Awards and Honors

Judith Cohen, professor of nursing and a breast cancer advocate and survivor, recently participated as a consumer reviewer in the evaluation of research applications submitted to the Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. Cohen served as a full voting member at meetings to help determine how the $150 million appropriated by Congress for Fiscal Year 2011 will be spent on future breast cancer research. Consumer advocates and scientists have worked together in this unique partnership to evaluate the scientific merit of breast cancer research applications since 1995. Consumer reviewers are asked to represent the collective view of breast cancer survivors and patients, family members, and persons at risk for the disease when they prepare comments on the impact of the research on issues such as disease prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life after treatment. To date, more than 740 consumer reviewers have served on breast cancer panels alongside scientists in the review process.


Vermont Women in Higher Education will honor two members of the UVM community with awards at an ceremony Oct. 26.  Donna Rizzo, associate professor of engineering, is the recipient of the Jackie M. Gribbons Leadership Award, and Wanda Heading-Grant, chief diversity officer, is the recipient of the Sister Elizabeth Candon Distinguish Service Award.

Publications and Presentations

Recent work in zirconium chemistry titled "C–N Bond Formation via Ligand-Induced Nucleophilicity at a Coordinated Triamidoamine Ligand" by Rory Waterman, assistant professor of chemistry, and chemistry graduate students Annalese Maddox and Karla Erickson has appeared as an advanced online article in the journal Chemical Communications. This the first publication from the Department of Chemistry that utilizes UVM's new, NSF-funded single crystal X-ray diffractometer. 

PUBLISHED

10-12-2011
University Communications