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Announcement of the new 2007-2008 Jefferson Science Fellows |
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bridges vol. 15, September 2007 / Noteworthy Information
On July 23, 2007, the State Department introduced the eight Jefferson Science Fellows for the year 2007-2008:
- Janaki Alavalapati, a Research Foundation professor and an associate professor of forest resource economics and policy with the School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC) at the University of Florida. His current research deals with the economics and policy of biodiversity and sustainable forestry, environmental services, protected areas management, wildland urban interface, invasive species, biomass and bioenergy, and agroforestry.
- Ross B. Corotis, a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. With a background in structural mechanics and stochastic vibrations, Dr. Corotis' primary research interests are in the application of probabilistic concepts to civil engineering problems.
- Elsa Garmire, a professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are non-linear optics; integrated optics and semiconductor photonic devices; lasers, electro-optics, and fiber optics.
- Purusottam Jena, professor of physics at the Virginia Commonwealth University, whose research focus ranges from atomic and molecular physics to solid-state and chemical physics.
- Marvin Paule, a professor of biochemistry and former chairman of Colorado State University's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His recent research work has investigated the growth regulation of ribosomal RNA expression in normal and cancerous cells.
- Jerry Peterson, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research in the area of basic experimental nuclear physics uses accelerator facilities around the world.
- Syed Rizvi, a professor of food process engineering and international professor of food science at Cornell University, focuses on experimental and theoretical aspects of bioseparation processes, supercritical fluid extrusion, delivery systems for bioactive materials and nutrients, and physical and engineering properties of biomaterials.
- John Yeh, a professor and chair of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo. Yeh's research areas are reproductive aging of the ovary, molecular biology of ovarian corpus luteum regression (the corpus luteum produces hormones that prepare the uterine lining for implantation by the fertilized egg), and biomarkers of the damage that chemotherapy inflicts on ovaries.
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