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Oral history interview with Rita R. Colwell, 2009 Jan. 13
No full textDr. Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland, College Park and John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and received a bachelors of science (1956) from Purdue and a masters of science in genetics from Purdue (1958). Her Ph.D. in oceanography is from the University of Washington. She talks about campus life at Purdue during her student years and her work in Microbiology and Biotechnology University of Maryland, College Park. Colwell talks about her research in studying cholera, combining high tech instruments with molecular biology to make inroads in detecting outbreaks. She also served as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Globally she has focused on addressing emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both developed and the developing world. Dr. Colwell served as the first female and the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation (1998-2004). In her capacity as director, Colwell served as co-chair of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Colwell has been awarded 49 honorary degrees from institutions of higher education including Purdue in 1993 and is the recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, bestowed by the Emperor of Japan. In July 2007, she was one of seven recipients of the 2006 National Medal of Science, the nations highest honor for science. Among her affiliation with professional associations are American Institute of Biological Sciences, serving a term as President; American Association for the Advancement of Science, served a term as President; and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology
Jim Colwell
No full text"36219 L.A.C. Jim Colwell R.A.A.F. Stationed R.A.A.F. Base Darwin 19.2.1942 (age 19)".36219 Leading Aircraftman Jim Colwell, Royal Australian Air Force. Stationed R.A.A.F. Base Darwin 19.2.1942 (age 19)
R. Forrest Colwell
No full textTrustee R. Forrest Colwell talks about his gift to IWU of 6 acres and the building his corporation occupies. He explains that with the annual lease income the gift wuld be in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. He made this recording as a testimonial on behalf of a fundraising campaign
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Announcing the R. Forrest Colwell Professorship
No full textPresident Eckley talks about R.F. Colwell and the new Colwell Professorship during the Honors Convocation on May 2, 1979. The May 4, 1979 Argus article available athttp://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/iwu_argus/id/8584 provides a bio of Colwell
Hansen, Lee (Lee R.). Union, non-union, and managerial pay plan state employees, 2008-2019
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"July 1, 2021."Provides the number of union and non-union state employees in each of the last 14 years. Also provides the number of state employees paid under the state's managerial pay plan during each of those years. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-011
Ocean Warming and Spread of Pathogenic Vibrios in the Aquatic Environment
No full textVibrios are among the most common bacteria that inhabit surface waters throughout the world and are responsible for a number of severe infections both in humans and animals. Several reports recently showed that human Vibrio illnesses are increasing worldwide including fatal acute diarrheal diseases, such as cholera, gastroenteritis, wound infections, and septicemia. Many scientists believe this increase may be associated with global warming and rise in sea surface temperature (SST), although not enough evidence is available to support a causal link between emergence of Vibrio infections and climate warming. The effect of increased SST in promoting spread of vibrios in coastal and brackish waters is considered a causal factor explaining this trend. Field and laboratory studies carried out over the past 40 years supported this hypothesis, clearly showing temperature promotes Vibrio growth and persistence in the aquatic environment. Most recently, a long-term retrospective microbiological study carried out in the coastal waters of the southern North Sea provided the first experimental evidence for a positive and significant relationship between SST and Vibrio occurrence over a multidecadal time scale. As a future challenge, macroecological studies of the effects of ocean warming on Vibrio persistence and spread in the aquatic environment over large spatial and temporal scales would conclusively support evidence acquired to date combined with studies of the impact of global warming on epidemiologically relevant variables, such as host susceptibility and exposure. Assessing a causal link between ongoing climate change and enhanced growth and spread of vibrios and related illness is expected to improve forecast and mitigate future outbreaks associated with these pathogens
Global impact of Vibrio cholerae interactions with chitin
No full textThe interaction of Vibrio cholerae with chitin exemplifies
for microbial ecology a successful bacteria–
substrate interaction with complex and significant
influence on the lifestyle of the bacterium. Chitin is
one of the most abundant polymers on earth and
possibly the most abundant in the aquatic environment,
where its association with V. cholerae has
provided the microorganism with a number of advantages,
including food availability, adaptation to environmental
nutrient gradients, tolerance to stress and
protection from predators. Emergent properties of
V. cholerae–chitin interactions occur at multiple hierarchical
levels in the environment and include cell
metabolic and physiological responses e.g. chemotaxis,
cell multiplication, induction of competence,
biofilm formation, commensal and symbiotic relationship
with higher organisms, cycling of nutrients, and
pathogenicity for humans and aquatic animals. As
factors mediating virulence of V. cholerae for humans
and aquatic animals derive from mechanisms of
adaptation to its environment, at different levels of
hierarchical scale, V. cholerae interactions with chitin
represent a useful model for examination of the role
of primary habitat selection in the development of
traits that have been identified as virulence factors in
human disease
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