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Faculty News - Summer 2005Isserman Publishes Essay in AcademeSeptember 28, 2005Professor of History Maurice Isserman has published an essay in Academe (September-October 2005) titled "Whose Truth?" In the piece Isserman relates details of a 2002 invitation he made to David Horowitz, and Horowitz's recollection of that invitation, during a February 2 appearance on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. Fox Participates in Agent Orange Education ProjectSeptember 27, 2005Diane Fox, the Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies, participated in a Rockefeller funded initiative called "Culture, Art, Trauma, Survival, Development: Vietnamese Contexts" at the University of Massachusetts, Boston on September 17. Fox presented a report based on her scholarly work and on a public education project in which she is involved titled "The Agent Orange Education Project," which offers educators and community groups resources to educate their students or groups on the lingering consequences of the chemicals used during the war in Vietnam. The project is also drawing together artwork from Americans and Vietnamese; the show of Vietnamese art opened in Hanoi on September 24 and then will come to the United States, where U.S. veterans will contribute art work and poetry. Yao Publishes Article in Comparative LiteratureSeptember 27, 2005Steven Yao, assistant professor of English, recently published an article in Comparative Literature titled "The Unheimlich Maneuver: or the Gap, the Gradient and the Spaces of Comparison." This article lays out an alternative model for conceptualizing the category of difference as a foundation for the act of comparison. Yao is also serving on the advisory board for the American Comparative Literature Association. Elgren Publishes Paper and Files Patent Disclosure for Novel Hydrogen Producing MaterialSeptember 26, 2005Tim Elgren, associate professor of chemistry, recently published a paper titled "Immobilization of Active Hydrogenases by Encapsulation in Polymeric Porous Gels" in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters. The manuscript describes the successful incorporation of hydrogenases into glass-like materials and the demonstration that the enzymes remain fully active in this environment. Hydrogenases are capable of generating hydrogen gas from protons and electrons. They are also capable of catalyzing the reverse reaction, which represents the catalytic core of a hydrogen fuel cell. The work was initiated and completed on Elgren's recent sabbatical at Montana State University and was funded by grants from the American Chemical Society and the Research Corporation. A patent disclosure on this novel application has been filed, the first for a scientific invention from Hamilton College. Shields Presents Lecture at Syracuse University on Atmospheric ChemistrySeptember 22, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields presented a seminar for Syracuse University's Department of Chemistry on September 20. His lecture, titled "Water Clusters in the Atmosphere: An Overview of Computational Chemistry Research at Hamilton College," featured the atmospheric chemistry work of Tim Evans '05, Frank Pickard '05 and Goldwater Scholars Meghan Dunn '06 and Mary Beth Day '07. His talk also encompassed the collaboration between his group and his colleague Ted Dibble at the SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry. This work involves Marco Allodi '08 and Kristin Alongi '08, both of whom worked in the Shields lab over the summer and are continuing their research this fall. Dan Tomb '08, Ngoda Manongi '08, Pragyan Praghan '08, David Hamilton '09 and Jared Pienkos '09 also contributed to atmospheric chemistry research this past summer. More ... Guttman Publishes Chapbook of PoemsSeptember 20, 2005Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman has published a chapbook of poems, excerpted from her manuscript Wet Apples, White Blood, in the on-line journal The Drunken Boat. O'Neal Publishes Paper Presented at International Conference in 2000September 20, 2005Professor of French John O'Neal published a paper that he presented in 2000 at an international conference at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm, in Paris. The paper was titled "Pour une mappemonde de l'âme: Les effets du climat sur la culture d'une nation dans L'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu." In Morales et politique: Actes du colloque international organisé par le Groupe d'Etude des Moralistes. Ed. Jean Dagen, Marc Escola et Martin Rueff. Collection "Moralia." Paris: Champion, 2005, pp. 247-69. Cafruny Presents Paper at European Sociological AssociationSeptember 16, 2005Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper at the 7th Conference of the European Sociological Association Institute of Sociology, held at Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. The paper, titled "The EMU and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of the Crises of the European Union," was co-authored by Professor of Political Science Magnus Ryner of the University of Birmingham, UK. The paper challenged the conventional belief that the launching of the Euro represents an unprecedented level of European integration and a more even balance of power between the European Union and the United States. More ... Fox Contributes Chapter to New BookSeptember 15, 2005Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies Diane Fox has written a chapter as part of the book Le Viet Nam au Feminin. Fox's chapter titled "Speaking with Women in Vietnam about the Consequences of War: writing against silence and forgetting" focuses on women's issues in Vietnam today. The book is edited by Gisele Bousquet and Nora Taylor, and published by Les Indes Savantes, Paris. Murtaugh Work on Display at Rochester ContemporarySeptember 15, 2005Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has a work displayed at Rochester Contemporary in an exhibition titled (un)bound. This artists' books exhibition is in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology Special Collections. The show opened on August 5 and concluded on September 18. Derek Jones and Takao Kato Awarded $317K NSF GrantSeptember 15, 2005The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $181,703 to Hamilton College for support of a project directed by Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, titled "Collaborative Research: The Nature and Effects of Human Resource Policies: Econometric Case Studies of Firms in the U.S., China and Finland." A similar award (about $135,000) also went to Takao Kato, a Colgate economics professor who is a visiting scholar in economics at Hamilton. The NSF grant is the result of a collobarative proposal submitted by Jones and Kato. More ... MacDonald Publishes Essay in Women and Experimental FilmmakingSeptember 15, 2005Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald's essay, "Avant-Gardens," was recently published in Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman's Women and Experimental Filmmaking. The essay focuses on films relating to gardens and to the idea of the garden as a sacred space. MacDonald also wrote a preface for a new edition of Amos Vogel's classic film book Film As a Subversive Art, which has just been published by C.T. Editions in London. The book is a survey of subversive cinema. Yao Receives ACLS FellowshipSeptember 14, 2005Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for his project "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Poetry and the Language of Ethnicity." More ... Keller to Open Faculty Lecture Series on September 16September 14, 2005Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller will open Hamilton's faculty lecture series on Friday, Sept. 16, with a lecture titled "Teaching History, Teaching the Nation: Narratives of time in the Uzbek history curriculum." The lecture will take place at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson, followed by a reception at Cafe Opus. More ... Sanchez-Casal Co-Authors Chicken Soup for the Latino SoulSeptember 13, 2005Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Susan Sanchez-Casal is co-author of Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Health Communications, Inc., August, 2005). The Chicken Soup series features inspirational, motivational and uplifting stories. Since the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book, there have been 80 million copies sold in 65 titles and 37 languages. This book showcases the storytelling traditions of the Latino culture, articulating the joys, struggles and triumphs of the Latino experience. More ... Xu Publishes Two New TextbooksSeptember 8, 2005Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu has published two new textbooks, Intermediate Chinese Course I and Intermediate Chinese Course II, in collaboration with Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin and others. The books were published by Beijing University Press as a new textbook series for teaching Chinese as a Second Language in January 2005. More ... Ravven Publishes Paper on SpinozaSeptember 8, 2005Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven has published a paper, "What Spinoza Can Teach Us About Naturalizing Ethics," in Cognitive, Emotive, and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in AI, Volume IV. Also, in July eight members of the 27-member advisory group to Ravven's Ford Foundation project to write a book Searching for Ethics in a New America met in New York City to advise and confer on the project. More ... Cryer Performs 99 Questions at Skidmore and Herkimer OrientationsSeptember 7, 2005Mark Cryer, associate professor of theater, performed 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African-American as part of first-year orientations at Skidmore College and Herkimer County Community College in September. Cryer worked on the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions. Rowe Participates in Panel at American Archivists ConferenceSeptember 1, 2005Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, was a panelist at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting held in New Orleans in August. Rowe was a member of the panel "All That Jazz: The Role of Academic Repositories in Preserving American Jazz." He discussed how Hamilton's Jazz Archive transcribes video and audiotaped interviews of jazz artists. Li Reappointed to Hopkins-Nanjing Institute Research CouncilAugust 22, 2005Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, has been reappointed to the Research Institute Council of the Hopkins-Nanjing Institute for International Research for a two-year term. "It is in the best interest of the center to have leadership stability and the support of distinguished scholars such as [Professor Li]," said Kathryn Mohrman, executive director. The Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies is jointly administered by Nanjing University and The Johns Hopkins University. The center offers a one-year graduate-level program in Chinese and American studies, which many Hamilton graduates have attended. The Research Institute Council mainly recruits senior faculty members in the U.S. who would like to conduct field research in China. "Both programs greatly contribute to the mutual understanding across the Pacific," said Li. Guttman Studies Contemplative Curriculum DevelopmentAugust 17, 2005Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman is participating in a six-day summer session on contemplative curriculum development at Smith College in Massachusetts. Sponsored by The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, the session allows teachers in higher education to develop curricula that integrate contemplative practice into courses in any discipline. Professor Guttman's course, "Lyric Yoga: Meditative Introspection and Poetic Creation," will be offered as an elective in the English department and will use yoga as a form of contemplative practice to complement the study and creation of contemplative literature. NSF Awards $100,000 Grant to MERCURY ConsortiumAugust 9, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields was the principal investigator, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner and System Administrator and Research Support Specialist Steve Young were key personnel, on a $100,000 grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant, titled "Acquisition of a linux cluster for the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry (MERCURY)," has been funded by the NSF's Division of Chemistry through the Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI). The research efforts of the entire consortium of eight liberal arts colleges were essential for the success of the NSF-MRI grant. The Linux Cluster will be built, maintained and operated at Hamilton, and all MERCURY members will use it for computational research in atmospheric chemistry, materials science and physical chemistry, and biochemistry. More ... Ravven Delivers Keynote Addresses at Dartmouth and in GermanyAugust 7, 2005Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven delivered two keynote addresses at conferences during August. At the Institute on Gendered Intersections: Feminist Scholarship in Islamic and Judaic Studies at Dartmouth College in August she gave an address at the introductory plenary session. Ravven also delivered a keynote address at the International Institute of Advanced Systems Research annual meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, in August. More ... DeMuth Selected for Al-Musharaka Technology and Pedagogy SeminarAugust 5, 2005Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Danielle DeMuth joined faculty from nine liberal arts colleges for a weeklong seminar at Middlebury College to develop collaborative projects and teaching resources for courses covering Islam, the Arab World and the Middle East. Organizers contacted DeMuth after reading about her course on Arab and Arab-American feminisms. DeMuth is continuing to work with colleagues from Williams, Middlebury, Hobart and William Smith, and Muhlenberg colleges to develop a teaching resource on framing Iraq war news, including a wiki and a GIS map of war developments. DeMuth's contributions focus on Iraq war bloggers and on the impact of the Iraq war on women. Anechiarico Speaks in Europe on Controlling Government CorruptionAugust 2, 2005Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, has spent the summer in several European countries discussing the problems of controlling corruption in public administration and improving the performance of government. More ... Wu Publishes Article in AcademeAugust 2, 2005Stephen Wu, assistant professor of economics, published an article titled "Where Do Faculty Receive Their Ph.Ds?" in the July/August 2005 issue of Academe, the bi-monthly publication of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The paper studies the doctoral origins of faculty at top research universities and liberal arts colleges across six different disciplines, including chemistry, economics, English, history, mathematics and sociology. The results demonstrate that a large proportion of faculty generally receive their doctorates from a select group of top Ph.D.-granting institutions within their field. The study also finds that these concentration ratios vary significantly across the disciplines as well as between research universities and liberal arts colleges. LeMasurier Presents Paper at Differential Equations ConferenceAugust 1, 2005Assistant Professor of Mathematics Michelle LeMasurier presented a paper, "Nonstandard Topics for Student Presentations in Differential Equations," at the DCDIS third International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, in Guelph, Canada, July 29-31. The pedagogical paper explained and gave topics and sources for student talks given in differential equations courses at Hamilton. The students give short presentations on an application of differential equations to another area of science, such as economics, physics, biology, chemistry or ecology. The paper will be published in the conference proceedings. Nancy Rabinowitz Publishes Article in HeliiosAugust 1, 2005Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, published an article in Heliios: A Journal Devoted to Critical and Methodological Studies of Classical Culture, Literature, and Society Vol. 32 Spring 2005:29-54. It is "Tragedy and Terrorism" and takes up the question of how reading Greek tragedy might help or have helped in the analysis of terrorist attacks. More ... Drogus is Co-Author of New Book, Activist FaithJuly 29, 2005Professor of Government Carol Drogus is the co-author (with Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Lehigh University) of Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile (Penn State University Press). The book examines the impact of religiously inspired activism in Latin America, including the fates of the activists and social movements that rose to prominence there during the 1980s. More ... Shields and Kirschner Awarded National Cancer Institute GrantJuly 26, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner have received an AREA grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to support research with students at Hamilton College. The proposal, titled "Reactivity and Dynamics of Enediyne Natural Products," brings $248,250 over the next three years to support research aimed at establishing the mechanism by which the enediyne family of natural products cleave DNA. More ... Rowe is Guest Lecturer at Rutgers Institute of Jazz StudiesJuly 25, 2005Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, was guest speaker at the monthly Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies Jazz Roundtable on July 14. The session was called "Joe Williams: The Lost Sessions." Rowe played excerpts from reel-to-reel tapes that came from a donation to the archive from Joe Williams' widow, Jillean Williams. Some of these tapes are one-of-a-kind material, unreleased as commercial recordings. Rowe also played selections from Joe Williams: Having A Good Time, the recent CD release of a 1964 club date with Joe and saxophonist Ben Webster, made possible through the Jazz Archive. Owen and Fogelstrom '03 Publish Paper on Electronic CurrencyJuly 19, 2005Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen published an article with Christopher Fogelstrom '03 titled "Monetary Policy Implications of Electronic Currency: An Empirical Analysis" in the June 2005 issue of Applied Economics Letters. More ... Owen and Wu Present Paper at Economic Assocation MeetingJuly 19, 2005Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen Wu presented a paper titled "Financial Shocks and Worry About the Future" at the Western Economic Association Meetings in San Francisco on July 6. More ... Shields and Kirschner Publish Paper in Journal of Physical Chemistry AJuly 19, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner published an article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A titled "Global Search for Minimum Energy (H2O)n Clusters, n=3-5." The paper, co-authored with Goldwater Scholar Mary Beth Day '07, describes a complete and thorough search of the potential energy surfaces of the water trimer, water tetramer and water pentamer. More ... Klinkner and Ann Hapanowicz '05 Publish Article in The ForumJuly 19, 2005Philip Klinkner, associate dean of students for academic affairs and the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, and Ann Hapanowicz '05, published an article in The Forum, vol. 3, issue 2. The article is titled "Red and Blue Déjà Vu: Measuring Political Polarization in the 2004 Election." More ... Briggs Delivers Welcoming Remarks at Ezra Pound ConferenceJuly 18, 2005Austin Briggs, the Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, delivered welcoming remarks at the opening of the "Ezra Pound and Education" Conference at Hamilton and gave a banquet address, "EP Comes to Lunch, and Other Encounters" in April. More ... McEnroe Awarded NEH FellowshipJuly 18, 2005Professor of Art History John McEnroe, the Fischer Professor of Fine Arts, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to spend five months at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He will use the time to complete a study of the architecture of ancient Crete beginning in January. McEnroe has published 35 reports in "Pseira IV. Minoan Buildings in Areas B, C, D, and F" (The University Museum Press) to culminate his 10-year project as architect for the Pseira, Crete, excavations. Mwantuali Presents Paper at Council for Francophone StudiesJuly 15, 2005Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali presented a paper at the International Council for Francophone Studies in Ottawa on June 29. His paper was titled "Mikilistes, diaspourris et pont de lianes." The theme for the panel was African cinema and globalization. Concentrating on the Congo (RDC), Mwantuali's paper dealt with the specificity of sub-Saharan cinema techniques and epistemology, and the way it responds to the challenges of Post-colonialist theories. Omori Attends Conferences in JapanJuly 14, 2005Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori attended three conferences in Japan and visited archives for her book project during the spring 2005 semester. Her trip to Japan was made possible with a Freeman Foundation long-term grant that she received in the fall of 2005. In June she attended conferences for the Association for Showa Literature, Japan Comparative Literature Association and Kinema Club V (conference and workshop on film and photography). LeMasurier Presents Paper at Summer Topology ConferenceJuly 12, 2005Assistant Professor of Mathematics Michelle LeMasurier presented a paper she wrote with two colleagues, "Closed Relations and Equivalence Classes of Quasicontinuous Functions," at the Summer Topology Conference at Denison University, July 10-13. In the paper, the authors determined a link between closed relations and quasicontinuous functions, and then used this link to prove theorems of use to dynamical systems. Professors McEnroe and Simon Appointed to Endowed ChairsJuly 11, 2005Hamilton College Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Art History John McEnroe was appointed to the John and Anne Fischer Professorship in Fine Arts, and Professor of Philosophy Robert L. Simon was named the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy. More ... Paquette Publishes Book Review in Journal of Social HistoryJuly 8, 2005Robert Paquette, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, published a book review in Journal of Social History (July, 2005). Paquette reviewed The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory by Scot French (Houghton Mifflin). More ... de Swaan Photographs on Exhibit at Barnes & Noble BooksellersJuly 8, 2005Twelve photographs comprising the collection titled "Return," by Sylvia de Swaan, a lecturer in art at Hamilton College, are featured in an exhibit at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Commercial Drive in New Hartford through July 30 in conjunction with a feature article on de Swaan and her work in the July/August issue of Black & White Magazine. More ... Cafruny Leads Debate at Chautauqua Summer InstituteJuly 7, 2005Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, led a debate titled "Are Europe and the U.S. Drifting Apart" at the Summer Institute at Chautauqua June 27-July 1, joined by Professor Neill Nugent of Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. More ... Briggs Organizes Panel, Delivers Paper at James Joyce ConferenceJuly 5, 2005Austin Briggs, the Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, in June attended the North American James Joyce Conference held at Cornell University, where he delivered a paper, "Mrs. Sinico's Pupils," on the panel "The Vision Thing," which he organized and chaired. In addition, at the invitation of the conference organizers, he co-chaired the three Ulysses reading sessions on the program. Briggs' "Evangelical Joyce" appeared in the fall 2004 issue of the James Joyce Literary Supplement. Latrell Travels to Indonesia, Meets With Advisee ThereJune 28, 2005Craig Latrell, associate professor and chair, department of theatre, travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia, in June and met with his advisee Renita Moniaga '06 to discuss her research on democracy and Islam for her Freeman Foundation student-faculty research grant. Latrell has also been selected to serve as an editor (in the area of contemporary SE Asian theatre) of the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, which will be published in two volumes by Greenwood Press. Shields and Kirschner Receive Grant From U.S. Army Medical Research and Material CommandJune 27, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner received a grant funded by the US Army Medical Research and Material Command, from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, to support their research with students at Hamilton College. The proposal, titled "Development of a Computational Assay for the Estrogen Receptor," is a one-year grant of $113,620 that supports efforts to use computers to develop a procedure that predicts the binding affinity of potential drugs to the estrogen receptor. More ... Gold is Co-Editor of New BookJune 27, 2005Professor of Classics Barbara Gold is co-editor, with John Donahue, of Roman Dining, a special issue of American Journal of Philology. According to the publisher's Web site, the issue "illuminates the nature and function of food and dining in the Roman world, offering historical, sociological, literary, cultural and material perspectives." The articles in the book "explore topics from diverse fields to analyze Roman culture and material practice, including the dietary practices and nutritional concerns of the Romans, dining and its links to ideology durign the early imperial period, public banqueting and its social function in Roman society, and the emphasis placed on the waiting servant in both domestic and funerary settings." Gold is editor of the American Journal of Philology. Thickstun Gives Paper at Milton SymposiumJune 24, 2005Professor of English Margaret Thickstun gave a paper at the Eighth International Milton Symposium in Grenoble, France, June 7-11. Her talk was titled "Satan as Father in Paradise Lost." Thickstun teaches a course on Milton's poetry and prose at Hamilton. Georges Present Paper at University of EssexJune 22, 2005Professor of Economics Christophre Georges presented a paper titled "Staggered Updating in an Artificial Financial Market" at the 10th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2005) June 13-15, at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. More ... Isserman Selected to Attend Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History SeminarJune 22, 2005Professor of History Maurice Isserman has been selected by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to participate in a faculty seminar on "Interpreting the History of Recent and Controversial Events." The seminar will be held June 21 to June 23 at Harvard University. Isserman is one of two dozen historians from across the country chosen in a competitive selection to join the seminar, which will discuss the problem of teaching and writing about such recent historical events as the Cuban missile crisis, the civil rights movement and the 9/11 attacks. Latrell's Research Takes Him to Southeast AsiaJune 21, 2005Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Craig Latrell recently returned from two research trips to Southeast Asia funded by the Mellon Foundation and Christian Johnson Foundation. The first trip, in early spring, took him to the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia (the northern part of Borneo Island), Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Latrell's purpose was to visit a number of tourist "villages" to study the role of performance in constructing representations of local cultures, and to see how they relate to other national and global identities. More ... Shields Co-authors Paper with Liptak '03 in International Journal of Quantum ChemistryJune 21, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an article in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. The article, "Comparison of Density Functional Theory Predictions of Gas Phase Deprotonation," was co-authored with Matthew Liptak '03. The work shows the utility of a method of calculations known as Density Functional Theory for accurate computation of pKa values. Liptak, a Goldwater Scholar during his senior year and winner of a Pfizer Summer Research Fellowship in 2002, has published seven papers from his undergraduate research in Shields' lab. Liptak's work formed the foundation for the recent grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research for students working with Shields and with Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner. More ... Derek Jones Awarded Fellowship at Helsinki School of EconomicsJune 20, 2005Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has been awarded a fellowship at the Helsinki School of Economics by the Foundation of Economics Education. More ... Peter Rabinowitz Co-Edits New Volume; Kodat Contributes a ChapterJune 15, 2005Blackwell Publishing has issued the Companion to Narrative Theory, co-edited by James Phelan (Ohio State University) and Hamilton Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz. The massive anthology includes 35 original essays by leading narrative theorists from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and offers a comprehensive and global view of the state of the discipline at the beginning of the 21st century, covering not only literary narrative, but also narrative in other mediums and other fields. More ... Garrett Participating in Dartmouth College Ethics InstituteJune 14, 2005Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett is participating in the Dartmouth College Ethics Institute Summer Faculty program "Teaching Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project," June 12-17 at Howard University. The purpose is to train faculty to teach genetic literacy and to introduce some of the key ethical, legal and social implications of human genome research to undergraduate students. Garrett was competitively selected from a pool of applicants from liberal arts colleges and universities who demonstrate a commitment to teaching with a multidisciplinary approach. At Hamilton she teaches Genes and Genomes, which considers the social, medical and agricultural applications of genetic technologies. More ... Major Awarded Renewal Grant From the Research CorporationJune 10, 2005Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major has been awarded a grant from the Research Corporation, America's first foundation for the advancement of science. Major's project is a science award renewal titled "Discrete Geometry Phenomenology and an Inner Product for Cosmology." More ... Eight Faculty Members Awarded TenureJune 9, 2005Eight Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's board of trustees during its recent meeting. The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the president of the college presenting final recommendations to the board of trustees. All will receive the title of associate professor on July 1. Faculty receiving tenure are Mark Bailey, computer science; Debra Boutin, mathematics; Alistair Campbell, computer science; Mark Cryer, theatre; M. Cecilia Hwangpo, Hispanic studies; Marianne Janack, philosophy; Gordon Jones, physics; and Rob Martin, government. More ... Xu Mentioned in Taiwan News Online Story About ConferenceJune 6, 2005Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu was mentioned in a Taiwan News Online article (6/6/05) about the fourth international conference on Internet Chinese education. The conference, being held in Taiwan, is addressing how the most important technological development in the last 10 years - the Internet - may best be used to teach Chinese as a second language. The article said Xu "gave an overview of how computer technologies have been used to teach Chinese as a second language in the past 35 years, offering conference participants the opportunity to know the who's who of the field and gain an understanding as to what needs to be done next to make improvements." More ... Derek Jones Authors Paper with Former StudentJune 6, 2005A paper written by Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, with Kosali Ilayperuma Simon '94, an assistant professor at Cornell University and Watson fellowship recipient while at Hamilton, has been published in the June 2005 issue of the Journal of Comparative Economics. The paper is titled "Wage Determination under Plan and Early Transition: Bulgarian Evidence using Matched Employer-Employee Data." More ... Jensen Participates in Teaching Innovations Program WorkshopJune 6, 2005Economics Professor Elizabeth Jensen participated in a Teaching Innovations Program Workshop (TIP), June 3-5, in Washington, D.C. TIP is a program run by the American Economic Committee on Economic Education and funded by the National Science Foundation; this is the first year of a five-year program. Participants spent three days learning about and discussing interactive learning techniques, such as classroom experiments and cooperative learning, which will be introduced into next year's classes. More ... Alumni College Discusses African-American Soldiers in WW IJune 6, 2005Assistant Professor of History Chad Williams gave a lecture on June 3 to an audience of Hamilton and Kirkland alumni titled "African-American Soldiers and the Meaning of the First World War." The talk stemmed from his dissertation and research in black studies and was offered as an Alumni College as part of Reunions 2005 activities. More ... Rosmaita Named Recipient of The Richardson Award for Faculty InnovationJune 3, 2005Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita has been named the recipient of The Richardson Award for Faculty Innovation. Rosmaita intends to redesign a computer science course, Application, Implications and Issues, that will focus on Web design and implementation for visually impaired computer users. He developed the original course in 2004 as part of the Hewlett Pluralism and Unity grant and offered it this past semester. More ... Shields Publishes Article in Journal of Physical Chemistry AJune 2, 2005Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. The article, "Comparison of Model Chemistry and Density Functional Theory Thermochemical Predictions with Experiment for Formation of Ionic Clusters of the Ammonium Cation Complexed with Water and Ammonia; Atmospheric Implications," was co-authored with Frank Pickard '05 and Meghan Dunn '06. More ... Science Faculty Members Wow Third-Graders During Science Exploration DaysJune 2, 2005Four professors in the science department brought a bit of magic and wonder to the eyes of 90 New Hartford third-graders on June 2 during Hamilton College's annual Science Day. Geosciences Professor Cynthia Domack, Biology Professor David Gapp, Associate Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer and Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major planned half-hour demonstrations within each of their respective fields for the children, who traveled to Hamilton College from Myles Elementary School. More ... |
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