Kerry Hill, who earned a master of social work degree in August, has been awarded a two-year Presidential Management Internship with the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau. He will monitor and offer technical assistance to metropolitan and state HIV/AIDS programs funded through the Ryan White CARE Act. É
Ronald P. Loui, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, is a program committee member for the 14th Annual International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held in December in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Loui also is a session program committee member for a special session titled "Argument and Decision," which will take place in conjunction with the Ninth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning. The workshop will be held in Toulouse, France, in April. In addition, Loui has been named conference chair for next year's annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy. É
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Computer Science, is a steering committee member for Coordination 2002 --The Fifth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, to be held in York, England, in April. É
Ronald S. Indeck, Ph.D., the Das Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for his study, "Quasi-static and Dynamic Switching of Perpendicular and Patterned Recording Media." É
Rudolph B. Husar, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a three-year, $401,997 grant from the National Science Foundation for a study titled "ITR/AP: Collaboration in Air Pollution Through Virtual Work Groups." Husar also has received $213,931 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to support an ongoing study titled "Ozone and Particulate Matter Air Quality Analysis in Support of Public Needs." In addition, he has received a $50,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a study titled "ASOS Visibility Data Evaluation and Analysis."É
Samuel Klein, M.D., the Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science in the School of Medicine, is serving as a member of the National Institutes of Health's Nutrition Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Klein will serve on the study section through June 30, 2005. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors. É
M. Wayne Flye, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery, molecular microbiology and immunology in the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1,667,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the study of "Donor Specific Alloantigen Induced Tolerance." É
Marvin H. Marcus, Ph.D., and Rebecca Copeland, Ph.D., associate professors
in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts
& Sciences, traveled to Berlin to attend the recent 2nd International Convention
of Asia Scholars at the Freie UniversitŠt. Marcus served as a discussant on
the panel "Reinventing the Child in the Literary Culture of Interwar Japan"
and participated in a roundtable discussion of the book "Return to Japan --From
'Pilgrimage' to the West." Copeland presented "Imperiled by Fashion: Warbler
in the Grove and the Modern Girl Student" in the panel "Constructed by Language:
Modernity and Femininity in Meiji Japan." Copeland subsequently attended the
conference "Across Time & Genre: Reading & Writing Women's Texts" at the University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, where she presented the paper "M is for Miyabe
Miyuki" in the panel "Dial M for Murder (ÉMonsters, Manslaughtering, Miyabe
Miyuki and Masculinity)."
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