Highest Honor Research Articles

Medical Student Grit and Performance in Gross Anatomy: What are the Relationships?

Our understanding of the non‐academic factors that drive successful knowledge acquisition and development in gross anatomy is limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the links between a novel character trait, grit, defined as the passion and perseverance for long‐term goals, and student performance in medical gross anatomy. Grit entails working vigorously, maintaining effort despite failure, and has been shown to be a superior predictor of success beyond that explained by IQ. In 2014, a survey including the validated Short Grit Scale was sent to all medical students at Indiana University School of Medicine; the response rate was 39% (n = 385/999). Higher grit scores correlated with higher performance in gross anatomy as indicated by course grade and overall % (r = .34, p <.0001); with a significant difference between high and low grit students (X2 = 33.01, p <.0001). Specifically, students with above‐median grit scores were more likely to earn either a high pass or honors grade in the course when compared to students with below‐median grit scores (p <.0001). Moreover, a moderate positive association (r = .13, p = 0.0178) was found between above‐median grit students and those that believed intelligence was a malleable rather than fixed character trait. Examining medical student grit offers a unique perspective on the important individual non‐academic factors influencing learning in gross anatomy.

Whitney Award recipient Bernard Mehl dies at 81.

Bernard Mehl, M.B.A., D.P.S., FASHP, recipient of ASHP’s 2001 Harvey A. K. Whitney Lecture Award and former long-time pharmacy director at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, died on January 30 at age 81. He had had a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, a family member said. For 40 years, Mehl served as the director of the pharmacy department at Mount Sinai, a mammoth facility on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. “Dr. Mehl was a pioneer in pharmacy practice,” said his successor, Joanne Meyer, who also credited him for advancing pharmacy education and residency training in New York City. He received not only health-system pharmacy’s highest honor—the Whitney Lecture Award—but also the designation John W. Webb Visiting Professor in Hospital Pharmacy, in recognition of his extraordinary dedication to fostering excellence in pharmacy management. His doctoral research in the early 1980s revealed that pharmacy administrators at the time knew little about the cost of drugs or hospital operations or the reasons for changes in the cost of drugs. By using indexes, he showed that inflation, patient census, patient mix, or pharmacologic class could be a reason for drug-cost change.

Knowlton receives Remington Honor Medal

A favorite quote of 2015 Remington Honor Medalist recipient Calvin H. Knowlton's, BSPharm, MDiv, PhD, is, "If you really want to change something, don't change the existing reality; create a new model that makes the old model obsolete." Knowlton, who is CEO and Founder of Tabula Rasa Healthcare, Inc., has taken Buckminster Fuller's words of wisdom to heart throughout his entire pharmacy career

Tribute to Stephen M. Krane.

Tribute to Stephen M. Krane.

Introducing High School Students to NMR Spectroscopy through Percent Composition Determination Using Low-Field Spectrometers

Mole to gram conversions, density, and percent composition are fundamental concepts in first year chemistry at the high school or undergraduate level; however, students often find it difficult to engage with these concepts. We present a simple laboratory experiment utilizing portable nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to determine the percent composition in a series of household solutions explored with high school honors chemistry students. Students engage with the science by using a portable NMR spectrometer to acquire and process their own proton spectrum of rubbing alcohol. From the acquired data, students then used the aforementioned concepts and calculations to determine the percent composition of the mixture in wt/wt, and v/v percents. Students and teachers both expressed excitement with getting to work with “advanced” techniques and a better understanding of the relevance of stoichiometry, density, and percent composition.

Society of Economic Geologists Ralph W. Marsden Award for 2013: Citation of Jeffrey W. Hedenquist

Other| March 01, 2015 Society of Economic Geologists Ralph W. Marsden Award for 2013: Citation of Jeffrey W. Hedenquist Lawrence D. Meinert Lawrence D. Meinert Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lawrence D. Meinert Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online Issn: 1554-0774 Print Issn: 0361-0128 © 2015 Society of Economic Geologists. Economic Geology (2015) 110 (2): 585. https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.110.2.585 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Lawrence D. Meinert; Society of Economic Geologists Ralph W. Marsden Award for 2013: Citation of Jeffrey W. Hedenquist. Economic Geology 2015;; 110 (2): 585. doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.110.2.585 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyEconomic Geology Search Advanced Search Madame President, SEG members, and guests: I have had the pleasure of working with several of the past winners of the Marsden award for service to SEG. All are meritorious and richly deserving of this high honor. This year’s awardee is no different, and yet he is. For he has contributed to SEG in so many different ways that the most difficult part of the nomination process was limiting the number of people who volunteered to write letters of support. He has served on numerous SEG committees, organized many highly successful conferences, edited many of the most esteemed and popular... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

Hiroo Kanamori Receives 2014 William Bowie Medal

Hiroo Kanamori was awarded the 2014 William Bowie Medal, AGU’s highest honor.

Some Temperance on the Doctoral Studies and On-Line Education

Toward the goal of doctoral studies, it is necessary to combine two basic characteristics of independent study. I like to call it an independent study, which would be partial to capture the whole of graduate studies. As for its high honor, the title page of dissertation in vast of universities usually use the phrase “...submitted for the partial fulfillment of doctorate degree...”. That phrase implies that the completion of dissertation would be a major part of doctoral studies, but should be partial depending on some of additional factors. Idealistically, that could be the whole quality as an independent researcher or investigator, and possibly the kind of human paradigm as a prospective teacher. In any case, we would not be incorrect if we see our principal work at the graduate level learning the ways of independent scholar. In this context, I would propose some of elements to be addressed in the end to guide the paradigm of doctoral studies and especially involving the e-age.

Bombing the Tomb: Memorial Portraiture and Street Art in Revolutionary Cairo

Governments have long used public art and monuments to characterize and legitimize their regimes. The production of visual space has profound implications on the psychology of the nation state and the way its citizens relate to their histories. It is curious then, to ask what happens when citizens take control of the visual content of their environment, particularly as it relates to memorializing those who have been killed at the hands of political authority or hegemony. This paper will examine different visual forms of memorialization on Mohammed Mahmoud Street,1 with a particular focus on the memorial portraiture of Ammar Abo Bakr, El Zeft, and Ganzeer, and the pharaonic murals of Alaa Awad. It will then examine how such street memorials not only commemorate the martyrs2 of the revolution, but also criticize the state, take ownership of public space and the memorialization process, and contribute to the formation of a strong, pan-Egyptian identity. It will also show why, as much of this art has now been covered up by other art or whitewashed by the sate, this art remains relevant as the government begins to create its own memorials and utilize Egyptian frustrations with the ongoing violence to tarnish the collective memory of the revolution. [1] Not intended to reflect the work of Mona Abaza in her article Mona Abaza, “Mourning, Narratives and Interactions with the Martyrs through Cairo’s Graffiti,” E-International Relations, October 7, 2013, http://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/07/mourning-narratives-and-interactions-with-the-martyrs-through-cairos-graffiti/.[2] “The word martyr [Shaheed] signifies a person who has died for a greater cause, either religious or political. In islamic thought, martyrdom (shahada is the highest honor and martyrs attain the greatest level in paradise, correlating to the Christian notion of sainthood.” (Basma Hamdy and Stone, Karl Don, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution. ([S.l.]: From Here To Fame, 2014). 56) “Martyr” is often the term used to describe those who have been killed by security forces and the military since January 25th and before. I am not making a judgement on the use of the term, but am adopting the term to reference those who have die over the course of the past three years, as well as to avoid confusion when people use the term martyrs to describe such people in their interviews.

A three-attribute transfer skills framework – part II: applying and assessing the model in science education

In an era in which information is rapidly growing and changing, it is very important to teach with the goal of students' engagement in life-long learning in mind. This can partially be achieved by developing transferable thinking skills. In our previous paper – Part I, we conducted a review of the transfer literature and suggested a three-attribute transfer skills framework presented graphically as a cube. The goals of this paper – Part II are (a) to investigate the application of the three-attribute transfer skills framework by conducting two studies; and (b) to demonstrate the value of the framework as a tool for design of assignments and assessment of students' transfer skills. In this paper, we have applied the three-attribute transfer skills framework to design assignments and to assess middle and high school students. In order to achieve the first goal we conducted two studies: (1) investigating high school chemistry students in a computerized laboratory setting, and (2) exploring middle school students who were exposed to a science enrichment program. Study 1 took a case-based chemistry approach and included assessment of high school honor chemistry students' transfer skills. In Study 2, we evaluated the transfer skills of ninth grade students who had participated in a science enrichment academic program with emphasis on physics and we compared boys to girls. Findings of Study 1 indicated an increase in students' far transfer skill as expressed by the progress students made in transferring knowledge from chemistry to other science domains and by using more chemistry understanding levels in their responses. In Study 2, we found that the near transfer skill of middle school boys was significantly higher than the same skill among girls who participated in the same enrichment program. Both parts, the review and the three-attribute transfer skills framework (previous paper – Part I) and the research (this paper – Part II), contribute to narrowing the gap between the theory of transfer, empirical research, and the practice of transfer in science classrooms.

The XVIIth International Conference, Cairns Australia

The seventeenth International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects was held in Cairns, Australia, from 13 to 18 July 2014. The Congress was attended by 576 delegates from 38 countries. The venue for the conference was the magnificent Cairns Convention Centre, which set new standards in technical excellence for an IUSSI conference. There were 37 symposia, reflecting the diverse interests of IUSSI members. Nine distinguished scientists presented plenary talks. The Hamilton award, the Union’s highest honor, was presented to Professor Mary-Jane West-Eberhard.

Conversations with Eusebio Leal Spengler, City Historian of Havana: ‘We are an Island and We Need to Have an Ongoing Dialogue with the World That Surrounds US. Any Attempt to Isolate US is a Mistake.’

Eusebio Leal Spengler is City Historian of Havana, the 'City of Columns', as Alejo Carpentier liked to call it. A Doctor of Historical Sciences (University of Havana), he is a specialist in archaeological science and internationally recognised for his work in preserving the historic character of the Cuban capital.Born in 1942 and self-educated in his youth, Eusebio Leal was a disciple of Emilio Roig de Leushenring, founder of the Office of the Historian of Havana, the leadership of which Leal assumed in 1967.The mission of the Historian's Office is to contribute to the dissemination of Cuban history and culture through 'the preservation of material and spiritual symbols and expressions of nationality [... and] the collective historical and cultural memory of the city, especially its Historic Centre', the largest such colonial centre in Latin America.He is also President of the National Monuments Commission, a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and a member of the unicameral Cuban Parliament. Since 1981, Leal has been responsible for the restoration and preservation of the Historic Centre of Havana, a national monument since 1976 and a Heritage for Humanity site since 1982.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the advent of the Special Period in Time of Peace, Cuba was plunged into a deep economic crisis. Leal was nonetheless charged with continuing the work of restoring the Historic Centre of the capital, but with severely limited resources. As head of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, a new institution created for this purpose, he managed to obtain a certain degree of autonomy from the authorities in the management of the Office of the Historian but only a limited US$1 million budget.Nonetheless, Leal has transformed that institution into a veritable economic and cultural network that includes hotels, restaurants, shops, museums and construction and restoration workshops that are capable of generating the funds necessary to preserve the Historic Centre. The results have been spectacular and have earned him worldwide fame. In total, nearly 100 old buildings, for the most part complex structures of great historical importance, have been restored.Eusebio Leal has also expanded the scope of responsibility of the Office of the Historian. He has brought new energy to the cultural and social life of Old Havana with a multitude of activities, which are held monthly in museums, cultural centres, libraries, research laboratories and elsewhere.Leal was able to demonstrate that saving the cultural patrimony of the city was possible, even under conditions of extreme economic adversity. The original US$1 million invested generates more than 100 million in resources today. His excellent management abilities and his love for Havana have made his work an undeniable economic and cultural success.A man of exceptional culture, a winner of the world's highest honours, he is considered to be one of the three greatest living Cuban speakers, the other two being Fidel Castro and Max Lesnik.During these conversations, Leal evokes his city and speaks of the level of management autonomy enjoyed by his institution. He addresses the question of relations with the US, economic sanctions, tourism development, socio-economic reforms and the Cuba of tomorrow.Salim Lamrani (SL): Eusebio Leal, you're Havana's historian. What exactly is this city?Eusebio Leal (EL): Havana is an enormously attractive city. It possesses a magnetism that grows out of its history and its geographical location. It is a beautiful city that appeals to us for numerous reasons. It is not in step with the times and, therefore, has preserved a wide range of values and a unique identity within the heart of Cuban identity itself. Havana has played an important role in the construction of our national identity and our national character, as well as in the struggles for independence and those of students and the working class. …

Abraham ("Abe") Guz: a life devoted to breathing and breathlessness.

It is with great sadness that we inform you that Abe Guz passed away on April 11, 2014 at the age of 84. Abe Guz was Professor of Medicine at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London, UK between 1973 and 1982, and subsequently became Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine of the joint Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, University of London until September 1994. He will be remembered for his contribution to our understanding of breathing control and of breathlessness. Abe Guz was born in 1929 in East London to Russian Jewish parents who came to England in the 1920s. In 1947, he attended Charing Cross Hospital Medical School where he was a brilliant student, winning the Gold Medal of the School and graduating with the highest honours in medicine and surgery. After serving in the army for 2 years as part of National Service as Chief Medical Officer in Germany, Abe returned to London as a senior house officer at the Hammersmith Hospital. Like many budding clinical scientists of the time, he shortly left for the USA to become a Research Fellow at Harvard University and then Senior Fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), University of California San Francisco. He trained under Julius Comroe whom he said taught him to “think” and whom he described as someone who had “the great facility of summarising what was not known”. At the CVRI, he collaborated with Julien Hoffman, a paediatric cardiologist, to develop methods of measuring blood flow and cardiac output. Abe returned to the UK in 1961, as Assistant Lecturer in the newly created Department …

John C. Warner

Flanked by “Star Trek” mugs and a mauve tie, the 2014 SCI Perkin Medal sits in a place of honor in John C. Warner’s office. Warner, president and chief technology officer at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry (WBI), took home the medal back in September. “I feel that it’s really an award for the whole field of green chemistry,” Warner says of the prize. Awarded annually since 1906 by the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), the medal is often described as the chemical industry’s highest honor. That a green chemistry guru such as Warner would garner the medal clearly demonstrates the strides the field has made within the chemical industry. Not so long ago, Warner says, being a chemist simply meant working with toxic and dangerous stuff. “It took a very long time for people to say, ‘If we’re the ones capable of understanding ...

William L Woolverton.

Dr William L Woolverton, Billy S Guyton Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center died after a brief illness at the age of 62 on 13 June 2013. Professor Woolverton, a member of ACNP, was a leading scientist and educator in the behavioral pharmacology of drugs of abuse. An Alabama native, Bill attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1972. He did graduate work at the University of Chicago, studying pharmacology under the mentorship of Dr Charles R Schuster, graduating with a PhD in 1977. Although Bill received his formal training as a pharmacologist, he was strongly influenced by the behavioral sciences, conducting his doctoral research in the Psychiatry Department with a psychologist. Thus, many of Bill's major scientific contributions were on the behavioral determinants of the abuse-related effects of drugs. He did most of his research using nonhuman primates. From 1977 to 1980 Bill did postdoctoral work at Virginia Commonwealth University primarily in the laboratories of Dr Robert Balster in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Bill wanted to understand better how the reinforcing effects of drugs were altered by the context of their availability. This led him to a series of complex choice studies in which rhesus monkeys were given opportunities to select cocaine or food reinforcement and how various manipulations, such as concurrent drug treatment, altered this choice behavior. The results of this line of work convinced Bill that drug-taking behavior was not “impulsive” and “out of control” as has often been proposed, but rather is directly determined by the context of its availability, providing a nuanced understanding of drug–behavior interactions. In 1980, Bill returned to the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the research group headed by Charles R Schuster. When Bob Schuster left to become NIDA Director in 1986, Bill replaced him as the Director of the Drug Abuse Research Center. While in Chicago, Bill showed that activation of both D1-like and D2-like dopamine receptors were involved in the reinforcing effects of cocaine. He also continued his studies with drug choice and drug–food choice paradigms with the purpose of studying the reinforcing efficacy of stimulant drug administration. He utilized these models for studying potential pharmacotherapies that might reduce the strength of cocaine reward, but of equal importance, he found that he could reduce cocaine-reinforced behavior just as easily by manipulating environmental variables, such as the value of alternative reinforcers. This work is consistent with the view that combined pharmacotherapies and behavioral therapies may offer the best hope for stimulant abuse treatment. In 1993, Bill was recruited to the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) at the rank of Professor and served as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. In 2010, he was awarded the Billy S Guyton Distinguished Professorship, the highest honor that is bestowed upon researchers at UMMC. While at UMMC, Bill's long-standing interest in how environmental circumstances shape the choice to take drugs gave rise to some of his most innovative work, including a foray into behavioral economics. He investigated the effects of delay of reinforcement on the choice to self-administer cocaine when non-drug alternatives were available. In 2007, Bill and his colleagues demonstrated hyperbolic discounting of delayed drug injections. He followed this study with others examining delay discounting of non-drug reinforcers in monkeys and found that monkeys discounted delayed drug injections less steeply than non-drug reinforcers providing further insight into how drugs can come to control behavior. Bill Woolverton was much admired by his colleagues and students. He had a very inquisitive mind and liked to challenge accepted scientific beliefs. He had a gentle way of guiding the development of his trainees and in engaging his research peers in the field. He loved to play and sing in the ever-shifting band of friends and colleagues that he cultivated primarily during his Mississippi years. He will be greatly missed. He is survived by his loving wife Candy Woolverton, and his son Chris and daughter Lucy.

Solomon Tesfaye: preventing complications of diabetic neuropathy

Solomon Tesfaye: preventing complications of diabetic neuropathy

News from the IAWS

The University of West Hungary, the BOKU University and the International Academy of Wood Science are pleased to host the conference ‘‘Eco-efficient Resource Wood’’. We are also pleased to announce that the Academy Lectureship (our highest honour) will be awarded to Professor Holger Militz, who will talk on wood modification research from a European perspective. This is an excellent opportunity to meet with colleagues in two of Europe’s great cities and to learn of the latest trends in hardwood science and processing. Further information about the conference can be found at: http://services. woodscience.hu/ The closing date for registration is 01-09-2014. We hope to see you in Sopron & Vienna. Robert Nemeth, Alfred Teischinger and Lennart Salmen

In memoriam, Dr. E. Chester Ridgway, 1942-2014.

The Endocrine Society, the world of endocrinology, and the family and innumerable friends and colleagues of Chip Ridgway were immensely saddened to learn of his very untimely death on July 31, 2014. Chip was a graduate of Dartmouth College and an AOA graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, magna cum laude. His internship, medicine residency, and endocrinology fellowship were all at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served two years in the Navy as Chief of Endocrinology at San Diego prior to returning to Massachusetts General, where he served as Chief of the Thyroid Unit and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, until 1985. He moved back to the University of Colorado in 1985 to become the Frederic C. Hamilton Professor of Medicine and Division Head of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes. Chip received the high honor of Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado in 2011 and remained at the University until his death. Chip relinquished the role of Division Director in 2007 but continued to serve as interim Chair of Medicine and Executive Vice Chair of Medicine. He has been Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for nearly 20 years. Peer recognition of his stellar career led to early election to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and Mastership in the American College of Physicians. Chip generously shared his professional life as a physician-scientist between his associates at the University of Colorado, numerous international colleagues and collaborators, and his two favorite professional societies, the Endocrine Society and the American Thyroid Association (ATA). He served as member and chairman of many committees in both societies and on the Council of the Endocrine Society and on the Executive Board of the ATA. He was elected President of the ATA in 1996–1997 and President of the Endocrine Society in 2003–2004. His welldeserved honors and awards were many, including the Distinguished Service Award, Paul Starr Award, Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal, and Lewis Braverman Lectureship Award from the ATA, and the Robert H. Williams Distinguished Leadership Award from the Endocrine Society. Chip founded and directed a “Fellows Day” conference dedicated to thyroid disease at the ATA annual meeting for the past 20 years, touching the careers of over 100 fellows each year. Indeed, his dedication to both education and the growth, development, and mentorship of his fellows and junior colleagues was legend-

In memoriam, Dr. E. Chester Ridgway, 1942- 2014.

The Endocrine Society, the world of endocrinology, and the family and innumerable friends and colleagues of Chip Ridgway were immensely saddened to learn of his very untimely death on July 31, 2014. Chip was a graduate of Dartmouth College and an AOA graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, magna cum laude. His internship, medicine residency, and endocrinology fellowship were all at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served two years in the Navy as Chief of Endocrinology at San Diego prior to returning to Massachusetts General, where he served as Chief of the Thyroid Unit and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, until 1985. He moved back to the University of Colorado in 1985 to become the Frederic C. Hamilton Professor of Medicine and Division Head of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes. Chip received the high honor of Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado in 2011 and remained at the University until his death. Chip relinquished the role of Division Director in 2007 but continued to serve as interim Chair of Medicine and Executive Vice Chair of Medicine. He has been Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for nearly 20 years. Peer recognition of his stellar career led to early election to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and Mastership in the American College of Physicians. Chip generously shared his professional life as a physician-scientist between his associates at the University of Colorado, numerous international colleagues and collaborators, and his two favorite professional societies, the Endocrine Society and the American Thyroid Association (ATA). He served as member and chairman of many committees in both societies and on the Council of the Endocrine Society and on the Executive Board of the ATA. He was elected President of the ATA in 1996–1997 and President of the Endocrine Society in 2003–2004. His welldeserved honors and awards were many, including the Distinguished Service Award, Paul Starr Award, Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal, and Lewis Braverman Lectureship Award from the ATA, and the Robert H. Williams Distinguished Leadership Award from the Endocrine Society. Chip founded and directed a “Fellows Day” conference dedicated to thyroid disease at the ATA annual meeting for the past 20 years, touching the careers of over 100 fellows each year. Indeed, his dedication to both education and the growth, development, and mentorship of his fellows and junior colleagues was legend-

Lindstrom Receives 2013 Ocean Sciences Award: Response

My sincere thanks go to the AGU Ocean Sciences section for this award. Is there any higher honor than recognition by one's peers? To join the illustrious list of prior recipients is deeply moving. Thanks so much to Arnold and Gary for their abundant praise and support over many years.