Category: Professional Notes

Associate Professors of Biology Andrew Dolby and Deborah O’Dell were awarded a $1,000 grant by the Virginia Society of Ornithology for their joint project Enzyme immunoassay quantification of Heat Shock Protein 60 and its application to avian conservation biology.

At the Virginia Academy of Science’s Fall Undergraduate Research Meeting, held at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond in October, O’Dell’s student, Anum Shaikh, was awarded funding for undergraduate research. Anum will study the “Effects of Combined Vitamin E and C Treatment on Plaque Formation in Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Former University of Mary Washington All-American Caitlin Erickson has been named the new head women’s lacrosse coach at Randolph-Macon. Erickson arrives in Ashland after a two-year stint as an assistant coach with her alma mater. Erickson helped lead the Eagles to 28 wins over her two years on the sidelines in Fredericksburg. The 2009 squad won the Capital Athletic Conference Championship, advanced to the third-round of the NCAA Tournament and finished the season ranked 12th in the Nation.

Two of Theresa’s students have won a $500 undergraduate research competition from the Virginia Academy of Science. Erin Haynes and Browyn Wang were awarded for their proposal to study “Comparative Development and Evolutionary Studies of New Caenorhabitis Species in Virginia.”

Richard Finkelstein, Dean, Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English, published an article on Shakespeare, “Pericles, Paul, and Protestantism,” in this summer’s issue of Comparative Drama. He has another article on Shakespeare, “The Comedy of Errors and the Theology of Things,” forthcoming in the Spring, 2012 issue of Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900.