2009-2010 News June 2, 2010 Cindy Haynes, associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, will receive this year’s Teacher Fellow Award from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture. May 25, 2010 Mei Hong, professor in the Department of Chemistry, will receive the 2010 Founders’ Medal from the International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems. May 10, 2010 Suzanne Hendrich, university professor, was named the Charlotte E. Roderuck Faculty Fellow in Food Science and Human Nutrition for 2010-2012. The fellowship was created in 2007 to recognize excellence in nutrition research associated with the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center. During her 40 years at Iowa State, Roderuck was instrumental in establishing the foundation for human nutrition research. Hendrich exemplifies the Roderuck legacy through her participation in national and international nutrition programs. Spring 2010 University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. May 3, 2010 Martin Spalding, professor and chair, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, is working to stack multiple desirable traits in one type of algae to engineer the perfect strain for commercial biodiesel production. The project is featured in the May 2010 issue of Biodiesel Magazine. April 27, 2010 Iowa State researchers Monica Lamm, assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Theresa Windus, professor of Chemistry and Mark Gordon, Distinguished Professor and Frances M. Craig Chair in chemistry, are leading Iowa State's work to develop computational chemistry software that can be scaled up to petascale computing systems. April 12, 2010 Kathleen Delate, Agronomy and Horticulture, has received a USDA grant to study the effects of organic farming on water quality. April 12, 2010 Maria Salas-Fernandez, assistant professor of Agronomy, worked with a group on how to introduce more vitamin A into corn hybrids to help cultures that depend on corn as a dietary staple. April 12, 2010 Nicola Pohl, professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University, is the 2010 recipient of the Horace S. Isbell Award from the American Chemical Society Carbohydrate Division. April 2, 2010 Lisa Schulte Moore, associate professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, talks about coordinating systems research to strategically manage agricultural landscapes in a new CALS Research Video. March 22, 2010 Researchers at Iowa State's Institute for Transportation, including ADVANCE Professor Shauna Hallmark, worked with the non-profit corporation Advanced Energy for more than two years to bring two hybrid school buses to Iowa. March 4, 2010 Rebecca Christoffel, assistant professor, has joined the Natural Resource Ecology and Management department as Extension wildlife specialist. February 15, 2010 LAS faculty and other ISU researchers, including ADVANCE participants Martin Spalding, chair of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, and David Oliver, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, have won new grants from federal agencies awarding money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). February 4, 2010 Congratulations to Mayly Sanchez, assistant professor in the department of of Physics and Astronomy and particle physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, on receiving the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation. February 3, 2010 Antiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a research project led by Mei Hong, professor of Chemistry, and published in the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature. January 26, 2010 Jennifer O’Donnell, assistant professor of Chemical and Geological Engineering, has been awarded $750,000 over five years as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Early Career Research Program. January 25, 2010 The Plant Sciences Institute profiles Diane Bassham, associate professor of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, and Jacqueline Shanks, Manley R. Hoppe professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. January 13, 2010 ACTIVEsite, Chemical & Biological Engineering's newsletter, has an article featuring CBE's role in the ISU ADVANCE Program. January 12, 2010 The Program for Women in Science and Engineering (PWSE) is once again looking for mentors for the 2010 Undergraduate Summer Internship Program. December 17, 2009 Four Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers, including ISU ADVANCE professor Mark Gordon, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). December 14, 2009 The Dec. 11 issue of "Science" features research by ISU ADVANCE pofessor Adam Bogdanove, Plant Pathology, and a group of researchers from ISU and Kansas State University. The researchers are looking at two bacterial diseases of rice and why some types of rice are naturally resistant to the bacteria. A photo by Bogdanove and Jack Horner, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, was chosen for the cover. December 10, 2009 Four ADVANCE Participants (Janette Thompson, Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, Surya Mallapragada and Joseph Shinar) were selected for the 2010 Emerging Leaders Academy. December 2, 2009 Richard LeSar, professor and chair of round one ADVANCE department Materials Science and Engineering, is the lead investigator on a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, to purchase a high-resolution, field-emission microscope. November 11, 2009 Congratulations to Toni Wang, associate professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, for winning the 2009 Women of Innovation Award for Research Innovation and Leadership. November 9, 2009 ISU ADVANCE professor Adam Bogdanove has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances." October 19, 2009 Toni Wang, Wallapak Tavanapong, and Robin Lutz have been nominated for the 2009 Women of Innovation Awards, through the Technology Association of Iowa. October 5, 2009 The American Physical Society has awarded the 2010 David Adler Lectureship Award to Iowa State University distinguished professor of Chemistry Patricia Thiel. October 1, 2009 Plants and algae may be a source of green, renewable hydrocarbons that could replace the ancient, finite hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, according to a team of researchers led by Iowa State University's Jackie Shanks. September 28, 2009 The Iowa State chapter of SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability), a program of the Ecological Society of America, placed second in its "Chapter of the Year" competition. Adviser Fred Janzen, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, said the chapter was honored because of a dramatic increase in membership; its outreach activities which takes reptiles and amphibians to schools; and a program that links undergraduates with minority students in Iowa high schools, taking them to “Turtle Camps” for field research. He said the chapter is in its third year and was picked from chapters at more than 50 other schools. September 8, 2009 Distinguished Professor Emeritus Lois Tiffany, 85, died Sept. 6. In her honor, a Celebration of Life Memorial, will be held Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Iowa Arboretum. Participants are asked to gather at 4 p.m. A lasagna dinner will begin at 5 p.m. (bring salad, bread or dessert to share), and a program will follow at 6:30 p.m. A botanist, Tiffany was well-known for her expertise in fungi. She was the "mushroom lady" to the public and "Dr. T" to students, colleagues and friends. She joined the ISU botany department in 1950 and stayed more than a half century, retiring in 2002. September 2, 2009 Inside Human Sciences profiles co-PI Flo Hamrick, and her work with the ADVANCE Program. September 1, 2009 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and College of Engineering awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. August 27, 2009 Pat Thiel, senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been named the winner of the 2010 Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry. July 29, 2009 The inaugural class of American Chemical Society Fellows includes ADVANCE Professor Mark Gordon. July 27, 2009 Susan Lamont, department of Animal Science, received the Embrex Fundamental Science Award and was named a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association. The awards were presented at the association annual meeting last week in Raleigh, N.C. July 2, 2009 Surya Mallapragada named department chair of Chemical & Biological Engineering effective August 16. 2008-2009 News June 29, 2009 Elisabeth Lonergan, ISU ADVANCE professor of Animal Science, was awarded the 2009 AMSA Distinguished Research Award at the American Meat Science Association's Reciprocal Meat Conference, June 21-24, 2009. She was the first woman to receive the award, which recognizes members with outstanding research contributions to the meat industry. June 29, 2009 Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) has finalized a licensing agreement for a novel soy- based wax process with SoyaWax International, a Cedar Rapids company. Tong Wang, associate professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, is the inventor of the new wax technology. May 6, 2009 Jacqueline Vanni Shanks, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University,