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NEW PUBLICATIONS
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Barbara Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, and Margaret Gullick '07, are the co-authors of "Age of acquisition's effect on memory for semantically associated word pairs," published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1177-1185, 2008.
Elvin Lim, assistant professor of government, is the author of The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush, published by Oxford University Press in May 2008.
Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and David Beveridge, the University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, are the co-authors of "Spectroscopic and Molecular Dynamics Evidence for a Sequential Mechanism for the A to B transition in DNA," published in the Biophysical Journal V. 94, No. 12 in June 2008. Wesleyan alumni Kelly Knee '07, Sergei Ponomarev '04 and Colin Aitken '03 contributed to the article.
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NEW GRANTS
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Ann Burke, associate professor of biology, and Sonia Sultan, professor of biology, received individual grants from the Eppley foundation for research. The Eppley Foundation for Research supports advanced post-doctoral work in the physical and biological sciences, computer science, social sciences, and educational programs. Burke's grant, worth $32,442, will help to support her postdoctoral research fellow, Rebecca Shearman. Sultan's grant, worth $25,000, provides support while she writes a book.
David Beveridge, the University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health grant renewal to support the Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Wesleyan is the only liberal arts college to have such a program. The grant will support the program for an additional three years.
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