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Ross Brittain, IUB, Ph.D. student in Environmental Science, was awarded a three-year, $60,000 fellowship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The award, funded through NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve program, will support Ross' dissertation research on how different land cover types and forest management practices affect non-game bird species at the Sapelo Island (Georgia) NERRS.

Otis Grant, IUSB, has been appointed Chair of the African American Studies minor program on the South Bend campus. The African American Studies program is interdisciplinary and draws faculty from various departments, including Political Science, Business, Sociology, English, History, and Education.

John Krauss, IUPUI, presided over a two-day seminar on March 16-17, 2006: “The Art and Science of Educating Attorneys and Judges.” The seminar celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Indiana Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education. It was held at the Valparaiso Law School. Krauss is the Chair of the Commission.

On March 15, Les Lenkowsky, IUB and IUPUI, was part of the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance delegation to DC for Foundations on the Hill, an annual effort to inform Congressmen about what foundations in their states are doing.

Flynn Picardal, IUB, attended the Annual Fulbright Berlin Seminar sponsored by the German-American Fulbright Commission on March 5-8 in Berlin, Germany. Professor Picardal also participated in an EPA peer-review panel for the GRO and STAR fellowship programs in Silver Spring, Maryland on February 27-28.