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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dr. Joan Dawson on |
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| her retirement from the University of Illinois at |
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| Urbana-Champaign; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Joan Dawson has served as a valuable member of |
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| the faculty of the Department of Molecular and Integrative |
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| Physiology and the College of Medicine at the University of |
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| Illinois at Urbana for 23 years; she was also a member of the |
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| faculties of Bioengineering, the Department of Obstetrics and |
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| Gynecology at the Urbana campus, and the Department of |
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| Pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in |
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| Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Dawson received her B.S. degree in Biology |
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| from Columbia University and her Ph.D in Pharmacology from the |
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| University of Pennsylvania; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Dawson made major contributions to outreach |
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| efforts for the University to K-12 education as founding |
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| director of Project SEARCH (Science Education and Research for |
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| Children); as an initial organizer and contributor to |
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| CHICKSCOPE, a project of the Beckman Institute at the |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign which allows K-12 |
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| students, through Internet access, to access data generated |
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| from the latest scientific instruments; and as a board member |
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| and officer for the Countryside School in Champaign; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Dawson has been a pioneer in the use of |
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| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in the study of biological |
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| systems, including living organisms; she has made outstanding |
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| contributions to the understanding of cell metabolism and |
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| function using NMR; she has collaborated with Professor Paul |
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| Lauterbur, who received a Nobel prize for adapting NMR for |
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| study of living tissues; she published over 50 research papers |
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| and reviews and 100 meeting abstracts on her work; and she |
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| served on the National Institutes of Health research review |
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| panels; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Dawson has received a number of awards for her |
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| academic and community service, including the Merit Award from |
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| the Central Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology; the Blue |
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| Ribbon (Magna cum Laude) for a paper presented to the Society |
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| of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in New York; and a Volunteer |
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| Service Award from the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club in |
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| Champaign, for Project SEARCH; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Dawson was married to the late Professor Paul |
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| Lauterbur, Nobel laureate; and they have one child; therefore, |
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| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Dr. Joan Dawson on her retirement, thank her for |
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| her years of service, and wish her the best in all her future |
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| endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to Dr. Joan Dawson as a symbol of our respect and |
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| esteem.
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