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Faculty awards presented at Introduction Convocation

Seven McDaniel faculty members received awards for publications and achievements in fine arts.

Faculty Book Awards were presented to Volker C. Franke, LeRoy L. Panek, and McCay Vernon.

Faculty Scholarly Publications Awards went to Lauren Dundes and Melanie R. Nilsson.

Faculty Creativity Awards were presented to Margaret A. Boudreaux and Linda Kirkpatrick.


Faculty Book Awards

Volker C. Franke, Associate Professor of Political Science

  • Volker C. Franke, ed. Terrorism and Peacekeeping: New Security Challenges. Praeger Publishers, 2005.

LeRoy L. Panek, Professor of English

  • LeRoy L. Panek. Reading Early Hammett. A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to The Maltese Falcon. McFarland Publishers, 2004. 

McCay Vernon, Professor of Psychology Emeritus

  • McCay Vernon. Deadly Lust. Pinnacle Division of Kensington Publishers, 2005.

Faculty Scholarly Publications Awards

Lauren Dundes, Associate Professor of Sociology

  • Carrie Vivian and Lauren Dundes. “The Crossroads of Culture and Health Among the Roma (Gypsies).” Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 36(1): 1-7, 2004.
  • Rachel Bryant and Lauren Dundes. “American Individualism and the Obesity Battle : Would Peer Pressure Help?” Journal of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, 68(4): 58-63, 2004.
  • Lyndsay Bare and Lauren Dundes. “Preferences of Anxious Dental Patients.” Journal of Dental Education, 68(11): 1172-77, 2004.
  • Roxanna Harlow and Lauren Dundes. “United We Stand: Responses to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Acts on the United States in Black and White.” Sociological Perspectives, 47(4), 439-464, 2004.
  • Lauren Dundes and Roxanna Harlow. “Illustrating the Nature of Social Inequality with the Simulation Star Power.” Teaching Sociology, 33(1), 32-43, 2005.

Melanie R. Nilsson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

  • Melanie R. Nilsson. “Techniques to study amyloid fibril formation in vitro.” Methods, 34: 151-160, 2004.
  • Emma T.A.S Jaikaran, Melanie R. Nilsson, Anne Clark. “Pancreatic b-Cell granule peptides form heteromolecular complexes which inhibit islet amyloid polypeptide fibril formation.” Biochemical Journal, 377: 709-716, 2004.
  • Anne Clark and Melanie R. Nilsson. “Molecular mechanism of IAPP amyloid formation in Type 2 diabetes mellitus.” Diabetologia, 47(2): 157-169, 2004.
  • Melanie R. Nilsson and Christopher M. Dobson. “Chemical modification of insulin in amyloid fibrils.” Protein Science, 12: 2637-2641, 2003.
  • Melanie R. Nilsson and Christopher M. Dobson. “In vitro characterization of lactoferrin aggregation and amyloid formation.” Biochemistry, 42: 375-382, 2003.
  • Jennifer M. Cole, Jessica Niensted, Glenn Spataro, Troy E. Rasbury, Antonio Lanzirotti, Aaron J. Celestian, Melanie R. Nilsson, Gilbert N. Hanson. “Phosphor imaging as a tool for in situ mapping of ppm levels of uranium and thorium in rocks and minerals.” Chemical Geology, 193: 127-136, 2003.
  • Melanie R. Nilsson, Miles D. Driscoll and Daniel P. Raleigh. “Low levels of asparagine deamidation have a dramatic effect on aggregation: Implications for the study of amyloid formation.” Protein Science, 11: 342-349, 2002.

Faculty Creativity Awards

Margaret A. Boudreaux, Professor of Music

  • Participation in the FESTIVAL 500 Sharing the Voices -- International Choral Festival in St. John's Newfoundland, July, 2005. The participating ensemble Carroll Festival Chorus was formed out of the membership of both the College Choir from McDaniel College and the Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County.

Linda Kirkpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Music

  • Participation in the National Flute Association's Professional Flute Choir at the annual convention in San Diego, Ca., August, 2005.

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