| Bill Anthes (Art History) |
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Professor Anthes received a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, “Theorizing Cultural Heritage,” Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 2007. |
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| Jennifer Armstrong (Biology) |
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Professor Armstrong received an NSF grant for “RUI: Analysis of the role of CHD1 in chromatin structure and transcription” ($303,878 funding recommendation). Expected start date May 2007. |
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She was also awarded an NIH AREA R15 grant for: “Genetic analysis of the CHD1 chromatin remodeling and assembly factor” ($185,874). |
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Since there were partial overlaps between the NSF and NIH projects, Professor Armstrong was obliged to give up the NIH grant. |
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She received a Scripps College Mellon Foundation Grant for “The Fly Eye: The Role of the Brahma Complex in the Development of the Fly Visual System.” With Rayna Brooks. |
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| José Calderón (Sociology/ Chicano/a Studies) |
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Professor Calderón was selected to a three-year term on the American Sociological Association (ASA) Practice of Sociology Committee. He was also elected president of the ASA Latino/a Section and elected to a two-year term to the ASA’s Committee on Sections. |
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He was awarded a “Goddess of Pomona” statue by the Pomona City Council, the city’s highest honor, for “serving our community by inspiring the pursuit of higher education and advocacy for human rights.” |
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He received a grant of $5,000 from the Gilkbarg Foundation for student projects and a partnership with the Pomona Day Labor Center. |
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He was selected as “Democrat of the Year” by the 59th Assembly District.
He was elected President of the Pomona and San Gabriel Valley Latino/a Roundtable. |
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Paul Faulstich (Environmental Studies)
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Professor Faulstich was reappointed to the National Screening Committee of International Education for review of Fulbright Fellowship applications. |
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He was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 2006) in a report titled, “The Sustainable University: In Search of the Sustainable Campus.” |
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| Judith V. Grabiner (Mathematics) |
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Professor Grabiner is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, England, 2006-07. |
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She is listed in Who’s Who in America, 2007. |
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Jim Hoste (Mathematics)
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Professor Hoste continues in his role as principal investigator of the National Science Foundation Mathematics REU Site at the Claremont Colleges, 2005-08. |
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He has also been appointed Chair, Committee on the Profession, American Mathematical Society, 2007-08. |
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Adam Landsberg (Physics)
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Professor Lansdberg and his research on game theory were featured as the cover story of Science News. The article, titled “Chaotic Chomp: The Mathematics of Crystal Growth Sheds Light on a Tantalizing Game,” appeared in the July 22, 2006, issue. |
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| Ronald Macaulay (Linguistics) |
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Professor Macaulay was appointed an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English Language at the University of Glasgow for the next three years. |
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Don McFarlane (Biology)
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Professor McFarlane was awarded a Mellon Foundation Career Enhancement Grant, “Creating Inter-College Undergraduate Research Affiliations at the Firestone Reserve, Costa Rica” ($21,079). |
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| Kathryn Miller (Art/Environmental Studies) |
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Professor Miller was awarded a public art commission from the city of Ventura ($55,000) for the design and implementation of artwork for the Pepper Tree Corner Park. Expected completion date: April 2008. |
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| John Milton (Computational Neuroscience) |
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Professor Milton, as co-PI, was awarded a $429,878 grant from the National Science Foundation in support of efforts to develop an innovative undergraduate curriculum in biology over the next five years. With co-PIs Lissette de Pillis, T. Gregory Dewey, Art Lee, and Mario Martelli. |
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| John Norvell (Anthropology) |
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As part of his Fulbright Faculty Scholar Fellowship, Professor Norvell taught a course on Urban Anthropology at the Federal University of Roraima, Brazil. While in Brazil, he also started a new research project on urban Indians and regional transformations in national and ethnic identity in the northern Brazilian Amazon. |
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| Adrian D. Pantoja (Political Studies & Chicano/a Studies) |
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Professor Pantoja received an award for “The Best Paper on Latino Politics,” presented at the 2006 Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM.
He received a Blais Challenge Fund Grant from Claremont Graduate University, “The Effects of Media Framing on Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants.” With Jennifer Merolla ($7,000). |
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| Katie Purvis-Roberts (Chemistry) |
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Professor Purvis-Roberts is a PI on a Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) grant from the Department of Commerce, June to July 2006 ($5,655). |
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| Norma Rodriguez (Psychology) |
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Professor Rodriguez served as an eligibility consultant for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in Psychology (December 6, 2006). |
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| Dan Segal (Anthropology and History) |
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Professor Segal was elected to a three-year term as secretary of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). The secretary is both a member of the AAA Executive Board and the chair of the AAA Nominations Committee. |
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| Susan Seymour (Anthropology) |
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Professor Seymour was the Distinguished Lecturer for the Culture, Brain, and Development Program at UCLA. Lecture title: “Mothers, Daughters, and Grandmothers: A Longitudinal Study of the Changing Lives of Women in an Indian Town,” December 2006. |
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| Sharon Snowiss (Political Studies) |
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Professor Snowiss has been appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought. |
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Zhaohua Irene Tang (Biology)
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Professor Tang received an additional $12,000 for summer student research to supplement her existing NSF grant. |
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| Lako Tongun (IIS and Political Studies) |
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Professor Tongun was interviewed by Howard Lesser for his October 16, 2006, Voice of America broadcast and article titled “China Contributes $1M to African Union’s Darfur Force.” |
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Anna Wenzel (Chemistry)
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Professor Wenzel was awarded an ACS-PRF Grant to support her work in the asymmetric preparation of nitrogen compounds ($40,000). |
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| Emily Wiley (Biology) |
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Professor Wiley received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (top 5 percent were funded) for “Investigating Heterochromatin Assembly Through Histone Deacetylases Principle Investigator.” This award, in the amount of $654,000 for five years, will support her research on how genetic information is turned on and off correctly, and will establish the Joint Science Department as a center for undergraduate involvement in genome research. |
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| Phil Zuckerman (Sociology) |
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Professor Zuckerman became an associate editor for the journal Sociology of Religion. |
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