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agricultural, consumer and environmental sciences
George Z. Gertner, professor of forest biometrics in the department of natural resources and environmental sciences, will receive the Society of American Foresters’ Award in Forest Science. The award recognizes distinguished individual research in any branch of the quantitative, managerial or social sciences leading to the advancement of forestry. Gertner is a leading researcher in the development and integration of advanced statistical methods for the study of forests and other natural resources. He also is known for his efforts in the improvement of forest inventory software. The Society of American Foresters is a nonprofit organization that represents more than 17,000 professional foresters and natural resource professionals. The winners will be recognized at a ceremony at the 2003 SAF National Convention, Oct. 25–29 in Buffalo, N.Y.
fine and applied arts & liberal arts and sciences
At a Chicago reception of Surendra Kumar, the outgoing Consul General of India, two UI faculty members were honored with the Outstanding and Inspiring Leadership Award. Amita Sinha, professor of landscape architecture, was recognized for her work on heritage preservation at the Taj Mahal/Agra and Hans Henrich Hock, professor of linguistics and of Sanskrit, was recognized for his efforts as past director of the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, especially his work to strengthen the study of India and South Asia in general at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The citations read: “ … for providing outstanding and inspiring leadership, maintaining the highest academic standards, offering in-depth, incisive and scholarly opinion and promoting greater international understanding through university education …”
liberal arts and sciences
Two UI faculty members were among seven members of the Biophysical Society elected to the Biophysical Society Council: Eric Jakobsson, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and of biochemistry, and in the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications; and Paul R. Selvin, professor of physics and in the Biophysics Center. Jakobsson’s research is in computational studies of biological and synthetic ion channels, membrane complexes, and microbial transporters, and use of technology in biology education. Selvin’s research interests are in fluorescence, including ensemble and single molecule, and alternative fluorophores. The Biophysical Society is a professional, scientific society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics.
