On Campus
- Faculty and Staff News
September
5,
2003 Vol. 56, No. 11
John Canarina, director of orchestral studies, has written a biography of the
great conductor Pierre Monteux that has just been published by Amadeus Press
and is titled Pierre Monteux,Maitre. Monteux, the conductor of the world premieres
of major works by Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel, was one of Canarina's teachers.
Brad Toussaint has been named director of the Drake Telemedia Center. He will
be in charge of all day-to-day operations of the DTC and will report to the Dean's
Office in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Toussaint has more
than 20 years of experience at Drake and is one of the lead architects of electronic
classrooms at Drake. He brings to the position considerable experience in video
and audio streaming for the Web.
Ronald J. Torry,
associate professor of pharmacology, has received a three-year grant of $100,000
from NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The grant
will investigate the expression and potential role of an endogenous growth factor,
placenta growth factor, in the stimulation of blood vessel growth and protection
of cardiomyocytes from apoptosis during myocardial hypoxia/ischemia. Drake
students
Robert Berendt and Derek Zhorne are assisting with the research. Collaborating
on the project are Robert Tomanek and Wei Zheng of the University of Iowa and
D.S. Torry of the School of Medicine, Southern Illinois
University.
Luz M. DeAlba, the
Windsor professor of science and professor of mathematics and computer science,
recently presented an invited lecture on "The Weakly
Sign Symmetric P-Matrix Completion Problem" at the Conference of the Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics on Applied Linear Algebra held at the
College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Jerry E. Honts, associate
professor of biology, is a co-recipient of a $5,000 National Science Foundation
grant titled "Probing Student Misconceptions
Induced by Molecular Animations." Four faculty members from the United States
and Australia will collaborate to study and remedy problems associated with the
use of molecular animations in teaching chemistry and biology.
David Harris, professor emeritus of music history and harpsichord, has had his
critical edition of the keyboard works of Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) published
by The Broude Trust in its Art of the Keyboard series. Preparation of this edition
received major support from Drake's Center for the Humanities.
Birgit Wassmuth,
professor of advertising, recently attended a week-long seminar
on "Diversity Across the Curriculum" sponsored by The Poynter Institute
in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was one of 18 fellows nationwide. Poynter seminars
teach new skills and ways of thinking that help produce authoritative, creative
and engaging news reports, programs and publications that will better serve diverse
communities.
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