Dean of Faculty’s Office
September 2007 Faculty Newsletter
Publications:
Barbara M. Benedict, “The Spirit of Things,” The Secret Life of Things, Mark Blackwell, ed. Bucknell University Press, 2006: 19-42.
Stefanie Chambers, “Minority Empowerment and Environmental Justice,” Urban Affairs Review, September 2007, 42 (7).
Gregory S. Gavelis ’08, Kent D. Dunlap and Daniel G. Blackburn, “Placental specializations in the viviparous lizard Sceloporus jarrovi,” proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, p. 44, Pierre and Marie Curie University, and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 2007.
Heidi J.C. Ellis, and Hislop, G.W., “An Ontology for Software Engineering Teaching Modules,” International Journal on Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2007, pp. 11-22.
Jonathan Elukin, Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World). Princeton University Press, 2007.
Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz, “The Alimentary Forms of the Global Life,” American Anthropologist, Vol 109, No. 7, September 2007, pp. 496-508.
Lucy Ferriss, “My Parents Couldn't Outlive, or Outrun, Each Other,” New York Times Modern Love column, March 18, 2007.
Ellison Banks Findly, “Pattini,” “Sex Manuals in India,” and “Yoni Worship,” in Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed., Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Macmillan Library Reference, Thomson Gale, 2007.
Ellison Banks Findly, “Nur Jahan,” in Bonnie G. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Women in World History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Andrew Flibbert, Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Scott Gac, Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth Century Culture of Antebellum Reform. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Alden Gordon, “Subverting the Secret of Herculaneum: Archaeological Espionage in the Kingdom of Naples,” in Victoria C. Gardner Coates and Jon L. Seydl, eds., Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.
Dianne Hunter, “The Fisherman and his Wife as Uncanny Motif in Woolf and Plath,” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 71, Summer 2007.
Anne Lambright, Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America. Co-edited and Introduction with Elisabeth Guerrero. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Anne Lambright and Sharon Foerster, Metas: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency. McGraw Hill, 2007.
Rob A. Lawson, “The Blues’ First Century: One Hundred Years of Hearing and Interpreting the Music and Musicians,” Southern Cultures (Univ. of North Carolina Press), Fall 2007.
Garrity, A., Pearlson, G., McKiernan, K., Dan Lloyd, Kiehl, K., Calhoun, V. “Aberrant 'default mode' functional connectivity in schizophrenia,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 164:3, 450-457, March 2007.
Dan Lloyd, “Civil Schizophrenia,” in Distributed Cognition and the Will. D. Ross and D. Spurett, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, pp. 323-349.
Kevin J. McMahon, “You Can’t Go Home Again: Democratic Presidents and Dixie,” Reviews in American History, vol. 35, no. 1, March 2007, 111-17.
Thomas M. Mitzel, Wzorek, J., Troutman, A., Allegue, K., “Control of Skeletal Connectivity in Indium Promoted Reactions: 1,2-Additions and Cope Rearrangements Enroute to Lactol Formation,” J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 3042.
Michael Niemann, “War Making and State Making in Central Africa,” Africa Today, 53, no. 3 (2007): 21-39.
Michael Niemann, review of Michael Nest, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace, in Africa Today 53, no. 4 (2007): 123-5.
Irene Papoulis, “What's Really Revealing About Hillary's Cleavage?” op-ed piece in The Hartford Courant, July 2007.
María Silvina Persino, “Chéjov según Veronese (Un hombre que se ahoga).” Revista Conjunto (Casa de las Américas, Cuba) 143 (2007): 26-32.
María Silvina Persino, “Cuerpo y memoria en el Teatro de los Andes y Yuyachkani.” Gestos 43 (April 2007): 87-103.
Livio Pestilli, “Blindness, Lameness and Mendicancy in Italy (XIV-XVIII centuries),” Picturing Poverty: Imagery of the Outcast and Marginal in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, April 2007).
Livio Pestilli, “Pliny's 'Ne sutor ultra crepidam': Representing Shoemakers in Italian Art and Society,” SOURCE (Spring 2007).
Miguel D. Ramirez, “Marx, Wages, and Cyclical Crises: A Critical Interpretation,” Contributions to Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 1, August 2007, pp. 27-41.
Miguel D. Ramirez, “Is Foreign Direct Investment Productive in the Latin American Case? A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Analysis,” Yale Economics Department Working Papers, Discussion Paper No. 23, Yale Department of Economics, New Haven, May 2007, pp. 1-45.
Martha K. Risser, “Classical Greek Fine Wares at Tel Megadim as Compared to other Persian Period Sites in the Levant,” in Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities. Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003, edited by Carol C. Mattusch, A.A. Donohoe, and Amy Brauer. Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica. Oxford, 2006.
Clare Rossini, “Girl with Hair Tangled in Rose Bush” and “These Passing Venial Wonders,” in Beloit Poetry Journal, Fall 2007.
Clare Rossini, “Lesson,” anthologized in Poetry Daily Essentials 2007, Don Selby and Diane Boller, eds. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks.
Clare Rossini, “Valediction,” “Final Love Note,” and “Gods of the South End: Cupid,” in Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (NY: Columbia University, online anthology).
Clare Rossini, poetry co-editor, Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, Spring, 2007.
Mary Sandoval, “The singularities of the wave trace of the basic Laplacian of a Riemannian foliation,” Journal of Functional Analysis, volume 243(2007), no.1, pp. 1-27.
Barry R. Schaller, Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology. Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Craig W. Schneider and C.E. Lane (2007). Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 8. Further additions to the flora including Griffithsia aestivana sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) and an update on the alien Cystoseira compressa (Sargassaceae, Heterokontophyta). Botanica Marina 50: 128-140.
Mark Setterfield, “The rise, decline and rise of incomes policies in the US during the post-war era: An Institutional-Analytical explanation of inflation and the functional distribution of income,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 3, 2, (August) 127–46 (2007).
Mark Setterfield, “Is there a stabilizing role for fiscal policy in the new consensus?” Review of Political Economy, 19, 3, (July) 405–18 (2007).
Mark Setterfield, “Are functional relations always the alter ego of Humean laws?” Review of Political Economy, 19, 2, (April) 203–17 (2007).
Mark Setterfield and Mark Roberts, “What is endogenous growth theory?” in P. Arestis, M. Baddeley and J.S.L. McCombie, eds., Economic Growth: New Directions in Theory and Policy. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2007: 14–31.
Mark P. Silverman, Quantum Superposition: Counterintuitive Consequences of Coherence, Entanglement, and Interference. Springer, Heidelberg, 2007.
Mark P. Silverman, “Condensates in the Cosmos: Quantum Stabilization of the Collapse of Relativistic Degenerate Stars to Black Holes”, Foundations of Physics (2007) Volume 37, Issue 4-5, pp. 632-669.
Mark P. Silverman, Review of An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergence of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore, Physics in Perspective 9 (June 2007) 259-262.
Jennifer Steadman, Traveling Economies: American Women's Travel Writing. Columbus, OH: State University Press, 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs), Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, “Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China: Boomerang, Backfire or Spectacle?” In Popular Contention in China, Kevin J. O’Brien, ed. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, “Introduction: Identity Matters” and “Manufacturing Sectarian Divides: States, Identities and Collective Violence,” in Identity Matters: Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict, James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, and Patrick B. Inman, eds. Berghahn Press, 2007.
Bates S.J., James Trostle, Cevallos W., Hubbard A., Eisenberg J.N.S. “Relating diarrheal disease to social networks and the geographic configuration of communities in rural Ecuador,” American Journal of Epidemiology, 2007. doi:10.1093/aje/kwm184
Thomas J. Wood, review of Modern Clan Politics: The Power of Blood in Kazakhstan and Beyond, by Edward Schatz. Comparative Political Studies 40:6 (June 2007): 748-751.
Conference Papers/Presentations:
Barbara M. Benedict, "Collecting the Self," Curiosity and Imperialism Conference, the Colonialism and its Aftermath Institution, University of Tasmania, Hobart, June 27-30, 2007.
Barbara M. Benedict, “Ironic Things: Collecting Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” XVIII Nichol Smith Seminar, Otago, New Zealand, April 11-14, 2007.
Barbara M. Benedict, “Thing Theory” and “Encountering Things and Urban Identity,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference in Atlanta, March 21-25, 2007.
Daniel Blackburn, “Morphology, development, and evolution of fetal membranes and placentation in squamate reptiles,” International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, July 2007.
Sagar Bhandari ’09, Will Raymund ’10, David Branning, and Mark Beck, Poster: “Low Cost Coincidence-Counting Electronics for Quantum Optics,” 9th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO9), June 2007.
Pablo Delano, at Popil Photo Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 2007.
Jack Dougherty, Jeffrey Harrelson ’07, Laura Maloney ’07, Drew Murphy ’07, Russell Smith ’07, Michael Snow ’07, and Diane Zannoni, “School Choice in Suburbia: Public School Testing and Private Real Estate Markets,” American Educational Research Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2007.
Lis Pennington '07, Emily Steele '07, and Jack Dougherty. “A Political History of School Finance Reform in Metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut, 1945-2005,” American Educational Research Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2007.
Elizabeth A. McCarthy ’07, Denisa Jashari ’10, Kent D. Dunlap, “Electrocommunication signals alone increase radial glial fiber density in the brain of adult electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus,” International Congress of Neuroethology, Vancouver, BC, 2007.
Heidi J.C. Ellis, Ralph A. Morelli, and Trishan R. de Lanerolle, “Holistic Software Engineering Education Based on an Open Source Project”, 20th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Dublin, Ireland, July 2007.
Heidi J.C. Ellis, Ralph A. Morelli, and Trishan R. de Lanerolle, Damon, J., and Raye, J., “Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Draw New Students to CS?” SIGCSE 2007, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, KY, March 2007.
Jonathan Elukin, “Secrecy and the Problem of History,” Cultures of Political Counsel, University of Liverpool, July 14-16, 2007.
Jonathan Elukin, “The Meanings of Anti-Judaism: Comments,” Antisemitism and English Culture Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 9-11, 2007.
Jonathan Elukin, “A New Interpretation of Jewish History in the Middle Ages,” Technos Faculty Fellow, University of Tokyo, June 12, 2007.
Diana Evans (presenter), Kenneth N. Bickers, Robert M. Stein, and Robert D. Wrinkle, “The Election Effects of Credit Claiming for Pork Barrel Projects in Congress,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.
Lucy Ferriss, “Andre Dubus and the Catholic Controversy,” American Literature Association Annual Meeting, May 2007.
Luis Figueroa and Stephen McFarland, “Hartford 1969 -- Hartford Today: Rethinking the Role of Race and Class in Contemporary Hartford History,” Connecticut College, April 11, 2007.
Adrienne Fulco, “Secularizing the Debate: Courts and Abortion Policy in the United States and Spain,” Institute for the Study of Secularism and Society International Research Conference, Rome, Italy, June 28-July 2, 2007.
Adrienne Fulco, “Bowers, Lawrence, and the American Constitutional Tradition,” New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, April 27-28, 2007.
Cheryl Greenberg, “‘Table 17’ in Historical Context,” University of Indiana Crossroads Repertory Theater Lecture Series, Terra Haute, Indiana, July 2007.
Cheryl Greenberg, “Socialist Jews and the Civil Rights Movement,” Morris Schappes Lecture Series, Workmen’s Circle and Jewish Currents, New York, June 2007.
Diana Mara Henry, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska, October, 2007.
James J. Hughes, “Radical Visions of the Future as Inspirations for Studying Science and Technology,” CT Association of Biology Teachers Annual Lecture/Reception, September 14, 2007.
James J. Hughes, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity,” Singularity Summit, San Francisco, September 8-9, 2007.
James J. Hughes, “Cyborgs Today and in the Future,” Chicago-Transvision 2007, World Transhumanist Association, July 2007.
Drew Hyland, “The Play of Dance”, Hermeneutics and Art Conference, Freiburg, Germany, July 1, 2007.
Jean-Marc Kehrès, “Génie National et Sociabilité Universelle: Actualité des Lumières?” XVth Annual Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies, Sydney, Australia, July 4-6, 2007.
Ariela Keysar, “Demographic Indicators of Secularism in Mediterranean States,” The Prospects for the Secular States in the Mediterranean World in the 21st Century, Trinity Rome Campus, June 28-July 2, 2007.
Barry A. Kosmin, “Secularization of the State, Government and Politics: National Cultures and Political Sociology in Europe and the U.S.,” The Prospects for the Secular States in the Mediterranean World in the 21st Century, Trinity Rome Campus, June 28-July 2, 2007.
Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar organized Science Education and Secular Values, Trinity College, May 22, 2007.
Katherine Lahti, “The Animal Mayakovsky,” Virginia Technical Institute, May 19, 2007.
Katherine Lahti, “Victory over the Sun and Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy together as a completion of the ‘Wagner-Nietsche Project,’” Vassar College, May 4, 2007.
Anne Lambright, “Speaking of and Through the Dead: Yuyachkani and the CVR (Peruvian Truth Commission),” Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 8-16, 2007.
Sonia M. Lee, “Remarques sur Le blanc de l'Algérie d'Assia Djebar,” Université de Guyane, Cayenne French Guyana, July 2007.
Dan Lloyd, “Neurophenomenology: Toward a Science of consciousness,” Kyoto University and Reitsumekan University, Japan, June 2007.
Dan Lloyd, Poster: “The shifting streams of consciousness: an fMRI study of consciousness during a simulated driving task,” Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, June 2007.
Dan Lloyd, “Narrative meets cognition in the brain (on Friday the 13th),” Literature and Cognitive Science Research Group, Yale University, May 2007.
Dan Lloyd (presenter), Rachael Barlow and David Tatem, “From City to Map and Back Again: A Campus-Community Google Map Mash-up”, Northeast Regional Computer Program, College of the Holy Cross, March 2007.
William Mace, “Increasing Emphasis on Directly Perceiving: Comments on Baron, Kadar & Keane [addressing works by Cézanne, Serra, and Arakawa/Gins],” International Conference on Perception and Action 14, Yokohama, Japan, July 5, 2007.
David Mauro (presenter), John Georges and Yan Wang, “On graphs having non-surjective L(2,1)-labelings,” Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, San Jose, August 3–5, 2007.
Kevin J. McMahon, “Richard Nixon and Supreme Court Politics: Exploring the Path to a Republican Majority,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.
Kevin J. McMahon (presenter) and Thomas M. Keck, “From Akron to Carhart: Abortion Law, the Supreme Court, and the Republican Regime,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.
Thomas M. Mitzel, “Remaining Active as a Researcher at Undergraduate Universities,” Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, March 23, 2007.
Thomas M. Mitzel, “Fullerenes and Alkynes of Things,” NSF-REU Meeting of the National Organic Symposium, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 3-7, 2007.
Katharine P. Spencer ’08 and Thomas M. Mitzel, “Asymmetrical Diyne Formation in the Formation of C30H18 Hydrocarbon Cage,” 2007 Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Mass., April 28, 2007.
Thomas M. Mitzel, Bright, C., Katharine P. Spencer ’08, Dunham, E., Poster: “Synthesis of Asymmetrical Alkynes,” 21st National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, April 12-14, 2007.
Thomas M. Mitzel and Kwame Frimpong ’08, Poster: “Accelerating Effects of N-Methylformamide with Resepct to Aqueous and Organic Conditions in Indium Metal Promoted Coupling Reactions,” 233rd American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, March 25-29, 2007.
Thomas M. Mitzel, Timothy M. Scarella ’08 and Rebecca L. Suflas ’08, Poster: “Use of Solvent Conditions to Control Functional Group Formation in Indium Promoted Coupling Reactions,” 233rd American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, March 25-29, 2007.
Thomas M. Mitzel and Katharine P. Spencer ’08, Poster: “Use of Asymmetrical Diyne Formation en route to 3-D Hydrocarbon Cages,” 233rd American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, March 25-29, 2007.
Ralph A. Morelli (presenter), Heidi J.C. Ellis and Trishan de Lanerolle, “Can Student-Written Software Help Sustain Humanitarian FOSS?”, The 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Delft, the Netherlands, May 2007.
Janet F. Morrison and Kathryn C. McColl ’08 (presenter), “Investigation of the In Vitro degradation of Cocaine, Morphine, Phencyclidine, and Methamphetamine by Typical Putrefactive Bacteria: Optimization of Extraction Methods,” Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, Simon’s Rock College of Bard, April 28, 2007.
Ralph O. Moyer, M. Barsan, I. Butler, D. F. R. Gilson, T. Udovic, H. Wu, and W. Zhou, “The Vibrational Spectra and Stability of Hydride Salts of Alkaline Earths and Lanthanides with Group 8 Transition Metals, A2RuH6,” Hydrogen - Metals Systems Gordon Research Conference, Colby College, July 8-13, 2007.
Jane Nadel-Klein and Bradley S. Klein, “Is a Golf Course a Garden? Points of Convergence and Divergence in the History of a Landscape Practice,” Society for Garden History, Glasgow, March 2007.
Jane Nadel-Klein, “Looking Back on Fisherfolk: Writing Fishing for Heritage,” University of Aberdeen, March 2007.
Michael Niemann, “International Relations Theory and Everyday Life,” 48th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2, 2007.
Beth E. Notar, “Lonely Planeteers and Local Cosmopolitans in Southwest China,” Canadian Association for Social Anthropology & American Ethnological Society, Toronto, Canada, May 10, 2007.
Beth E. Notar, “Anthroplogical Representations of the Bai of Dali, Yunnan,” Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Conference, Dali, Yunnan, China, August 8, 2007.
Irene Papoulis organized, Emotional Lives of Teachers Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, July 2007.
Susan Pennybacker, “Documenting Hartford: Poverty and Progress,” Organization of American Historians, 2007 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minn., March 2007.
María Silvina Persino, “Reflexiones sobre una intervención urbana: El proyecto Filoctetes,” Bodypolitics. Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics, Buenos Aires, June 8-17, 2007.
Livio Pestilli, “Bellori and his 'old lady' or: On the Obviousness of Painting,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, March 22-24, 2007, Miami, Florida.
Miguel D. Ramirez, “A (Pooled) Test of the Complementarity Hypothesis in the Case of Latin America, 1980-2002,” 2007 Oxford Business and Economic Conference, Oxford University, UK, June 24-26, 2007.
Sarah A. Raskin, “The relationship between prospective memory and planning in individuals with traumatic brain injury,” International Neuropsychological Society, Barcelona, Spain, 2007.
Martha Risser, “Late Archaic and Classical Ceramic Assemblages at the Sanctuary,” American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, June 15-17, 2007.
Clare Rossini, "The Writer as Revisionary," Vermont Post-Graduate Writer's Conference, Montpelier, VT, August 2007.
Todd Ryan, “Bayle, Malebranche and the Argument from Continuous Creation,” Boston College, September 7-8, 2007.
Craig W. Schneider and C.E. Lane, “A morphological and molecular investigation of the genus Botryocladia (Rhodophyta, Rhodymeniaceae) in Bermuda, western Atlantic,” 61st Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, August 2007.
Mark Setterfield, “Is inflation targeting inimical to employment?” Unemployment: Past and Present (CCEPP), Downing College, Cambridge, UK, August–September 2007.
Mark Setterfield, “Post Keynesian interest rate rules and macroeconomic perfromance: a comparative evaluation,” Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, UK, June 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, “Political Domination and Cultural Transformation: Comparing Patterns of Mobilization and Manipulation during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Era of Reform,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Services Centre Luncheon Seminar Series on Contemporary China, July 16, 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, “The Persistence of Practice: The Transformation of Mass Mobilization in the post-Mao Era” International Workshop on Adaptive Authoritarianism, Trier, Germany, June 15, 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, “Lessons Learned in Assessing International Education,” American Council on Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Washington, DC, March 15, 2007.
Beverly Wall, “Teaching Dialogic Literacy on the Internet,” China-U.S. Conference on Literacy, Beijing, July 2007.
Tom Wood, “The Asianization of NATO: Security Implications for Central Asia,” and “Russia Resurgent in Central Asia,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1 & 2, 2007.
Performances/Exhibits:
Judy Dworin, “Moving Toward Healing: Arts in Prison,” talk/performance, Crossroads II:Community Based Research for Social Justice Conference, Institute for Community Research.
Diana Mara Henry, photographic exhibit, "Libel," Carberry Gallery of Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts, October 23-November 17.
Grants/Fellowships:
Timothy Curran, two Pfizer/CBIA Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (to work with Trinity students Julianne Boccuzzi ’08 and Neena Chakrabarti ’09), $10,000, April 2007.
Timothy Curran, Bristol-Myers Squibb Undergraduate Summer Research Award (to work with Trinity student Emma Handy ’08), $5,000, April 2007.
Timothy Curran, Travel Award from the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society to attend the 40th National Organic Symposium at Duke University, $600, May 2007.
Kent Dunlap, National Institutes of Health, three-year grant of $215,000, to support his research entitled “Socially induced brain cells in adults: fate, activity and regulation,” May 1, 2007.
Judy Dworin, special dance grant funded by the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for her new performance piece “The Witching Hour,” which premieres at Charter Oak Cultural Center on September 27th. She also received a grant from the J. Walton Bissell Foundation for this project which focuses on the stories of women accused as witches in the Hartford's 17th century witchcraze. This project is a collaboration between the Judy Dworin Performance Project and The Antiquarian and Landmarks Society.
Lucy Ferriss, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship for November 2007.
Jonathan Gourley, grant from Wal-Mart’s community outreach program, for partial funding of the Park River Watershed Symposium, to be held at Trinity College on October 9th.
Anne Lambright, Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship, from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, to study how years of sustained terrorism have affected the culture of Peru.
Susan A. Masino, a one- to two year full salary fellowship for Dr. Masahito Kawamura, an MD/PhD from Department of Pharmacology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan to come to Trinity to work with her in her laboratory beginning in February 2008.
Ralph Morelli, The National Science Foundation, two-year grant of $355,183 to support his project, “Can humanitarian open-source software development help revitalize undergraduate computing education?” Trishan de Lanerolle and Heidi J.C. Ellis will work on the project.
Seth Sanders, NEH Summer Stipend for “The West Semitic Political Lexicon,” summer 2007.
Rachel Schwell and Lynette Boos were awarded fellowships in Project NExT for 2007-2008 by the Mathematical Association of America.
Madalene Spezialetti, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, “Problem Solving Using Video Scenarios,” $4,462.50, September 2007-May 2008.
Patricia M. Thornton, Lee Hysan Visiting Scholar Fellowship grant to support scholarly research on the early socialist commodity economy during the post-Great Leap recovery period, awarded by the University Services Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 1, 2007-July 20, 2007.
Patricia M. Thornton, Principal Investigator, “Assessing International Learning,” American Council on Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education Grant, awarded to study both quantitative and qualitative methods for assessing attainment of international learning goals among undergraduate students.
Honors & Awards:
John Alcorn was honored with the annual “Italian American of the Year” award by the Connecticut General Assembly’s Italian-American Legislative Caucus Educational Fund, Inc. (IALCEF) in March 2007.
Beth E. Notar’s book, Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2006), was chosen by Choice Magazine, as a “significant publication for undergraduates,” one of three books chosen from each academic press.
Sarah A. Raskin was recognized for her contributions to the Brain Injury Association of Connecticut at their 25th anniversary celebration.
Other Professional Accomplishments:
David Cruz-Uribe, taught a six week graduate course on variable Lebesgue spaces and harmonic analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Naples, Federico II, April and May, 2007.
Judy Dworin and Kathy Borteck Gersten were invited to present a four day teaching track at the H.O.T. Schools Summer Institute in July for teachers, school administrators and teaching artists throughout Connecticut, sponsored by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism’s “Moving Matters!” educational residency program.
Alden Gordon has been nominated Second Vice-President of the Northeast Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Alden Gordon was elected to serve as Vice-President of the Voltaire Society of America in May.
Diana Mara Henry, photographic portraits of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his editor Paul Barnes, featured on the cover of Editors Guild Magazine September-October issue, 2007.
Sonia M. Lee served on the jury of FACSEA (society for French American Cultural Services and Educational Aid, located in the French Embassy in New York), to decide which of the fifty American universities will be granted funds to show French films during the year.
Gerald Moshell directed the Clark Gesner musical “You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown” at The Cornerstone Playhouse in Wakefield, RI, in July 2007.
Michael O’Donnell, was elected President of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) for a two-year term, 2007-2009.
Clare Rossini, Judge, Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers annual poetry prize, May 2007.
Barry R. Schaller was nominated and confirmed on August 21 for a seat on the Connecticut Supreme Court.
James Trostle was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology in May 2007.