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LSU Press Director Joins AAUP Board
MaryKatherine Callaway, director of LSU Press, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Association of American University Presses, or AAUP.

AAUP, the largest organization of non-profit scholarly publishers in the world, is dedicated to the support of creative and effective scholarly communication. Through professional development opportunities, cooperative programs and information resources, the association helps its 130 members fulfill their common commitments to scholarship, the academy and society.

Callaway joined LSU Press as director in 2003. Founded in 1935, LSU Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the South and is among the outstanding publishers of scholarly books in country. As an integral part of LSU, the press shares the university’s goal of the dissemination of knowledge and culture. It publishes approximately 80 books each year and maintains a backlist of more than 1,000 titles.

Louisiana Geological Survey Releases Report Relating Geologic Setting and Hurricane-Damage Vulnerability in New Orleans
As part of its Public Information Series, the Louisiana Geological Survey has published a report titled, “Geology and Hurricane-Protection Strategies in the Greater New Orleans Area.” The study, authored by LGS research associates Richard P. McCulloh and Paul V. Heinrich and researcher Bill Good, examines the geologic setting and settlement history of New Orleans and communities on the coastal plain and the major influences on their susceptibility in hurricanes, including how both natural processes and some activities associated with inhabited areas have led to subsidence.

The publication includes full-color schematics showing areas of subsidence, types of soil sediments and areas of flooding from Hurricane Katrina, and features a history of major Louisiana hurricanes.

The report is available for download at www.lgs.lsu.edu/pubs/11strategies.pdf.

Vlosky Appointed to Romanian University
Richard Vlosky, director and professor, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, School of Renewable Natural Resources, LSU AgCenter, has been appointed associate professor in the Department of Forestry at Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timisoara, Romania.

Vlosky will spend two weeks lecturing to graduate students at the university in spring 2007.

New Editor for Geographical Review
The American Geographical Society has named LSU’s Craig Colten as editor for the Geographical Review. Colten will edit volumes 97-99, i.e., those for years 2007-2009.

He is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography. For the past six years he has co-edited Historical Geography. His most recent book, “An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature,” won the J. B. Jackson Prize for 2005. Three other members of the LSU faculty will serve on the editorial team: Dydia DeLyser and Andrew Sluyter as associate editors and Kent Mathewson as book review editor, all in LSU’s Department of Geography and Anthropology. The editor is accepting manuscripts now at LSU’s Department of Geography & Anthropology, 227 Howe-Russell, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105 and at greditor@lsu.edu.

LSU Earns Honors at Nanotech BriefsR’ Nano 50T Awards
The Magnetic-Based Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment from Carola Leuschner, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Challa Kumar, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, has been named a winner in the second annual Nanotech BriefsR’ Nano 50T Awards in the Technology category.

Presented by Nanotech Briefs magazine - the monthly digital publication from the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs - the Nano 50 recognizes the top 50 technologies, products and innovators that have significantly impacted, or are expected to impact, the state of the art in nanotechnology. The winners of the Nano 50 awards are the “best of the best” - the innovative people and designs that will move nanotechnology to key mainstream markets.

Nano 50 nominations were entered via an online submission form, and were judged by a panel of nanotechnology and MEMS experts. The technologies, products and innovators receiving the 50 highest scores were named Nano 50 award winners.

The Nano 50 will be presented at a special awards dinner to be held during the NASA Tech Briefs National Nano Engineering Conference in Boston in November.