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Toczyski Published in Origines

Suzanne Toczyski, modern languages and literatures, recently published an article entitled, "Rodrigue's Balancing Act" in the volume Origines, edited by Russell Ganim and Thomas Carr, Jr. The article examines one scene in Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid, with attention to the dialectic between language and violence in the play.

M.S. Candidate Awarded Prestigious Spitzer Fellowship

The Department of Biology is pleased to announce that M.S. candidate Catherine Hare has been awarded the prestigious Switzer Environmental Fellowship for her research on the “Wastewater to Fuel” project with Assistant Professor Michael Cohen. Hare's study focuses on the capacity of aquatic vegetation to remove or “scrub” excess nutrients and other pollutants from treated wastewater and utilization of the harvested material as biofuel. She initiated the project in Cohen’s laboratory as an undergraduate in Spring 2006 and advanced to the graduate program in Fall 2007. The project has since gained national recognition with three awards, most recently winning a “Pearson Sustainable Solutions Award”, and has garnered over $200,000 in funding from a variety of sources.

Hare is the fifth Switzer fellow from the SSU Department of Biology in the past nine years. Along with a $15,000 stipend comes lifelong membership in the Switzer Network, which provides awardees with training, career coaching and access to other Switzer Foundation grant programs. Please join us in congratulating Catherine for her success.

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