Congratulations to the following recipients of a professional development grant for summer of 2008:

Dr. Filiz Dogru- Mathematics
"Periodic billiard trajectories of outer polygons in the hyperbolic plane."

Dr. Deborah Herrington- Chemistry
"Dissemination of target inquiry program at BCCE."

Dr. Dalila Kovacs- Chemistry
"Greening my career :  Bringing together scientific and pedagogical scholarship while building a network of specialists interested in promoting green chemistry education."

Dr. Regina McClinton- Biology
"Analysis of the tormoz gene in rRna biogenesis."

Dr. Rachel Powers- Chemistry
"Kinectic and structural analysis of mutants of P99 Cephalosporinase."

Dr. Virginia Peterson- Geology
"Expanding my scientific toolbox:  Learning a new technique for dating geologic processes and exploring the geology of the Scandanavian Caledonides with application to current research activity in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina."

Dr. Anita Stone- Biology
"Mating strategies and sexual selection of squirrel monkeys in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil."

Dr. Pei-Lan Tsou- Cellular and Molecular Biology
"Characterization of the role OXS1, a nucleocytoplasmic protein in oxidative stress tolerance using yeast-two-hybrid system."