Chris Fielding, professor from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been awarded Honorary Membership by the Society for Sedimentary Geology. The award will be presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention and Exhibition to be held in June in Calgary, Canada. Honorary membership in the SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology acknowledges excellence in professional achievements and extraordinary service to the society. The society limits the total number of living honorary members to one percent of the total membership or no more than one elected each year as a means of preserving their prestigious rank. Fielding’s award recognizes both his scientific achievements in the field of sedimentology and his service as a past president of the society.
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David Swanson, director of the Holland Computing Center and research associate professor in computer science and engineering, has been elected to a two-year term as the chair of the governing Council of Open Science Grid. The OSG provides the national fabric of distributed high throughput computing in the United States, serving researchers across a wide variety of scientific disciplines. The council governs the consortium that builds and operates the OSG, and ensures that the OSG benefits the scientific mission of its stakeholders. The Holland Computing Center is a major resource provider to the OSG. Swanson was elected by members of the council. For more information on the Open Science Grid, click here.
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Ten College of Arts and Sciences biotechnology students have earned 2016-2015 Milton E. Mohr Awards. Recipients are selected based on academic performance and potential for accomplishments in their specific fields. The awards include 15 scholarships and 11 fellowships.
Scholarship winners and their fields of study are:
- Samuel Eastman, microbiology
- Andrew Egger, biochemistry
- Erin Eickman, microbiology
- Katherine Lagerstrom, microbiology
- Erin Oeltjen, biochemistry
- Brenna Petersen, chemistry
- Tiffany Truong, chemistry
- Erich Vogel, biochemistry
Fellowship recipients and their fields of study are:
- Justin Buchanan, biological sciences
- Yao Wu, chemistry
