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BRAVO

Adeline Nyamathi, professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing, is the principal investigator for two recent NIH grants, including a $3-million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to evaluate the effectiveness of a vaccination program to prevent hepatitis among homeless adults. She is also the lead investigator for a $120,000 grant from the NIH/India’s World AIDS Foundation to improve HIV prevention education in India and is co-principal investigator with the Naval Medical Center San Diego on a project involving computerized bioterrorism education and training, which is funded by a $450,000 grant from the Geneva Foundation.... The 2003 Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Arts, a $50,000 fellowship given to mid-career artists, was awarded to Art Professor Catherine Opie in the visual arts category.

HOORAY

Timothy Rice, professor and chair of ethnomusicology, was elected president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. His two-year term began in October.... Arthur Arnold, professor and chair of physiological science, is part of a collaborative team that received $70,000 to study the role sex chromosomes play in drug addiction. The grant was awarded by the Society for Women’s Health Research.... World Arts and Cultures Professor Judith Baca has received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, which she will use in the digital mural lab at the Social and Public Art Resource Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the production of public art. Her long-term goal is to develop more permanent murals that can exceed the 25-year limit of painted murals in outdoor environments.

APPLAUSE

Joseph K. Perloff, Streisand/American Heart Association Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics emeritus in the David Geffen School of Medicine, received a special tribute at the Joint European/North American Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult, held in Greece in September. He was recognized for his contributions as founder of the new cardiac subspecialty.... Michael Owen Jones, professor of folklore and mythology in World Arts and Cultures, begins his two-year term as president of the American Folklore Society on Jan. 1.... The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded Rosa Solorio, assistant professor of family medicine, a $300,000 grant to study the health-seeking behaviors of newly homeless youth.... Six scientists at the Jonsson Cancer Center won U.S. Department of Defense grants to advance research in prostate and breast cancer: Public Health and Environmental Health Sciences Professor Curtis D. Eckhert; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics and Human Genetics Professor Wayne W. Grody; Hematology/Oncology Associate Professor Robert E. Reiter; Hematology/ Oncology Professor Kathleen Sakamoto; and Urology Assistant Professor Lily Wu. The grants range from $222,000 to $571,000.