David Bray, Environmental
Studies, was quoted in an article that appeared in the Houston
Chronicle this past September.
The article was about efforts to bring tourism, manufacturing
and other alternatives to farming to the economy of North America’s
largest rain forest. Bray has studied Mexican forestry for 25
years.
John Dufresne
and Lynne Barrett,
Creative Writing, were
awarded Florida Individual Artist Fellowships for 2001-2002
by the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural
Affairs. Dufresne and Barrett received the fellowship in Literature/Fiction
for Broward and Miami-Dade counties, respectively.
Burton Dunlop,
Center on Aging, received $69,000 from the National Institute
on Aging for his proposal, “Planning for Long Term Care:
Pilot Date Collection.”
James Fourqurean,
Southeast Environmental Research Center, was awarded $112,515
from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for “Seagrass
Monitoring in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.”
Fourqurean also received $75,608 from the U.S. Geological
Survey for “Distribution and Biochemical Characteristics
of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Southwest Florida Habitat
of the West Indian Manatee.”
Julia Johnson, Community
Relations, received $63,027 from the Miami-Dade County Cultural
Affairs Council for the 2002 Miami Film Festival.
W. Kinzy Jones,
Manufacturing Research Center, was awarded $100,000 from the
Department of Defense, Army Research Office, for “Reaction
to Etcher for MEMS Fabrication.”
Kenneth Lipartito,
History, received $79,854 from
the National Park Service for “Public Participation and
Engagement in Ecosystem Restoration Planning and Implementation:
A Guide for Resource Managers.”
Kia Makki,
Engineering, and Niki
Pissinou, Telecommunications
and Information Technology Institute, were awarded $458,421
from the National Science Foundation (NSF), for “A Semantic
Caching Service for Wireless Network Centric Environments.”
This award is in addition to three other NSF awards they are
transferring to FIU, including a $125,000 research award.
Gustavo Roig,
Engineering, received $154,667 from the National Aeronautics
& Space Administration for his proposal “Bringing
Science and Technology to Hispanic Youth through Televised,
Spanish-Language Media: Bridging the Technology Gap for this
Nation’s Hispanic Minority.”
Surendra Saxena,
Center for the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions, was
awarded earlier this year the Laurea
Honoris Causa in Geological
Sciences from the Universitá de Padova in Padova, Italy.
Saxena received this award for his contributions to the advancement
of knowledge in the field of earth sciences.
Mary Ann Von Glinow,
National Science Foundation, received
$81,052 from the National Science Foundation for “The
Impact of Global Work Distribution on Software Development
Project Teams.”
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