund in
the Entomology Department. In addition
to the bequest, which will be realized
sometime this year, the Department
benefited in January from a $33,000
Certificate of Deposit on which Winifred
had designated the University as the
beneficiary.
We
also wish to thank:
--Dow
Agrosciences, for $ 8,000 to support
the Department of Entomology General
Fund
--McGlaughlin
Gromley King Company, for $ 6,400
to support the Department of Entomology
Research Fund
--Nancy
and William White, for $ 5,750 to
support the Department of Entomology
--Mr.
W. Jay Nixon, for $ 5,750 to support
the Department of Entomology
FACULTY
RECOGNITION AND IN THE NEWS
Dr.
Irwin Paul Baumel, Chemistry and
Biochemistry, received a 2-year, $116,000
grant from the Department of Defense
for "IPA Agreement with U.S.
Army Soldier & Biological…."
Dr.
Spencer Benson, CBMG, was named
2002 Professor of the Year by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching and the Council for the
Advancement and Support of Education.
Drs.
Gerald Borgia and Gail Patricelli,
Biology, are featured in an item on
p. 31 of the January 13 issue of The
Scientist called "Sex and
the Single Bowerbird." They are
researching the displays, bowers and
songs of male Australasian bowerbirds.
Patricelli's contribution included
building a female bowerbird robot.
Dr.
Caren Chang, CBMG, received a
3-year, $362,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Energy for "RTE1,
A Novel Regulator of Ethylene Receptor
Function."
Dr.
Margaret de Cuevas, CBMG, received
a 2-year, $150,000 grant from the
March of Dimes for "An Analysis
of Germline Cyst Formation in Drosophila."
Dr.
Jocelyne DiRuggiero, CBMG, received
a 3-year, $110,000 grant from the
Human Frontier Science Program for
"Initiation of DNA Replication
in Archaea."
Dr.
William Fagan, Biology, had three
papers published in December, one
of which was authored with Dr.
Robert Denno, Dr. Charles Mitter
and Andrea Huberty, Entomology,
and colleagues:
