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 Michael Caldwell
(Music) completed his sixth marathon, holding a 10-minute pace for the first 20 miles and 11:37 in the final 6.2 miles of the marathon through the streets of Portland, Ore. His pace in the first part of the race was faster than he’s ever run in training and the final portion was better than his overall pace in any previous marathon, giving him a time of 4:30:17, vs. his personal best 5:02:25.
 Ellen Gruenbaum
(Anthropology) will engage in a preliminary investigation of the cultural practices of female genital cutting in west Africa, following her work in northeast Africa in 2004 with colleagues from UNICEF Sudan and CARE Sudan. Gruenbaum joined a task force that visited Ethiopia in March at the invitation of UNICEF, to participate in the first of a series of “Global Meetings on the Research of the Social Dynamics of Abandonment of Harmful Practices.”
George B. Kauffman
(Chemistry, Emeritus) published "Biological Inorganic Chemistry: Structure & Reactivity," Structural Chemistry (June); "Wife, Doctor Were Lifesavers," Redwood City Daily News, San Mateo Daily News, Palo Alto Daily News (all Aug. 1); "Stanley Lloyd Miller (1932-2007), Exobiology Pioneer" (with Jean-Pierre Adloff, Honorary Professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France); "On Being Well-Coordinated: A Half-Century of Research on Transition Metal Complexes;" "The Pauling Catalogue. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Oregon State University;" all in The Chemical Educator (Aug. 4); "TRIBUTE: Fred Basolo (1920-2007): Founding Editor of Chemtracts,"(with Laurie M. Kauffman and Harry B. Gray and John S. Magyar, the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena), CHEMTRACTS (September); "Celebrating the anniversary of a solar pioneer [Giacomo Luigi Ciamician]" (with Giorgio Nebbia, Università di Bari, Italy), The Fresno Bee (Sept. 8).
Timothy M. Stearns
(Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) has been re-elected chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. There are more than 17,000 management faculty worldwide who are members of the academy.
Carol Zapata-Whelan
(Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures) reports her book, “Finding Magic Mountain: Life with Five Glorious Kids and a Rogue Gene Called FOP,” has been published in Mandarin. The book is about her son, Vincent’s, rare genetic disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (popularly abbreviated FOP).
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