Awards and Honors
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Lucile Adams-Campbell, associate director for minority health and health disparities research at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was inducted into the Institute of Medicine on Oct. 11. Institute membership, considered one of the highest honors in health and medicine, recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievements and commitment to service.
Presentations
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Mirjana Dedaic, visiting assistant professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, presented on Oct. 8 with a graduate student at the Femininsms and Rhetorics 2009 conference held at Michigan State University. The pair presented on “Inconceivable Construction: A Woman AND a Politician; Examining Discourses of Female Opinionmakers.”
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Othmar Winkler, professor emeritus of business, presented “Interpreting the Cumulative Frequency Distribution of Socio-Economic Data” at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association on Aug. 3. Winkler’s 15-page article will be published in the proceedings of the meeting.
Research Grants
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Tim Beach, the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environment and International Affairs and director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, received a National Science Foundation grant for $320,000, to be split between Georgetown and George Mason University. The grant funds testing and developing models of wetland formation across a wide swath of lowland Central America.
