2004 In the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University (updated 18 Feb 05)

The inaugural J. Herbert Taylor Lecture in Genetics was presented 12 October 2004 by Dr. Mary C. Mullins of the University of Pennsylvania (view the brochure). Herb Taylor retired from the department in 1990 and died in 1998. The lecture series named for him was endowed with funds contributed by his colleagues, friends, and family.

More news and events of 2004

Administration
Faculty roster
Arrivals
Departures
Awards to faculty, students, staff
Publications
Alumni newsletter (Responses)
Obituaries

Administration

Chair: Timothy S. Moerland
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies: George W. Bates
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies: Robert H. Reeves
Associate Chair for Curriculum Development: John S. Elam

• new Assistant Professor Hengli Tang

• Dr. Ana Maria Parma, of the National Research Council of Argentina, arrived to spend several months as the 2004 Mote Eminent Scholar in Fisheries Ecology.

• Dr. Larry B. Crowder, of Duke University, arrived to spend several months as the 2004-5 Mote Eminent Scholar in Fisheries Ecology.

• Dr. José "Lobo" Orensanz, of the National Research Council of Argentina, arrived to spend several months as the 2004 Mote Visiting Scholar in Fisheries Ecology.

• University Service Professor Dexter M. Easton, who retired
• Pasquale Graziadei Distinguished Research Professor Frances C. James, who retired
• Professor Robert J. Livingston, who retired

• Associate Professor David Houle received an FSU Developing Scholar Award.

• Associate Professor and Associate Chairman Robert H. Reeves received FSU's Undergraduate Advising Award.

• Assistant Professor Debra A. Fadool received the Department of Biological Science's Loretta Ellias Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

• The Shelia B. Lutz Memorial Scholarship: Mary L. Strickland

• Graduate Student Publication Award: Margaret Gunzburger
  
• Robert K. Godfrey Scholarship: Sarah Tso
  
• The Margaret Menzel Memorial Scholarship: Calin Marian, Likai Song, Margaret Gunzburger, and Jill Holiday
  
• The Robert B. Short Scholarship in Zoology: Katie McGhee
  
• The Brenda Weems Bennison Memorial Scholarship: Maria Adreani and Richard Chi
  
• The Jack Winn Gramling Research Award in Marine Biology: Peter Bouwma and Pablo Munguia
  
• Biological Science Alumni Scholarship: Karen Cherkis
  
• The John Mark Caffrey Scholarship: Aaron Kline, Kathleen Phipps, and Marilina Resascol
  
• The Biological Science Faculty Award for Undergraduate Scholarship: Amanda Steel
  
• The Charles M. McAllister Undergraduate Research Award: Brian Bielfelt
  
• The TriBeta Travel Scholarship: Jonathan Block
  
  Four FSU undergraduates received scholarships (funded by Biological Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) to attend the TriBeta National Convention, in Grand Junction, Colo., and all four were recognized for the quality of their contributions. Both Jonathan Block and Eric Powell received honors in the oral copetition, Katie Pickett took first place for her poster on cell and molecular division, and Mariam Gudarzi took third place with a poster about organismal division. Their topics were: Block, "Early gene expression in the vertebrate Xenopus laevis" (mentor Dr. Curtis Altmann); Gudarzi, "The role of amiloride-sensitive Na channels in the processing of salt taste aversion in rats" (mentor Dr. Thomas Houpt); Powell, "Use of the Lotka-Volterra equation to model the population dynamics of a community of competing species" (mentor Dr. Thomas E. Miller); Puckett, "Increasing lifetime of actomyosin functionality in the in vitro motility assay" (mentor Dr. P. Bryant Chase).

• Howard Hughes Computational Biology Fellows: Christopher French, Carolyn Hemmer, John Jacobs, Aaron Kline, Theresa Landon, Yang Liu, Michael Miller-Baquero, KimberlyNevader, Fiona Smyth, Kimberly Thornton, and Jennifer Walker

• Coordinator of Graduate Advising Services Judy Bowers received the 2004 Gabor Superior Accomplishment Award, representing the Division of Academics, at the 2004 Employee Recognition Ceremony.

• Ron Scarborough, Linda Simms, Margaret Seavy were recognized at the 2004 Arts and Sciences holiday party for their exemplary service (Linda for the third time). Margaret won the drawing used to choose, from among those recogized, the two who will receive $500 to be spent within FSU to improve their work space. Linda was also singled out for special recognition because of her great help to the university in the difficult transition to the new OMNI accounting system.