Senate Scholarly Activities Committee announces awards The Senate Scholarly Activities Committee received eight research/creative activity grant applications requesting a total of $19,396, and four publication applications, requesting a total of $2,496, in response to the February call for proposals. The following awards were made at the committee meeting of March 2: Research/Creative Activity Awards * Matthew Cavalli (mechanical engineering), "Strength, Corrosion, and Fatigue Behavior of Diffusion Bonded Joints," $2,177.11 * Xuesong Chen (pharmacology, physiology and therapeutics), "Effects of LDL-Cholesterol on BACE-1 Enzyme Activity in Skeletal Muscle Cells," $2,203.53 * Diane Darland (biology), "Impact of Environmental Toxins, Cadmium and Cocaine, on Neural Development in Zebrafish," $2,203.53 * Bryon Grove (anatomy and cell biology, "Subcellular Targeting of Phosphodiesterase by the Scaffolding Protein AKAP12," $2,203.53 * Elizabeth Harris-Behling (English), "Translation of II diario dei sogni (Dream Diary), a Novel by Marco Candida (La Vegas Edizioni, 2008)," $2,203.53 * Clifford Staples (sociology), "The Transnational Corporate Elite: Beyond the Boardroom," $2,203.53. -- Patrick A. Carr, Ph.D., Chair, Senate Scholarly Activities Committee, Anatomy and Cell Biology, pcarr@medicine.nodak.edu, 701/777-2576