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News from Geological Sciences
The Department of Geological Sciences was well represented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. Held November 4 - 7, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina, 10 faculty members, six post-doctoral fellows, 17 graduate students, and 11 undergraduate students from the department and the Florida Museum of Natural History attended. The group made a total of at least 24 presentations. During the meeting, Ph.D. candidates Amy Brown and Mitra Khadka, who are students of Professor Jonathan Martin, were presented with 2012 Geological Society of America Hydrogeology Division Student Research Awards. Announced earlier, these awards recognize them as two of the top hydrogeology students in the larger GSA grant application pool. Only four such awards were given by GSA this year.
News of Faculty
An article by Department of Geological Sciences Professor Paul Mueller, Professor David Foster, and collaborators was published in Volume 20, Issue 12 (2012) of Yellowstone Science, a Yellowstone National Park publication highlighting scientific research conducted there. Entitled Origins of a Continent: Evidence from a Research Experience for Undergraduates Program in Yellowstone, it documents a two-year research project to characterize the types, compositions, structures, and ages of rocks found in Yellowstone National Park. The research is part of an on-going collaborative effort between Montana State University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Florida. The article discusses rock compositions for a range of areas within the northern section of the park, outlines analytical methods used by the students, and interprets the Park's very early history more than 2.5 billion years ago.
Two groups of 12 students each from colleges and universities across the country did geologic mapping and sample collection in the summers of 2010 and 2011. During the following academic year, they followed up with laboratory analysis of the collected samples for specific research topics. A majority of the students chose the laboratory experience at UF in the department's Center for Isotope Geoscience. Here they conducted U-Pb radiometric dating of rocks and minerals, trace element analyses of rocks, and used electron imaging to characterize minerals important for the dating experiments. The research was supported through a grant from the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
News from Geography
News of Faculty
Researchers, Ian Kracalik and Jason Blackburn, from the Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory (SEER Lab) and members of UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute, have co-authored a paper in the Journal Geospatial Health on the spatial patterns of livestock anthrax in Kazakhstan.
SEER Lab partnered with the Kazakh Science Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases and the Scientific and Practical Center of Sanitary and Epidemiological Expertise and Monitoring, both within the Kazakh Ministry of Health in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
As part of this study, the team developed predictions of areas at high risk for anthrax outbreaks in cattle. These calculations combine environmental predictions and data on the spatial clustering - or local geographic concentrations - of livestock outbreaks. Previous work from SEER Lab has focused on predicting the geographic potential for Bacillus anthracis, the pathogen causing anthrax, by using ecological niche models in the US and Kazakhstan. Ecological niche models predict the geographic potential of the pathogen based on environmental conditions. By the nature of niche modeling, they expect those predictions to be broader than where they find the disease to be clustering, as those patterns will be driven by local conditions and agricultural practices.
In this paper, the modeling was limited to ecological variables, but was designed to predict disease clustering.
This is one of the first and few studies to define high risk areas for this disease. While the disease is infamous as a biological weapon, anthrax is a regularly occurring livestock disease in many parts of the world with frequent spillover into humans across Central Asia. Because of this, surveillance is critical in providing estimates of where to expect disease to provide the first step in better directing resources for monitoring and control. Endemic anthrax is a summertime disease in the mid northern latitudes, and livestock control is achieved through regular and timely vaccination.
These results can be used to inform any veterinary public health in Kazakhstan, to identify key areas for vaccine intervention during spring time months ahead of summer outbreaks.
This research was supported by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Cooperative Biological Engagement Program. For more information on this study, contact Jason Blackburn at 352-273-9374 or jkblackburn@ufl.edu.
October
News from Geological Sciences
News of Faculty
A paper co-authored by Jason Curtis, Senior Associate-In Geochemistry and Stable Isotope Mass Spec Lab Manager, former Professor David Hodell (now at University of Cambridge), and eight others was published September 30 online in Nature Geoscience. Entitled "North Atlantic forcing of Amazonian precipitation during the last ice age," it discusses Amazonian precipitation during the last glacial period based on an oxygen isotopic record from a speleothem (cave calcite formation) from Equador. Curtis was responsible for analyzing all 1,787 isotope samples.
August
News from Geological Sciences
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P r o f e s s o r a n d C h a i r M i c h a e l P e r f i t p r e s e n t e d t w o i n v i t e d t a l k s a t t h e G E O C E A N S y m p o s i u m a n d S u m m e r S c h o o l A u g u s t 2 7 3 1 i n P l o u z a né , B r e s t , F r a n c e . H i s s y m p o s i u m t o p i c w a s M i d- O c e a n R i d g e V o l c a n i s m o n t h e E a s t P a c i f i c R i s e : I n t e g r a t e d V o l c a n o l o g i c , G e o p h y s i c a l a n d G e o c h e m i c a l S t u d i e s . H e s p o k e a b o u t t h e n e w t e c h n i q u e s o f s t u d y i n g t h e s e a f l o o r a n d h o w h e u s e s g e o c h e m i c a l a n a l y s e s t o i n v e s t i g a t e l a v a s e r u p t e d a t m i d - o c e a n r i d g e s d u r i n g t h e S u m m e r S c h o o l s e s s i o n .
News of Students
Recent Geological Sciences graduate Carolyn Ball, BS '11, MS '12, was the featured scholar in the Spring 2012 issue of
UF's Journal of Undergraduate Research. The article talks about her research with Dr. Jonathan Martin into how the magnitude of floods in
Florida rivers is affected by the amount of rainfall that fell during the six month period prior to the storm that generated flooding. Her
paper on this topic, Effects of Antecedent Hydrogeologic Conditions on Flood Magnitude and Recharge to the Floridan Aquifer in North-Central
Florida, co-authored by Martin, also appears in the issue. This work is now being prepared for submission to the journal Ground Water. The
JUR article also provides a personal profile focused on Ball's years at UF. Ball has begun her career as a geoscientist with Shell Exploration
and Production Company in Houston, Texas.
Professor Bron Taylor gave two lectures at the International Disaster and Rick Conference in Davos, Switzerland, on August 28th and 29th. The first was a plenary lecture on "Religion and Global Ethics" in the Open (public) Forum on Risk and Society. The second presentation was titled "Disaster at Rio" in a special plenary session on the United Nations Summit Rio+20.
Professor Manuel Vásquez was elected to the American Society for the Study of Religion, along with Steve Prothero, Webb Keane, Christian Wedemeyer, and Sally Promey. Congratulations Dr. Vásquez!
This summer, Sean O'Neil (PhD, Americas track), successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Contested Combinations: Evangelical, Pentecostal and Catholic Convergence among Latin Americans and U.S. Latinos in the Anglican Communion." Profs. Peterson and V‡squez served as co-chairs of his dissertation committee, which also included David Hackett and Philip Williams (Political Science/Latin American Studies). Sean is currently an instructor at the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville, where he is teaching U.S. Latino and Latin American Christianity, Religion in Latin America, Comparative Religious Ethics, American Studies, and Religion and Sports. Congratulations Sean! He can be reached at soneil1@utk.edu
On August 23rd, Professor Bron Taylor gave a lecture on grassroots environmental movements at the Global Environments Summer Academy 2012, which was hosted by the Munich International Summer University. The theme of his lecture was "Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World."
Professor Manuel Vásquez gave at presentation entitled "Brazil and the Emerging Global Cartography of the Sacred" at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, on June 26th. This presentation drew from a volume entitled "The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions," which he is co-editing with Cristina Rocha (University of Western Sydney) and which has been accepted for publication by Brill.
Professor Terje Ostebo was invited to present the paper "Religion and Ethno-nationalism in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Oromo Struggle in Bale, Ethiopia," at a plenary session for the Oromo Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Minnesota, June 14th. He was also interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor about the current religious tensions in Ethiopia on July 27th.
Professor Mario Poceski gave an invited lecture, "The Growth and Transformation of Christianity in Modern China," in July at Nanzan University, in Nagoya, Japan.
Professor Bron Taylor was one of the organizers of the fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, with the theme "Nature and the Popular Imagination," which was held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, August 8-11th. A number of former Religion Department students presented papers, including Drs. Gavin Van Horn,
Joseph Witt, Lucas Johnston, and Bernard Zaleha (currently pursuing his Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz). Carolyn Mullin, who earned her BA in our religion and nature program, and is now the curator of
the animals and society museum in Los Angeles (and wanted our students to know about her internships, see http://www.museumofanimals.org/internships), also attended. Three UF faculty were also presenters. Taylor gave a talk titled "Surfing into Paradise and Catastrophe: Hollywood and Malibu in the construction of religious and parareligious surfing imaginaries" in the session, "Eden & Apocalypse: The Strange and Contradictory Nature of Nature in Malibu," and he was also co-Convener and presenter during "A Forum on the "Greening of Religion Hypothesis."
Our own Whitney Sanford gave a talk titled "Reflections of Gandhi: Non-violence, Self-sufficiency and Food Democracy in Contemporary Intentional Communities." Professor J. Richard Stepp from Anthropology also attended and presented his work. The ISSRNC was initiated by faculty and students in the religion and anthropology departments at UF in 2005.
Caleb Simmons (PhD. Candidate) has been given the Dolores Auzenne Dissertation Award from the University of Florida Graduate School and the Office of Minority Graduate Programs. The award provides funding for the completion of dissertation research and writing. More information about the award and the application for the spring semester can be found at:
http://graduateschool.ufl.edu/finances-and-funding/delores-auzenne-dissertation-award. Congratulations, Caleb!
Senior Geological Sciences major Sarah Bateman will be competing for Iceland in the
2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. She will swim in the 50 meter freestyle and in the
4 x 100 meter medley relay. A member of the UF Swim Team, Bateman also swam for Iceland in the
2008 Olympics. In her swimming career at UF, she has been a nine time All-American selection, a
four time All-SEC selection, and is the 2009 and 2010 SEC Champion in the 200 meter freestyle.
She holds the SEC record in the 200 meter freestyle and is the UF record holder in the 50 meter
freestyle with a time of 21.89 seconds. Assistant Professor Brian Silliman co-authored a paper entitled "A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the
Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems" published in Science on June 15. The new research reveals that two-shelled mollusks called bivalves,
bacteria inhabiting the bivalves' gills, and seagrasses themselves all live symbiotically. The finding helps explain the long-standing puzzle of how seagrasses can survive in murky shoreline waters and offers
insight into how scientists can better restore seagrass ecosystems, which are declining worldwide.
News from Religion
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News of Students
July
News from Geological Sciences
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June
News from Biology
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News from Geological Sciences
News of Faculty
- A research paper by Associate Professor Andrew Zimmerman and Assistant Professor Pete Adams, along with Assistant Professor Brian Silliman of the Department of Biology, is being published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Entitled "Degradation and Resilience in Louisiana Salt Marshes Following the BP-Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," it examines the effects of the oil spill on shoreline habitats and the valuable ecological services they provide. Following the spill, the research team led by Zimmerman and supported by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative through the Florida Institute of Oceanography sampled marsh sediments and collected ecological and erosion data from oiled and non-oiled marshes in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. They found that 18 months after the spill, while marsh grass and macroinvertebrate density had largely recovered to pre-spill levels, oil-driven plant death on the edges of these marshes more than doubled the already high rates of shoreline erosion in this area, driving marsh platform loss that is likely to be permanent.
- Associate Professor Andrew Zimmerman is co-author of a paper entitled "Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia" published in Science on June 15. The researchers studied soils from 55 sites across central and western Amazonia to assess the history of human occupation prior to European contact. Only sparse occurrences of charcoal from human-set fires or any other evidence of ecological disturbances were found, indicating that human impacts on interfluvial forests were small, infrequent, and highly localized. This evidence clashes with the belief that most of Amazonia, including forests far removed from major rivers, was heavily occupied and modified. "These findings have current day policy implications in how we manage Amazon biological resources," Zimmerman says. "We cannot assume that these forests are resilient to disturbance, as some have proposed, because much of it has never been or only slightly been disturbed in the past".
News of Students
- Ph.D. candidate Tania Villaseñor recently received several competitive national and international student research
awards. A student of Associate Professor John Jaeger, she was awarded a $1,500 student research grant in April 2012 by the
Society for Sedimentary Geology as well as a travel grant of $2,000 from the Geological Society of America (GSA) and U.S.
National Committee for the International Union of Geological Sciences and a $300 Summer graduate travel grant from the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This travel funding will cover her August trip to the International Geological
Congress meeting in Australia where she will make an oral presentation on Late Pleistocene lithofacies and changes
in sediment provenance in Canterbury Basin, South Island of New Zealand.
Villaseñor also received a $2,000 student research grant from GSA in May for her work on the study of changes in sediment provenance in Canterbury Basin using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology on the silt size fraction. She will continue her graduate studies in geological sciences at the University of Florida with the help of a doctoral studies scholarship from the Advanced Human Capital Formation Program, National Commission of Science and Technology of Chile. The scholarship will cover the cost of tuition, fees, and a stipend until August 2014.
- Ph.D. candidates Amy Brown, Mitra Khadka, and John Ezell, all working with
Professor Jon Martin in the Department of Geological Sciences, were awarded Geological
Society of America (GSA) research grants to study hydrogeology of karst aquifers similar to
those in Florida. Khadka received $2,080 for his research on developing radon and thoron as
hydrological tracers for determining the magnitude, location, and seasonal variability of
groundwater and river water exchange. Brown received $2,500 to study the use of strontium
and lead isotopes to determine the timing of the formation of metal oxide precipitates in
water-filled caves in northern Florida and their effects on water quality. Ezell received
$1,848 to study the tidal and biological controls on water chemistry and dissolution reactions
in lakes on carbonate islands in the Bahamas.
Based on their grant applications, Brown and Khadka were selected as 2012 Geological Society of America Hydrogeology Division Student Research Award winners. The awards recognize them as two of the top hydrogeology students in the larger GSA grant application pool. Their plaques will be presented during the GSA Annual Meeting in November in Charlotte, NC and each will receive a travel stipend of $350 to attend. Only four such awards were given by GSA this year.
April
News from Geological Sciences
News of Students
Department of Geological Sciences seniors Chelsea Fenn and Bud Davis were selected as two of the 40 interns in the 2012 Cooperative Summer Geosciences Internship Program co-sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Selection was made based on their outstanding field camp performance at UF in 2011. Established in 1965, this is one of the longest continuously running science internship programs in the country.
Davis will work in Lakewood, CO analyzing core from Great Sand Dunes National Park. Differences in the physical, magnetic, and biotic properties will be studied to gain understanding of the area's geology. Fenn declined the USGS internship, instead choosing to intern with Denver-based petroleum company Enerplus. She will study the Turner sandstone in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming by doing field work, mapping, and describing cores to better understand the formations' marine depositional setting. The goal is to identify areas where oil and natural gas might be produced and correlate well logs for these areas.
News from Anthropology and African American Studies
NSF-Funded Symposium on Racism & Sexism in Women's Careers in Academia
Dr. Faye V. Harrison was invited to participate in a March 28-29, 2012 symposium on strategies for success in women's academic careers at Texas A&M University (TAMU). With funding from the National Science Foundation and other sources, the Department of Anthropology hosted "Strategies for Success for Women in Anthropology," whose organizers and targeted audience included faculty in both Africana Studies and Women's Studies. The symposium, the highlight of the department's Women's Week activities, featured four nationally renowned women scholars, who represented each of anthropology's major subfields. Dr. Harrison was selected to speak from the perspective of sociocultural anthropology. The four speakers were asked to address how gender, race, and ethnicity along with the selected focus of their research had affected their career development. Most of the speakers had never publicly divulged "personal" information about their careers. The most senior scholar, who claimed not to have expertise in gender analysis, captivated the auditorium with her no-holds barred presentation on women in science and her own personal experience as a student and later as a professional researcher.
Dr. Harrison's lecture, "Decolonizing Anthropology from the Outside Within," was informed by her track record of scholarly writings on epistemological hierarchies, the history and politics of knowledge, and the decolonization of anthropology. Her lecture-which balanced the personal, professional, and theoretical-was well-received and stimulated a lively discussion that continued informally over the two-day period. In the second day's panel discussion on "Promoting Climate Change in Departments," she presented on the common misconceptions and anxieties about racism, affirmative action, and compensatory justice. She also zoomed in on some of the subtle and not-so-subtle forms that academic racism commonly assumes-including the micro-aggressions documented in studies based on multi-methodological research designs that combine empirical and experiential evidence. She drew on a chapter she contributed to Racism in the Academy: The New Millennium (Audrey Smedley and Janis Hutchinson, eds.), which will be available as an e-book from the American Anthropological Association later in the spring. As the organizers requested, she also addressed her own experiences with intersections of racism and sexism in academia along with strategies she has deployed for survival and success over the course of her career.
After returning home from Texas, Dr. Harrison received thoughtful "debriefing" messages from the organizers and a fellow participant. The latter wrote the following to her: "What an INCREDIBLY powerful critique you left us with yesterday morning. I am stunned by your brilliance as a thinker and theoretician... We will all be citing you on this in our classes!!!... Thank you so very much... for the incredible work you do and have done. You are an inspiration."
News from Religion
- The Center for Latin American Studies has received a $400,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to develop an interdisciplinary program on immigration, religion, and social change. Funds from the grant will be used to develop effective models of intervention, exchange, and outreach, deploying the resources of the University of Florida to address the urgent needs of immigrant communities in the U.S. South. Congratulations to Project co-directors Manuel Vasquez (Religion) and Philip Williams (Center for Latin American Studies) and Co-PIs, Maria Coady (Education) and Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini (Nursing)!
News of Faculty
- Professor Whitney Sanford received an FEO Award for Summer 2012 for her project "Being the Change: What Gandhi Has Taught Contemporary Intentional Communities about Food, Non-violence, and Social Justice." This fieldwork-based project explores how members of four intentional communities (Dancing Rabbit, LA Ecovillage, New Hope Catholic Workers Farm, and the Possibility Alliance) and urban affiliates (Shade Tree Collective and Cherith Brook Catholic Worker) understand and enact Mohandas K. Gandhi's social thought in response to contemporary social and agrarian failures in North America. Congratulations Dr. Sanford!
- Professor Mario Poceski has a newly-published chapter in an edited volume: "Chinese Buddhism," in Randall Nadeau, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012): 197-218.
- Professor Vasudha Narayanan did an onsite review of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona last week.
- Professor Manual Vasquez published a co-authored article entitled "A congregação multicultural e a migração brasileira para os Estados Unidos: Reflexões a partir de uma igreja em Atlanta" in Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira, one of the top scholarly journals in religious studies in Brazil.
- Professor Bron Taylor's article, "Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: Tracing an Environmental History from Occidental Roots to Earth Day," will appear in Wilderness Mythologies: Wilderness in the History of Religions, ed. Laura Feldt (Berlin: De Gruyter); accepted and now in production, it is slated for publication Winter/Spring 2013. A pre-copy edited version is online (comments welcome) at http://www.brontaylor.com/environmental_articles/pdf/Taylor--Wilderness2Biodiversity.pdf
News of Students
- Religion Majors Jaime Drucker and Caroline Reed were elected to Phi Beta Kappa this March. Congratulations!
- Jordan Kassabaum (undergraduate religion major) has been awarded a University Scholars award of $1,750. The University Scholars program will allow Jordan to conduct research on the modern "quest" for the historical Jesus, concentrating on the title "Son of Man" as it is used in both Jewish and Christian literature of the Greco-Roman period. Jordan will be mentored by Professor Jim Mueller. Congratulations, Jordan!
- PhD candidate Caleb Simmons received a language fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies for Summer 2012 and the 2012-2013 Academic Year to study Kannada in Mysore, Karnataka in India. Congratulations, Caleb!
- Krista Schumacher (undergraduate religion major) has been awarded a University Scholars award of $1,750. The University Scholars program will allow Krista to conduct research on religion in the military, particularly studying military chaplains. Krista will be mentored by Professor Anna Peterson. Congratulations, Krista!
March
News from Religion
News of Students
- PhD candidate Bridgette O'Brien McGoldrick, who is also working as an upper school Humanities teacher at the Annie Wright School, is one of two teachers in the nation selected to be a William and Virginia Banks Cannady Visiting Teacher to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa in August, 2012. The Cannady fellowship competition, open to teachers at US girls' schools across the nation, was conceived to bring to the Winfrey Academy excellent American teachers who will advance the mission of the Academy and forge ongoing international connections among girls and teachers at schools throughout the world. Congratulations, Bridgette!
- PhD candidate Caleb Simmons's essay, "The Graphic Goddess: Mahisasuramardini in the Modern Art World," has been chosen to be reprinted in Modern Art Asia's two-year anniversary issue. Congratulations, Caleb!
News from Geological Sciences
News of Faculty
- Associate Professor Joe Meert gave two invited talks on "The (Paleo) Geography of Evolution: Making sense of changing geography and changing continents." The first presentation was January 31 at the 49th Annual Florida Regional Junior Science, Engineering, and Humanities Symposium at the Reitz Union and the second was February 11 at Broward Community College's 8th Annual Darwin Day.
News of Students
- A group of undergraduate students including Trevor Cole, Sarah Widlansky, Janelle Bauer, Alia Lesnek, Chelsea Fenn and Jerome Sepulchre volunteered at Newberry Elementary School during the school's Science Fair Showcase on February 22. During five 30 minute presentations, the group introduced rocks, minerals and fossils to about 100 elementary students.
- During two sessions in January, undergraduate students Trevor Cole and Matthew Celestino taught members of the Trinity Church-based Boy Scout troop about geology. The lessons included erosion, rock types, identifying minerals and their use in industry and fossil species found in Gainesville creeks.
February
News from Religion
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- Professor Terje Østebø published the article (co-authored with Jörg Haustein): "EPRDF's Revolutionary Democracy and Religious Plurality: Islam and Christianity in Post-Derg Ethiopia" in Journal of East African Studies, 5, 2, 2011.
- Professor Mario Poceski received an invitation to serve as a discussant at the 4th Shen Yen Foundation International Conference, held in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 1st – 4th. He is also planning to spend a few days after the conference at Dharma Drum Mountain, a monastic community in the northern part of Taiwan.
- Professor Anna Peterson has been named as an Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor for the academic year 2012–13 by the University Honors Program. She will teach an honors course on "Animals and Society" in fall 2012. Congratulations, Dr. Peterson!
- Professor Whitney Sanford was selected as a curator for the "Lexicon of Sustainability" Pop-Up Art show. This collection of prints is designed to prompt discussion around food, justice, and sustainability. The Lexicon of Sustainability will first be shown in conjunction with Cinema Verde, Gainesville's environmental film festival, at Villa East, 301 N. Main Street, from February 24th–March 2nd. It will also be installed on campus during UF's Earth Day Festivities on April 6th. The prints will be housed in Library West and available for checkout.
- Professor Robin Wright's manuscript "Indigenous Religious Traditions of the World" has been accepted for publication in a new encyclopedia Religions of the World, edited by Augsburg Press. Robin Wright's manuscript, "Mythscapes and their meanings in the Northwest Amazon," has been accepted for publication in a new volume "Ensaios sobre o Multiculturalismo: Literatura, Cultura e Direitos de indígenas em época de globalização," edited by Maria Sylvia Cintra Martins.
News of Students
- PhD candidate Hilit Surowitz has been offered a tenure-track position in the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University. Congratulations, Hilit!
- Robin Globus (PhD Candidate, Religion and Nature) has been selected as a finalist for a 2012 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. This year, there were more than 550 national applicants for this prestigious fellowship. As of this week, the top 10% have been chosen as finalists, with 21 soon to be selected to receive this award. Congratulations Robin!
January
News from Astronomy
News of Faculty
- The Helen B. Warner Prize for a significant contribution to observational or theoretical astronomy by an early-career scientist has been awarded to Eric B. Ford “for his theoretical and computational research in the field of extrasolar planets, including ground-breaking work on the dynamical evolution of planetary systems and planet formation.” Ford‘s work has established the importance of mutual gravitational interactions within exoplanet systems and has aided the efficient design of new exoplanet searches.
