Amy D. Waterman, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $899.663 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration for research titled “Increasing Living Donation in Transplant-Eligible Dialysis Patients.” …
Gerhild Williams, Ph.D., chair of the German Department in Arts & Sciences and the David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities, is serving a two-year term as president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Association and Conference. The association is one of the largest such organizations in the world with more than 2,200 members. It serves scholars and students who study the literature, culture, history, religions and performing and visual arts of the early moder period (1450-1700). Williams is working to plan the association’s annual conference, which will be in Atlanta in October. …
Paul S.G. Stein, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $707,624 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Sensory and Motor Integration in the Spinal Cord.”…
John Heil, Ph.D., professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a $126,462 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a six-week seminar for 15 college and university professors on philosophical questions about the nature of the mind, titled “Mind and Metaphysics.” …
Chengjie Xiong, Ph.D., research assistant professor of the Division of Biostatistics, has received a three-year, $353,768 grant from the National Institute of Aging for research titled “Statistics in Alzheimer’s Publications.” This is a Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development mechanism that allows the recipients to work on intensely focused research that will enhance career opportunities. …
Junior Sara Morris was one of five students from the United States and Canada named to the board of directors of the Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Morris will serve on the board for two years and will act as student voice in board decisions. Morris is treasurer of Jewish Student Union. …
Jeffrey M. Gidday, Ph.D., associate professor of neurosurgery, ophthalmology and visual sciences and of cell biology and physiology, has received a four-year, $1,000,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a research project entitled “Vascular Mechanisms of Cerebral Ischemic Tolerance.” …