Charles Sharpless, Associate Professor of Chemistry, will present the results of his Jepson Fellowship research in a talk titled “Organic Matter Photochemistry: Singlet Oxygen Precursor Lifetimes” at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-19. The Goldschmidt Conference is the annual joint conference of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.
Jeffrey McClu
rken, associate professor and chair of history and American studies, will lead a reading and discussion series “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War” at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library headquarters on five Thursday evenings from November 2011 through April 2012.
The series is funded through a highly competitive grant given to the library from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more.
Deborah O’Dell, Ass
ociate Professor of Biological Sciences, was awarded $3000 from the Mary Louise Andrews Award for Cancer Research to support her project on “Gene Expression in Mammary Gland Epithelial Cells in Response to Bisphenol A.”
Deborah O’Dell, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, was awarded $3000 from the Mary Louise Andrews Award for Cancer Research to support her project on “Gene Expression in Mammary Gland Epithelial Cells in Response to Bisphenol A.”
Former Salisbury University All-American Lindsey Elliott has been named UMW’s new head field hockey coach. She replaces Dana Hall, who after 22 years of coaching field hockey and women’s lacrosse will remain as head lacrosse coach. Read the news release.
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