The Kingston Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience has nominated Kelly for the Society for Neuroscience Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award. Winners will be notified prior to September 1, 2001. In the Gazette Dr. Susan Lederman, a Queen's University experimental psychologist specializing in how humans perceive the world through the sense of touch, has been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts. Dr. Lederman is Queen's 33rd Killam recipient in as many years and the 31st member of the Faculty of Arts and Science to win the prestigious award. Killam Fellowships are awarded to scholars engaged in research projects of outstanding merit in the humanities, the social, natural and health sciences, engineerig and interdisciplinary studies within these fields.
Killam funding enables recipients to devote two years to full-time research and writing.
Seventeen leading Canadian scholars across Canada were honoured with Killam Fellowships this year. The news was announced by Dr. Alan Bernstein, president of the CIHR during a brief news conference at Queen's University. The team consists of researchers from both Canada and the United States with expertise in over 10 different fields. Of those researchers, Dr. Michael Kawaja, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology was another award recipient. Dr. Kawaja's research focuses on understanding the cellular mechanisms that contribute to the development of neuropathic pain and essential hypertension.