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  August 2008


THE CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF THEATRE ART:
Every summer, there’s a bit more drama on campus than usual. From the end of June through July, 50 local children ages 11 to 14 attend the five-week Claremont School of Theatre Art (CSTA) program, which is located on the Pomona College campus. This year, the program culminated with a performance of Tales of Canterbury at the Virginia Princehouse Allen Theatre at Pomona’s Seaver Theatre Complex. The program, which is in its 15th year, is produced by Cathy Seaman, program director for the Department of Theatre and Dance, and oftentimes lures Theatre Department alumni back to campus as instructors. Read more about the program

Pomona People in Action:
Jon Bailey's (Music) EPIPHANIES, a 30-minute work for chorus, boy soprano, baritone and four percussionists composed for the 125th Anniversary of All Saints Church Pasadena, had its world premiere on June 1. The work was composed by Jon Bailey and utilized Biblical texts as well as contemporary sources. The work was greeted by a long-lasting standing ovation.

Allan Barr's (Asian Languages and Literatures) translation of Yu Hua's story "Friends" was published in Asian Literary Review (June 2008), pp. 143-53. He also gave an invited talk on "Remarkable Women in Liaozhai Zhiyi" at Zhejiang Library in Hangzhou, China, on July 25.

Graydon Beeks (Music) presented a paper in June on "The Performance of Handel's Cannons Anthems at the Concerts of Ancient Music" at the Scholarly Conference held in conjunction with the annual Handel Festival in Halle, Germany. In July, he presented a paper on "Sir George Smart's Performances of Handel's Messiah" at the 13th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, held at the University of Leeds in England.

Noell Birondo (Philosophy) published "Review of Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics" in the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) delivered a lecture on June 14 on the history of applied anthropology in southern Peru at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, National University of the Altiplano, Puno, Peru. Bolton also served as a judge for a projects competition involving Andean communities that was sponsored by SID-Peru, an NGO working on economic development in villages on the shores of Lake Titicaca.

During the same month, the Mayor and City Council of the District of Pucara in the Province of Lampa honored Bolton with a commemorative plaque in recognition of contributions to the people of the district: "En reconocimiento al Dr. Rafael Bolton, Fundacion Chijnaya, por su apoyo incondicional a nuestro Distrito." Also, the Associated Press cited Bolton's work in an article distributed by that news agency, based on an interview originally published by the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Kim Bruce (Computer Science) served on the steering committee for the first SIGPLAN workshop on Programming Language Curricula at Harvard University on May 29 and 30, where he presented a talk on prior Computer Science Curricula from the 1960s until today. He also served on the program committee of the Computing Research Association conference at Snowbird, Utah, on July 13 to 15. He chaired a panel on Graduate School Immigration and Emigration at the conference.  

Laurie Cameron (Dance) performed the 1915 Denishawn solo "Floor Plastique" as part of the "Spirit of Denishawn" lecture/performance (with Robin Rice) at the International Sacred Dance Festival at Connecticut College on July 22.

Andre Cavalcanti (Biology) published "The pathway to detangle a scrambled gene" in PLoS One 3(6), pp. e2330, with co-authors M. Möllenbeck, Y. Zhou, F. Jönsson, B.P. Higgins, W.J. Chang, S. Juranek, T.G. Doak, G. Rozenberg, H.J. Lipps and L.F. HJ, Landweber.

Angelina Chin (History) published an article, "Loving Disability: 'Patriotism' in Postcolonial Hong Kong," in Asian Cultural Studies (2008), Vol. 34, (International Christian University, Tokyo). She also presented a paper titled "Women's Sexual Disorders, Colonial Medicine and Urban Citizenship in Early 20th-century Hong Kong" at the 12th International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (July 14-18).

Richard Chute (Trusts & Estates) joined Trusts & Estates on June 9 as Associate Director. Richard is a graduate of Pitzer College and has an M.A. from UCLA. He has worked in development at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Pitzer College and, most recently, UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering. Richard will lead marketing efforts as well work as one of the field fundraising staff.

Alfred Cramer (Music) presented "Accents in Speech and Music: Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology and the Baroque French Overture" at the Music, Language & the Mind conference held at Tufts University from July 10 to 13.

Donna M. Di Grazia (Music) conducted six performances as director of the Pomona College Glee Club during the course of their successful concert tour (May 19 to 29) in Portland, Oregon; Eugene, Oregon; Vancouver, British Columbia; Bainbridge Island, Washington; and Seattle. Highlights included a shared concert with the top auditioned choirs from the University of Oregon's School of Music, and an appearance as the featured choir for the main Sunday service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver.

Di Grazia was also one of three alumni invited to speak at UC Davis on May 12 about career possibilities for students who major in music. The panel was part of UC Davis's College of Letters and Sciences Dean's Speaker Series.

Holly Duncan (Alumni Relations) reports that Professor of Politics Betsy Crighton delighted Seattle area alumni and parents with her talk "Is Peace Possible in Israel and Palestine?" on Sunday, June 22. A group of 30-plus people showed up to hear the lecture and ask questions.

And on June 10, President Oxtoby joined about 170 alumni, parents and friends at the Griffith Observatory. The group was treated to remarks from Observatory Director and Pomona alumnus Ed Krupp '66 prior to a film and visit to the planetarium.

Judson Emerick (Art and Art History) gave a paper titled, "Building 'more romano' in Francia during the Third Quarter of the Eighth Century: The Abbey Chruch of Saint-Denis and Its Model," in the session, "Imitating Rome in Carolingian Francia" at the conference "Ex Changes, Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and Reception of Ideas (c. 400-1400)," which took place from July 3 to 5 at the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

Erica Flapan (Mathematics) published, along with R. Naimi, "The Y-Triangle move does not preserve intrinsic knottedness," in the Osaka Journal of Mathematics 45 (2008), pp. 107-111.

Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) gave an invited lecture at IWOTA (International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications) on July 22 at the College of William & Mary. The title of the lecture was "Unitary equivalence to a complex symmetric matrix."

Laura Hoopes (Biology) published two articles: "Phoebe Lostroh," an Educator Highlight Feature in CBE-LSE (Summer 2008), and "The Elegance of Protein Structures" in AWIS Magazine 37 (Summer 2008), pp.11-13.

Beth Hubbard (Trusts & Estates) joined Trusts & Estates on July 21 as Trusts and Estates Specialist. Beth comes to Trusts & Estates from Major Gifts where she has made an outstanding contribution to Pomona's advancement efforts, and many know her from her earlier work in the Admissions Office.

Kamran Javadizadeh (English) was selected to participate in a week-long seminar on Emily Dickinson, led by Sharon Cameron, at the National Humanities Center. In May, Javadizadeh received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University. And, in April, he presented a paper to a seminar at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association.

Gizem Karaali (Math) published an article, "Word Problems: Reflections on Embedding Quantitative Literacy in a Calculus Course," in Numeracy 1:2, Article 6.

Nina Karnovsky (Biology) and Zachary Brown '07 are co-authors of the book chapter, "High Latitude Changes in Ice Dynamics and Their Impact on Polar Marine Ecosystems" in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134 (2008), pp. 267-319.

Karnovsky is currently in the Norwegian Arctic studying the impact of climate change on the marine food web with alumna Laurel McFadden '06 and students Julia Gleichman '10 and Derek Young '09.

Jade Star Lackey (Geology) is the author, with J.W. Valley, J.H. Chen and D. Stockli, of "Dynamic Magma Systems, Crustal Recycling, and Alteration in the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith: The Oxygen Isotope Record" in the Journal of Petrology 49 (2008), pp. 1397–1426. Lackey reports that the article is a definitive study of the origin of many of the granitic rocks that make Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks.

Ann Lebedeff (Tennis) was a featured speaker at the 13th Annual World Team Tennis Junior Nationals, sponsored by Billie Jean King and World Team Tennis, in San Diego on August 15. Her speech topic was "The Right Stuff for Competitive Play." Lebedeff was also the guest speaker at the United States Tennis Association National Tennis Teachers' Conference, held during the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York City on August 24. Her topic was "What Makes a Great Coach?"

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) chaired two panels and presented a paper titled "The Politics of Pornography in the Islamic Republic of Iran" at the Visual Representations of Iran conference at St. Andrews University in Scotland from June 12 to 16. She also gave a talk titled "The Unmet Needs of Iranian Women Today" on July 5 at the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation annual conference held at UC Berkeley, and was interviewed interviewed on KPFA on July 2 at 7 p.m. The subject of the interview was her research in Iran and forthcoming book, Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution.

Carl Martellino (Career Development Office) served as a member of the Future Directions in Career Services Committee for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). In his role as a futurist, he co-presented on the topic of seismic shifts in career services and recruitment at the NACE Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Martellino also reports that the Career Development Office hosted the Career Services Institute (CSI), attended by more than 100 professionals in career services. The CSI is a two-day one-of-a-kind professional development conference for career center staff allowing for exposure to innovative new services and programs, benchmarking with colleagues, and networking. 

Kerry Martin (Career Development Office), assistant director for alumni career services, led the efforts for programming and hosting Best Practices in Alumni Career Services: A Collaborative Discussion, a one-day conference in the Smith Campus Center. The conference attendees included professionals from college and university career services and alumni relations sharing best practices, hearing a keynote from the University of Georgia, and participating in roundtable discussions and meetings with exhibitors and vendors. More than 50 professionals from the Western U.S. attended.

Robert Mezey (English) has accepted an invitation to teach at Kenyon College for a semester or two as the Richard Thomas Visiting Professor of Writing, beginning January 2010. Robert has an honorary degree from Kenyon.

Denise Miller (Romance Languages & Literatures) reports that her daughter Elizabeth and her pony Miss Tattletail have competed at the following eventing shows in the novice division; Galway Downs in Temecula on May 3 and 4, finishing first; The Meadows of Moorpark on May 31 and June 1; and Copper Meadows in Ramona with a fourth-place finish. Elizabeth graduated on June 13 from Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor's degree in Animal Science with an emphasis in Equine and a minor in Agricultural Management.

Nivia Montenegro's (Romance Languages and Literatures) article, "Cuba in Black and White: Two Views of the Republic," has appeared in the book Caribbean Thought: XIX and XX Centuries (Charles University, Prague), based on the Latin American Studies Symposium held at the university in September 2007.

Mary Paster (Linguistics and Cognitive Science) gave an invited lecture, "The Journey from Linguistics Major to Linguistics Professor," at the Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at Ohio State University on July 11.

Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) was interviewed about the impacts of feral pigs and erosion on cultural resources as part of a documentary, Restoring Balance: Santa Cruz Island, produced by The Ocean Channel on behalf of Channel Islands National Park and The Nature Conservancy. Perry also presented a paper on the "Landscapes, Seascapes, and Spiritscapes of the California Channel Islands" in July at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland.

Dara Rossman Regaignon (English) presented "Learning Through the Collective: WPAs at Small Liberal Arts Colleges" with Jill Gladstein of Swarthmore College and Lisa Lebduska of Wheaton College at the annual meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in Denver, Colorado. This presentation discussed the findings from a survey of the writing program administrators at 55 elite small liberal colleges, conducted as part of founding a national organization.

Joti Rockwell (Music) was a fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. This year's institute was dedicated to the study of jazz and popular music, and was held from June 15 to 18 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages and Literatures) participated in a conference organized by the Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF) in Limoges, France, on July 4, giving a paper titled, " Retour à Lüe: lecture d'une écriture."

Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was an invited speaker at the 2008 International Conference on Discrete Mathematics, June 6-10, at Mysore, India. He gave a talk titled "Normalized Matching Posets and Chain Partitions." Also, on June 13, Shahriari gave an invited expository talk in Persian titled "Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Distribution of Primes" at the Ibn Sina Cultural Center in Tehran, Iran.

Slavi Slavov (Economics) published a paper, "Should Small Open Economies in East Asia Keep All Their Eggs in One Basket: The Role of Balance Sheet Effects" in The Journal of the Korean Economy 9:1 (April 2008), pp. 1-43.

Jason Smith (ITS) gave a talk, "Fair Use and other Issues Surrounding a V-Brick System," at the NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) Instructional Technologists' Conference at DePauw University, June 2 to 4, in Indiana. Smith was also a member of the planning committee for the event.

David Tanenbaum (Physics and Astronomy) presented a poster, "Mechanical Properties of Suspended Graphene Sheets," at the Gordon Research Conference on Nanostructure Fabrication held at Tilton School in New Hampshire on July 17, 2008. The poster includes work by Scott Berkley '09 and Ian Frank '08, performed in collaboration with researchers from Cornell University.

Dwight Whitaker (Physics and Astronomy) received an award from Laser Focus World for "Commendation for Excellence in Technical Writing" for his recently submitted article, "High-speed images capture processes in botanical systems."

Deborah Wilson (Museum of Art) has joined the Pomona College Museum of Art as Administrative Assistant. Wilson joins the Museum after serving two years at Oldenborg Center.


  June 2008


COMMENCEMENT 2008:
As proud families and friends watched, approximately 380 students received their diplomas during the College's 115th Commencement on May 18 on Marston Quad.

In his charge to the Class of 2008, Pomona College President David W. Oxtoby implored the students to look to the past as well as the future. Oscar-award winning documentarian Alex Gibney, son of PBI founder Frank Gibney, provided the keynote speech. Kyle Edgerton ’08 and Senior Class President Susan Sparrow '08 gave the student speeches. Lee Harlan ’55 received the Trustees' Medal of Merit. Honorary degrees were also awarded to former Pomona President Peter Stanley, award-winning composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen of the L.A. Philharmonic, and Ingrid D. Rowland ’74, a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in Rome.

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New Human Resources Web Site:
The new Human Resources web site features information on benefits, a list of staff holidays, downloadable forms, and links to staff and faculty job listings.

Pomona People in action:
Jessica Alampay (Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations) reports that the Pomona College Model Arab League (with repersentatives from Scripps and Pitzer), an initiative of the Oldenborg Center, recently took part in its third West Coast Model Arab League Conference. Due to the growing popularity of the Model Arab League at Pomona College, the size of the group required that it represent two different national delegations: Syria and Lebanon. The combined group took home the institutional award of The Honorable Mention for an Outstanding Delegation.

The conference was held at Pomona College from April 4-6, and was organized by the Oldenborg Center with support from the main organizing body of the Model Arab League Program, The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. This year's conference was the first time the conference had been held in Southern California in a decade.

Tahir Andrabi
(Economics) gave a paper, “What Do You Do All Day? Mother’s Time and Mother’s Education in Rural Pakistan,” at the Pacific Coast Development Economics Conference at the University of California, San Diego, in March. He gave another paper, “Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools,” in a session on the Frontiers of Economics and Education at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meetings, also in March.

The website of Andrabi’s Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools, or LEAPS, project is now fully online at www.leapsproject.org.

Jeannine Appel's (Student Records) daugher April graduated from the University of San Diego on May 25 with a bachelor's degree in biology.

William Banks (Psychology) presented a poster at the Association for Psychological Science meeting in Chicago, May 22-25. His co-authors were Eve Isham (Claremont Graduate University), Matthew Macellaio ’09 and Kenton Hokanson ’08.

Several promotions and a new hire have been made in Annual Giving. Patience Boudreaux and Catherine Okereke were both promoted to the title of Associate Director of Annual Giving. Courtney Scott was promoted to Assistant Director of Annual Giving, and Patricia Maine has joined the staff as Administrative Assistant.

At the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division Meeting in Chicago, Noell Birondo (Philosophy) presented a commentary on Anne Margaret Baxley’s paper “Courage, Fear of Death, and the Silencing of Competing Reasons.”

Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) published three pieces in the May 2008 issue of SLAB (Sound & Literary Art Book): “Arañita Cobriza Fantasy Crónica,” “Trincheras Crónica,” and “Hawk Call Crónica.” She also gave a performed reading and discussion from her book Killer Crónicas and new work at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Pruneyard Center, Campbell, CA, on May 29.

Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) and Neer Asherie are the authors of “An Analytical Model for the Formation of Economic Clusters,” in Regional Science and Urban Economics 38:3, pp. 252-70.

Justin Crowe (Politics) won the American Political Science Association’s 2008 Mary Parker Follett Prize for best article or book chapter published in 2006 or 2007 on “Politics and History.” His article, “The Forging of Judicial Autonomy: Political Entrepreneurship and the Reforms of William Howard Taft,” appeared in the Journal of Politics 69:1 (February 2007), pp. 73-87.

Holly Duncan (Alumni Relations) reports that Alumni Weekend was a huge success with 1,430 people, 150-plus events and 15 different class dinners happening all over campus on Saturday, May 3. Wilfred Taylor '28 returned to campus to celebrate his 80th reunion and was grand marshal of the Parade of Classes. He also registered online, much to the amusement of those who did not.

On May 21, Oona Eisenstadt (Religious Studies) spoke to alumni in New York City on “The Lion, the Witch, and the False Mustache: Christian Sub-Texts in Children’s Literature.”

Judson Emerick (Art & Art History) gave a paper, “The ‘Private’ Mass and Relics: The Invention of the Early Medieval Memorialkirchenfamilie,” in a session on “The Eucharist: Theology, Liturgy, and Art” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University, May 8-11.

Erica Flapan (Mathematics) is the author, with R. Naimi, of “The Y-Triangle Move Does Not Preserve Intrinsic Knottedness,” in Osaka Journal of Mathematics 45 (2008), pp. 107-11. Her work with Dorothy Buck ’95 was also featured in an article, “Detangling DNA,” in Science News online.

Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) co-organized “Operators, Functions, and Linear Spaces,” a special session of the American Mathematical Society, held at Claremont McKenna College on May 3-4.

Fred J. Grieman (Chemistry) received a NASA Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship to study atmospheric chemistry in collaboration with Stan Sander ’74 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Stephanie Harves (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) presented a paper, “Intensional Transitives and Silent HAVE: Distinguishing between ‘Want’ and ‘Need,’” at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics on May 18.

Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) gave a mathematics colloquium talk, “Yang-Baxter Equations and Quantum Groups,” at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, on May 8. She also co-organized a session on “Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups” at the spring 2008 western sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held May 3-4 at Claremont McKenna College. Other Pomona mathematicians who organized sessions were Erica Flapan with Sam Nelson (“Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds”), Stephan R. Garcia (“Operators, Functions and Linear Spaces”), Ami Radunskaya (“Applications of Delay-Differential Equations to Models of Disease”), Adolfo Rumbos (“Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations”), and Shahriar Shahriari (“Combinatorics of Partially Ordered Sets”).

Zayn Kassam (Religious Studies) delivered lectures on the environment and on gender in Islam at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, on May 12 and 13.

Gary Kates (Dean of the College) spoke to alumni, parents and friends in Honolulu on "Is the Pomona Education of the 20th Century the Same as the Pomona Education of the 21st Century?" The speech drew both recent alumni and those who graduated in the 1940s.

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) has recently given several talks: “Being Young and Rebellious in Iran,” a keynote lecture at the University of San Francisco, May 14; “Private Uses of Public Space: Spatial Framings of Sexuality and Sociality in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” at a conference on “Faith and Fun” at the American University in Beirut, May 27; and “Public Health in Iran,” as part of a lecture series at the American University in Beirut, May 29.

Lynne Miyake (Asian Languages & Literatures) was interviewed for “CBS Radio: The Tale of Genji,” a radio documentary, in Vancouver, Canada, on June 10. She also spoke on “The Six Faces of Genji: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji” at Stanford University on February 29 and at the University of British Columbia on June 10, and participated in an invited roundtable, “A Thousand Years of The Tale of Genji,” at Washington University on April 18.

The work of Sandeep Mukherjee (Art & Art History) is being exhibited at Sister Gallery in Los Angeles, May 10 through June 21, and at Samson Projects in Boston, May 9 through July 26.

Gilda Ochoa (Sociology and Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies) has an article, “Pump Up the Blowouts: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Chicana/o School Blowouts,” in the summer 2008 issue of Rethinking Schools. The article is also available online.

Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) and Katie Dutcher ’09 presented a paper, “Contour Tone Distribution in Luganda,” at the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA, May 16.

Rose Portillo (Theatre & Dance), director of Pomona’s Theatre for Young Audiences Program, received a Community Service Award from the Pomona Unified School District on May 20.

Ami Radunskaya (Mathematics) is the director of “Giving the EDGE to Women in Mathematics,” a program sponsored by the organization Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) and hosted by Pomona College, June 4 to July 2.

Erin Runions (Religious Studies) was on the grant planning team for a project entitled “Pedagogies for Civic Engagement,” which received a $20,000 grant from the Wabash Center for the Study of Teaching and Learning in Religion. She also gave a paper, “The Anti-Christs Get Married: Heteronormativity and the Human,” at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, held in Long Beach, April 24-27. She gave another paper, “Empire’s Allure: Babylon, Conservative Discourse, and the State of Exception,” at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, in Vancouver, Canada, June 1-3. And she was a discussant on the volume God and Country, a special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, in New York City, May 22-24.

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) recently gave presentations about her book, Héroïnes Françaises 1940-1945: Courage, Force et Ingéniosité, at several locations in France: the CASIP COJASOR Foundation on May 26, at Château de Lantic in Martillac on May 27, at the Mollat bookstore in Bordeaux on May 28, and at a synagogue in Sceaux on June 6.

Her new book, Héroïnes Françaises 1940-1945: Courage, Force et Ingéniosité, has been featured in a variety of French media, including the newspaper France-soir (March 17) and the magazine Cultures Contemporaines (April 2008).

Jack Sanders (Music) gave three lecture-recitals on the vihuela, baroque and classical guitars at the Orange County High School for the Arts on May 14. He also gave eight solo concerts on baroque and classical guitars in Massachusetts from May 17 to 24 under the auspices of the Piatigorsky Foundation of New York.

Slavi Slavov (Economics) presented his paper “Do Common Currencies Facilitate the Net Flow of Capital among Countries?” on May 16 at a workshop, “The Implications of European Integration,” organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and The European Union Studies Association.

Dwight Whitaker (Physics & Astronomy) has an invited feature article, “High-Speed Imaging: High-Speed Images Capture Processes in Botanical Systems,” in Laser Focus World 44 (2008), pp. 77-80.

Meg Worley (English) gave a talk, “From Hwaet to Phat: A Brief History of the English Language,” to alumni in Chicago on May 12.

  May 2008


ALUMNI WEEKEND: The class of '68 provided some flair for this year's Parade of Classes. The parade, which included classes from 1928 to 2003, was led by members of the Balinese Gamelan and wound its way around Marston Quad, down Stover Walk and into Big Bridges. Wilfred Taylor '28, here for his 80th reunion at age 101, was the Grand Marshall.

Approximately 1,500 alumni, friends and family attended five days of festivities with more than 150 events and programs. Highlights include the Alumni Vintner Wine Tasting, which included 10 Pomona vintners; the All Class Dinner with more than 600 people dining in the Voelkel Gymnasium in the Rains Center; 22 academic department and program receptions and open houses held on May 2; and the alumni symposium "Reel Time: Sagehens and the Silver Screen," which featured several alumni, including Sylvain White '98, Robert Towne '56 and Melissa Jo Peltier ’83.

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Pomona People in action:
William Banks (Psychology) gave a talk in an invited symposium at the Toward a Science of Consciousness meeting in Tucson on April 9. His topic was the neuroscience and psychology of volition, and his co-authors were Eve Isham of Claremont Graduate University, Matthew Macellaio ’09, and Kenton Hokanson ’08.

Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) published an article in Chinese, “On the Background to Lu Rou’s ‘Ballad of the Fugitives,’” in Journal of Nanyang Normal University 7(2), pp. 70-72. He also attended a symposium on the Art of Translation, held at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 25.

Betty Bernhard (Theatre & Dance) and Katie Lind SCR ’06 gave a lecture-demonstration about the methods used to teach student actors the classical movements in Sanskrit drama for the Department of Theatre’s production of Shakuntala 2004 for the South Asian Studies Conference at Claremont Graduate University in March.

With Blake Phillips ’08, Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Rural Microfinance in the Peruvian Andes: The Chijnaya Livestock Shelter Project,” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, April 11. At the same meeting, he chaired a session on “Ethical Identities for a Reflexive Age,” in which he presented another paper, “Reciprocity and Anthropological Ethics: Giving Back to ‘Our’ Communities.” At Bucknell University on April 20-21, he lectured on his applied anthropology work.

José Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages & Literatures) co-organized a symposium on “Homoeroticisms in the Early Modern Spanish World,” held on April 11 at the Huntington Early Modern Institute. As part of the symposium, he gave a paper entitled “The Homoerotics of Empire in Early Modern Spain and the New World.”

Cartagena-Calderón also has a chapter, “Cervantes y las ficciones de la masculinidad,” in Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Spanish Studies: Essays in Memory of Carroll B. Johnson (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008)

Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a performed reading from her book Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories and new work at the University of New Orleans on April 9, and the next day she offered a reading and discussion in a seminar on Latin American literature in translation. Her visit was sponsored by the university’s Department of Foreign Languages and the Latin American Student Association.

Holly Duncan (associate director for Alumni Relations) reports that the Alumni Association co-sponsored a Senior Class Mystery Dinner in Seaver House. Each participant took on a role with the goal of finding out who killed the millionaire and who murdered one of the guests during the reading of the will. Seaver House played the role of the millionaire's mansion, adding to the atmosphere.

Also, Nina Karnovsky (biology) and Jonathan Wright (biology) drew big crowds for an alumni whale watching expedition on April 12. Unfortunately no whales were spotted, but one boat found a huge pod of dolphins which swam along side the boat much to everyone's enjoyment. The other boat saw some sea lions on a buoy and got a free ticket for another cruise

John Eldevik (History) has been invited to attend a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “The Medieval Mediterranean and the Emergence of the West,” to be held in Barcelona June 29-July 25.

Steve Erickson’s (Philosophy) paper “Peace, Sustainability and Humanity: Reflections on Culture’s Future Relation to Religion” has been published in the proceedings of the UNESCO-sponsored International Conference on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for Sustainable Development, edited by V. K. Egorov (Moscow Publishing House of the Russian Academy of Public Administration, 2008).

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) has received a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Startup Grant for MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network that she is developing in conjunction with the Institute for the Future of the Book.

She has also recently given several talks: “Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age,” as part of a panel at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Philadelphia on March 8; “The Future of Peer Review in Digital Scholarly Networks,” as part of a symposium on the Future of the Book in the Digital Age at California State University, Fresno, on March 21; “New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts” at Tulane University on March 27; and “Machines.pomona.edu: Reimagining the Learning Management System” at the NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) Summit in San Francisco on April 4. She also moderated a panel on Thomas Pynchon at the New Orleans Literary Festival on March 29.

Thomas Flaherty’s (Music) composition “Fanfares” premiered in a concert of music from five centuries performed by William Peterson (Music) at the Christopher Cohan Center in San Luis Obispo on April 6.

Peter Flueckiger (Asian Languages & Literatures) delivered a paper, “Confucianism and Emotionality in Tokugawa Literary Thought,” at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Atlanta, April 4.

Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) gave a talk, “Rationals, Irrationals, and Quotients of Primes,” on April 26 as part of the Pomona College Mathematics Talent Search Honors Day. He gave another talk, “Matrix Inner Functions and Darlington Synthesis,” at the Claremont Colleges Analysis Seminar on April 21.

He is the author of “Aluthge Transforms of Complex Symmetric Operators,” in Integral Equations and Operator Theory 60(3), pp. 357-67.

An article by Roberto Garza-López (Chemistry), Phillipe Bouchard ’08, and Grégoire Nicolis, “Kinetics of Docking in Postnucleation Stages of Self-Assembly,” which was originally published in the Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 114701 (2008), has also appeared in the March 31 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology and the April 1 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

Jill Grigsby (Sociology) and Gladys E. Reyes ’09 presented a paper, “Residential Segregation by Educational Attainment,” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association in Portland, Oregon, on April 13.

As Distinguished Lecturer for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Eric Grosfils (Geology) delivered a colloquium, “Tips and Techniques for Integrating Student Research throughout an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Geology Curriculum,” at Texas A & M University in early April. Later in the month, he delivered an invited public lecture, “Venus Volcanism: A Selective Overview,” at a Pomona Valley Amateur Astronomers meeting.

With Gloria Yiu ’08 and others, Laura Hoopes (Biology) is the author of "Microarray analysis of the in vivo sequence preferences of a minor groove binding drug,” in BMC Genomics 9(32), available online. She is also the author of “Charlotte Russe,” in Good Old Days 45(5), pp. 16-17, and of “Morris Maduro,” in CBE—Life Sciences Education 7 (spring 2008), pp. 3-4.

In February, Hoopes’ story “Nepal’s Answer” was selected as one of 25 finalists--from among 1,200 entries--in GlimmerTrain’s short-short story contest.

Hoopes also attended the 33rd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, held at Point Loma Nazarene College in April. She was accompanied by Eleanor Cameron ’08 and Ann Zhao ’09, who presented talks, as well as Sally Carter ’10.

Julie Journitz (ITS director of client services) completed training and received certification as Support Center Director according to HDI standards.

Nina Karnovsky (Biology), with co-authors K. Hobson, S. Iverson, and G. L. Hunt, Jr., published “Seasonal Changes in Diets of Seabirds in the North Water Polynya: A Multiple-Indicator Approach” in Marine Ecology Progress Series 357, pp. 291-99.

Felix Kronenberg (Foreign Language Resource Center and German & Russian) was chosen as a NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) Technology Fellow. He also conducted a conference at the Foreign Language Resource Center, April 10-13, with support from the NITLE Western Regional Advisory Council’s Instructional Innovation Fund, and participated in two panels and gave a paper at the NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) conference in New York, March 28-29.

Tennis coach Ann Lebedeff (Physical Education) achieved her 500th career win with a 7-0 victory over Caltech in April.

Genevieve Lee (Music) performed with the Angeli Duo on April 13 at the South Pasadena Library as part of their Restoration Concert series. In addition, she performed on piano and harpsichord in three chamber music concerts at the Garth Newel Music Center, Virginia, April 25-27.

Margaret Lohre (Trusts and Estates office manager) produced and directed an extracurricular production of Grease: 30 Years Later, which starred Sierra Gelbard ’08 as Sandy and former Pomona staff member Birch Price as Danny. Other cast members included Matthew Walker (Kenickie/Frankie Avalon), Frank Bedoya (Sonny), Steve Comba (Putzie), Whitney Hengesbach (Doody), Gail Sundberg (Rizzo/Cha Cha), Kim Nykanen (Frenchy), Sandy Price (Marty/wrestler Big Louie), Donna Henry (Jan), Rhonda Beron (Patty), Jack Gallagher (Principal McGee), Brenda Rushforth (Blanche), Willie Crane (Coach Calhoun), Chris Ponce (Vince Fontaine), Ron Nemo (Leo), C.J. Stearns (narrator), Peyton Watson (scene girl), and Rita Stachniak (understudy). Froggy Castro did the sound, while Connie Schmitz acted as the behind-the-scenes stage manager. The play group rehearsed during lunch hours and after work, and performed for other staff members on April 16 during a potluck lunch.

Rebecca McGrew
(Museum of Art) has been awarded a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship for her project “The Shock of the New at Pomona College: 1969-1973.”

Robert Mezey (English, Emeritus) received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kenyon College on April 8. He also gave a reading at the college.

Denise Miller’s (Romance Languages and Literatures academic department coordinator) daughter Elizabeth has been competing at a novice level at eventing shows with her pony Suncrests Ms Tattletail. In April, the team competed at RamTap in Fresno and Twin Rivers in Paso Robles, where they finished in fourth place.

Nivia Montenegro (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “The Aguero Sisters: Cecilia Valdes Redoubled,” in a panel on spectral criticism at the 61st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, in April.

With Laura McPherson SCR ’08, Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) gave a co-authored paper, “Evidence for the Mirror Principle and Morphological Templates in Luganda,” at the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Georgia, April 18. She also gave an invited talk, “Verbal Phonology/Morphology in Asante Twi,” to the University of Southern California Phonetics/Phonology group on April 28.

Bryan Penprase (Physics & Astronomy) gave the UCLA astrophysics colloquium on April 9. His topic was “Keck ESI and HIRES Observations of Low-Metallicity DLA and Lyman Alpha Forest Absorption Systems.” Penprase is also third author, among an international team of 18 astronomers, of “GRB 070125: The First Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst in a Halo Environment,” in The Astrophysical Journal 677 (April 10), pp. 441-47.

Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) gave a paper, “Landscapes, Seascapes, and Spiritscapes of the Santa Barbara Channel,” in the plenary session “New Directions in California Archaeology” at the Society for California Archaeology’s 42nd annual meeting, held in Burbank in April. At the same meeting, she and former student Chris Jazwa HMC ’05 co-presented a paper titled “Differentiating Chert Sources in the Santa Barbara Channel: Evidence of Local Tool Production and Island Exchange.”

Sean Pollack (English) was selected to attend the National Humanities Center Summer Literary Institute on “Chaucer: Past, Present and Future,” led by Seth Lerer of Stanford University.

Jack Sanders (Music) is the author of “Essay on Playing the Guitar – A Memorable Gig,” in Soundboard Magazine 34(1).

He also performed a solo concert on vihuela, baroque, 19th-century and modern guitars for the Pasadena Professional Women’s Auxiliary of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on March 9; lectured and performed on vihuela and baroque guitar on DHTV, a cable television broadcast from California State University, Dominguez Hills, on March 13; and lectured and performed with Jason Yoshida and Rachel Rudich (Music) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, on April 18.

John Seery (Politics) appeared in This American Gothic, a feature documentary directed by Sasha Waters Freyer and shown on April 4 at the Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison.

Jason Smith (ITS instructional technologist) competed in the California Ironman 70.3 in Oceanside on March 29. The race included a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike race, and a 13.1-mile run. Smith finished in six hours and 22 minutes.

James Taylor (Theatre & Dance) designed the lighting for a production of Molière’s Don Juan at the Glendale theater A Noise Within in February.

Hung Cam Thai (Sociology and Asian American Studies) spoke to alumni in Berkeley on “International Marriages in the New Global Economy” on April 5. He gave a lecture, “Orientalism and the Trope of Arranged Marriages in an Era of Asian Globalization,” at the Pacific Sociological Association in Portland on April 12.

Margaret Waller (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “100 Eyes and 2,000 Pairs of Men’s Shoes: To Queer or Not to Queer the Emperor of French Fashion,” at the Rhetoric of the Other conference held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 28-29.

Heather Williams (Politics) is the author of “From Visibility to Voice: The Emerging Power of Migrants in Mexican Politics,” No. 4 in the Working Papers in Global Studies series of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University (PDF). The essay is based on a conference presentation she gave at George Mason on April 19.

Meg Worley (English) presented a paper, “Can This Really Be the End? Messianism, Quietism, and Superhero Comics,” at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting, held at California State University, Long Beach, April 24-27. She has just returned from England, where she was an exchange fellow at the British Academy and at Downing College, Cambridge.

 

  April 2008

2008 STAFF AWARDS: This year's staff awards were presented at the Staff Appreciation luncheon on March 18th. Ralph Pezoldt (ITS) and Jo Grodsky (Chemistry) received the 2007-08 Peter W. Stanley Distinguished Staff Award (DSA), which has been awarded annually since 1999 to staff members who have distinguished themselves through a consistent high level of performance and/or through service or effort beyond what is required in their daily job.

2008 Staff Appreciation Awards
35 Years of Service:
Janis Moormann (Investments & Trusts)

30 Years of Service:
Patricia Coye (Financial Aid)
Connie Wilson (Physics & Astronomy)
David Dwiers (Chemistry)
25 Years of Service:
Gary Gleason (Grounds)

20 Years of Service:
Frank Castrejon (Housekeeping)
Anna Asker (Prospect Research & Management)
Sara Mitchell (Admissions)

15 Years of Service:
Erica Tyron (KSPC)
Suzanne Reed (Theatre & Dance)
Karen Wiltrout (Admissions)
Marisela Burciaga (Housekeeping)
Kathy Sheldon (Mathematics)
Neil Gerard (Smith Campus Center & Student Programs)
Jack Gallagher (ITS)
Kathy Chalfant (Housekeeping)
Rosaura Morales (Housekeeping)
Barbara Clonts (English)

10 Years of Service:
Daren Mooko (Asian American Resource Center)
Brett Watts (ITS)
Catherine Gallant (Registrar)
Lyn Sarf (Major Gifts)
Alene Stolz (Student Accounts)
Mitra Nag (Prospect Research & Management)  
Rajeshwar Verma (Chemistry)Denis Recendez (ITS)
Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations)
Lauri Bell (Chemistry)
Susan Dollar (Advancement Planning)
Donald Hinchey (Mail Services)
Pedro Loureiro (PBI)
Rita Stachniak (Study Abroad)

5 Years of Service:
Yuan Wang (ITS)
Jerusha Ogden (Advancement)
Andrew Crawford (ITS)
Andrew O’Boyle (Office of the Controller)
Miranda Paradez (Student Loans)
Jennifer Rachford (Institutional Research)
 
Ruth Hutchison (Advancement Services)
Jose Vega (Coop Fountain)
Irma Flores (General Accounting Services)
Glenn Gillespie (Student Mail Services)
Dana Wood (Real Property)
Christopher Ponce (Institutional Advancement)
Lawrence Youhanna (Payroll)

Pomona People in action:
William Banks (Psychology) gave a colloquium on the neuroscience and psychology of volition, at the University of California, Berkeley, on March 31. His co-authors were Eve Isham (Claremont Graduate University), Matthew Macellaio ’09, and Kenton Hokanson ’08.

Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) attended a Sino-English Literary Translation Workshop in Moganshan, China, March 16-23.

On February 29, Graydon Beeks (Music) conducted the Pomona College Chamber Winds in a program of "Wind Divertimenti" by Franz Joseph Haydn as part of the Friday Noon Concert series. The next day, he appeared as one of the tenor soloists in a Rio Hondo Symphony performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Serenade to Music.”

Beeks also gave a paper, “Haydn, Handel, and the Concerts of Ancient Music,” on March 2 at a conference hosted by Scripps College and co-sponsored by the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music and the Haydn Society of North America.

Noell Birondo (Philosophy) presented his paper “Aristotle and the ‘Virtues of Will Power’” at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting in Pasadena on March 20.

Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) chaired the session “Microfinance and Cooperative Management in Latin America” and served as a panelist in the session “Let’s Talk about Sex” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, held in Memphis in March. At the same meeting, he and co-author Blake Phillips ’08 presented a paper, “Happy Cows and Milk Production: The Economic Impact of a Micro-Loan Program in Chijnaya, Peru.”

Also, Bolton’s applied anthropological work in Peru was featured on the front page of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper on March 2.

André Cavalcanti (Biology) and Hannah M. W. Salim ’09 are the authors of “Factors Influencing Codon Usage Bias in Genomes,” in Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society 19, pp. 257-61.

Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a performed reading, “From Killer Crónicas to la Cuenca de L.A. and In Between,” at the University of Arizona, Tucson, on March 13. She was also interviewed in the March 26 issue of BorderLore: Culture & Folklife in the US-Mexico Borderlands.

Alfred Cramer (Music) presented a paper, “Back to the Grave: Intonational Phonology and Referential Accents in Telemann’s French Overtures,” at the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis in Seattle on March 8.

Steve Erickson (Philosophy) was the discussion leader at a Liberty Fund colloquium, “Redemption and Human Freedom in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion,” in Houston in March. Erickson’s essays “The Space of Love and Garbage” and “On (and Beyond) Love Gone Wrong” have also been reissued in a new volume, The Space of Love and Garbage and Other Essays from the Harvard Review of Philosophy, ed. S. Phineas Upham (Chicago: Open Court, 2008).

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) received an NEH Digital Startup Grant for MediaCommons, which is founding in conjunction with the Institute for the Future of the Book.

She also gave several talks during March, including a talk on the future of peer review at a colloquium on the future of the book at Cal State, Fresno on March 21, and a talk on the social life of publishing at Tulane University on March 27. She also participated in a panel on “Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Philadelphia on March 8.

Thomas Flaherty’s (Music) “Three Pieces for Clarinet” was played by Jim Sullivan at the Pasadena Conservatory on March 7, and his “The Peace of Wild Things” had its East Coast premiere at Brandeis University on March 22.

Lorn Foster (Politics) has been awarded a John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project titled “Black Political Development in LA, 1910-1950: The Role of the Black Church.”

Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) gave a talk, “New Classes of Complex Symmetric Operators,” at the 24th Southeastern Analysis Meeting, March 8. He is also co-author, with J. Danciger and M. Putinar, of “Variational Principles for Symmetric Bilinear Forms,” in Mathematische Nachrichten 281(6).

Roberto Garza-López (Chemistry), Philippe Bouchard ’08, et al. have an article, “Kinetics of Docking in Post-Nucleation Stages of Self-Assembly,” in the Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 114701. Their article is also included in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 17(13).

Dru Gladney (Pacific Basin Institute and Anthropology) served as plenary session speaker for a Social Science Research Council conference, “Inter-Asian Connections,” held in Dubai in February. His talk was entitled “Crossing Asia, Transgressing Boundaries: Reflections on Studying Trans-Border Nomadic and Diasporic Peoples in Inner Asia.”

Laura Hoopes (Biology) is the author of “Women on Ice: Detecting Global Warming in the Arctic,” in AWIS Magazine 37 (spring 2008), pp. 16-19. Nina Karnovsky (Biology) is one of the women featured in the article.

Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) wrote the entry “Drama” for the Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Karl Johnson (Biology and Neuroscience) received a $10,000 SOMAS grant from the National Science Foundation and Davidson College. The SOMAS grant is designed to support the research of new neuroscience faculty and their students at predominantly undergraduate institutions

Nina Karnovsky (Biology) presented a paper, “Contrasting Conditions in the Greenland Sea: Implications for Energy Transfer to Higher Trophic Levels,” at the 2008 Ocean Sciences meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Co-authors included Allison Bailey ’07, Laurel McFadden ’06 and Zachary Brown ’07.

Zayn Kassam (Religious Studies) gave a talk, “My Journey after 9/11,” on February 16 as part of Pomona’s Family Weekend. She also helped organize and present a workshop for faculty and advanced graduate students, “Teaching Gender and Islam,” held at Whittier College on March 1; and, with

Felix Kronenberg (Foreign Language Resource Center and German & Russian) participated in a panel, “Transforming Learning Centers to Meet Current and Coming Technologies,” and gave two presentations, “Redefining the Role of the Language Center” and “Digital Narratives Using Web 2.0 Tools,” at the Digital Stream conference at California State University, Monterey Bay, March 17-18. He also participated in a panel, “Language Lab Unleashed: Virtual Professional Development and Collaboration,” and gave two presentations, “Digital Narratives 2.0” and “Language Technology Boot Camp,” at the 2008 CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium)/IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology) conference at the University of San Francisco, March 21-22.

Peter Kung (Philosophy) presented “On Having No Reason: Dogmatism and Bayesian Confirmation” at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting in Pasadena, March 21.

Kyoko Kurita (Asian Languages & Literatures) presented “90-Minute Study Abroad: A Decade of Video Conferencing at Pomona College” at a National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) conference at Dickinson College on March 29.

The American College Theatre Festival invited the Theatre & Dance Department to show a scene from Thomas Leabhart’s production of Molière’s The Miser at California State University, Los Angeles, on February 12. Pomona first-year students John Maidman and Scott Duffy performed with Pitzer senior Tyrus Emory.

Fernando Lozano (Economics) lectured to alumni on “Soccernomics: How the Dismal Science Explains the Beautiful Game” in San Diego on March 8.

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) was a discussant on a panel about “Muslim Youth” at Chapman University on March 12 and gave a talk, “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Islamic Republic,” on March 25 as part of a California State University, Northridge, series on Sex and Gender. She also chaired a panel on “Women and Risk” and presented a paper, “Risk and Resilience amongst Urban Iranian Women,” at the Society for Applied Anthropology/Society for Medical Anthropology annual meetings in Memphis on March 28.

Susan McWilliams (Politics) gave a lecture for alumni, “Mixing Oil and (Bottled) Water: A Preliminary Theory of the 2008 Election,” in Minneapolis on March 1.

Robert Mezey’s (English, Emeritus) poem “Fishing Around” appeared in the January 21 issue of The New Yorker, p. 78. Mezey also read his poems in the Founders Room of Honnold Library on March 26.

Gilda Ochoa (Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies) was a featured speaker at the 2008 California Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, where she presented her book Learning from Latino Teachers (Jossey Bass, 2007).

Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) gave a paper, “Optional Multiple Plural Marking in Maay,” at the UCLA American Indian Seminar on March 11.

With former student Chris Jazwa (HMC ’05), Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Spatial Variability in Chert Sources on the Northern California Channel Islands: Implications for Tool Manufacture and Exchange,” at the Seventh California Islands Symposium, held in Ventura in February. She also presented a paper, “Interior Sites on Santa Cruz Island: Terrestrial Resources and Residential Mobility in the Middle Holocene,” at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 28.

Perry has also published an article, “Chumash Ritual and Sacred Geography on Santa Cruz Island, California,” in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 27(2), pp. 103-24.

Dara Rossman Regaignon (College Writing and English) visited the University of California, San Diego, as part of the peer-review team for the university’s WASC re-accreditation.

Since the publication of her book Héroïnes françaises 1940-1945, Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) has been interviewed on the radio and has had her book cited in several newspapers, including France-soir.

Tomás Summers Sandoval (History and Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies) delivered remarks about Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, and the struggle for justice, at the San Bernardino Community Multicultural Festival on March 29.

John Seery’s (Politics) article “Acclaim for Antigone’s Claim Reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler)” was republished in the anthology Judith Butler’s Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters, ed. Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers (New York: Routledge, 2008).

Hung Cam Thai (Sociology and Asian American Studies) has been awarded a John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project titled “The Effects of Homeland Ties on Political Participation in Little Saigon, CA.”

Valorie Thomas (English and Black Studies), participated in a panel discussion celebrating the publication of Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon, ed. Vincent Wimbush (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008), at the Institute for Signifying Scriptures in Claremont on March 6.

Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations) was quoted in an article in the March 2008 issue of CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Currents magazine. The article "Banding Together" explores the relationship between fundraising campaigns and alumni relations programs.

On February 1, Samuel Yamashita (History) presented “Rethinking the Intellectual Landscape of Early Modern Japan” at a conference on “The Early Modern in East Asia,” sponsored by the Korean Studies Institute and Department of History at the University of Southern California and the East Asian seminar of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. On February 20, he conducted an all-day workshop on the “Japanese Experience of World War II” at the Japan Society of New York as part of a weeklong series on the Pacific war.



March 2008


 

ZOOT SUIT REHEARSALS: Part of the 35-member Zoot Suit cast rehearses their dance numbers in preparation for the play's April 3rd premiere. Directed by original Zoot Suit cast member and Pomona theatre professor Alma Martinez, the production celebrates the 30th anniversary of the play and is part of The Claremont Colleges annual César Chávez Month celebration.

Pomona People in action:

Mark Allen (Art & Art History) gave a talk about his Machine Project at an alumni event in Santa Fe on February 23.

Graydon Beeks (Music) gave a paper, “The Covent Garden Theatre Orchestra 1757-1767: A Decade of Transition,” at a conference on the English dancer and theatre impresario John Rich in London on January 26-27.

Betty Bernhard (Theatre) attended the world premiere of Territories and six other plays as part of the Middle Eastern play festival at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco during February, 2008.

Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Childhood in the Andes: Divergent Ethnographic Perspectives,” at a joint meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and the Society for Scientific Anthropology in New Orleans in February.
He also chaired a session, “Children, Childrearing and Language: Diverse Settings.”

Kim Bruce (Computer Science) hosted the 2008 Southern California Programming Languages and Systems Workshop at Pomona on February 2.

Laurie Cameron (Theatre & Dance) and her company performed an original work, “We Are John Doe,” at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 23. Cast members included Daniel Senning ’00, Ashanti Smalls ’01, and Brendan Behan CMC ’03.

José Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages & Literatures) is author of the book Masculinidades en obras: El drama de la hombría en la España imperial (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008).

André Cavalcanti and Nina Karnovsky (Biology), along with co-authors Zachary Brown ’07, J. Welcker, and A. Harding, presented the paper “A Multi-Colony Comparison of the Diving Behavior of Little Auks (Alle alle)” at the 35th annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group, February 29.

Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) was invited to give several presentations last month: a reading and discussion about her book Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories at Mills College on February 20; “Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles and Beyond: A Performed Reading” at Mills College on February 21; and “Radical Bilingualism: Performed Reading/Discussion from Killer Crónicas and Recent Work” at Occidental College on February 26.

Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) is the author, with Daehwan Kim, of “Another Look at the Information Ratio,” in the Journal of Asset Management (December 2007). He also lectured on the topic of hedge funds at Georgetown University on February 22 and
23.

Donna M. Di Grazia (Music) performed as a member of a 15-voice professional ensemble, The Millennium Consort Singers (Martin Neary, conductor), in recent concerts offered at First United Methodist Church in Pasadena and St. Paul’s Cathedral in San Diego. The program, which featured choral music by Jonathan Harvey, Henry Purcell, and Ralph Vaughan-Williams, was repeated in Little Bridges earlier this semester.

Richard Elderkin (Mathematics) gave an invited talk, "Oscillations in Predator-Prey Models: Chaotic Teacups, Tori, and Delayed Dynamics with Hangovers," to the University of Southern California Dynamical Systems Seminar on March 3.

Steve Ericksonon (Philosophy) was the director and discussion leader of a Liberty Fund colloquium, “Responsibility in the Exemplary Life: Socrates and Jesus,” in Indianapolis in February. He served as discussion leader for another Liberty Fund conference, “Persons, Property, and the State: The Views of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant,” in Houston, also in February.

Thomas Flaherty (Music) played his solo cello composition “Remembrance of Things Present” as part of a Los Angeles Violoncello Society recital of works by composers who have lived and worked in California. The recital was held at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica.

Erica Flapan (Mathematics) co-organized and lectured in an American Mathematical Society short course, “Applications of Knot Theory,” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, January 4-5.

Jennifer Friedlander’s (Art & Art History) book Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion has appeared with the State University of New York Press.

Fred Grieman (Chemistry) presented the poster “Photo-Induced Nucleation Experiments: Hydrogen Bonding Networks as an Initial Seed?” with Aaron Noell, Mitchio Okumura, and Stan Sander at the 25th Informal Symposium on Kinetics and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere, held at UCLA on February 20. He was joined by chemistry majors Anna Mebust ‘08 and Jill Simard ’08.

Eric Grosfils (Geology) has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. The award will allow him to travel to the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in spring 2009 to study the mechanics of magma reservoir inflation/failure and the formation of large caldera systems. It will also allow him to extend his service as a Distinguished Lecturer for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers into an international setting.

Laura L. Mays Hoopes (Biology) is the author of “Help Women Stay in Science,” in The Scientist 22 (January 2008), p. 69, and of “Nucleic Acid Blotting: Southern and Northern,” in Current Protocols: Essential Laboratory Techniques (Toronto: Wiley &
Sons, 2008), 8.2.1-8.2.24. She is also one of the authors of “Gene Expression during Replicative Aging in Yeast,” in Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 63A:1, pp. 21-34; her co-authors are Gloria Yiu ’08, Alejandra McCord ’07, Laty Cahoon, Alison Wise ’05, Rishi Jindal ’04, Jennifer Hardee ’05, Allen Kuo ’03, Michelle Yuen Shimogawa ’03, Michelle Wu, John Kloke (Mathematics), and Johanna Hardin (Mathematics).

Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance), along with Sarah Burgess ’09, participated in a Student Perspectives on Dramaturgy panel at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Conference held at California State University, Los Angeles, on
February 12. The presentation was entitled “An Arcadian Director/Dramaturg, Teacher/Student Collaboration.”

He also served as dramaturg on Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, currently running at Unknown Theater in Los Angeles.

Kyoko Kurita (Asian Languages & Literatures) has an article, “Koda Rohan’s Literary Debut (1889) and the Temporal Topology of Meiji Japan,” in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 67:2, pp. 375-419. “Hidden Flowers,” her translation (with James
Lipson) of Matsumoto Seicho’s “Inka no kazari,” appears in Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum Report 8 (January 2008).

Thomas Leabhart (Theatre & Dance) taught again this year for the USC Annenberg NEA Arts Journalism Institute, February 5-14.

Genevieve Lee’s (Music) solo piano CD, “Elements,” was released by Albany Records on February 1. In addition to works by Philippe Bodin, the CD features three pieces by Thomas Flaherty (Music): “Gleeful Variants” (written for Professor Lee), “Riverwing,” and “Nightstars.”

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) represented the International Women’s Health coalition and The Sexual and Bodily Rights Group at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, giving talks every day from February 25 to 29.

Alma Martinez (Theatre & Dance) was invited to review playwright applications for the Winter 2008 Bellagio Arts Residency Program for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute of International Education.

Rebecca McGrew (Museum of Art) is curator of the 35th exhibition in the Project Series, an exhibition featuring artist Evan Holloway. Creator of the Project Series, now in its 10th year, she is also editor of the associated publications.

Susan McWilliams (Politics) gave a talk, “Mixing Oil and (Bottled) Water: A Preliminary Theory of the 2008 Elections,” at an alumni event in Sacramento on February 16.

Denise Miller (Romance Languages and Literatures academic department coordinator) and her family traveled to Indianapolis on February 22 where Suncrests Ms Tattletail (pony of Elizabeth Miller) was inducted into the POA Hall of Fame. Liz and Tattle have moved on to Eventing (Dressage, Stadium Jumping and X-Country). In 2007, the team finished in first place in the Beginner Novice Division for the United States.

Sandeep Mukherjee (Art & Art History) is currently exhibiting his work at Pitzer’s Nichols Gallery (February 2 to March 22) and at the Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi, India (February 21 to March 15). His work is also featured in a group exhibition, “A New Cosmopolitanism: Preeminence of Place in Contemporary Art,” at the Visual Arts Center of California State University, Fullerton (February 2 to March 7).

Jerusha Ogden '02
(Annual Giving) was promoted from Associate Director of Annual Giving to Major Gifts Officer and will represent the College throughout the central part of the country and California. Jerusha has worked in Pomona's Office of Annual Giving since her graduation.

Mary Paster
(Linguistics & Cognitive Science) gave a talk, “Optional Multiple Plural Marking in Maay,” at the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 4.

William Peterson (Music) performed works by J. S. Bach on the Beckerath organ in Lyman Hall and works by Ibert, Gigout, Guilmant, Cage and Kohn on the Fisk organ in Bridges Hall for “Presidents’ Day in Claremont: Celebrating Claremont Organists,
Organs, and Composers,” an event sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Guild of Organists in cooperation with Pomona College and local churches.

He is also the author of “Organ Music in the Shadow of the Great War: A Preliminary Investigation,” in La Flûte Harmonique 90 (2007), pp. 28-36, a special issue devoted to the proceedings of the conference L’orgue et sa musique en France entre les deux guerres mondiales, held in Paris and Reims in November 2006.

Sheila Pinkel’s (Art & Art History) work appears in an exhibition, “Culturing Nature: Culturing Technology,” at the University of Minnesota Art Gallery from February 26 to March 27.

Sean Pollack (English) delivered a paper, “Border States: Parody and Sovereignty in ‘The Carl of Carlisle’,” at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Tempe on February 16.

Donna Ruzika (Theatre & Dance) and her husband, Tom Ruzika, co-designed the musical Li’l Abner for Reprise! Broadway’s Best at the Freud Playhouse, UCLA. She also has an article, “Designing for the Great Outdoors,” in the February 2008 issue of Live Design.

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) is the author of Héroïnes françaises 1940-1945: Courage, force et ingéniosité (Editions du Rocher, 2008). She also spoke to alumni in January in the Portland, Oregon, area about “Some Extraordinary Women Who Fought in the French Resistance, 1940-1945.”

Jack Sanders (Music) is serving as a guest faculty member at California Institute of the Arts this semester.


A website based on Sara Sood’s (Computer Science) thesis work, www.buzz.com, is now open to the public.

Wayne E. Steinmetz (Chemistry), Paul Robustelli ‘06, Eric Edens '07, and David Heineman ‘05 have an article, “Structure and Conformational Dynamics of Trichothecene Mycotoxins,” forthcoming in the Journal of Natural Products.

Hung Cam Thai (Sociology and Asian American Studies) has published a new book, For Better or for Worse: Vietnamese  International Marriages in the New Global Economy (Rutgers, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008).

Samuel Yamashita (History) organized a panel, “Rethinking ‘Race’ in U.S. Relations with Asia, 1945-80,” for the recent annual meeting of the American Historical Association. At the meeting he also made a presentation on “Teaching Duties” as part of the panel “Equity for Minority Historians in the Academic History Workplace: A Guide to Best Practices.”


February 2008

GREEN AND GOLD: Pomona College received gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program for the design and construction of our Lincoln and Edmunds Buildings. The adjacent buildings feature a photovoltaic system, which can provide up to 22.4 percent of the building's power; operable windows; waterless urinals; and high efficiency lighting. Construction involved the elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) and halon refrigerants as well as the use of recycled materials and rapidly renewable materials like bamboo flooring.

Pomona People in action:

Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) is the author of “On Reading Maupassant’s Le Horla Problematologically,” in Revue Internationale de Philosophie 61(242), pp. 391-414.

Noell Birondo (Philosophy) gave a talk, “Naturalism and Non-Naturalism in Ethics,” at Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.

André Cavalcanti (Biology) and Karen Ring ’07 are the authors of “Consequences of Stop Codon Reassignment on Protein Evolution in Ciliates with Alternative Genetic Codes” in Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(1), pp. 179-86. They are also authors, with Hannah M. Salim ’09, of “Patterns of Codon Usage in Two Ciliates that Reassign the Genetic Code: Tetrahymena Thermophila and Paramecium Tetraurelia,” in Protist.

José R. Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages & Literatures) participated in a panel on the scholarship of Carroll B. Johnson, a premier authority on Don Quixote, at the Modern Language Association conference in Chicago in December.

Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) has published “The Amaranth Debacle: A Failure of Risk Measures or a Failure of Risk Management?” in the Journal of Alternative Investments (Winter 2007).

Vin de Silva’s (Mathematics) research with collaborator Robert Ghrist was highlighted in the January issue of Scientific American Magazine as one of the 50 most important scientific developments of 2007.

Adam Edwards (Physics & Astronomy) has an article, “Study of Excited Charm-Strange Baryons with Evidence for New Baryons Xi_c(3055)^+ and Xi-c(3123)^+,” in Physical Review D 77:1 (1 January 2008).

Steve Erickson (Philosophy) gave a talk, “Philosophy and the Meaning of Life,” for the Alumni Association in the Brentwood home of Tracy Westen ’62 on January 26.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) presented a paper entitled “Obsolescence” as part of the forum “Keywords for a Digital Profession,” held at the Modern Language Association conference in Chicago on December 29. She also presented a paper, “CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts,” here on campus as part of NITLE’s recent conference, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age.”

Fitzpatrick’s book, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2006), was also named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice, the publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Roberto Garza (Chemistry) will publish the paper "Kinetics of Docking in the Post-Nucleation Stages of Self-Assembly" in the March issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics. He co-authored the paper with Philippe Bouchard '08, and the work was done in collaboration with professor Gregoire Nicolis, head of the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and John J. Kozak, a visiting professor at the James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago.

Eric Grosfils (Geology) is the author of “Magma Reservoir Failure on the Terrestrial Planets: Assessing the Importance of Gravitational Loading in Simple Elastic Models,” in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 166(2), pp. 47-75. He is also the author, with Anjani Polit ’03 and colleagues from Finland and Russia, of “Topographic and Morphologic Characteristics of Reull Vallis, Mars: Implications for the History of the Reull Vallis Fluvial System,” in Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets 112: E11001, doi:10.1029/2006JE002848. Eric and Steve Hochman ’09 presented Steve’s SURP results at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December.

Russel Heskin (Alumni Relations) was quoted in the February issue of CASE Currents on how our alumni office is using class listservs to connect alumni to one another and increase attendance at reunions.

Laura Hoopes (Biology) has an article, “Courageous Decision of Frank Douglas,” in AWIS Magazine 36(3), pp. 20-22, and another article, “H. Craig Heller,” the inaugural Educator Highlight feature, in Cell Biology Education-Life Sciences Education 6(4), pp. 275-76.

Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) served as guest scholar-in-residence at A Noise Within theatre in Glendale, giving a presentation entitled “J. M. Barrie’s Never Never Land for ‘Might-Have-Beens’” prior to a performance of Barrie’s play Dear Brutus. He also delivered a paper, “Shakespeare’s New Problem Plays for the New Millennium,” to the Shakespeare Club of Pomona Valley.

Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) has published three recent articles: “Tuning the Optical Properties of a Water-Soluble Cationic Poly(p-Phenylenevinylene): Surfactant Complexation with a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte,” coauthored by Jeremy Treger ’09 and Vincent Ma ’08, in Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112(3), pp. 760-63; “A Real-Time QCM-D Approach to Monitoring Mammalian DNA Damage Using DNA Adsorbed to a Polyelectrolyte Surface,” coauthored by Cynthia Selassie (Chemistry) and Bob Rawle ’08, in Biomacromolecules 9(1), pp. 9-12; and “Study of the Non-Covalent Interactions in Langmuir-Blodgett Films: An Interplay between Pi-Pi and Dipole-Dipole Interactions,” with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Thin Solid Films 516(1), pp. 58-66.

Nina Karnovsky (Biology) presented the results from last summer’s field season at the MariClim (Marine Ecosystem consequences of climate-induced changes in water masses off West-Spitsbergen) meeting in Tromso, Norway, on January 17-18. She also co-authored the paper “Can Stable Isotope . . . Measurements of Little Auk (Alle Alle) Adults and Chicks Be Used to Track Changes in High-Arctic Marine Foodwebs?” in Polar Biology (DOI 10.1007/s00300-008-0413-4).

Zayn Kassam (Religious Studies) gave a lecture titled “The Veil: Piety or Punishment?" at the Skirball Cultural Center on January 17.

Felix Kronenberg (Foreign Language Resource Center) has been elected president of the SouthWest Association for Language Learning and Technology.

Jade Star Lackey (Geology) presented a co-authored paper, “Using Oxygen Isotopes of Zircon to Evaluate Magmatic Evolution and Crustal Contamination in the Halifax Pluton, Nova Scotia,” at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December.

Thomas Leabhart (Theatre & Dance) taught a workshop in Paris in January for Pas de Dieux, a theatre company directed by Won Kim ’95.

Ann Lebedeff (Physical Education) spoke on a panel at Brentwood School in Los Angeles on October 8 on the "Realities of College Recruiting." She was also a keynote speaker at the Southern California Tennis Association's "Community Development Workshop: Advocacy in Your Command" at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on October 21, and made a presentation on "Mentoring: Creating Positive Role Models in Collegiate Tennis" on December 15 at the National Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches' Convention in Naples, Fla.

Lebedeff also announced that the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Tennis program was represented at the October National Small College Championships in Mobile, Ala. Siobhan Finicane '10 won the regional singles and doubles with partner Olivia Muesse '10. They represented the western region of the U.S., and from a draw of eight regional winners, the pair won the National Doubles Title and Siobhan finished as the national runner-up in singles.

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave a talk, “’But What If Someone Sees Me?’ Social and Viral Risks for Urban Iranian Women,” at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC, in December. The following month she spoke on “Risk and the Aftershocks of Iran’s Sexual Revolution” at the annual Iranian American Medical Association meeting in Irvine and on “Health Promotion, Disease Prevention in Islamic Countries” at New York University’s School of Public Health.

Alma Martinez (Theatre and Dance) directed an eight-minute public service announcement for the American Diabetes Association. the film, Small Steps, was funded by the Center for Disease Control and produced by the National Latina Health Network. Alma also completed a run of Sweet 15: Quinceñera at San Diego Repertory. The San Diego Union Tribune praised her performance on November 30: "Martinez owns the show. Her comic timing, blazing energy and feminine warmth blithely steal every scene she's in."

Sandeep Mukherjee's (Art) solo exhibition, "Spell," is taking place now through March 22 at Pitzer's Nichols Gallery in the Broad Center. He's also taking part in the group exhibition "A New Cosmopolitanism: Preeminence of Place in Contemporary Art" at Cal State Fullerton's Visual Arts Center through March 7.

Karen Parfitt (Biology) presented a poster, “Synaptic Transmission Is Altered in Palmitoyl Protein Thioesterase-1 (PPT-1)-Mutant Drosophila Melanogaster,” at the Nature Neuroscience symposium Genes, Circuits, and Behavior, held at the Salk Institute in January. She coauthored the poster with students Sarah Jenkins ’08, Joyce Kim ’09, Laura Johnson ’08, and Kelly Sinnott SCR ’08.

Mary Paster (Linguistics and Cognitive Science) will speak on "Optional Multiple Plural Marking in Maay" at the 13th International Morphology Meeting in Vienna on February 4.

Dara Regaignon (English and College Writing) presented “But What Difference Can It Make? A Small-Scale Study of Course-Based Peer Tutoring” as part of a Council of Writing Program Administrators panel, “Current Research Agendas in Composition and Writing Program Administration,” at the Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago in December. In addition, with Jill Gladstein of Swarthmore and Lisa Lebduska of Wheaton College, she co-organized the first meeting of Small Liberal Arts College Writing Program Administrators, held at Swarthmore in January.

Larissa Rudova (German & Russian) is coeditor, with Marina Balina, of Russian Children’s Literature and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2008). The volume includes her essays “From Character-Building to Criminal Pursuits: Russian Children’s Literature in Transition” (pp. 19-40) and “Invitation to a Subversion: The Playful Literature of Grigorii Oster” (pp. 325-41). Her review of Eternity’s Hostage: Selected Papers from the Stanford International Conference on Boris Pasternak, ed. Lazar Fleishman, appears in Slavic Review 66:4 (Winter 2007), pp. 783-84.

Erin Runions (Religious Studies) has an essay, “Signifying Proverbs: Menace II Society,” in Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon, ed. Vincent Wimbush (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2008).

Monique Saigal-Escuado (Romance Languages and Literature) spoke to an alumni group in Portland, Ore., on January 13 on her research on women in the French Resistance.

Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was an invited speaker at an Applied Combinatorics conference held at the University of South Carolina in October; his talk was titled “Chain Partitions of Normalized Matching Posets.” He gave another talk, “Nested Chain Partitions of Normalized-Matching Posets,” at the Combinatorics Seminar at the California Institute of Technology in November. And at the annual national Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January in San Diego, he taught a mini-course, “Beyond Formulas and Algorithms: Teaching a Conceptual/Thematic Single Variable Calculus Course,” and gave two more talks: “Abu’l Wafa and the Rusty Compass” and “Thematic Calculus: Approximations and Primes.”

Shahriari was also appointed to the editorial board of the Mathematical Association of America’s new Textbook series, and his book, Approximately Calculus (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2006), has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.

Slavi Slavov (Economics) presented a paper entitled “Do Common Currencies Facilitate the Net Flow of Capital among Countries?” at the Stanford Center for International Development on January 22.

Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations) was quoted in an article in the January 25 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education about alumni credit card programs. She also spoke at the combined CASE District VII and VIII conference in Las Vegas in December. Nancy is currently serving a three-year-term on the CASE (Council for Advancement and Support for Education) International Commission on Alumni Relations.



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