IN Brief

Faber and DEIMOS See First Light Trustee and astronomer Sandra Faber was elected to the American Philosophical Society this spring. In addition, the DEIMOS spectrograph for the Keck telescope, a project she has worked on for eight years, saw first light June 3. The DEIMOS-Keck combination makes the instrument the most powerful in the world for faint object work. Faber and team plan to conduct the DEEP Survey of the distant universe, which will collect 65,000 spectra of galaxies at the edge of the visible universe and will chart galaxy formation. Faber is shown here (first row, second from left) at first light with her team.

Trustees
Washington State University has named a building for former Carnegie president and current trustee Philip Abelson and his wife, Neva.

Administration
Maxine Singer was recognized for her outstanding accomplishments as a scientist, her dedication to the community, and her service to the Weizmann Institute with the Weizmann Award in the Sciences and Humanities.
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Sue Humphreys, secretary to President Maxine Singer, left Carnegie Aug. 2 to spend more time with her two young daughters. Rhoda Mathias has joined Carnegie as the new secretary to the president.
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Sue White, director of mathematics for CASE, has left to become the national project director for an NSF-funded science education project called Science and Everyday Experiences (SEE), a joint effort between Delta Research and Education Foundation, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and the AAAS.
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Marjorie Burger joined Carnegie’s accounting department in Apr. She was previously the director of finance for the Alliance to Save Energy.
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Sherrill Burger, administrative assistant and events coordinator for External Affairs, left Carnegie June 30. Ellen Carpenter moved from Publications to External Affairs to become the public events and publications coordinator.

Embryology
Don Brown presented one of the keynote speeches at the Xenopus meeting in Cambridge, UK.
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Marnie Halpern lectured in the MBL Embryology Course at Woods Hole in July. Postdoctoral fellow in her lab, Joshua Gamse, ran the zebrafish techniques component of the course. The lab’s Rachel Brewster received a United Negro College Fund/Merck postdoctoral science research fellowship.
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Christian Brösamle received the Barbara McClintock postdoctoral award for 2002-03, and Suzanne Hall joined the Halpern lab as an animal care technician.
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A party was held in May to honor Dianne Stewart, lab manager in Allan Spradling’s lab, who began her Carnegie career 20 years ago as a departmental dishwasher. Many former Spradling lab members traveled to Baltimore for the occasion.
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Former graduate student Horacio Frydman left the Spradling lab for Princeton U., where he will study the intracellular parasitic bacterium, Wolbachia.
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Ben Ohlstein (Ph.D., M.D., U. Texas Southwestern Medical Center) started his postdoctoral research in the Spradling lab to study intestinal stem cells. Mike Busczcak (Ph.D., Yale U.) also joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. He is initiating a novel approach to identify genes encoding proteins that localize within specific cellular regions.

Reiko Nakajima (Ph.D., Osaka U.)started her postdoctoral work in the Zheng lab to study postmitotic regulation.

Observatories
Staff Member Patrick McCarthy chaired the extragalactic telescope time allocation committee for the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. He was also part of the technical reviews of space flight qualified infrared detectors and detector assemblies for the Hubble Space Telescope at the Ball Aerospace Corporation and Rockwell Scientific.
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François Schweizer gave two invited talks at a June 24-28 meeting in Padova, Italy, also attended by Luis Ho. The meeting honored Ivan R. King (U. Washington), who, on his 75th birthday, received a Laurea ad Honorem degree in astronomy from the University of Padova. King acknowledged the Observatories for giving him valuable access to telescopes and plate collections as a guest investigator during 1960-1963.
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In June Barry Madore attended a summer workshop, “Large-scale Structure,” in Aspen, CO, and later attended the Library and Information Services in Astronomy meeting in Prague.
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Michael Rauch gave an invited talk at the workshop “Early Cosmic Structures and the End of the Dark Ages” in Elba, Italy, in June. He spent three weeks as a Scientific Visitor at Cambridge U. in July and Aug.
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Hubble Fellow Scott Trager left with his wife, Kate McIntyre, for the Netherlands, where he joined the faculty of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at U. Groningen
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Postdoctoral fellow Jason Prochaska presented an invited talk on protogalactic chemical abundances at a workshop in Minneapolis. He also presented a scientific case for a Next Generation UV Telescope at the Hubble Science Legacy Symposium in Chicago. Prochaska left with his family to join the faculty of U. California-Santa Cruz.
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J. Christopher Mihos (Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland) spent May as a Scientific Visitor and presented a talk, “Tidal Tales: Using Tidal Debris to Probe Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters.”

Plant Biology
Plant Biology and the Biological Sciences Dept. at Stanford U. jointly hosted 75 people from UC-Davis, UC-Berkeley, USDA-Plant Gene Expression Center, and SFSU for the Bay Area Plant Pathology meeting on Mar. 27.
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1•On Aug. 7 Arthur Grossman was awarded the Darbarker Prize by the Botanical Society of America. This prize has been given since 1955 for significant contributions to the study of microscopic algae.
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On July 5 Winslow Briggs was awarded an honorary doctorate, Honoris Causa, by U. Freiburg, Germany. He was an invited speaker at the Gordon Conference on Photoreceptors and Signal Transduction held in Il Ciocco, Italy, in Apr. and an invited speaker at the Gordon Conference on Plant Molecular Biology in July.
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Chris Somerville was elected to the Academia Europaea in July. In May, he was an invited speaker at the Lake

Longtime Embryology Staff Member Joseph Gall received an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from Charles U., Prague, Czech Republic, in Apr. The university was founded in 1348 by Charles IV of Bohemia and is the oldest university in central Europe. In the image at left, Gall delivers his acceptance speech. At right, he is receiving the degree from his sponsor, Ivan Raska.