For the record
Of note
Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biomedical Engineering, recently received the 1999 Guglielmo Marconi Science Award from UNICO National. The nation's largest Italian-American service organization, UNICO National presents the award to recognize Italian-Americans who have excelled in the sciences. "UNICO" stands for unity, neighbor, integrity, charity and opportunity. ...
Oksana A. Volshteyn, M.D., assistant professor of neurology and of medicine and director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency training, has been certified in spinal cord injury medicine by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Volshteyn is one of the first physicians in the United States to become board-certified in this subspecialty.
Speaking of
Helen Liapis, M.D., assistant professor of pathology, recently lectured about her research on "Growth Factor Effects to the Fetal Kidney in the North American Opossum Ureteral Obstruction Model" at the Institute of Child Health of University College, London.
On assignment
Amir Arsham Amini, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and of biomedical engineering, has been selected to serve on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. The journal is published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
To press
An article by Peter MacKeith, assistant dean in the School of Architecture, on Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa's designs for the Siida Museum in Inari, Finland, recently was published in the Italian architectural journal Casabella. ...
Stephen Molnar, Ph.D., professor emeritus of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has co-authored a book titled "Environmental Change and Human Survival" with Iva M. Molnar. The book, recently published by Prentice Hill, examines the evidence for human biosocial adaptations in a changing world.
