Faculty News

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presided over a roundtable discussion during the annual joint meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Toronto on Jan. 7.

Seniors Brett Bracco, Sara Purinton and Dan Farina presented posters based on their senior theses at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs presented “Correlates of Immune Defenses in Golden Eagles” at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

In a Guardian article titled "Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study," Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown firmly disagreed with the researcher’s findings. In her 2006 paper published by the journal Nature, Brown debunked a previous theory that fractal analysis could be used to authenticate Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald was interviewed in a seven-minute video about The Qatsi Trilogy that launched on FilmStruck, a subscription-based on-demand film service, on Jan. 6.

Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich presented her work, “Controlling Images: Slave Women in Roman Comedy,” at the recent meeting for the Society for Classical Studies in Toronto, Canada.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Douglas Edwards recently published a paper titled “Truth as a Relational Property” in the international journal Synthese.

Frank Anechiarico ’71, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, is the editor of Legal but Corrupt: A New Perspective on Public Ethics, published last week by Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield.

Sculpture and works on paper by Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh are included in exhibitions in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y.

Poets and performers Sacharja Cunningham ’17 and Shaina Coronel ’17, along with Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, facilitated a bilingual spoken word project during the fall semester.