Higher Learning

David Gillum, laboratory safety officer with the UNH Office of Environmental Health and Safety, has been invited to participate in a workshop on the roles and responsibilities of Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs) sponsored by the NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities. Gillum, who developed UNH's Biological Safety Program, is one of only two university-based professionals invited to speak at the conference, which will be held in San Diego in March. For more on UNH Biological Safety and the IBC, visit http://www.unh.edu/ehs/BS/. For information on the conference, visit http://www.primr.org/education/2005_IACUC/program_IA05.html.

David A. Berona, assistant professor and head of Library Systems, was invited to present a paper on Feb. 4, 2005, at Yale University, which will host an international symposium and exhibition exploring the intersection of book arts and graphic art in Belgium. Berona is an international authority on woodcut novels and his articles and papers are highly regarded by scholars in the fields of visual art and communication. For more information see: http://www.library.yale.edu/aob/belgianbooks/