Notes: Draney, Medland, Said-Mohand

Prof. Michael Draney (Natural and Applied Sciences) recently organized a 17-day, eight-person trip to Panama to survey spider and millipede populations. The trip was funded in part by a grant from the Field Museum of Natural History. The crew included Vicki Medland, associate director of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity; Environmental Science and Policy graduate student Andrew McKenna-Foster; UW-Green Bay Alumni Joan Berkopec and Ron Eichhorn; and Draney’s spider/millipede colleagues from the Field Museum in Chicago, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, and the University of British Colombia. The researchers stayed at four Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute stations while sampling more than 15 sites to develop a rapid assessment protocol and to discover new species of spiders and millipedes.

Prof. Aixa Said-Mohand has published several articles since he arrived at UW-Green Bay in fall 2006. In 2007 he published one paper titled, “The Acquisition of the Spanish definite article: Oral and written evidence” in the Journal Revista de Español Lengua Extranjera in Spain, and another titled, “A Sociolinguistic study of the use of the Spanish Discourse Marker TU SABES (you know) in the oral narrative of Hispanic Heritage Speakers” by Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Volume 26 (2): 67-93. Recently the UK journal Sociolinguistics Studies published his article “A Sociolinguistic study of the use of the Spanish Discourse Marker ENTONCES (so)” Volume 2(1): 97-130. His forthcoming article, “A Sociolinguistic study of the use of the Spanish Discourse Marker COMO (like) in the oral narrative of Hispanic Heritage Speakers,” will be published by the editorial group Vervuert/Iberoamericana: Frankfurt/Madrid this fall.