Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs and chair of the conducting department in the School of Music, has been named interim music director and conductor of the University Musical Society Choral Union for the 2003-04 season. Blackstone will conduct the Choral Union during its annual December performances of Handel’s “Messiah” and will prepare the chorus for guest appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Union series.
Awards
John Lowe, (above, left) the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Medicine, professor of pathology, Howard Hughes Investigator, and charter faculty member of the Life Sciences Institute, and David Mooney, (above, right) professor of biologic and material sciences in the School of Dentistry and associate professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, were named in the February issue of MIT’s Technology Review as people to watch in 10 emerging technologies that the magazine predicts will change the world. Lowe was named to the list in glycomics for his work in sugars in immunity and cancer, and Mooney was listed in injectable tissue engineering for his research in bone and cartilage.David Mooney and Cun-Yu Wang, (above) associate professor of biologic and materials science, received the William J. Gies Award during the recent American Association for Dental Research conference in San Antonio. The award, presented for the best paper published in the Journal of Dental Research during the preceding year, honored Mooney for the Nov. 2001 paper “Cell-interactive Alginate Hydrogels for Bone Tissue Engineering,” and Wang for the Feb. 2002 paper “Potentiation of Tumor Necrosis Factor-medicated Apoptosis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells by Adenovirus-mediated Gene Transfer of NF-B Inhibitor.”
