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Archived article from Nov 3, 2000
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Two members of the School of Engineering were recognized by the American Ceramic Society at the annual meeting this summer. Richard Riman, professor of ceramic and materials engineering, was named a fellow of the society. Dale Niesz, director of the Malcolm G. McLaren Center for Ceramic Research, received the Arthur Frederick Greaves-Walker Award.
Professors Alan Robock and Georgiy Stenchikov of the department of environmental science have received a $270,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation and a $180,000, three-year grant from NASA to study the effects of large volcanic eruptions on climate. Robock and David Robinson, professor of geography, have received $60,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to study the impacts of climate change on New Jersey's citizens.
Thomas Rudel, professor of human ecology, has received a Lindbergh grant from the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation for a project entitled "Creating Economic Opportunities in Villages to Encourage Reforestation of Valuable Native Tree Species in Ecuador." Rudel, one of 10 awardees this year, was chosen from some 180 applicants worldwide.
Dipak Sarkar, chair of the animal sciences department at Cook College, has been awarded a $1.31 million, five-year grant from the NIH's National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The grant funds his research on the growth and differentiation of opioid neurons and the effects of alcohol on these processes.
Noreen Scott-Garrity, education curator of the Stedman Art Gallery in Camden, has been invited to serve on the Arts Program Committee for the renovation of the PATCO Hi-SpeedLine stations.
Geoffrey Sill, associate professor of English in Camden, has been named to the editorial board of The Scriblerian, a journal that reviews current scholarship in the field of early 18th-century English literature.
Margaret Varma, associate professor of nutritional sciences at Cook College, was invited by the president of Aide a Toute Detresse, Fourth World to speak at a commemoration focusing on the International Year of the Culture of Peace held at the United Nations in October.
John Worobey, associate professor of nutritional sciences at Cook College, was elected chair of the Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition of New Brunswick, the local affiliate of the Central New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium, which coordinates child and family service agencies in the greater Plainfield, Trenton and New Brunswick areas.
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