ASM is pleased to announce the new International Board Chair, May Chu, who began her term 1 July 2011.
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Fifteen years have lapsed since a major study to revamp the ASM Curriculum Guidelines for Microbiology was put forth. Since this time, several national reports were published calling for sweeping changes in teaching biology for the 21st century.
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The ASM Membership Board is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Career Development Grants for Postdoctoral Women. The recipients are Sinem Beyhan of the University of California, San Francisco (Anita Sil's laboratory), Ashley Shade of Yale University (Jo Handelsman's laboratory), and Laura E. Williams of Duke University (Jennifer Wernegreen's laboratory).
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National Offices
The Nominating Committee has submitted the following slate of candidates for the Society offices for the year 1 July 2012 through 30 June 2013.
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ASM Announces Appointments of New Journal Editors
ASM is pleased to announce that the following new editors were appointed to ASM journals effective 1 July 2011:
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ASM Represented at National Student and Educator Meetings in Summer 2011
The strategic directions of the ASM Education Board include collaborating with national organizations to promote biology education at all levels. In summer 2011, the Board sponsored the Society's participation in the following conferences for science students and educators.
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XXIII National Congress of the Spanish Society for Microbiology
The Spanish Society for Microbiology (SEM) held its XXIII National Congress on 11-14 July 2011 in the beautiful and historic academic city of Salamanca, Spain, with more than 500 attendants. President of the Organizing Committee, Ángel Domníguez, combined a broad range of topics presented through lectures, seminars, roundtables, and posters from research groups across the country and abroad.
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Deceased Members
Ronald Bentley, professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, died on 6 June 2011 at the age of 89 of complications of kidney failure.
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