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Professor Vish Viswesvaran, Psychology, this Fall 2008 was named to the editorial board of the prestigious Journal of Personnel Psychology. This journal is the official publication of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology and is published by Hogrefe Publications. |
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Prof. Lara Kriegel's book, Grand Design: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture, received the 2008 Honorable Mention in the Albion Prize for the Best Book in British Studies after 1800 from the North American Conference on British Studies. The citation notes that her work "is an immensely readable and beautifully illustrated book that examines the production of industrial design and the cultivation of consumer taste in Victorian imperial culture. At first glance, [it] appears to be a case study of an important museum's 'prehistory,' which in itself would make this book a significant contribution to our understandng of the Victorian culture of collecting and the period's well known 'exhibitionary complex.' Closer reading of Grand Designs, however, reveals a supremely successful execution of the much more ambitious agenda of locating the Victorian movement for industrial design reform in the progress through which 'the social' and 'the cultural' were severed in a distinctly modern consciousness." Congratulations to Prof. Kriegel! |
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Prof. N. David Cook's People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley, co-authored with Sasha Cook, received Honorable Mention for the 2008 MacLeod Book Prize, awarded by the Latin American section of the Southern Historical Association.
The recognition reads as follows: "Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook¹s People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley is clearly and beautifully written. The research is breathtaking, stunning in its intimacy with the region. Remarkably illuminating on the importance of ecology and infrastructure, it will become a classic of ethnohistory." Congratulations! (We also note that the 2007 MacLeod Prize was awarded to Prof. Bianca Premo for her book, Children of the Father King. Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima). |
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Ric Sota, a graduate student in Environmental Studies, and two undergraduate students, Celia Izaguairre and David Trujillo, produced a video on the organic community garden that the Agroecology students started at FIU in 2008. See: http://www.vimeo.com/2390620 |
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Research on coral reefs by Deron Burkepile, a new Biology professor, was noted in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
ECOLOGY: A Diversity of Consumers
Caroline Ash
The vulnerability of coral reefs to human interference has become only too apparent. Caribbean reefs in particular have been battered by climate change, overfishing, and the excessive growth of seaweed (macroalgae). In order to isolate a key factor that improves reef health even under environmental challenge, Burkepile and Hay corralled herbivorous parrotfish and surgeonfish, alone and in combination, in cages on reefs off the Florida Keys. The outcomes: No fish, and seaweed takes over; add two fish species, and the algae are kept under control and coral cover increases. Alongside ocean surgeonfish, the redband parrotfish were particularly effective consumers of early algal colonizers because the surgeonfish removed the less abundant species of algae that the parrotfish found distasteful. Not all parrotfish were the same: Princess parrotfish preferred the mat-forming seaweeds, and redbands grazed the taller species. These experiments underline the importance of grazer diversity to coral reef health, especially in the Caribbean.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 16201 (2008).
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