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6 HOOD MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2009 Faculty Awarded Summer Science Research, McCardell Professional Development Grants Upon the recommendation of Hood’s Faculty Development Committee, seventeen students, under the direction of  faculty members, were awarded Summer Science Research Institute grants and ﬁve faculty members were awarded Board of Associates McCardell Professional Development Grants. The eight-week SSRI program, established in , allows faculty and students to collaborate on cutting-edge research. The professional development grants were established in  by the board of associates and renamed in  to acknowledge the generosity of the late Robert C. McCardell of Frederick, in providing new support for the grants and to honor his family’s long association with the College. Summer Science Research Institute Grants Phyllis Townsend, Beneﬁ cial-Hodson Library collection development services manager (left), and Jan Samet O’Leary, library director (right), accept a gift from Hood Trustee Betsy McCain McAlpine ’51. Eric Annis, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, in collaboration with Laura Davis ’, Katelyn Geiger ’, Meghan Coulbourne ’ and Katelyn Horn ’; “Sharing Space: Resource Partitioning by Crayﬁsh in the Monocacy River.” Kevin Bennett, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and chair of the department of chemistry and physics, in collaboration with Rebecca Hunter ’ and Mike Cahill ’; “Improving Separations Using Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry.” Susan Carney, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, in collaboration with Ann Neeley ’; “Genetics of the Invasive Rusty Crayﬁsh, Orconectes rusticus, in the Monocacy River System.” Didier Course, Ph.D., professor of French and chair of the department of foreign languages and literatures, in collaboration with Alice Butler ’ and Andrew Jannett ’; “Deﬁning Absolutism: Research at the BNF.” Drew Ferrier, Ph.D., professor of biology and director of the graduate environmental biology program, in collaboration with Rachel Woodward ’; “The Salinity Tolerance of Eggs and Larval Stages of the Invasive Crayﬁsh, Orconectes rusticus.” Shannon Kundey, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, in collaboration with Chelsea Taglang ’; “Are Dogs Sensitive to Patterns of Information?” Jennifer Ross, Ph.D., professor of art and chair of the department of art and archaeology, in collaboration with Kathryn Klauenberg ’ and Samantha Haines ’; “The  Summer Field Season at Çadir Höyük, Turkey.” Oney Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, in collaboration with Colin Reitman ’; “Analysis of the Enzymes Peroxidase and Beta-Amylase in Leaves and Stems of Soybean Plants Infected with Soybean Dwarf Virus.” Christopher Stromberg, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, in collaboration with Casey Kohnhorst ’ and Glenn Van Meter ’; “Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Iron-Iron Hydrogenase Model Compounds.” Stephen Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of religion and philosophy, in collaboration with William Lane ’; “Wilberforce’s Africa: British Conceptions of Religion, State and Civil Society Applied, Contested, and Revised in Sierra Leone.” Road Show Brings Donations to Hood History Museum Alumnae and alumni, family members and friends of the College donated Hood memorabilia, including one item dating from the 1800s, to the recently established Hood History Museum. Art, photos, postcards, college yearbooks, a Campus Day doll, a 1925 song book, blazers and publications dating as far back as the 1930s, were among the donated items. The Hood College History Museum, in the Beneﬁcial-Hodson Library and Technology Center, opened in 2007, providing a venue to showcase Hood’s historic memorabilia. One of the oldest donated items, an 1845 certiﬁcate awarded to Mariette Staley Doub, was discovered in the archives of the Maryland School for the Deaf. Doub, who graduated in 1846 from the Frederick Female Seminary, was the mother of Florence W. Doub, who taught art at Hood and MSD. Hood, formerly the Woman’s College of Frederick, leased the buildings of Frederick Female Seminary. One of the most unusual items was a brass doorknob from Meyran Hall. “It accidentally fell off when I graduated,” said Hope Bober Corrigan ’81 of Ellicott City, Md. Betsy McCain McAlpine ’51, a member of the board of trustees, donated a large antique hand-painted metal tray that features a painting of the then Joseph Henry Apple Library. The tray, painted by the late Frederick County artist and former faculty member Helen L. Smith, was given to her mother, Betty Apple McCain ’23, by her classmates in 1955 in recognition of her service to the College. McAlpine has previously donated a number of Apple family memorabilia to the museum. Board of Associates McCardell Professional Development Grants Christy Graybeal, Ph.D., assistant professor of education; “An Examination of Teachers’ Sense of Obligation to Messages in Curricular Resources.” Craig Laufer, Ph.D., professor of biology; “Directed Evolution of Pectin Acetylesterase for Application in a Sugar Beet Pulp Bioreﬁnery.” Xinlian Liu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science; “High Performance Computing on CELL Broadband Engine Platform.” Laura Moore, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology; “Educational Inﬂuences on Evangelical Protestants.” Micheal Stratton, Ph.D., assistant professor of management; “The Eﬀects of Management Controls on Cyberloading: A Case Study.”
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