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AU FACULTY RESEARCHERS HONORED, LECTURES SET
AUBURN -- Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics has announced its Dean's Faculty Research Award winners and scheduled a series of lectures by the honorees.
The winners for 2000 are Geoffrey Hill, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences; David Stanbury, a professor in the Chemistry Department; and Wenxian Shen, an associate professor in the Mathematics Department.
Hill, whose research and Feb. 9 lecture are on the function of colorful bird plumage, is a 1997 recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an honor President Clinton called "the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers at the outset of their independent research careers."
He has also received the Young Investigators Award from the American Society of Naturalists, was voted an elective member of the American Ornithologists' Union and has published nearly 60 peer-reviewed articles.
Hill joined the Auburn faculty in 1993 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. He holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University, a master's from the University of New Mexico and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.
He will speak March 1 on his research emphasis, the reactivity of aqueous inorganic free radicals. With bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Duke University and the University of Southern California, respectively, Stanbury's research is supported by the National Science Foundation, for which he has served as a program officer, since 1983.
Stanbury came to Auburn in 1987 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and seven years on the faculty at Rice University. Since being at AU, he has authored or co-authored more than 55 publications and attracted almost $1.5 million to the university in outside funding for research.
Shen, who will speak April 25 on differential equations and applications, is the author of 32 scholarly papers on mathematics, several of which she has presented to the American Mathematical Society. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1994.
Shen came to Auburn in 1992 after receiving her doctorate and serving as a research and teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Zhejiang Normal University and Beijing University, respectively -- both in her native China.
Refreshments will be served 30 minutes before each lecture, all of which will begin at 3:30 p.m. in room 151 of AU's chemistry building.
AU's College of Sciences and Mathematics has presented the Dean's Faculty Research Awards since 1977.
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CONTACT: Hill, 334-844-9269; Stanbury, 844-6988; Chen, 844-6578.