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Announcements & Congratulations -10/27/2009: Congratulations to Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill. He received the Chancellor’s Faculty teaching award. He was presented by Dean Bobby Mcgehee, from the Graduate School (one of two awardees). Bobby reminded us that Edgar came here over 3 decades ago, in 1978 (joking that he came with the Arkansas Land Rush). However, Bobby noted that whereas many faculty have come and gone, Edgar has stayed here, building UAMS and the Department and his entire career. He noted his tremendous research program and the fact that he has mentored over 15 graduate students. He pointed out how important the mentoring process is, helping students design experiments, holding their hands when the experiments fail and helping them become scientists, training tomorrow’s graduate faculty. Edgar has done an outstanding job and the award is well deserved. -10/12/2009: Congratulations to Christen Simon and her advisor, Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill. Christen won the Best Poster by a Graduate Student at the Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience meeting today. The title of her poster is "Differential Responses of PPN Neurons to Kainate and Cholinergic Receptor Agonists" -9/28/2009:
Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Kane for the receipt of her R01, funding date
9/30/2009 (She is PI, Paul Drew is Co-I). We learned that it received the
highest score in the study section that reviewed the RFA’s. This is quite an
achievement! Way to go Cindy! |
