Christopher R. Brodie (SX 2004), a former associate editor at American Scientist, has been named vice president of corporate communications at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

H. Holden Thorp (SX 2004) has been named chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp is a former chair of Sigma Xi's Public Understanding of Science Committee.

Richard Charles McCarty (SX 1992) has been appointed provost at Vanderbilt University.

Life Member Gertrude Neumark Rothschild (SX 1950), a professor emeritus at Columbia University, was featured in the April 10 issue of Nature. The 80-year-old physicist is suing 30 large electronics companies for infringing on her 1993 patent on wide-band semiconductors. She says she filed the complaint to raise awareness of women's role in science.

Life Member Nancy L. Haigwood (SX 1979) has been appointed the fifth director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, one of the eight national centers in the U.S. and the first primate center to be established.

Harold Arthur Geller (SX 2006) has been named Faculty Member of the Year by the George Mason University Alumni Association, recognizing and honoring his achievements and contributions to the university.

Pamela C. Ebert-Flattau (SX 1972) of Washington, D.C., has been elected a member of the Committee on International Relations in Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Noemi Graciela Mirkin (SX 1991) in the Biophysics Research Division at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Martin E. Gordon (SX 1964) of St. Louis, Missouri, has received the Yale University Honoris Causa International Health Fellowship Award in recognition of his exceptional service and support of the Wilbur Downs International Health Student Travel Fellows.

Sigma Xi Members in the News for April 2008

Vicki S. Thompson (SX 1992), a chemical engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory, was featured in an Associated Press article for her work with other researchers over the past 10 years to successfully develop a human identification test that's faster than DNA testing and would serve as a new weapon in the arsenal for detectives, forensic experts and the military.

Dawn Neuman (SX 1988) has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University Channel Islands.

George Adeeb Khoury (SX 2007) has been selected to receive a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. He was also elected student government president of the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments at Penn State.

Gerald W. Intemann (SX 1964) has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Donald B. Taylor (SX 1989) has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Benedictine University.

Edythe E. Kirk (SX 1997) in the Department of Psychology at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, has been selected as one of four faculty members to receive the university's 2008 Merit Award for outstanding commitment to education.

Lee Merriam Talbot (SX 1974) of McLean, Virginia, has received the University of California's 2008 Excellence in Achievement Award for pioneering work in developing ecosystem science, shaping national and international environmental policies and principles, establishing an ecosystem basis for conservation and conducting environmental work in 131 countries.

John A. Orr (SX 1979) in the Division of Academic Affairs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been appointed provost and senior vice president there.

Manu Lopus (SX 2008) in the Department of Molecular/Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California-Santa Barbara has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the United Kingdom.

Melissa Lee Kopp (SX 2007) of Rouses Point, New York; Amber Rose LaChapelle (SX 2007) of Plainville, Connecticut; and Christopher Michael Morales (SX 2006) of Altona, New York, have been awarded the SUNY-Plattsburgh Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, which recognizes their well-rounded success, combining excellence in academics with excellence in athletics, leadership, career achievement, community service or creative and performing arts.

Charles E. Carraher, Jr. (SX 1970) at Florida Atlantic University has joined the board of advisors at BioSolar(TM), Inc. where he will provide leadership in the development of the company's current and next generation of polymers being readied for the marketplace.

Donald Robert Bobbitt (SX 1986) has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Thomas A. Gorell (SX 1969) has been named vice president of administrative services at Colorado State University.

Sigma Xi Members in the News for March 2008

Peter Fitzgerald Dorman (SX 2001) of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has been named president of the American University of Beirut.

Xiaozhou Zhang (SX 2007) at Georgia State University has been recognized by the Membership Board and the Underrepresented Members Committee of the American Society for Microbiology for outstanding service as an online mentor of the ASM 2008 Minority Mentoring Program.

G. Wayne Clough (SX 1964), president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named the 12th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the world's largest museum and research complex.

Christopher R. Brodie (SX 2004), an associate editor of American Scientist, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2008-2009. Starting in August, he will conduct science-writing workshops at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. He will also help the Academy plan a symposium on the coverage of science in Norwegian media and serve as an ambassador between journalists and scientists.

Peter W. Glynn (SX 1984) in the Division of Marine Biology/Fisheries at the University of Miami has been selected to receive the university's Provost Award for Scholarly Activity, which recognizes extraordinary research and scholarly pursuits.

James M. Adovasio (SX 1976) has been named provost at Mercyhurst College.

Steven G. Driese (SX 1982) in the department of geology at Baylor University has been elected president of the Society for Sedimentary Geology.

Sigma Xi Members in the News for February 2008

Robert Dennis Lyman (SX 2007) has been named provost at the University of Southern Mississippi.

A University of Central Missouri research team led by visiting professor of biology Harold W. Keller (SX 1971), and including biology graduate student Sydney E. Everhart (SX 2004), will be featured in an eposide called "Smoky Mountains Treetop Exploration" on the PBS program Wild Chronicles on or around Feb. 22 on PBS television stations nationwide. Scheduled broadcast of the program may vary by station.

Sigma Xi Members in the News for January 2008

Jerry Y. S. Lin (SX 1998) has been named chair of the department of chemical engineering in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, where he has been interim chair since July 2006.

The National Academy of Sciences has awarded its John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science to Thomas Eisner (SX 1954), J.G. Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, "for pathbreaking studies of the myriad ways that organisms utilize chemistry to mediate ecological interactions, which have provided a foundation for the field of chemical ecology."

The National Academy of Sciences has selected Norman P. Neureiter (SX 1953) to receive its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal. He is director of the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Neureiter is being honored "for enhancing the status of science and technology in the U.S. State Department as the first science and technology adviser to the secretary of state and for spurring international cooperation in science and technology under U.S. leadership."

Bruce M. Alberts (SX 1960) has been named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to serve as editor in chief of its journal Science beginning March 1.

Kenneth D. Gardner, Jr. (SX 1973) has shared honors in the naming of an endowed chair in kidney research at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The Solomon, Gardner, Sterling Research Chair in Nephrology recognizes a physiologist, the late Sidney Solomon; Gardner, an internist-nephrologist; and William A. Sterling, a transplant surgeon, for their integrated contributions to teaching, patient care and investigation in the broad field of renal medicine.

Barrasso Consulting LLC, a company founded by Diane Spess Barrasso (SX 1983) of Westfield, New Jersey, will be fully integrated with Deloitte FAS’ Forensic and Dispute Services as a new service line.

Urbano Fra (SX 1998) of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, has joined the Spanish Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).

Crystal R. Icenhour (SX 2006) has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the board of directors of the National Postdoctoral Association. She is president and director of research for Phthisis Diagnostics in Charlottesville, Virginia, and also serves as executive director of the Marafiki Foundation.

Katherine M. Whatley (SX 1982) has been named provost at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia.

Sigma Xi Members in the News for December 2007

Bilal Ahmad Ramay (SX 2003) of Karachi, Pakistan, recently joined the Addis Pharmaceutical Factory at Adigrat Ethiopia as general manager after 32 years of experience as a researcher, senior lecturer, general manager and director of operations in the pharmaceutical industry.

Carol Simpson (SX 1984) has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Anna Bobiak Nagurney (SX 1982) at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst has received a Fulbright grant to serve as a senior specialist in business administration next March at the University of Catania in Italy.

John F. Egan (SX 1958) of Nashua, New Hampshire, has received the Department of the Navy's Superior Civilian Performance Award in recognition of his leadership the last three years as chair of the Naval Studies Board of the National Academies.

Benjamin Mosier (SX 1958) of Houston, Texas, an emeritus professor at Rice University-Texas Medical Center, has received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Act Award for his contribution to patents and research conducted on micro-encapsulation and drug delivery systems.

Robert M. Doerr (SX 1965) of Rolla, Missouri, has been awarded the 2007 President's Award from the Missouri State Genealogical Association in recognition of his outstanding service to Missouri genealogy.

Andrew J. Bartilucci (SX 1953) at St. John's University (New York) recently dedicated the Andrew J. Bartilucci Center in honor of its namesake, dean emeritus of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, in recognition of his pioneering effort in introducing allied health programs at the institution. The 40,000 square foot facility will house some current programs and accommodate new ones in the planning stages.

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