•Drs. Michele Kamens, associate professor of teacher education, Diane Casale-Giannola and Joanne Vesay assistant professors of teacher education, attended the Annual Conference of the Council for Exceptional Children in Salt Lake City, April 5-8. Kamens and Casale-Giannola gave a presentation entitled, “Inclusion at the University: Experiences of a Young Woman with Down Syndrome.” Dr. Kamens will be attending the Center for Improving Teacher Quality (CTQ) Forum Planning/Case Study Meeting at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel in Jacksonville, FL, May 22-24. The CTQ is a program sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).
• Kenny Yeh '05, Dan Silberman '07, Diana Gonzalez '05, and Dr. Jim Riggs, professor and chair of biology, will have their paper, "Complementary suppression of T cell activation by peritoneal macrophages and CTLA-4-Ig" published in "Immunobiology" this summer. Also soon to be published in "Developmental and Comparative Immunology," is the paper, "Spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) do not respond to thymus-independent type 2 antigens," by Anthony Pennello '04; Justin Taylor '02; Robin Matlack '04, Dr. Jonathan Karp, associate professor of biology and Dr. Riggs. The paper, "Age-dependent loss of naïve T cells in TCR transgenic bone marrow chimeras" by Clenton Coleman '00, Koko Howell, '02; Monte Hobbs of the University of Michigan, and Dr. Riggs will be published in "Immunobiology" later this spring.