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Michael McClain, Professor, Earth & Environment, received funding from the Global Environment & Technology Foundation for the Mara River Water project. The South Florida Water Management District awarded funding to Drs. Jennifer Richards and Craig Layman, Biological Sciences, for their project, Developing Ecological Indicators for Managing of Freshwater Inflows to the Loxahatchee River. |
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Whitney Bauman, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, was one of twelve winners of the 2009 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise. The prize money is $10,000, and another $10,000 is available as a stipend to give invited lectures at universities, colleges, seminaries and other institutions of research and higher learning during the next two years. The award ceremony will take place in Heidelberg, Germany, in May. |
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Two Arts & Sciences faculty recently received awards from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Timothy Collins, Biological Sciences, received funding to study Worm-Snails and Patricia Price, Professor, Global and Sociocultural Studies, will conduct research on The Geographies of Street Girls in Colombia. |
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Prof. Laurie J. Shrage, Women’s Studies & Philosophy, has a book coming out in July 2009 "You've Changed - Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity". New York, NY: Oxford University Press. |
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Professors Gary M. Rand, Earth & Environment, and Piero R. Gardinali, Chemistry & Biochemistry, who also are faculty in the Southeast Environmental Research Center (SERC), received a $2.75 million grant from the Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department to determine the feasibility of using highly treated reclaimed water for the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Rehydration Project. The feasibility study will start in 2010. The SERC Ecotoxicology & Risk Assessment Laboratory in FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus will conduct laboratory and outdoor microcosm toxicity studies with aquatic organisms exposed to these highly treated wastewaters in order to evaluate their safety and potential risks. The FIU project is the second of its kind in the United States. The other similar project was at Lake Mead in Nevada. |
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