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emistry professor Katy Splan received a Research Corporation 2009-2010 grant for examining the effects of copper on biological molecules and seeks to understand factors that control how metals naturally function in a biological system. MORE
>> In March, Biology Professor Mark Davis published his new book, Invasion B
iology. The book, according to the Oxford University Press, "provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the science of biological invasions while also offering new insights and perspectives relating to the processes of introduction, establishment, and spread."
>>Music professor Chuen-Fung Wong received th
e "ACLS American Research in the Humanitiesin China" grant. Wong will travel to China to study the popularized forms of traditional music of the Uyghur people, Turkic-speaking Muslims in northwest China. His study will examine the unique roles of musical performance in channeling ethno-nationalistic sentiments and the often complicated minority subjectivities in this controversial Central Asian borderland. MORE