faculty news
University of Washington Appointments/Elections • Karan N. Dawson was named chair-elect of AACP’s section on continuing pharmacy education. • Lou P. Garrison served as World Health Organization temporary adviser at the meeting of the WHO Quantitative Immunization and Vaccines Related Research Advisory Committee. • Dana P. Hammer was elected secretary of AACP’s Council of Faculties. • Rodney J. Ho was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also
co-authored an article that was among the ten most frequently downloaded articles of 2008 and one that was among the ten most highly cited articles in 2008 in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. • Ivanka Karadzic has joined David R. Goodlett’s lab in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry as a visiting scholar from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Grants • Nanci L. Murphy and Peggy S. Odegard are part of a new three-year, $990,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and $250,000 grant from the Hearst Foundation.
Washington State University Grants • Raymond M. Quock, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, three-year, $27,000, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
• Beth A. Vorderstrasse, NIH/NIAID, two-year, $224,250, “AhR-mediated enhancement of the early innate immune response to S. pneumoniae.”
Faculty News from emerging schools Concordia University Wisconsin Appointments/Elections • Dean L. Arneson has been appointed as the new academic dean. • Former Wisconsin state representative Curt Gielow has been appointed as the executive dean.
Grants • The School of Pharmacy at Concordia University Wisconsin has announced three lead gifts of $1 million each to establish the new school for the 2010–11 academic year.
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