2005 in the FSU Biological Science History project
In October, Robert O. Lawton Professor of Biological Science Joseph Travis was appointed Dean of Arts and Sciences, a position he had held on a interim basis for several months.
A few months before her death in September 2005, a mountain in Antarctica was named "Friedmann Peak" in honor of department alumna and long-time courtesy professor Dr. Roseli Ocampo Friedmann.
More news and events of 2005
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, then Lloyd M. Epstein
Arrivals
- John Netter, most recently of the FSU Department of Classics, arrived in August to becomes the department's Coordinator of Administrative Services.
- Katsuya Shimabukuro accepted a postdoctoral position in the Roberts laboratory.
- Katie McAlister accepted a position as technician in the Underwood laboratory.
Departures
- Michelle Slaton, the department's Coordinator of Administrative Services, left in August to accept a position in the FSU College of Law.
- Stacy Halpern, postdoctoral associate in the Underwood lab, left to take up a faculty position at Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon.
- Rebecca Fuller, postdoctoral associate in the Travis laboratory, left in August.
- Robin Hopkins, technician in the Underwood lab, left to begin graduate school at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Awards
Faculty Awards
- Associate Professor and Associate Chairman Robert H. Reeves received a University Teaching Award.
- Professor Kenneth H. Roux was both named a Distinguished Research Professor awarded a named professorship. He will honor a recently retired colleague by becoming the Kurt G. Hofer Distinguished Research Professor.
- Associate Professor Thomas A. Houpt received an FSU Developing Scholar Award.
- Associate Professor Robert H. Reeves received a University Teaching Award.
- Professor William H. Outlaw Jr. received the department's Loretta Ellilas Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Student Awards
- Graduate Student Matthew Aresco received the Graduate Leadership Award.
- Graduate student Richard Chi received an FSU Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award.
- Graduate student Jessica Brann won second place in the FSU Sigma Xi writing contest for her paper "Signal transduction in the vomeronasal organ."
- Graduate student Jianjun Sun won a first class poster award at the Southeast Society for Developmental Biology) meeting held in Athens, Georgia.
- Undergraduate student Aaron Kline won third place in the FSU Sigma Xi writing contest for his paper "Comparison of human cortical surface reconstructions from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data."
- The Sheila B. Lutz Memorial Scholarship: Kathryn Marietta-Tondin
- Graduate Student Publication Award: Richard Chi
- Robert K. Godfrey Scholarship: Sarah Braun
- The Margaret Menzel Memorial Scholarship: Beverly Colley and Pablo Munguia
- The Robert B. Short Scholarship in Zoology: Nicole Fogarty and Peter Cavnar
- The Brenda Bennison Memorial Scholarship: Nicole Fogarty and Peter Cavnar
- The Jack Winn Gramling Research Award in Marine Biology: Nathaniel Jue and Pablo Munguia
- The Horace Loftin Endowment Award (inaugural presentation): Heather Gamper and Jon Seal
- Biological Science Alumni Scholarship: James Enos
- The John Mark Caffrey Scholarship: Aaron Kline, Pankaj Pal, Lauren Seabrooks, Alanna Simon, and Fiona Smyth
- The Biological Science Faculty Award for Undergraduate Scholarship: Katherine Hoops and Aaron Kline
- The Francenia E. Fisher Scholarship: Amanda Thompson
- The Charles M. McAllister Undergraduate Research Award: Vivek Dalal
- The Varina Vaughn-Winona Jordan Scholarship: Nicholas Miles
- TriBeta Honor Society National Research Grants: Wildaliz Nieves and Shari Campbell (Nieves and Campbell are the first FSU students ever to receive TriBeta Research Grants)
TriBeta Honor Society Poster Competition Winners: 1st, Greg Kirchenbaum; 2nd, Aaron Kline; 3rd, a tie between Wildaliz Nieves and Denise Newsome
- 2003 Beta Beta Beta initiates: Amy Gandy, Shaakira Hardy, Luce Hecht, Tung Ho, Patricia Martin, Jeffrey Moore, Jeffery Ott, Ivan Porter, Eric Powell, Felicia Smith, Meredith Standridge, Farah Lynn Sultan, Cody Vanlandingham
- Howard Hughes Computational Biology Fellows: Rudolph Arceo, Jren Armon, Joshua Hoffman, Benjamin Kemp, Denise Newsome, Kristen Norman, Pankaj Pal, Priya Pal, Lauren Seabrooks, Lawren Vandrevrede, and Halei Wong
Staff Awards
- Greenhouse foreman Karen Graffius-Ashcraft was honored for 30 years of continuous service to the university.
- Postdoctoral associate Stacy Halpern was awarded a Women in Science Fellowship.
- In February, the broadcast booth at FSU's Dick Howser Stadium was named for Lee David Bowen, an employee of the Biological Science stockroom who died suddenly in July of 2004. Aside from his duties within the department, Lee was the popular "Voice of Seminole Baseball" and had provided play-by-play radio coverage of FSU games for 15 years.
Obituaries
- Thomas Eugene "Tom" DeWitt, an engineer in the department's Machine/Engineering Shop, died Tuesday, 18 January 2005, after a fall from his roof. Tom was also the producer and broadcast engineer for the Florida State University football and basketball sports broadcast games and call-in shows. Obituary.
- Harry F. Dunlap, long-time department employee, died Tuesday, 31 May. He was 83 years old. Dunlap worked as manager of laboratories from before the 1956 formation of the department until his retirement in 1985. Obituary.
- Dr. Roseli Ocampo Friedmann, department alumna and long-time courtesy faculty member, died 4 September in Kirkland, Washington, after a three year battle with Parkinson's disease. She was 67 years old. With her husband, Professor Emeritus E. Imre Friedmann she conducted research on microorganisms of extreme environments.
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