Luciana Beroiz (Fulbright, Argentina) presented her paper, “Issues of Race and Class in Olive Senior’s Short Fiction: Questions of Ideology and Writing as Subversion,” at the 11th Annual Mardi Gras Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, held at Louisiana State Univ. in February of 2001. Participants explored manifestations of and solutions for the emotion of hate in art, language, and culture. Beroiz is studying for a master’s degree in American literature at the Univ. of Maryland, College Park.
In September 2001 at the IST Mobile Communications Summit 2001 in Barcelona, Spain, René Játiva Espinoza (FUNDACYT, Ecuador) presented his paper “Cramer Rao Bounds in Time of Arrival Estimation for a Distributed Source” (with J. Vidal and M. Cabrera). The annual conference offers researchers from around the world an opportunity to discuss and debate initiatives in mobile and personal communications systems. Játiva is studying for his doctoral degree in signal theory and communications at the Univ. Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona.
A poster presentation entitled “Taxonomy and Ecology of Novel Acidophilic Actinomycetes” was presented by Carlos Alberto Rodríguez (FUNDACYT, Ecuador) at the 12th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes in Vancouver, British Columbia, in August 2001. Actinomycetes are soil-based microorganisms that decompose organic materials into plant nutrients while stopping the growth of harmful bacteria. Rodríguez’s poster was based upon his doctoral research in plant physiology with the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science at the Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne in Newcastle, England.
In July 2001, Belizean Marcelino Avila (USAID, M.S., 1975, Ph.D., 1978, sociology, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia) was appointed manager of sectoral programmes for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. Avila, based in Georgetown, Guyana, is responsible for coordinating the Secretariat’s programs in agriculture, industry, tourism, services, and transportation in order to promote social and economic development throughout the Caribbean. Prior to his appointment, Avila served as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Belize, and he continues to serve as a visiting professor at the Univ. Autónoma Chapingo and the Univ. Autónoma de Yucatán in Mexico.
Make the Monarch Blush, the second poetry anthology by Belizean Amado Mauricio Chan (Fulbright, M.S., 1997, English, Valdosta State Univ.), was published in 2001. It combines the Spanish and English languages and traditions of style. Chan’s first bilingual anthology was printed in 1999 and is entitled Speak to Me/háblaME. In August 2001, Chan also published an article in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology discussing the character of Addie Bundren from William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying. Chan is a full-time lecturer with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Univ. of Belize.
Venezuelan Antonia Katherine Coppin (FUNDAYACUCHO, M.S., 1991, geriatrics, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., SIVENSA, Ph.D. candidate, geriatrics, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston) presented her paper, “Chronic Pain Conditions in Community Dwelling Elderly: Relationship with Physical Function and Disability,” at the XVII World Congress of Gerontology in Vancouver, British Columbia, in July 2001. Coppin is continuing her doctoral studies in geriatrics at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston.
Peruvian José Efraín Herrera (Fulbright, M.S., 2001, petroleum engineering, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman) gave a presentation entitled “Design of Effective Catalysts for the Production of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes” (with L. Balzano, A. Borgna, W.E. Alvarez, and D.E. Resasco) at the17th North American Catalysis Society Meeting in Toronto, Canada. Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are microscopic cylinders of carbon atoms that have electronic and mechanical properties. At the June 2001 meeting, Herrera and his co-presenters discussed how using catalysts to break down carbon-containing molecules could increase the available quantity of SWNT, enabling inexpensive, widespread use.
Costa Rican Luko Hilje (USAID, Ph.D., 1983, entomology, Univ. of California, Riverside) was recently appointed head of the plant protection unit at the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), a tropical agricultural research and higher education center based in Turrialba, Costa Rica. He has served for ten years as senior entomologist at CATIE, carrying out insect pest research, graduate teaching, and technical assistance activities in Central American and Caribbean countries. During this period, he has also served as coordinator of the Iberoamerican and Caribbean Network on Whitefly and Geminivirus Management, which promotes integrated approaches to managing a pest problem affecting 25 crops worldwide.
Ricardo Luis Tarifa (Fulbright/Amazon, M.S., 1995, forest science, Yale Univ.) is on the staff of the World Bank Rainforest Unit in Brazil, which administers a grant from the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial countries to promote the conservation of the Brazilian rainforest. Tarifa’s current projects include the Forest Resources Management Project, which promotes initiatives in forest monitoring and management, and the Amazon Emergency Fire Prevention and Control Project, which encourages fire prevention in the Amazon Rainforest through community mobilization and training and the coordination of emergency response at all government levels.
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