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Greenwood, Chauret granted sabbaticals in 2004
January 2, 2003 | |||||
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KOKOMO, Ind.—Associate Professor of Sociology Nancy A. Greenwood, Ph.D., and Associate Professor of Biology Christian Chauret, Ph.D., have been granted sabbatical leaves from IU Kokomo for January through May 2004. The Faculty Development and Grants Committee approved the sabbaticals in early December. During her sabbatical, Greenwood will continue writing and complete a book about teaching introductory sociology using the scholarship of teaching and learning literature. Its working title is First Contact: Research on Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology. Chauret will travel to British Columbia to conduct research into drinking water contamination caused by the movement of E coli O157:H7 through soil around wells and aquifers. The work should also lead to a better understanding of how climatic and environmental factors affect the distribution of this pathogen in surface water reservoirs. “Although I have previously studied the survival of protozoan parasites in river water, I have never studied the movement and survival of bacteria in soil,” Chauret said. “This will provide me with a new set of skills.” Since 1998, Chauret has focused most of his research on water treatment plants anddrinking water distribution systems. “Although I am still very interested in this, I would like to return to ecological/environmental studies on the fate of some waterborne pathogens,” he said. “To a large extent, this is what I was doing in Ottawa for my postdoctoral work in the mid-1990s.” Chauret will likely involve IU Kokomo students in some preliminary research work on campus. He also plans to conduct data analysis and writing at IU Kokomo. He will perform most of his sabbatical experiments at the University of Victoria (UV), British Columbia, Canada. The university’s biology department hosts the Industry Research Chair Program in Environmental Management of Drinking Water Ecosystems and Watersheds. The program’s aim is to develop better watershed management practices and improve drinking water quality, according to Chauret. Through the drinking water ecosystems group at UV, Chauret said he will “have access to study sites, instrumentation and funding needed for this type of study. “I will learn new techniques such as transformation of bacteria with the green fluorescent protein containing plasmid. This method can then be incorporated and taught in IU Kokomo’s Microbiology Lab for majors curriculum.” He will also perform field experiments at several water reservoirs in British Columbia.
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