printable versionHonors & Awards
Or Gozani
Michael Tomz
OR GOZANI, assistant professor of biological sciences, is one of 15 young American scientists who will receive a 2006 Scholar Award from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research in Palm Beach, Fla. The foundation awarded Gozani a two-year, $200,000 grant to study a family of tumor suppressors known as Inhibitor of Growth (ING) proteins that are found in living cells. Created in 1997, the Kimmel Scholar Awards are designed to jump-start the careers of promising young scientists involved in cancer research.
MICHAEL TOMZ, assistant professor of political science, has been named a Howard Fellow for 2006-07. Tomz is one of 11 recipients nationwide selected from 120 nominees who will receive $25,000 from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, which is administered by Brown University, to pursue research. Tomz's project is titled "Credible Commitments in International Relations."