BOWLING GREEN, O. — What is the importance of research undertaken by college and university faculty members? Dr. Brenda Russell, a University of Illinois-Chicago faculty member and administrator with an extensive research background, will answer that question Thursday (Nov. 6) in her keynote address at the second annual BGSU Research Conference. This year’s theme is “Inquiry: The Foundation of Learning.”

Russell will discuss “The Value of Research” immediately following an 11:30 a.m. luncheon in 202B Bowen-Thompson Student Union on the BGSU campus. Due to limited seating, anyone interested in attending her speech should contact BGSU’s Office of Sponsored Programs and Research at 419-372-2481 or by email at spar@bgnet.bgsu.edu.

Russell is executive associate vice chancellor for research, as well as a professor of physiology and biophysics, bioengineering and medicine, at Illinois-Chicago. She has been at the university since 1988 and has been its Research Integrity Officer since 1996.

In 1971, she received her Ph.D. in physiology from the University of London, where she studied under the direction of professor—and Nobel Laureate—Sir Andrew Huxley. As a postdoctoral student, she collaborated with Dr. Stanley Salmons of the University of Liverpool on a bioengineering project. They were the first to chronically implant nerve stimulators that he had designed to examine fiber type transformation in skeletal muscle.

She has also been an investigator in the colleges of medicine at Duke, UCLA and Rush University in Chicago, and has more than 25 years of experience across a broad spectrum of muscle research, from molecular structure to subcellular elements, cells, tissues and intact animals.

The author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, Russell is also former editor of The American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology and Cell & Tissue Research, and an editorial board member of many journals.

For a complete schedule of conference events, see http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/spar/

(Posted November 03, 2003)