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Research and Graduate Studies @ KU

Updates from the Office of Research and Graduate Studies — July 2007

Researchers in the News

KU doctoral student wins national award to fund study of rural community survival
Loralie Lynn Wiebold, a doctoral student in sociology, has received a $3,300 Robert K. Merton Award from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy to support her dissertation research.

Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets researcher embarks on Greenland traverse
Claude Laird is part of an international team of researchers and students who will traverse an ice divide in central Greenland to establish an ice drilling site, where they hope to acquire the most complete record of the Eemian interglacial era.

KU researcher updates his classic book ‘The Bees of the World’
Johns Hopkins University Press published “The Bees of the World, Second Edition,” by Charles D. Michener, professor emeritus of entomology .

KU hires high throughput screening laboratory director
Rathnam Chaguturu will working in collaboration with the KU Cancer Center to help boost KU’s drug discovery efforts for cancer research.

Researchers’ methane study to appear in National Academy of Sciences journal
The research of David Graham, professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering; Charles Knapp, environmental engineering post-doctoral researcher; David Fowle, assistant professor of geology; Jennifer Roberts, assistant professor of geology; and Ezra Kulczycki, geology graduate student, will be featured in the July 17 issue of PNAS, the Journal of the National Academy of Sciences.