SSAC announces awards The Senate Scholarly Activities Committee received eight research/creative activity grant applications, requesting a tota1 of $15,993.72, and five publication applications, requesting a total of $4,044.50, in response to the October call for proposals. The following awards were made at the Oct. 24 committee meeting. Research/creative activity awards * Wayne Barkhouse (physics), “Quantifying Environmental Effects on the Star Formation Rate of Cluster Dwarf Galaxies,” $1,360 * Scott Engel (neuroscience), “Emotion Regulation in Anorexia Nervosa: A Naturalistic Study,” $2,500 * Roni Mayzer (criminal justice), “Neuropsychological Functioning and Juveniles Competency to Stand Trial,” $2,485 * Jeremiah Neubert (mechanical engineering), “Specifying a Robotic Grasping Task,” $2,195 * Ty Reese (history), “From Luxuries to Dependency: Abolition and the Nineteenth Century Foundations of England’s Gold Coast Colony,” $1,850 * Jefferson Vaughan (biology), “Monitoring Mosquito Biting Rates on Roosting Birds at Night with Use of Infra-Red Cameras,” $2,224.72 Publication awards * Jihui "Susan" Chen (economics), publication of an article titled, "Backward Integrated Information Gatekeepers and Independent Divisions in the Product Market" in The B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, $150 * Kathleen Dixon (English), publication of a scholarly book titled, "The Global Village Re-Visited: Art, Politics, and Television Talk Shows," $711 * Kim Fink (art), presentation of mixed-media prints at a one-person exhibition at the College of the Sequoias Arts Gallery, $546 * Claudia Routon (modern and classical languages and literatures), publication of the translation of a short story by Spanish author Marina Mayoral in The North Dakota Quarterly, $100 -- Patrick A. Carr, Ph.D., Chair, Senate Scholarly Activities Committee, Anatomy and Cell Biology, pcarr@medicine.nodak.edu, 777-2576