The Red and Black

Issue date: 10/9/07 Section: News

Endowment offers study abroad scholarships

The University's Arch Foundation established a scholarship for students studying abroad. The scholarship honors University President Michael F. Adams and his wife Mary.

The $100,000 endowment will enable students to participate in study abroad programs. Almost 30 percent of University students study and travel in other countries. The University offers 100 study abroad programs in more than 60 countries.

Univ. to host early modern conference

The 64th annual meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference will be hosted by the University Friday and Saturday. The meeting features Renaissance studies topics - religion, drama, political history and authorship.

The conference is the second oldest such conference in the nation. It was founded during World War II and has more than 300 members.

This year's conference is supported by the English department, theatre and film studies department, comparative literature, religions, history, Germanic and Slavic studies, The Early Modern Union of Scholars and the Jane McMullan Academic Support Fund.

Research members gain national grant

The National Science Foundation awarded a $864,782 grant to a team led by University researchers. Microbial ecologist Mary Ann Moran and microbiologist Barny Whitman will represent the University, along with a marine science professor from the University of South Alabama, Ronald Kiene.

The project will use environmental functional genomics methods to understand why bacteria degrade organic sulfur compounds to dimethyl sulfide.

This approach is used to address ecological questions. Last year researchers led by Moran discovered a bacterial "switch gene" in two groups of plankton.

First professorship of its kind awarded

C. Ann Hollifield, associate professor of telecommunications, has been named the first holder of the Thomas C. Dowden Professorship in Media Research at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Hollifield will direct research on social, political and economic issues in the media.


- University News Service

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