 Brooklyn and Patchogue, NY, October 3, 2005 – St. Joseph’s College announced today that Joanna S. Fowler, Senior Chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be the College’s featured speaker at its annual Founders Day lecture. Her talk entitled “Imaging Addiction in the Human Brain: Using Molecular Imaging to Understand How Drugs of Abuse Affect the Brain” will take place on Monday, October 24, 2005 at 4:30 PM in the Tuohy Hall Auditorium at 245 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Ms. Fowler has been a major contributor to brain research and the study of diseases such as addiction, which she has investigated using an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET). In 1976, Ms. Fowler and her colleagues synthesized 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a radiotracer used in PET.
Today, FDG is widely used in PET centers around the world to diagnose and study neurological and psychiatric diseases and to diagnose lung and colon cancer.
“We are pleased to have such a well-respected scientist as Joanna Fowler share her insights and research with the St. Joseph’s College community,” said Sister Elizabeth A. Hill, CSJ, President. “We are all looking forward to learning from Joanna’s vast wealth of experience from her years as an expert in her field of study.”
Fowler, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, earned a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of South Florida in 1963, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado in 1967. After completing postdoctoral appointments at the University of East Anglia, England and at the Brookhaven Lab, she joined the staff of Brookhaven in 1971. Fowler’s work has garnered numerous honors including the Jacob Javits Investigator Award in Neurosciences in both 1986 and 1993. In 1988, Fowler and Wolf shared the Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest, given by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. In 1997, she received the Aebersold Award from the Society of Medicine. In 1998, she was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s E.O. Lawrence Award and the Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal, sponsored by the Olin Corporation Charitable Trust and administered by the American Chemical Society, and in 2002, she was awarded the Glenn T. Seaborg Award from the American Chemical Society. Fowler holds eight patents for radiolabeling procedures.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences as well as in energy technologies. Brookhaven also builds and operates major facilities available to university, industrial and government scientists. The Laboratory is managed by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited liability company founded by Stony Brook University and Battelle, a nonprofit applied science and technology organization.
NOTE TO LOCAL EDITORS: Ms. Fowler is a resident of Bellport, NY.
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St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 21 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Adult and Professional Education. Graduate degrees are also offered including an Executive MBA, a Master of Science in Management, a Master of Science Degree with a Major in Nursing, a Master of Arts in Literacy/Cognition and a Master of Arts in Infant/Toddler Early Childhood Special Education. |
