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APS Awards Prizes at 45th ISEF
The American Physiological Society participated in the Valley Country Day School, Toledo, OH for The Relationship
45th International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), Bir- of Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication (CJZC) to
mingham, Alabama, May 8-14, 1994, by judging and making Tumor Growth and Formation. Ms. Chaudhuri also won a
special awards. The ISEF, the “World Series” of science fairs, third place award in the overall Medicine and Health compe-
is held annually and marks the culmination of a selection tition.
process involving thousands of schools and regional fairs in The judging committee regretted that it was only able to
both the United States and a number of other countries. In make four awards, because there were so many outstanding
Birmingham, APS joined with 64 other professional organi- projects that deserved recognition. Although the large major-
zations making awards in a variety of disciplines. ity of student projects at the ISEF dealt with life sciences,
The APS selection committee consisted of P. Darwin only 13 of the 65 groups making special awards were life
Bell, Kathleen Berecek, Raymond A. Frizzell, Gilbert R. science organizations. This makes the role of the American
Hageman, James A. Schafer, and Ferdinand Urthaler, from Physiological Society even more critical to the many students
the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of who committed much time and effort to their research pro-
Alabama at Birmingham; and Marsha L. Matyas, American jects in life sciences fields. The impact of other APS educa-
Physiological Society. The selection committee had the diffi- tion activities was also reflected in the students’ research
cult task of first identifying which of the more than 800 ISEF projects: One honorable mention winner was a student of one
finalists had projects related to the physiological sciences. of our previous Science Teacher Summer Research Program
Narrowed to a potential pool of 130 projects, the committee Fellows.
then had to visit and interview the candidates in order to
select the awardees.
During the awards ceremony, the APS presented four
awards for excellence in the physiological sciences: a first
place award of $250 and three honorable mention awards. All
winners received certificates, subscriptions to News in Physi-
ological Sciences, brochures and posters on careers in physi-
ology, lists of institutions granting degrees in physiology, and
APS T-shirts, “Physiologists Know the Inside Story.”
The recipients of the Honorable Mention Awards were:
Maya Culbertson, Gold Beach Union High School, Gold
Beach, Oregon for Inhibiting Gene Expression Through the
Use of Antisense DNA Oligos; Mark Matsos, Assumption
Secondary School, Burlington, Ontario, Canada for A kc-
tate-Acetyl Shuttle: Acetylcarnitine Formation; and Pei-Yun
Wu, Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, Maryland
for Transcriptional Activity of Prodynorphin Gene Promoter
Using Transient Transfection Analysis. MS. Wu also won a APS Education Officer M. Matyas presents awards to (1 to r) R.
secondplace award in the overall biochemistry competition. Chaudhuri, M. Matsos, P. Wu, and M. Culbertson (Photo credit:
The first prize recipient was Rakhi Chaudhuri, Maumee FocusOne).

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APS MEMBERS HIGHLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY IN ACTION to see high level science at its best. Not many high school
(continued from pa 184) teachers have this type of exposure. Keep it up...” Students
were especially excited to talk individually with physiologists
during the lunch break and tours: “I liked how we were able
sciencefields...and that education is the key to doing the type to talk with the APS memberspersonally and ask them ques-
of work you think is most interesting! tions about schools, careers, etc. They were really neat and
Nichole Scott (City High School, Iowa City, IA) led encouraging...” As always, the favorite parts of the workshop
teachersthrough a hands-onepidemiology activity where par- were those where students and teachers were actively in-
ticipants must track down the initial carrier of a disease volved in the presentations.
spread by person-to-personcontact. Finally, David Honey- The Education Committee currently is planning next
cutt (Santa Rita High School, Tucson, AZ) demonstrated a year’s workshop during Experimental Biology ‘95 in Atlanta.
computer program of cell micrographs for classroom use APS memberswho are interestedin being a lunch tour guide,
which he developed as a result of his researchexperience. making a presentation,or attending the workshop can contact
Feedback from teachers and studentsattending the pro- Marsha Matyas, APS Education Officer at 301-530-7132 or
gram was very positive. One teacher stated, “A rare chance email: marsha@aps.mhs.compuserve.com.

Vol. 37, No. 4, 1994 187
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Mendership
APS Initiates Chapter Program
Thanks to the action of members in education of the general public, includ- Currently, there are local/regional
attendance at the APS Business Meet- ing future physiologists. Chapters of physiological societies in Ohio, OkIa-
ing on Tuesday, April 26, the Society is the Society should represent a given re- homa, and Detroit. While they are not
pleased to encourage its members to gion of the country and must consist of currently official APS chapters, it is
consider organizing a chapter of The at least 20 Regular members. As an in- Council’s hope that they will elect to
American Physiological Society in their centive to the formation of an APS become official chapters. APS regular
local area. The APS Chapter Program is Chapter, the Council has allocated members interested in organizing chap-
designed to promote interdisciplinary some modest start-up funds and will ters in their region should contact the
contacts among research workers inter- work with the Chapter to support an APS Executive Director for informa-
ested in the physiological sciences and APS lecturer at their annual meeting. tion and application materials.

Membership Status
March 1994 Stephen E. Alway Joseph A. Chromiak
Ohio State University Miriam Hospital
Regular 4,381
Emeritus 857 Sharon P. Andreoli Lidia E. Costa
Honorary 31 Indiana University CONICET, University of Buenos
Corresponding 376 Aires
Associate 769 Carl B. Baron
Student 487 University of Pennsylvania Conrad L. Cowan
Associate Corresponding 63 Burroughs Wellcome Company
Wallace D. Berry
Total 7,464
University of Georgia Richard M. Cowett
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode
Newly Elected George T. Blevins, Jr. Island
University of Arkansas
Members Timothy A. Cudd
George W. Booz University of Florida
The APS Council elected the fol- Geisinger Clinic
lowing to membership at its 1994 Louis J. Dell’Italia
Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. Jean-Pierre Bourreau University of Alabama, Birmingham
University of Hong Kong
Honorary Jean-Pierre Despres
Eileen H. Breslin Laval University
Richard D. Keynes University of California, Davis
Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge John P. Donoghue
Johnny E. Brian, Jr. Brown University
Hermann Passow University of Iowa Hospital and
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics Clinics Robert Dudley
University of Texas, Austin
Che-Ping Cheng
Regular Bowman Gray School of Medicine David H. Ellison
Yale University
Uri Alon George J. Christ
Children’s Mercy Hospital Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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