Purdue Notebook

July 9, 2004

Faculty and staff honors

– The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression is providing $60,000 in 2004 to Eric L. Barker to study a new class of drugs to treat psychiatric disease. NARSAD, a donor-supported organization that funds scientific research on psychiatric disorders, is giving Barker, of Purdue's Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, a two-year Young Investigator Award to research the topic. NARSAD's Young Investigator Award Program provides support for young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Basic and/or clinical investigators are supported for research relevant to schizophrenia, major affective disorders or other serious mental illnesses.

– Robert May, professor of history, is a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., this summer. May is the author of "Manifest Destiny's Underworld."

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