College Academy of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

The Art of Collective Invention is a recent recording created by The Cavell Trio. It is a collection of twentieth century works for Reed Trio and includes the composers Villa-Lobos, Ibert, Hetu, Szalowski, Feld, and Francaix. The disk contains two premiere recordings: Szalowski and Feld. The Reed Trio is an ensemble that was popular in France in the Romantic Era and early twentieth century. It is emerging in popularity once again, and The Cavell Trio is at the forefront.

A presentation to the CARSCA committee and the Arts & Sciences Dean's Office about my use of College Academy Funding, the talk briefly summarizes the argument of my recently-completed book manuscript, "Ceremonial Status: The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals," and discusses the unique sources I discovered while conducting archival research at the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library.

Providing resources for production costs of several projects.

The study of Herpes, how it affects you and how you can contact it.

Many organisms have achieved, throughout the course of evolution, the ability to generate multifunctional and complex hierarchical structures combining organic and inorganic components. The outstanding fact is that simple organisms can build up biomaterials with unique mechanical properties that we cannot reproduce in our laboratories. Thus, mussels can produce and modify two minerals, calcite and aragonite, with different physical characteristics at variable pressure and temperatures. Combining both minerals with organic components, these marine invertebrates construct light, chemically stable, highly strong and resilient shells. A fundamental factor to explain our inability to accurately mimic these natural biomaterials is the insufficient knowledge about the interplay between biomineralization and the environment. The aim of this project is to study the structure of mussel shell layers living in different environments at water depths ranging from about 2,000 to 500 meters. Results will provide an insight on whether environmental parameters influence mechanical properties of biomaterials. In doing so, a fundamental knowledge of biomineralization processes will be gained for the future development of biomaterials for industrial and medical applications.

Effects of a Developmental Music Therapy Program on Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study

Electrochemical Chromatography is a relatively new method for separating dissolved solutes. In work supported by the College of Arts and Science chemistry graduate student Ms. Franchessa Sayler spent a month working in the laboratory of Dr. Susanne Wiedmer of the University of Helsinki carrying out separation experiments using columns developed at The University of Alabama

An complex of damaging physical and psychosocial effects follow from household food insecurity among young children. While differences in food intake per se are certainly one mechanism through which insecurity affects child wellbeing, data from both less and more developed countries suggest additional pathways to differential wellbeing involving household structure & caregiver functioning. This study tested maternal depression as a mediator of relations between food insecurity and higher inflammation, a marker for higher pathogen exposure, in young children from an urban center in North Central Tanzania. Maternal depression was associated with food insecurity, and partially but not wholly mediated the effect of food insecurity on children's inflammation. Implications are discussed for future research and practice.