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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 3
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Armstrong Awarded $308,000
NSF Grant
Armstrong Atlantic
State University (AASU) has
been awarded a $308,000
National Science Foundation
Major Research
Instrumentation grant to pur
chase a liquid chromatogra
phy mass spectrometer - time
of flight (LCMS), a special
ized laboratory instrument.
Brent Feske, AASU
assistant professor of chem
istry and the principal investi
gator (PI) for the grant,
explained that the LCMS is
capable of determining the
“fingerprints” of most chemi
cal compounds. Scientists
used these fingerprints, or
patterns, to assist with com
pound identification and veri
fication.
AASU will become the
only university in the south
east Georgia region that has
an LCMS available for both
teaching and research.
“This instrument will
become a very important part
of our teaching and research
activity at AASU,” Feske
said. “Students will be able to
use it in many upper level
chemistry and biology cours
es to enhance learning out
comes in the curriculum. It
will also be a valuable tool in
supporting many undergradu
ate research projects carried
out by the faculty in collabo
ration with their students. It
will allow for significant
research advances that were
not possible prior to this.”
The co-principal inves
tigators on the grant are
Richard Wallace, Delana
Nivens and Will Lynch, all
faculty members in chem
istry; Alex Collier and Scott
Mateer, both biology faculty;
and Karla-Sue Marriott, fac
ulty member in chemistry at
Savannah State University.
They all have research proj
ects planned:
• Feske and Mateer will use
the instrumentation to sup
port their NSF-funded project
that focuses on novel meth
ods to synthesize pharmaceu
ticals. Similarly, Marriott will
use it to assist her work to
synthesize obesity drags.
• Nivens will study the bind
ing of metals and pollutants
to organic matter, using the
LCMS to learn about the
processes that the environ
ment uses to manage pollu
tion.
• Lynch will investigate plant
decomposition as well as the
DNA and protein damage
See NSF Grant, page 8
Delta Gamma Savannah Alumnae
Association Presents Check to
Senior Citizen’s Inc.
Pictured let to right are: Patti Lyons, President, Senior Citizens, Inc., Tammy Moseley Ray,
President, Delta Gamma Savannah Alumnae, and Roger Smith, Director of Community
Outreach, Senior Citizen’s Inc.
Georgia Historical Society Awarded
Institute of Museum and Library
Services Grant
The Georgia Historical
Society is pleased to
announce that it has been
awarded a Museums for
America grant by the Institute
of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) to assist
GHS in its ongoing efforts to
provide access to GHS col
lections online, thereby
expanding audiences for his
tory.
The Georgia Historical
Society will use the IMLS
award to carry out its project,
Expanding Audiences for
History: Access for a New
Century, a technology initia
tive.
The grant funds will be
used for electronically cata
loging artifacts, portraits, and
maps. Once the project is
completed, these collection
items will be searchable
through the GHS online cata
log, and images of the arti
facts will be visible through
the World Wide Web.
The amount awarded to
the Society is $100,172 and
will require that GHS raise a
matching amount of
$100,183.
The Society has been
fortunate in the past to receive
awards from federal and
foundation grants that help to
demonstrate the widespread
commitment of both public
and private sectors to the
preservation and sharing of
Georgia and American histo
ry.
Chartered by the
Georgia General Assembly in
1839, the Georgia Historical
Society is the private, non
profit historical society for
the state of Georgia.
The oldest cultural
institution in the state, and
one of the oldest historical
societies in the country, GHS
fulfills its mission to collect,
preserve, and share Georgia’s
history by operating a library
and archive at its headquar
ters in Savannah, by present
ing a variety of educational
programs across the state, and
by authoring publications on
Georgia and southern history
for use by scholars and stu
dents of all ages around the
nation.
The Institute of
Museum and Library
Services is the primary source
of federal support for the
nation’s libraries and muse
ums. IMLS, go to
http://www.imls.gov.
To learn more about the
Georgia Historical Society,
the new grant, or about
upcoming events please visit
www.georgiahistory.com.
Notice ill' A\iiilul>ilitv
Record of Decision for the Undersea Warfare Training Range
I'ursnarl to section 102(2Kc > of the National LnVinmniemal Policy Act (NEPA>, the
Department of the Navy (Navy), after carefully weighing (he environmental
consequences of the installation and Ope ration of the proposed action, announces that
it has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for (lie in stall at ion of an undersea warfare
training range (USWTR), to he used far anti-submarine warfare training, within the
preferred alternative site, the Jacksonville Operating Area (TAX OFARLAh The
USWTR would he a lpt13-square-kilometer (500-square-nautKal mi!e) area of the
ocean instrumented with Undersea cables and sensor m>dcs. 'Hie N:i\\ considered
applicable iExecutive Orders, including an final)sis of the environmental effects of its
actions outside the United States i>r its territories under the provisions of Executive
Order 12114 Wimirorwii'/jiut Effects Abroad oj Major Federal Actions) Lind the
requirements of Executive Order 12898 (Federal Action* to Address fniiifrfynnittitat
Justice in Minority Populations ami Un\ Income Fapidtlfium >
At this lime, the Navy is implementing only a portion of the proposed action. a
decision to move forward with the installation of the USWTR. Because operation cm
the training range is not anticipated to occur until at least 2014, the analysis regarding
the environmental effects from training oil the range in (he Final OEIS/EJS will he
updated in ft future OEIS/EES document closer in lime to the date when tile training
will begin. Die decision to implement training on (lie 0SW1R will he based on the
updated analysis of environmental effects in a future OEIS/ELS.
The decision was made after consideration of potential environmental consequences
of the dpcTatiotlah) viable alternatives. The Navy identified reasonable alternatives,
based on factors set forth in the Final OEIS/EIS, which would satisfy its purpose and
need. In addition to the No Action Alternative, which entails not installing a USWTR.
lour alternative sites for installation of a USWTR were analyzed in the Final
OE1S/EIS: (l) Site A (the Preferred Alternative), which includes installation and
operation of a USWTR offshore cl Jacksonville, Florida m the JAX OBAKliA; t2.t
Site B. which includes installation and operation of a USWI'R offshore of Charleston,
South Carolina in the Charleston OPARFA; t.3> Site C, which includes installation
■and operation of a USWTR offshore of Cherry Point. North Carolina in the Cherry
Poifii OP AREA; and <4j Site D, which includes the insinuation and operation of a
USWTR offshore of Wallops Island, Virginia in the Virginia Capes DRAKE A. The
RQD describes applicable mitigation pleasures for the installation phase of a USWTR
approximately 44 kilometers (3(1 nautical milesi offshore of northeastern Florida.
Installation at this site could begin Immediately.
The ROD and the Final OliiSLiS itre available for public viewing at
http://projecr5.earthtech.com/ti5 wtr/USWTRJ ndeiLhrm.
Single copies of thfc ROD will |>e pro* ided upon request by contacting:
Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic:, Attn: Code EV22LI. (USWTR
OEtS/EIS Project Manager). 6506 Hampton Boulevard. Norfolk, Virginia 2350K-
1278
The Delta Gamma
Savannah Alumnae
Association recently made a
donation to Senior Citizens,
Inc. for the purchase of eight
large-print books.
The group’s national
philanthropy is sight conser
vation and aid to the blind.
On behalf of the local
organization, president
Tammy Moseley Ray, center,
presents a check to Patti
Lyons, left, president of
Senior Citizens, Inc., and
Roger Smith, Director of
Community Outreach.
More than 49 years
ago, Senior Citizens,
Incorporated of Chatham
County was born.
While the decades have
been technologically
enhanced, much of the same
neighborly activity that
existed 50 years ago is still
necessary today.
Senior Citizens, Inc.
cooks and delivers more than
1,800 meals today - through
the help of volunteers.
They offer transporta
tion to and from the doctor's
office, the pharmacy or the
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The mission of Senior
Citizens, Inc. is to help peo
ple age successfully.Senior
Citizens, Inc. offers desir
able, innovative and afford
able services to seniors in a
respectful and collaborative
spirit while being flexible,
accessible and responsive.
Delta Gamma was
founded in December 1873,
in Oxford, Mississippi, at the
Lewis School for Girls near
the University of
Mississippi.
The objects of the
Fraternity are to foster high
ideals of friendship among
college women, to promote
their educational and cultur
al interests, to create in them
a true sense of social respon
sibility and to develop in
them the best qualities of
character.
Delta Gamma’s pri
mary purpose is to create an
environment for its members
in which lasting friendships
are established and in which
members find the processes,
the experiences and the dis
ciplines that will stimulate
clear thought.
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