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This week's Phi Beta Kappa Scholars' Convocation lecture, Montaigne's Cannibals' Song, is by Gary A. Tomlinson, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. According to Professor Tomlinson, his talk "...examines the Tupi singing in Of Cannibals, Montaigne's most famous essay, in an effort, first to understand the roles Europeans could imagine for song in the New World and, second, to tease out of Montaigne's text a set of different functions of song, arguably closer to the outlines we can reconstruct for Tupi society."
Professor Tomlinson's research and writing focus on Renaissance and early Baroque music, especially Italian Baroque, opera, theories concerning music historiography and anthropology, and music in the New World before and after European contact. He is the author of Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance, for which he received the 1989 Deems Taylor Award; Italian Secular Song 1606-1636, Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others, and The New Strunk Source Readings in Music History: The Renaissance. His article, Madrigal, Monody and Monteverdi's via naturale alla immitatione, was given the American Musicological Society's Alfred Einstein Award. His book, Ghosts in the Voice: Opera and the Changing Self, 1600-1900, is in press.
He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
The new electees to the Phi Beta Kappa of Iowa Chapter from the senior and junior classes will be recognized following Professor Tomlinson's Convocation talk. In addition, the recipient of the 1998 Joseph F. Wall Scholar's Award will be announced. The award is given annually to a Grinnell student for an outstanding piece of scholarly work.
On Friday, May 1, at 4:15 p.m. in ARH 305, Raquel Greene of Ohio State University will give a talk entitled The African Aristocrat: Issues of Race and Ethnicity in the Writings of Alexander Pushkin. Ms. Greene is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian literature whose doctoral dissertation deals with the African heritage of Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Ms. Greene is visiting Grinnell under the auspices of the Minority Scholar-in-Residence Program sponsored by the CSMP (Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts College. Refreshments will be served.
On Tuesday, May 5 at 4:15 p.m. in ARH 224, Sarah Wilcox will give a talk entitled, Mixed Messages: Ethnic Tourism, Village Relations, and the Bagyeli of the Lobe. Sarah Wilcox ('98) investigated the impact of tourism on the Bagyeli, an indigenous group in Cameroon, while on an SIT Program there last year. Her study involved three different Bagyeli villages, each of which has been drawn into the tourist connection in different ways, the Mabea, another ethnic group in the region, who act as "middle men" in bringing tourists to the Bagyeli, and the predominantly European tourists themselves. Her senior thesis represents a substantial expansion and rethinking of her program paper. Refreshments will be served.
On Wednesday April 29, at 4:15 p.m. in Science 2021, Dr. Erik Schwiebert '87 will present a seminar entitled Extracellular Nucleotide Signaling in Health and Disease. Dr. Schwiebert is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Cell Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Immediately following the lecture, there will be a discussion of undergraduate internships and the graduate program at the University of Alabama. Refreshments will be served at 4:05 p.m. in Science 1021.
On Tuesday, April 28 at 4:15 p.m. in the Print and Drawing Study Room students and faculty of Chinese 211 will demonstrate the art of Chinese calligraphy. Examples of their work will be on display in Burling Gallery through May 4.
On Thursday, April 30 at 4:15 p.m. in Science 2400 (Math Lounge) Emily Martin, Sally Goodspeed and Adrienne Enriquez will talk about their current intern positions. Come and hear how they tracked them down and what they've been doing!! Chips and Salsa!!
On Thursday, May 7 at 4:15 p.m. in ARH 224 there will be two Latin American Studies Concentration senior talks (refreshments will be served):
•Sara Schaub, Rainforest Roadways: A Study of Petroleum Exploitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
•Julie Mickens, Undemocratic Development and the Problems With Modernization: Why Andean Indigenous Campesinos Have Resisted the "Modern" Mestizo State?
On Thursday, April 30 at 4:15 p.m. in the Burling Conference Room, Brett Cloyd, a candidate for a one-year leave replacement librarian position at the Library, will give a presentation entitled Money, Power, and Nature: Exploring Primary Research Material of the American Conservation Movement.
On Tuesday, April 28, at 7:15 p.m., in Steiner 106 André Darlington and Barney Conroy will present their Senior Honors projects. Mr. Darlington will talk on Resisting the Control Revolution, and Mr. Conroy will present On Our Conceptual Repertoire: Investigations into the Innateness Hypothesis. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.
On Sunday, May 3 at 7 p.m. in Steiner 106, Xu Xin, Professor of History of Jewish Culture and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University in the People's Republic of China will give a talk entitled, The Jews of China. Professor Xu is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has written extensively on the Jewish experience in the People's Republic of China, including Anti-Semitism: How and Why, and Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, and is a major contributor to the Chinese edition of Encyclopedia Judaica. A reception in honor of Professor Xu will be held at Grinnell House following the presentation. All are welcome.
On Thursday, April 30 at 8 p.m. in ARH 302, Judith Anne Still, daughter of black composer William Grant Still, will give a slide/lecture titled William Grant Still: A Voice High Sounding. Ms. Still's presentation is an intimate look at her father's life and his career as a classical composer. This event is cosponsored by the Music Department, Africana Studies Concentration, and Office of Student Affairs.
The Young, Gifted and Black Gospel Choir, directed by Samuel Williams, will present, I Will Praise Him, at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 3, in Herrick Chapel. "The theme for the concert was born out of the choir's realization that God is worthy to be praised, regardless of what circumstances they may find themselves in. Even with trials, tribulations and suffering comes blessings, deliverance and rejoicing. With this resolve, the choir will sing songs that focus on praising God through commitment, worship and witness," Williams says.
The Department of Music will present a concert by the women's chorus, Musica Femina, on Wednesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Herrick Chapel. John Christian Rommereim is the director.
Microcosmos, France, 1996, In French with subtitles in English, Color/74 min. Directed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou. ARH 302, Friday/Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. (Internet Movie Database)
Winner of the 1996 Cannes' Festival Technical Grand Prize, Microcosmos is an unusual and entertaining documentary of insect life in meadows filmed over a three year period in rural southwest France. The cast members are identified in the credits as the labybird with seven spots, a swallowtail butterfly, a caterpillar, this or that ant, wasp, beetle, spider, mosquito, moth and the like. Using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography, the film recreates a world alien to our eyes, mixing awe, humor, intimacy and grandeur.
Microcosmos has it all—sex, love, war, a comic sense of fleeting life and radiant beauty." Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle.
On Monday, May 4 at 8 p.m. in ARH 302, the last film for this year's American Independent Film Class will be: Brother from Another Planet. This was the third film made by the versatile John Sayles, known best for Secret of Roan Inish, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star. So if you cannot make it to his new film, Men with Guns (because it will probably never come to Iowa), come see one of his oldies. Brother from Another Planet is Sayles' one attempt at oddball sci-fi, which he sets in Harlem.
Midwestern American Vernacular, a photographic essay by Andy Kropa '98, is currently on display at the Terrace Art Gallery. Andy's show features a series of photographs, which he shot, developed, and catalogued to depict various views of the American midwest. A reception for this show will be held Wednesday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the gallery. The show will run through Friday, May 8. The Terrace Art Gallery is open during regular Forum hours.
Music for strings, piano, voice, and guitar by Grinnell student composers will be featured in a noon-hour concert, Friday, May 1, in South Lounge. The concert is the end-of-semester project for the Department of Music's "Introduction to Composition" class, taught by Jonathan Chenette. The compositions include variations on familiar melodies, experiments with unusual scales, and explorations of neo-tonal and atonal musical styles. Composers include Aline Aprahamian, Jacob Bertrand, Ben Coakley, Jon Finley, Chris Freeman, Molly Gardner, Nathan Germick, Roy Huggins, Elizabeth Lester, Mark Messer, Shira Peltan, Aron Racho, Reuben Sobczyk, and Jeffrey Tyner. Performances are informal, and audience members are welcome to bring lunches to eat during the concert.
The Grinnell College Javanese Music and Dance Ensemble will present their annual Spring performance Saturday, May 2, at 8:00 p.m. in South Lounge. Featured in the program will be a dance drama presenting an episode from the Arjunawiwaha (Celebrations of Arjuna's Wedding), an eleventh century Javanese poem inspired by the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Dancers Susannah Carroll, Martha Klovstad, Megan Shanks, Allison Shaw, Emily Tettelbaum, Elena Vetter, Valerie Mau Vetter, and Rhasheda Williams will wear ornate and authentic Javanese dance costumes as they assume the roles of ascetics, kings, celestial nymphs, gods, ogres, and a wild boar. (Even the Chicago Bulls don't have a line-up like that!) Musical accompaniment and separate concert pieces will be provided by the 20-member gamelan ensemble. Treat yourself to an hour-long escape to Java this Saturday at South Lounge. The program is presented by the Department of Music and directed by Roger Vetter and Valerie Mau Vetter.
The original Flubber, made with Fred MacMurray as the star, was a humorous story of a college professor who invents flubber, a sticky, stretchable material that lends itself to many incredible uses. Even with MacMurray playing a fairly strait-ahead professor, the plot turns zany, but it is quite sane compared to the heights which Robin Williams takes the new film.
The New York Times said: " If you enjoy Robin Williams as Robin, you will not be disappointed-a really wacky, fun-filled film." Flubber will close this semester's Performing Arts film series. Thanks for your loyal attendance. We hope to see all of you "cult viewers" back next fall-same bat time, same bat station. (Internet Movie Database)
This week's SGA Films schedule is as follows:
*Friday, May 1
7:30 p.m., Harris Cinema: As Good as It Gets 8:30 p.m., North Lounge: All About Eve
*Saturday, May 2 2:00 p.m., Harris Cinema: As Good as It Gets 7:30 p.m., Harris Cinema: Career Girls 8:30 p.m., North Lounge: She's So Lovely
*Sunday, May 3 7:45 p.m., Harris Cinema: Career Girls
The Department of Music will present a Student Recital on Friday, May 1, at 4:15 p.m. in Herrick Chapel. Scheduled to perform are: David Brott, tenor trombone, Donn Schaefer, bass trombone, and Jarrod Routh, tuba; Christopher Freeman, cello, and Andrew Meyer, piano; Michael Haak, B-flat clarinet; Nana Mensah, soprano; Allie Miles, clarinet; Nicole Nelson, piano; Katherine Nydam, flute, and Suzan Pritchett, piano; Karen Park, percussion; Suzan Pritchett, piano; and Sarah Wilcox, soprano. Instructors of these students are Claudia Anderson, Carey Bostian, Mark Dorr, Lisa Henderson, Jocelyn Langworthy, Barbara Lien, Barbara Rivadeneira, Donn Scheafer, and Kristie Tigges.
On Sunday, May 3 at 2 p.m. in Harris Center, join Douglas Diamond and the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra for a concert when they will present Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony (the "Reformation"), Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, recently heard in the Grinnell Dance Troupe ballet premiere, and Sir William Walton's coronation march Crown Imperial, written for the coronation of George VI of England. A little something for everyone.
The Grinnell College World Hand Drumming Groups will be holding an open jam session Tuesday, April 28, at 9 p.m. in the north section of St. Paul's Episcopal Church (across the street from Burling Library). Interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the greater Grinnell community are invited to attend. Participants will have the choice of watching the performers or directly participating in the jam session by learning the basics on an instrument and then performing with the group.
*Wednesday, May 6, Herrick Chapel, 7:30 p.m.: Concert by Musica Femina; John Christian Rommereim, director.
*Friday, May 8, South Lounge, 12 noon and 4:15 p.m.: Student Recitals.
*Saturday, May 9, Herrick Chapel, 7 p.m.: Senior Recital by Theodore Smith, viola; and original compositions.
*Sunday, May 10, Herrick Chapel, 2 p.m.: Concert by Clarinet Ensembles; Jocelyn Langworthy, director.
*Sunday, May 17, Herrick Chapel, 4 p.m.: Senior Honors Concert; organized by Eugene Gaub.
*Sunday, May 17, Harris Concert Hall, 8 p.m.: Concert by The Grinnell Singers, John Christian Rommereim, director; and The Grinnell Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Diamond, director.
The SGA Student Services Committee wishes to thank all members of the college community who donated blood in the recent blood drive. A total of 108 donors were interviewed and 79 pints of blood were collected. This represents a tremendous effort by Grinnell College which will give the gift of life to many patients. Thank you for your generous support.
•Christian Worship
· Sunday, May 3 (11:00 a.m.) Inter-denominational Worship Service with Holy Communion; Rev. Deanna Shorb will be preaching; Guest accompanist. This is the final service of the academic year.
•Jewish Programs
· Chalutzim Open House, Wednesday, April 29th at 7:00 p.m. Chalutzim Lounge in Cowles.
· Thursday, April 30th, at Noon: Brown Bag Discussion in the Forum Coffeehouse, led by Prof. Michael Rosenthal, Israel: Past, Present and Future.
· Thursday, April 30th, at 7:30 p.m. in Younker Lounge, Dance and Desert Extravaganza celebrating Israel's 50th Independence Day.
· Kabbalat Shabbat Service this Friday, May 1st at 5:15 p.m. in Steiner 305.
· Shabbat table this Friday, May 1st at 6:30 p.m. in the Chalutzim Lounge, Cowles 1st floor.
· Monday, May 4th at 8:00 p.m. in South Lounge, Klezmer Duo: Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer.
•Study With The Chaplains
Encounter the Book of Daniel. Today, Tuesday, April 28th, 11:00 a.m. in the conference room at 1127 Park Street with Rev. Deanna Shorb and Rabbi Deborah Brin.
•Dealing with Grief
Tonight, Tuesday, April 28th at 8:00 p.m. in the conference room at 1127 Park Street.
There will be a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day at the Grinnell Recycling Center Wed., April 29, from 3:00-7:00 p.m. A few volunteers are needed to help. To participate in a good cause and learn more about what nasty things lurk in our basements and cupboards, call Glenn Baker at 236-2632.
•Found: A ring was found in Roberts Theatre. Please contact Erik [Sanning] x3130 to describe and claim. Also, remember that the Fine Arts Office has a lost and found box and drawer. If you've lost anything this year and haven't found it yet, you may want to come to Fine Arts and check out our selection. All lost and found jewelry (watches, rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings) is kept in a locked drawer. You will need to contact Conni, Alex, or Berneil about the contents of the drawer. Just because you haven't been in the building doesn't mean we don't have it. People often bring things to us that they've found outside in the grass, in a snowbank, or on the sidewalks.
The Campus Silent Friends meeting will be having an end-of-year potluck brunch next Sunday, May 3, in Steiner 305 at 11:15 a.m. before meeting. All are welcome to join us. Afterwards, we will gather for silent meeting. Curiosity is appreciated and questions about our meeting will be gladly answered.
Tickets Required. On Friday, May 1, Second City will perform in the Harris Center. Doors will open for ticket holders at 8:30 p.m. and the performance begins at 9 p.m. Second City is a national touring improvisation company. Second City has been the stepping ground for many great artists: Gilda Radner, Chris Farley, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, and many others.
Tickets distribution starts at Noon on Tuesday, April 28 at the Forum Desk. Two tickets per ID. Guest passes are required for visitors. 600 tickets are available. If tickets are remaining on the night of the performance, those with IDs or guest passes will be allowed into the performance.
Michele Parslow, UNICEF volunteer, will be in the lobby of the campus Post office on Monday, May 4 and Tuesday, May 5 from 8:30 a.m.-noon. She will offer for sale UNICEF cards suitable for Mother's Day, birthdays, and all occasions, as well as gifts and stationery. Your purchase will help the United Nations' Children's Fund meet children's needs and protect children's rights.
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All entries for the Art Salon Show should be turned into the print study room at Burling Library between 2 and 5 p.m. on Friday May 1. Up to 3 entries per student. Great prizes! You need not be an art
•Apartment Sublets Available
The Career Development Office has information about apartment sublets in Washington, D.C.; Madison, WI; Chicago, IL; and New York, NY.
•6,500 College Catalogs Now Available Online!
CollegeSource Online, a new service in the Career Development Office, features over 6,500 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format. 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools are included. Table of contents and indexes are fully hyperlinked so you can quickly find all the details you need: complete course descriptions; academic policies; faculty information; admission requirement; archival catalogs; updated weekly. Search by tuition, enrollment, affiliation, major programs of study and other criteria. Then view or print the school's profile with admission requirements, financial aid options and other valuable information. From the profile, select a catalog or go directly to a school's Web Site. This free service is available on a first-come first-served basis during regular CDO hours.
•Resident Assistant Position-Resume Collection
The Career Development Office has received the following job opportunity from Elizabeth Abbott '90: The Maine School of Science and Mathematics seeks candidates for Resident Assistant positions. The MSSM is a three-year-old residential high school for juniors and seniors from all over the state of Maine who have exhausted the resources of their sending schools. The RA's provide the front-line supervision and staffing for the residence hall, serving as ongoing resources for information, support, and proactive intervention for 170 students. A complete job description is available in the CDO. Resumes and cover letters are due in the CDO by May 8, 1998.
•National Educator Expo
The National Educator Expo offers educator's an opportunity to meet one on one with school administrators representing school districts from across the nation. This year's event will be held on May 19 & 20 at Maucker Union at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. Recent fairs have included schools from: Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin. For a current list of participating schools visit: http://www.uni.edu/placemnt/consortm.html. Registration information is available in the Career Development Office. Pre-registration deadline is May 1, 1998.
•Credential Files
Let the Career Development Office maintain your letters of reference. Plan to stop by the CDO to view a 15-minute instructional video regarding the policies governing the establishment and usage of the credential file. You'll be glad you did!!!
•The 10th Annual Community Service Volunteer Recognition Picnic will be held Tuesday, May 5 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Cleveland Beach. If you are one of our fabulous volunteers and have not received an invitation, please contact Matt, Amy or Jeana at the CSC, x4247. We would love to have you with us.
•UCC Childcare Needed: The Grinnell United Church of Christ, Congregational, is looking for college students to assist withNursery/Toddler childcare during worship each Sunday. This is a paid position involving a commitment of 2-3 Sunday mornings a month throughout the school year (Sepet.-May). If you are interested, please contact Julie Eberbach at theUCC Church, 236-3111.
Information and a reservation form for the Fall Shuttle Service is an addendum to the Campus Memo.
Fog Fast is Friday, May 1. This year's proceeds will benefit FEARLESS and Gusstavus Adophus. Please support these worthy causes by offering your i.d. numbers to FEARLESS representatives in the dining halls and the post office this week. (IF you were mistakenly told that Fog Fast would be held on Saturday and wish to retain your Friday meal, simply present your i.d. number on Friday. It will be honored.) Thanks for your support!
No more German tables this semester. Have a wonderful summer. See you in the fall.
•Senior Commencement Reservation Form Past Due
If you have not already done so, please complete and return the bright green registration form for Commencement which was included in a mailing you received earlier this month. It is important to return this form if you want to make reservations for the post-commencement picnic. This form should be returned immediately to the office of special services, Harry Hopkins House, 1131 Park St. If you need another form, contact Kathy Tindall, x3178.
The last moment to submit applications for the Music Department's May 8 student recitals is: Friday, May 1, 4:59 p.m. Applications are available in the Fine Arts Office and when completed should be returned to that office. Recitalists should note that there will be two student recitals on May 8, one at 12 noon, the second at 4:15 p.m.
•Preregistration Notice
The Registrar's Office is now accepting Trial Schedule of Courses cards for the Fall 1998-99 semester. The last day to turn in your card is Thursday, April 30, (no later than 5:00 p.m.). Remember, your adviser has your blank trial schedule of
•Schedule of Courses Changes
To check any course changes or additions to the Fall 1998-99 Schedule, check out the registrar's home page at www.grin.edu/~acadreg/.
Students returning to campus for the Fall 1998 semester, please remember to complete your meal plan selection form and return it to the Dining Service office. If you did not receive a brochure with the 1998-99 meal plan options, please stop by or call the Dining Service office at x. 3661 to have one sent to your campus box. (If you are going on an off-campus program for the Fall 1998 semester, and wish to turn your choice of meal plans for the Spring '99 semester, you can mark your form Spring 99.) The deadline to turn in forms is May 1.
Students who have checked out Music Department keys and padlocks should return these to Berneil Mueller in the Fine Arts Office before the end of the semester. There is a reward for the return of each key and padlock, and a significant fine for those not returned. Avoid stress: Return these items!
The 1998 Senior Challenge Committee would like to thank everyone who participated in "visibility day" on April 24th. Currently, 22 percent of the seniors have pledged donations which amount to $480.25. Remember: when 50 percent of our class donates, the match increases to $10 per donor; when over 70 percent of us donate, the Alumni Council will donate an extra $750 in honor of our class. It's not too late to mail in your gift recognition forms. See any member of the Senior Challenge Committee with questions.
•Harris Security Positions
ACE is hiring new Harris Security members for next year. Applications may be picked up at SGA offices and need to be returned to the ACE Programmer's mailbox, also located at the SGA offices by Tuesday, May 5. If you have any questions about the position or application, please e-mail [ACE] or [HALVERSO], or call, 269-3316.
•Student Staff Needed for Alumni Weekend
Dining Services is taking applications from students who will be in Grinnell that are interested in working Alumni Reunion Weekend. Work will begin on Wednesday May 27th and go through Sunday May 31st. This is a chance to earn between 35-45 hours of work in less than a week. Interested individuals should pick up an application from the Dining Service Office in Main Hall.
If you are going to be in Grinnell this summer, are available for odd jobs and would like to have your name listed in the Student Summer Directory, please stop by the Office of Special Services, 1131 Park St., Harry Hopkins House, and fill out one of our forms.
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Cody Robertson ('00) and Sarah Baker ('01) have been named the first recipients of the Berneil Mueller Awards for outstanding instrumental music performance. These new awards were established recently by alum Leslie Stearns in honor of Berneil Mueller who will retire next year after decades of service to the Grinnell College fine arts departments. Both students will receive free music lessons during the next academic year based on their performance during the Hill Award auditions and their general contribution to the College's music programs.
Christian Petersen '00, has received the 1998-99 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. He is one of 316 undergraduates nationwide and one of three Iowa winners. Petersen, who is majoring in chemistry and history, will receive $7,500 each year as a junior and senior at Grinnell College.
To win the scholarship, Petersen designed a computational technique for modeling surface molecules of sodium chloride, or table salt. This model could also be used to study other chemical reactions at surfaces, including industrially important semi-conductor reactions and reactions on the surface of cell membranes, he says.
Ryan Gibson's Irish ancestors came to America during the potato famine. Their journals, and a trip to Ireland, have fueled his desire to create artistic images of the stories of Ireland in painting and sculpture. Gibson has received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship of $19,000 to support his dream of spending a year in Ireland, listening to the storytellers—those who are published and those who tell their stories in the pubs, on the streets and in the fields—and creating artwork.
Jacob Bertrand '00 has received an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Research Fellowship for $2,500. Bertrand, who works with assistant professor of biology Leslie Gregg-Jolly, wrote a grant proposal to study a common soil bacteria, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, to determine how particular genes are turned on to repair damaged DNA, and how the response of Acinetobacter differs or is similar to another bacteria, E. coli. Using the ASM award, Bertrand will continue his research with Gregg-Jolly through Grinnell's summer research program.
Bertrand also receives a one-year membership in the ASM, and additional funding for supplies to be used during the summer research. He will receive funding for travel to the 1999 General Meeting of ASM, where he will present his research to more than 10,000 conference attendees.
Donald Elmore Jr., a senior at Grinnell College, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to study at the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), Pasadena, where he will pursue a Ph.D. in physical biochemistry. To receive the three-year NSF fellowship of $15,000 per year, Elmore wrote a research grant proposal to use computer modeling to study a region of proteins important for signaling within cells.
Winners of the Henry York Steiner Fiction Awards are as follows:
First Prize: Ali Kaplan for Marrana
Second Prize: D. Cory Turner for Four Measures
Third Prize: Lucy Kaminsky for Lice
The contest was judged by Frank Conroy, Chair of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
The Seldon Whitcomb Poetry Contest winners have been announced as follows:
First place: Peter Lesser for To Lift the Yellow Pleats
Second place: Stuart Meland for Plains Toads
Third place: Emily Howard for Stationary
Fourth place: Stuart Meland for Circus Parade
Honorable Mention (A) Erin Brandel for Meins
Honorable Mention (B) Janann Dawkins for Electra
The judge for this contest was Yusef Komunyakaa, a Pulitzer prize winner in Poetry.