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r 7 » ^ * i * ' i i Campus Update With a 8100,000 facilities grant from the N.C. Biotechnology Center, UNCW has become the third university in the nation to establish a multidisciplinary biotechnology program in marine botany, a program that could have sig nificant economic impact on the coastal region. The grant will fund research equipment and an aquaculture center. Dr. Donald R. (Fritz) Kapraon, professor of biology, and Dr. Kimon Bird, associate professor of biology, will coordinate the new program. It will focus on the use of marine organisms for a variety of purposes including the de velopment of drugs, improvements in clam aquaculture, propagation of sea weed as a food additive, and the cultiva tion of aquatic plants for environmental restoration. Since coming on board as UNCW’s director of athletics in 1951, William J. Brooks has been awtutJed several hon ors. He was recently presented with a special citation by the N.C. Baseball Coaches Association for his work in the association. In May, Brooks was asked by Colonial Athletic Association Com missioner Tom Yeager to lead the league’s delegation to Yugoslavia in June. [The conference sent a group of men's btisketball players to Yugoslavia as part of a reciprocd agreement made last year with the eastern European country. Brooks was also honored when the CAA’s athletic directors met recently and named the league’s baseball Most Valuable Player award for him. Lastly, Brooks was inducted into the National Junior College Baseball Coaches Associ ation Hall of Fame in June. He was se lected on the basis of his contributions to the organization, which include a 108-34-1 record in seven seasons and two national championships in 1961 and 1963. The management headquarters of North Carolina’s estuarine and coastal research reserves was transferred from Raleigh to UNCW in April as a result of a cooperative venture between two state agencies. UNCW’s Center for Marine Science Research and the N.C. De partment of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Coastal Management have teamed up to manage North Carolina’s fragile estu aries and the variety of life they sup port. By sharing funding resources and information, scientists will be able to provide a quicker flow of information to their publics. John Taggart, who has more than 15 years experience with the Division of Coastal Management, will coordinate the program. Mortimer Mishkin, right, chief neuropsychologist at the National Institute of Men tal Health, speaks with students after his seminar 'The Anatomy of Habit Formation" March 27. Student on left is Bob Horanzy, senior chemistry major and 1990 recipient of the New Hanover-Pender Medical Society Premedical Scholarship. The national honor society Phi Kappa Phi held its annual induction ceremony April 12 for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students as well as for one distinguished faculty member. The guest speaker was Nikita Pokrovsky, right, associate professor of philosophy and sociology at Moscow State University and a 1989-90 Fellow of the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park. Forty-nine new members were initiated to the society by Carole Fink, left, UNCW history professor and president of Phi Kappa Phi. The UNCW chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, es tablished in 1979, is devoted to the recognition and encouragement of superior scholarship in all aca demic disciplines. Dean Kaylor, shovel in hand, prepares to throw the first spade of dirt on an English oak tree donated to the Cameron School of Business Administration by the honor society Phi Beta Lambda. Renee Swanson, standing to the left of Kaylor, is president of the society.
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