Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Thursday, Oct. 12, is the deadline for proposals for the Internal Education Foundation (both student-initiated research proposals and “educationally innovative projects”), Faculty Research Fund and Humanities Development Fund.

Submit IEF student-initiated research proposals to the director of undergraduate research and educationally innovative proposals to the dean of arts and sciences.

Forms and guidelines for both are available in Science & Engineering, S100, or visit the Web at http: www.union.edu/Academics/AcademicAffairs. Questions concerning student-initiated research should be directed to Mary K. Carroll, director of undergraduate research, at carrollm@union.edu.

The Research and Grants Committee is soliciting proposals for faculty research and scholarship activities. Applications and guidelines are available in the Office of Dean of Arts and Sciences (S&E, S100) or at http://www.union.edu/ Academics/AcademicAffairs.

Or contact David Hayes, interim dean, at hayesd@union.edu.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

George Gmelch's essay, “Barbadian Migrants Abroad and Back Home,” was published in “Returning to the Sources” by the University of the West Indies Press, edited by D. Plaza and F. Henry. The essay focuses on what it means for migrants to come home, both for the individual and the home society. Gmelch is the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Andy Rapoff, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently published a paper, “Orthotropic Index for Bone” in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. Rapoff and colleagues Neel Bhatavadekar of the University of North Carolina and David Daegling of the University of Florida, recently published “Application of an Image-Based Weighted Measure of Skeletal Bending Stiffness to Great Ape Mandibles” in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Bonney MacDonald, associate professor of English, received a fellowship from the Center for Study of California and the West, an organization based at University of Southern California and The Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. She spent August at the Huntington Library researching the American West for a book project on 19th- and 20th-century interpretations of the historian Frederick Jackson Turner.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Kathleen LoGiudice, assistant professor of Biology, has a new paper in the August edition of the journal BioScience, published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Her work is featured on the cover, with a pair of photos of Allegheny woodrats. The paper investigates the disappearance of the Allegheny woodrat from the northern part of its range, taking a synthetic, historical-ecological approach. The paper can be found at http://www.aibs.org/bioscience/bioscience_online_2006.html.