Sept. 5, 2003
Media Advisory
To: News Directors and News Editors
From: Veronika Avery, Coordinator of Media Relations, 342-5444

BASIC PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES PUTS THREE IN THE NEWS

Jerry Nesamony, a graduate student in Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, or BPS, will attend the Society of Rheology's 75th annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA the week of October 12-17. He received a $540 travel grant to present his and professor Dr. William M. Kolling's paper entitled, "Shear effects on microstructural dynamics of biopolymer microemulsions."

Dr. Girish Shah joined the faculty of ULM this month. Shah is from the College of Pharmacy at Texas Tech University. He has done research in calcitonin in prostate growth and neoplasia and paracrine interactions in prolactin secretion.

Professor Michael Crider has been appointed to the editorial advisory boards of Letters in Drug Design and Development and Drug Design Reviews-Online.