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Joseph K.T. Lee
Professor and chair of the department of radiology, Lee has been elected to a one-year term as president of the Society of Chairman of Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD).
The society is a nonprofit organization whose objectives are the advancement of the art and science of radiology by the promotion of medical education, research and patient care, the development of methods of undergraduate and graduate teaching in radiology, and the provision of a forum for discussion of problems and mutual interest among radiology department chairs.
The SCARD election took place on March 12 in San Diego at the Association of University Radiologists/SCARD Annual Meeting. His term began on March 15.
James Seay
Bowman and Gordon Gray professor of English, Seay was invited to read his poetry and serve on a literary panel at The Conference for the Book, April 9-11, at the University of Mississippi. The program included writers Wendell Berry, Ellen Douglas, Robert Morgan and others.
Seay also recently participated in a reading at the National Arts Gallery in New York.
University of North Carolina Press
Jay Barnes' Florida's Hurricane History, published by the University of North Carolina Press, won the 1999 Charlton Tebeau Book Award.
Barnes is director of the North Carolina Aquarium in Atlantic Beach. Florida's Hurricane History is an illustrated history of Florida's most notable hurricanes, from colonial days through Andrew and Opal.
The Tebeau Prize is awarded annually by the Florida Historical Society for books appealing to the general public and to younger Floridians.
Peter S. White
Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, White has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Board of Directors of the Center for Plant Conservation.
The Center for Plant Conservation, located in St. Louis at the Missouri Botanical Garden, is a national organization to prevent extinction of the native plants of the United States.
Yue Xiong
Assistant professor of molecular biology and biotechnology at the Lineberger Cancer Center, Xiong was awarded the seventh Gertrude B. Elion Research Award from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
Xiong was honored for his proposal for work on the cell cycle and CDK inhibitors entitled "Tumor Suppression by the RB and P53 Pathways."
Begun in 1993, the award is presented annually to one non-tenured scientist at the level of assistant professor engaged in meritorious basic or clinical research in cancer causation, prevention or treatment. Founded in 1907, the AACR is a professional society of more than 15,000 laboratory and clinical scientists engaged in cancer research in the United States, Canada and more than 60 other countries.
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