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HONORS, AWARDS, AND PROMOTIONS
CATHERINE L. BERTAGNOLE was awarded the University of Idaho Sigma Xi Chapteri s 1984 Research
Paper Award (Graduate Division) for a paper entitled "Pathogenicity of Five
Verticicladiel la Species to Lodgepole Pine" pub1 ished in the Canadian Journal of Botany.
HENRY (VAN) T. COTTER was awarded a Fulbright Grant for Graduate Research Abroad to study
mycorrhizal fungi, specifically the genus Suillus, in Nepal from April 1985 to April 1986.
VINCENT DEMOULIN was elected Vice-President of the Bureau for the Congress of the French
Mycological Society organized in Paris, September 23-30, 1984, for the centenary of the
society.
TERRENCE M. HAMMILL was appointed Director of the SUNY/Oswego Laboratory of Ultrastructural
Studies.
DAVID R. HOSFORD was granted a research exchange position by Central Washington University
for four months in Japan, to study the biology of Matsutke and other mycorrhizal fungi.
KEITH A. SEIFERT has been chosen by the Canadian Botanical Association as the first recipient
of the Luella Weresub Memorial Award, on the basis of his paper "Decay of Wood by the
Dacryrnycetal es. "
JAMES F. WHITE JR. was awarded the University of Texas Scholarship for Graduate Student
Research.
JORGE E. WRIGHT was honored in November with the "Cristobal Hicken" Gold Medal for outstand-
ing work in Mycology by the Argentine National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural
Sciences on November 17, 1984.
MARIO RAJCHENBERG, who is working under J. E, WRIGHT, received the Argentine Botanical
Society's "Lorenzo R. Parodi" Go1 d Medal for outstanding young botanists under 35, for
his thesis on the genus Poria sensu lato in Argentina.
LINDA L. LASURE has been promoted to Director, Bioproduct Research, in the Biotechnology
Group at Miles Laboratories.
JAMES W. KIMBROUGH has been named General Chairman for the AIBS Meeting to be held in
Gainesvi 11 e, Florida on August 11-16, 1985.
TIMOTHY J. BARON1 was promoted to Associate Professor this past September.
GARETH MORGAN-JONES has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by his alma mater, the
University of Wales, for his contributions to knowledge in mycology.
CARLENE A. RAPER was Cochair of the Gordon Conference on Fungal Metabolism held on July 15-20.
DUANE J. LETOURNEAU was honored on May 3, 1984 with a University of Idaho Presidential Cita-
tion For Distinguished Achievement for "exceptional merit and contributions of the
highest order to the University, the state of Idaho, and to Society as a whole."
WEN-HSUING KO received the American Phytopathological Society's Ruth A1 len Award for his
work on chemi cal stimulation of intraspeci fic and interspecific sexual reproduction in
heterothallic species of Phytophthora. The award was presented at the Society's annual
meeting in Guelph, Ontario, Canada on August 13, 1984.
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