 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Return to Table of Contents
News Briefs
Annual and Alumni Funds
The combined Annual and Alumni Fund goal for 2003 is $600,000, an ambitious figure that takes into consideration the needs of increasingly robust MBL programs, as well as the potential for support among Corporation members, Alumni, Associates, and others. “I think there is a high level of confidence in our strategic direction and in the quality of our programs,” said Annual/Alumni Fund Chairman, Peter Armstrong. “People understand that our support must grow with the Lab.”
To raise sights and encourage more participation in the Annual and Alumni Funds, MBL Trustees have pledged their personal resources to create a $75,000 challenge grant. They will match 2003 gifts from new donors, lapsed donors, and from those who increase their 2002 gift by 20% or more.
Annual Fund or Alumni Fund gifts may be made via cash, Visa, Mastercard, Discover or gifts of stock.
Give online or contact Kate Shaw, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543: (508) 289-7416 | kshaw@mbl.edu.
Alumni Weekend
 The first All Alumni Weekend was held on the MBL campus June 6-8, 2003. Alumni, as well as current and former faculty, attended from 10 states, representing 12 different MBL courses and every decade since the 1940s! Guests took good advantage of the opportunity to meet with fellow students, reconnect with teachers and mentors, and visit familiar Woods Hole haunts.
One couple had spent their honeymoon in the 1955 Marine Botany course and celebrated their wedding anniversary on campus. Another alum, from the University of Belgrade, was able to show his son, a recent U.S. high school graduate, where he spent the summer of 1992 studying Neurobiology.
The program featured lectures from distinguished alumni Joan Ruderman and Marc Kirschner of Harvard Medical School, and from former faculty member Doug Melton of Harvard’s Center for Genomic Research. Tours of the campus highlighted new facilities and resident research, and collecting trips on the R/V Gemma afforded a close look at the rich benthic community of Vineyard Sound.
Honors and Awards
MBL Corporation Member J. Woodland Hastings of Harvard University was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Summer Investigator and Corporation Member Avram Hershko of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was elected a Foreign Member of the Academy.
Jerry Melillo, co-Director of The Ecosystems Center, has been elected President Elect of the Ecological Society of America. He will officially become President of the Society in August of 2004.
Jerry Melillo, Co-Director of The Ecosystems Center, and Gaius Shaver, a Senior Scientist at The Ecosystems Center, have both been named a “highly cited researcher” by the Institute for Scientific Information. They are among the top 248 most important scientists in the field of ecology and environmental science. According to ISI, “These individuals are the most highly cited (within their category) for the period 1981 to 1999, and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers—truly an extraordinary accomplishment.”
The Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs executive committee has voted to award Joe Martinez of the University of Texas, San Antonio, an ANDP 2003 Education Award. This honor recognizes Dr. Martinez’s “heroic efforts on behalf of education in the neurosciences, and especially [his] very effective activities targeting minority students.” Dr. Martinez is co-director of the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics, & Survival at the MBL.
MBL Corporation Member and Summer Investigator Elaine Bearer of Brown University was awarded the Distinguished Marine Neurosciences Lectureship by the Marine Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center and the Neurosciences Program of the University of Miami this winter.
2003 Council of Visitors Meeting
 Nearly 80 members and guests gathered in Woods Hole on June 19 and 20 to participate in the annual Council of Visitors meeting. This year’s topic was “In Vivo Imaging of the Nervous System in Health and Disease.” The session was moderated by Dr. Jeff W. Lichtman of Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Lichtman is co-director of the MBL’s Neurobiology course. Speakers also included Wenbiao Gan of New York University and Thomas Misgeld of Washington University. Participants also visited the Neurobiology course and toured the laboratories of Drs. Shinya Inoué, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Peter Smith, Larry Cohen, and Dan Johnston. Dr. Donald Burke of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health presented a dinner talk on the evening of the 19th titled “How Did the AIDS Virus Emerge in the African Rain Forest?”
Through the annual meeting and various publications, Council of Visitors members learn about the Marine Biological Laboratory and serve as ambassadors of the Lab with their friends and associates.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
