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January/February 2009

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COMMEMORATION WEEK: In January, the Claremont Colleges celebrated their annual MLK Commemoration Week. Activities included a candlelight vigil and march, student readings and spoken word, a roundtable discussion on the state of hip-hop, and the keynote address given by Dr. Tommie Smith (above), the Olympian activist who shook up the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with his raised-fist civil-rights protest. The keynote address took place on January 29 in the Edmunds Ballroom.

Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) published “La gnosis sans gnose d’Albert Cohen” in Cahiers Albert Cohen 18 (November 2008), pp. 131-40.

William Banks (Psychology) and Eve Isham have an article, “We Infer Rather Than Perceive the Moment We Decided to Act,” in Psychological Science 20:1, pp. 17-21.

Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave an invited lecture, “Yu Hua’s Fiction Heads West,” at Shenyang Normal University in Shenyang, China, on December 29.

Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) is the author of “Arañita Cobriza Fantasy Crónica” and “Hawk Call Crónica,” in SLAB ONLINE 3 (2007-08).

Ludwig Chincarini's (Economics) book, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management, written with Daehwan Kim, received a favorable review by Mark S. Rzepczynski in the CFA Institute book review in 2008. The first paragraph states "No previous volume has combined depth and breadth on the subject in a unified framework by a single set of authors," and the article concludes ""Practitioners who are serious about quantitative investing and want to focus on the details of running the numbers should have this book on their shelves."

Alfred Cramer (Music) gave a paper, “Back to the Grave: Accents, Intonational Phonology, and Formal Cohesion in Telemann’s French Overtures,” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society in Nashville on November 7.

Liane Dirks recently joined the Annual Giving staff as its new assistant director. Dirks is a graduate of Scripps College, where she had been working as an assistant director of annual giving since the beginning of 2007. A knowledgeable and skilled annual giving professional, Dirks brings a strategic mindset that is welcome as we seek long-term growth for the Fund. She will be responsible for managing multiple reunion class campaigns, coordinating our overall reunion giving strategy and assisting with aspects of the Torchbearers program.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s (English and Media Studies) web-based publishing project, MediaCommons, relaunched on January 20. This digital scholarly network is an experiment in open access, multi-modal publishing and is working to implement a new form of “peer-to-peer review.”

Erica Flapan (Mathematics) made an invited presentation, “Topological Symmetries of Molecules,” as part of a special session on biomathematics at a joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Shanghai Mathematical Society at Fudan University, Shanghai, on December 18. In addition, she gave a colloquium talk, “An Introduction to Topological Chirality,” at Allegheny College on January 15. Flapan also published an article, along with B. Mellor and R. Naimi, titled “Intrinsic Linking and Knotting Are Arbitrarily Complex,” in Fundamenta Mathematicae 201 (2008), pp. 131-48.

Peter Flueckiger (Asian Languages & Literatures) published an article, “Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi’s Kokuikô,” in Monumenta Nipponica 63:2, pp. 211-63.

Robin Flynn (Major Gifts) and Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) announced the results of the annual United Way Charity Giving Campaign. Sixty-seven donors gave $19,560 to the campaign, an increase over last year's total of $19,457 given by 57 donors. Cathy Paolozzi (Major Gifts) and Carol Thompson and Karen Lamb (Business Office) helped to administer the campaign.

Robert Gaines (Geology) and M. L. Droser have an article, “Invertebrate Fossils as Paleoclimate Proxies,” in the Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, ed. Vivien Gornitz (Springer Press, 2009), pp. 10-13.

Fred Grieman’s (Chemistry) research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was featured in three presentations at the Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms Conference at the University of California, Davis, in December: “Determination of Equilibrium Constant for the Reaction between Acetone and HO2 Using Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy (IRKS),” “Evidence for Photo-Induced Nucleation: Does the HO2 Radical Play a Role?” and “Measurements of the RO2 + RO2 Self Reaction Kinetics and Radical Product Channel Branching Fraction.”

Kathleen Howe (Pomona college Museum of Art, Art History) moderated a panel addressing Robert Mapplethorpe's studio practice at the Palm Springs Art Museum's symposium "Robert Mapplethorpe and the Modern Photographic Portrait" on February 6-7.

Karl Johnson (Biology and Neuroscience) received an Academic Research Enhancement Award of $216,556 from the National Institutes of Health for his project “Characterizing the Function of Syndecan during CNS Development.”

Nancy Jugan is the new administrative assistant in the English department, hired to replace Barbara Clonts who retired last December. Prior to her arrival at Pomona, she spent more than 20 years at CGU where she was program administrator for the School of Information Systems and Technology. Jugan comes to the English department fresh from her part-time assignment in the German and Russian Department.

Nina Karnovsky (Biology) gave a paper, “Warming in the Greenland Sea: Implications for Energy Transfer to Higher Trophic Levels,” at the Arctic Change 2008 conference in Quebec City, Canada, December 9-12. Zachary Brown ’07, Laurel McFadden ’06, and Allison Bailey ’07 were co-authors. She also published, with D. L. Dishman and D. M. Thomson, “Does Simple Feeding Enrichment Raise Activity Levels of Captive Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta)?” in Applied Animal Behaviour Science 116:1, pp. 88-95.

On October 2, Felix Kronenberg (German & Russian and Foreign Language Resource Center) gave a presentation, “Language Media Centers and the Role of IALLT,” for the Network for Effective Language Learning of the Council of Independent Colleges. On November 14, he gave an online presentation, “Best of Web 2.0 for Language Educators,” for the SouthWest Association for Language Learning and Technology.

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) was on Bay Area CBS program "Bay Sunday" in January, promoting her recent book Passionate Uprisings. she has also been on NPR, BBC Radio, Blogtalk Radio and Psychjourney. The book has been written up in The Australian, History Wire, The Diversity Report and The Nation, amongst other news outlets. She was also featured on Iranian American Radio KIRN on January 10 in a live one-hour interview.

Jade Star Lackey (Geology) gave an invited talk, “Oxygen Isotope Perspectives on Magma Sources and Pluton Assembly in Convergent Margin Batholiths,” at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held in San Francisco, December 15-19.

Thomas Leabhart (Theatre & Dance) taught a workshop in Paris for the theatre troupe PasdeDieux, January 5-16. PasdeDieux is co-directed by Won Kim ’95.

Ann Lebedeff (Physical Education) spoke on “The Realities of Collegiate Recruiting” at the National Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches’ Association Convention in Naples, Florida, on December 13.

Lynne Miyake (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “Contemporary Japanese Culture: Dialogic, Fluid, and Pragmatic,” as part of orientation for the 2009 Japanese American Leadership Delegation to Japan. She gave the talk at the Japanese American National Museum on January 31. Miyake also has an article, “Graphically Speaking Genjis: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji,” in Monumenta Nipponica 63:2, pp. 359-92.

With Katharine Dutcher ’09, Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) published a paper, “Contour Tone Distribution in Luganda,” in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2008), pp. 123-31. Paster also presented a paper, “Phonologically Conditioned Affix Order as an Illusory Phenomenon,” at the Workshop on the Division of Labour between Morphology and Phonology in Amsterdam on January 16.

Jennifer Perry (Anthropology), Michael Glassow, and Peter Paige are authors of a new book, The Punta Arena Site: Early and Middle Holocene Cultural Development on Santa Cruz Island (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2008). Perry also gave an invited lecture, “Landscapes, Seascapes, and Spiritscapes of the Channel Islands,” to the Ventura County Archaeological Society on January 7.

Fundamentals of Japanese Dance, a translation by Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) and Takao Tomono of a book by Hanayagi Chiyo, was published by Kodansha in December. This book as gone through 16 editions in Japan, and is the first of its kind published in English.

Adolfo Rumbos (Mathematics) gave a colloquium talk, “Periodic Solutions to a Piece-Wise Linear Second Order Ordinary Differential Equation,” in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, on January 22. He also published, with Gabriel Lopez Garcia, "Existence and Multiplicity for a Resonance Problem for the p-Laplacian on Bounded Domains in R^N," in Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 70:3 (1 February 2009), pp. 1193-1208.

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Josephine Baker,” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association meeting in Claremont on November 8. She showed a DVD and spoke about her book, Héroïnes Françaises 1940-1945: Courage, Force et Ingéniosité, to Pomona College alumni at the Skirball Center, Los Angeles, on January 31.

Also, one of her "Héroïnes Françaises," Yvette Bernard Farnovy, recently received the highest Legion of Honor award, the "Le Grand'Croix de la Légion d'Honneur," and Saigal's book was subsequently mentioned in many French newspapers, including La Monde and Le Parisien.

Cynthia Selassie and Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) published “A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Polycation-Supported Single and Double Stranded DNA Surfaces” in Biomacromolecules 9:12, pp. 3416-21. The paper was co-authored by Amanda Yang ’10 and Robert Rawle ’08.

Shahriar Shahriar (Mathematics) taught a mini-course, “Beyond Formulas and Algorithms: Teaching a Conceptual/Thematic Single Variable Calculus Course,” at the national Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January in Washington, DC.

Slavi Slavov’s (Economics) article “Does Monetary Integration Reduce Exchange Rate Pass-Through?” appeared in The World Economy 31:12 (December 2008), pp. 1599-1624, and his review of Lance Taylor’s book External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil appeared in Comparative Economic Studies 50:4 (December 2008), pp. 703-06.

Robin Thompson (Financial Aid) completed her Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in December 2008. The foci of her MBA was leadership and strategy.

Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations) spoke at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VII Conference in San Francisco on December 6. She addressed the New Advancement Professionals Workshop participants on the importance of alumni and parent relations programs. Nancy is the newly appointed Awards Chair for CASE District VII. She has served on the Board of Directors for 10 years. Treser-Osgood also traveled to Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in November to review their alumni relations program.

Margaret Waller (Romance Languages & Literatures) is author of “The Emperor’s New Clothes: Display, Cover-up and Exposure in Modern Masculinity,” in Entre hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory, ed. Todd Reeser and Lewis Seifert (Dover: University of Delaware Press, 2008), pp. 115-42.

Marilynn Waters (English) received a bronze award for a photograph from Black and White Magazine.

Jessica Wimbley (Museum of Art) gave a talk, “Sub-Urban: Visual Vernacular, Cultural Experience, and Shared History in an Integrating Suburb,” at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, held in Honolulu, January 9-12.

December 2008

SAGEHENS IN ACTION: Following a fall season that found both Kevin Kelly ’09 and Jake Caron PI ’10 being recognized as SCIAC Male Athletes of the Week, six Pomona-Pitzer football players have been named to the SCIAC All-Conference team. Wide receiver Kelley and quarterback Caron have been named to the first team, while defensive back Tyler Barbour ’09, offensive lineman Augie Lagemann ’10, wide receiver RJ Maki ’11 and defensive lineman Steve Collisson PI ’12 have been named to the second team.

Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) is the author of “Syracuse, ou le retour du philosophe tyran” in Modern Language Notes 123(4), pp. 315-31.

Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “Literati Storytelling in the Early Qing: New Sidelights on Two Liaozhai Tales,” at the University of Toronto on November 7.

Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) chaired and introduced a Presidential Invited Symposium, “After Fieldwork: On the Duty of Anthropologists to Collaborate, Engage and Reciprocate with Their Host Communities,” at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, held in San Francisco in November. He was also a panelist in the session “Sex in the Syllabus: Open Forum on Teaching the Anthropology of Sex.”

Susan Brown (Dance Program), author of Singing and the Imagination of Devotion: Vocal Aesthetics in the Early English Protestant Culture (United Kingdom: Authentic Media, 2007), has been awarded a Fulbright to teach in Lithuania in winter/spring 2009. She will focus on Tin Pan Alley Song (Berlin, Porter, Gershwin, Kern, etc.) at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius.

Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) presented “A Case Study on Risk Management: Lessons from the Collapse of Amaranth Advisors LLC” at the Southern Finance Association annual conference, held in Key West, Florida, November 18-22. He was also a discussant of the paper “Measuring Mutual Fund Performance with Portfolio Characteristics,” delivered by Fabio Moneta of Boston College, and was quoted in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on October 14 on the bank bail-out.

Christopher Chinn (Classics) gave a paper, “Vulcan’s Poetic Temple in Statius’ Thebaid,” at the 2008 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, held November 7-8 here at Pomona. Also in November, he lectured on "The Face of the Hero: Intertext and Visuality in Statius' Description of Achilles” as part of an invited lecture series at the College of Charleston.

Toni Clark (English) and Robert Potter ’56 presented “Innovation under Fire: Curricular Change in Revolutionary Times” on November 23 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Black Studies Conference, “1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change.”

Virginia Crosby (Romance Languages & Literatures, Emerita) has published a new novel, Murder Afoot: A Paris Mystery (Frederick, MD: PublishAmerica, 2008).

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) was a plenary speaker at the 10th annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, November 13-16. Her talk focused on her book project, “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy.”

Richard Hazlett (Geology) is the author, with Howard G. Wilshire and Jane E. Nielson, of The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and the Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Amazon.com recently selected the book as one of its 2008 Top 10 Books in the “Outdoors and Nature” category.

Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) has published an article, “Controlling Layer Thickness and Photostability of Water-Soluble Cationic Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) in Multilayer Thin Films by Surfactant Complexation,” in Langmuir 24(22), pp. 13127-31. His coauthors include Jeremy Treger ’09 and Vincent Ma ’08.

Karl Johnson (Biology and Neuroscience) presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C., on November 18. The poster, entitled “The Identification of Novel Syndecan Binding Proteins in Drosophila,” was based on research conducted in his laboratory in collaboration with Vivek Charu ’09 and Julia Chang ’08.

Together with Robert Baker, a mathematics teacher at University Senior High School in Santa Monica, Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) led a workshop titled “Math Digital Library – A New Storehouse of Information” at the 49th annual meeting of the California Mathematics Council – South, held in Palm Springs November 7-8. The participants were K-12 mathematics teachers from southern California.

Nina Karnovsky (Biology) was a co-author of “How Effective Are Cassin’s Auklets as Environmental Monitors in Central California?,” which won the award for best poster at the 17th annual meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization in Dalian, China, October 24-November 2. The poster was also presented at the 2008 California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations conference held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, November 17-19.

Karnovsky is also co-author of the paper "Does simple feeding enrichment raise activity levels of captive ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta)?" in Applied Animal Behavior Science. This paper was based on a senior thesis project by Diana Dishman'06 from Scripps College. Karnovsky and Diane Thomson from Joint Sciences co-mentored Dishman.

Felix Kronenberg (Foreign Language Resource Center and German & Russian) gave a paper, “Teaching Language, Culture and Literature through Multimedia Projects,” as part of the panel “Teaching with the Internet and Technology” at the 2008 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, held November 7-8 here at Pomona. He also led a SWALLT Presentation on the "Best of of Web 2.0 for Language Educators" on November 14.

Kyoko Kurita (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Romance in Midair: The Future of Women in 19th Century Japan,” as part of the panel “Romanticism and Social Change” at the 2008 International Conference on Romanticism, held at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, October 16-19.

Thomas Leabhart’s (Theatre & Dance) book The Decroux Sourcebook, co-edited with Franc Chamberlain, was published by Routledge in November. On November 7, Leabhart gave a presentation about François Delsarte for the NEA Arts Journalism Institute at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication.

Sherry Linnell (Theatre & Dance) designed costumes for The Syzygy Theatre’s production of William Saroyan’s Love’s Old Sweet Song, October 17-November 23. The production was a Los Angeles Times Critic’s Pick.

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) has recently given several talks. On October 30 she discussed her book, Passionate Uprisings, at the World Affairs Council, and on November 12 she gave an invited keynote lecture, “Traffic Jam: Gender, Sexuality, Labor and Migration in Dubai,” at UC San Francisco. In mid-November, having been chosen by the Asia Society as one of 21 “Young Leaders of Asia,” she visited Japan, where she spoke about her work on Iran and on trafficking in Dubai, and on November 19 she gave an invited keynote lecture, “Changing Identities in the Wake of Iran’s Sexual Revolution,” at UCLA.

Mahdavi has also been quoted or her book cited in venues recently including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Gozaar and Publishers Weekly.

Denise Miller's (Romance Languages and Literatures) daughter Elizabeth Miller and her pony Miss Tattletail finished in first place at the 10th Annual Galway Downs Three-Day Event and Horse Trials in Temecula, October 30-November 2, on a dressage score of 27.9 Senior Novice Amateur Rider division. The final horse trial of the year was in Fresno, November 14-16, at the Ram Tap Pony Club Benefit. Liz and Tattle finished in Third Place on a dressage score of 32.0, Novice Rider Championship division.

Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) accepted an invitation from the Society for California Archaeology to become an inaugural member of the editorial board of a new journal, California Archaeology. Perry also gave a presentation, “Gendering the Past,” at the Women’s Union on November 13.

Joti Rockwell (Music) presented a paper, “Funk Drumming, Pulse Neutrality, and the ‘Rhythm of the One,’” at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, which was held jointly with the 74th annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Nashville on November 6-9.

Alex Rodriguez (Physical Education) reported that the Pomona-Pitzer Men's Water Polo team won the SCIAC Conference Championship for the second year in a row.

On October 28, Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the outside honors examiner and seminar speaker at Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College. His talk was titled “Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance.”

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave an invited presentation about her book, Héroïnes Françaises 1940-1945: Courage, Force et Ingéniosité, at the Foundation of the Resistance in Paris on November 15 and at the Women’s International Zionist Organization in Marseilles on November 16.

Jack Sanders (Music) performed 16 concerts on baroque and classic guitars in Wyoming, Louisiana, and California from October 23 to November 23. The performances in Wyoming were sponsored by the state’s Arts Council, while those in Louisiana were under the auspices of the Piatigorsky Foundation of New York. Sanders is also the author of “Essay on Playing the Guitar,” in Soundboard 34(4), the quarterly journal of the Guitar Foundation of America.

On October 28, Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the outside honors examiner and seminar speaker at Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College. His talk was titled “Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance.”

Richard Sheirich’s (German & Russian, Emeritus) article “Arthur Schnitzler’s Challenge to the Government Radio Monopoly, September 1927-February 1928” appeared in Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, Bd. 33 (2008), 1. Heft, pp. 199-226.

Margaret Waller (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Domestic Orientalism: The One-Woman Harem at Home,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies conference at Vanderbilt University, October 16-18.

November 2008

ELECTION 2008: Students gathered on November 4 in the Carnegie Building to watch the election returns roll in as part of an event sponsored by the Pomona Student Union.

Mark Allen (Art & Art History) has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) served as discussant for a panel, “Engaging with Canons: Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and Yu Hua,” at the American Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, held at California State University, Fullerton, on October 19.

David Becker (Biology) gave a research talk, titled “A Possible Role in Photosynthetic Thermotolerance for Polyphenol Oxidase, an Enigmatic Chloroplast Enzyme,” to the Graduate Botany Program (CGU) at Rancho Santa Botanic Garden on September 26.

Graydon Beeks’s (Music) new edition of G. F. Handel’s anthem “O Praise the Lord with One Consent” has been published by Novello Publishing Limited of London, as part of the Novello Handel Edition.

Pianist Gayle Blankenburg (Music) recently recorded a CD with her Los Angeles-based chamber music ensemble, “inauthentica.” The CD (MSR Classics label, MS1208) features the music of Arnold Schoenberg, including his masterwork “Pierrot lunaire.” Grammaphone magazine wrote of the CD, "the California-based ensemble present 'Pierrot' as if they had played it night after night in a theatre. It's a charged performance, with all the musicians acting like characters themselves in the twisted tale." And the American Record Guide reviewer wrote "I don't know a better performance of this piece and would be content to have this as the only one in my library."

Eleanor Brown (Economics) was invited to the White House to attend the President’s September 8 speech on volunteering.

Paul Cahill (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “ ‘And the Premio Nadal Goes to . . .’: Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes as a Rewriting of Nada,” at the 34th Annual Hispanic Literature Conference, hosted by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October 17-18.

Laurie Cameron’s (Theatre & Dance) troupe, Laurie Cameron and Company, was in residence at the Dragon’s Egg, a rehearsal/performance facility in Ledyard, CT, October 24-26 preparing for New York and Los Angeles performances of a new work, “Hieroglyphics,” in January.

José R. Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “ ‘No soy hermoso’: El Quijote y la historia de la fealdad,” at the 20th Annual Cervantes Symposium of California, “Cervantes and Romance,” held at the University of California, Berkeley, on October 17.

Tzu-Yi Chen (Computer Science) was part of a group of six professors who were awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their collaborative research project “Commonsense Computing: What Students Know before We Teach.”

Angelina Chin (History) was a panelist in a symposium, “Art and the New Culture City: Hong Kong, China and the World Art System,” at the University of Southern California, October 2-3.

In October, Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) presented a paper, “A Case Study on Risk Management: Lessons from the Collapse of Amaranth Advisors, LLC,” at a Financial Management Association (FMA) conference held in Dallas. He was also part of a panel to discuss career advice for financial engineers at CGU for the International Association of Financial Engineers and the Fischer Black Memorial Foundation.

Chincarini was also interviewed about the global financial crisis on KFWB radio on September 19 and 29, and has been frequently quoted on the subject in the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune newspapers. He also wrote “Natural Gas Futures and Spread Position Risk: Lessons from the Collapse of Amaranth Advisors, L.L.C.,” in Journal of Applied Finance (spring/summer 2008).

In September, the city of Spoleto (Umbria) invited Judson Emerick (Art & Art History) to help it apply to UNESCO to put two of its most prized monuments on the U. N.’s World Heritage List. Professor Emerick has long studied both buildings, the Tempietto del Clitunno and the basilica of San Salvatore, and has published a book on the Tempietto. Both monuments date to the eighth century and can be presented as precious survivals of a Lombard barbarian culture in early medieval Italy.

Steve Erickson (Philosophy) was an invited participant in a 14-person Liberty Fund seminar, “Liberty, Responsibility, and Self-Perfection in Confucian Thought,” in Edinburgh, October 9-12.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) spoke on her book in progress, “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy,” at the University of Southern California on October 7, as part of the Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series, and again at the University of Maryland on October 21, as part of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Digital Dialogue Series. In addition, she participated in a roundtable discussion on Narrative Franchises at the Flow Conference, held at the University of Texas at Austin, October 9-11.

Art Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) is serving as dramaturg on a production of French contemporary playwright Valère Novarina’s Adramelech’s Monologue, currently in performance at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.

Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) presented a seminar, “Dual-Beam Polarization Interferometry Studies of Nanoassemblies at the Solid-Aqueous Interface,” at the 42nd Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, held in Las Vegas in September. He was accompanied by Thomas Lane '10, Jeremy Treger, Jenny Linn and Will Flethcer '11, who all presented work based on their research at Pomona.

Also, Johal has published “Quartz Resonator-Based Approach to Ultrasonic Rheology of a Mixed-Phase Micellar System,” in Analytical Chemistry 80(20), pp. 7840-45, with Thomas Lane ’10, Connie Cheng ’09, and others, and “Dual-Beam Polarization Interferometry Resolves Mechanistic Aspects of Polyelectrolyte Adsorption,” in Langmuir 24(19), pp. 10633-36, with Thomas Lane ’10, Will Fletcher ‘11, and Michael Gormally ‘11.

Meg Jolley (Theatre & Dance) attended the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science annual conference, held in Cleveland, Ohio, October 24-26.

On October 2, Nina Karnovsky (Biology) lectured to the Pomona Valley Audubon Society on “Gulls, Gullemots and Great White Sharks—The Farallon Islands.” She was also co-author on a poster, “How Effective Are Cassin’s Auklets as Environmental Monitors in Central California?,” which was presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) in Dalian, China, October 24-November 2.

Genevieve Lee (Music) performed as a member of the Mojave Trio on the “Sundays Live” series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 7. The trio performed works of Haydn and Schumann.

Lee McDonald (Government, Emeritus) has three chapters in Resistance: The New Role of Progressive Christians, ed. John B. Cobb, Jr. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). The three chapters deal with global warming, the church and politics, and forgiveness and reconciliation in politics.

David Menefee-Libey’s (Politics) book Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education, coauthored with Charles Taylor Kerchner (CGU), Laura Steen Mulfinger (CGU), and Stephanie E. Clayton, was published by Harvard Education Press in October.

Lynne Miyake (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “The Six Faces of Genji: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji,” sponsored by the Japan Society of Northern California, the Mechanics Institute, and the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, on September 25.

Gilda Ochoa (Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies) and Daniela Pineda ’02 have an article, “Deconstructing Power, Privilege, and Silence in the Classroom,” in Radical History Review 102 (fall 2008), pp. 45-62.

Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) gave an invited lecture, “Phonologically Conditioned Affix Order as a Post-Morphological Phenomenon,” at the University of California, San Diego, Linguistics Department colloquium on October 6.

On October 16, Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) gave a lecture at Cal Poly Pomona on “The Chumash: Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Santa Barbara Channel.” She also organized and moderated the annual Southern Data Sharing Meeting for the Society for California Archaeology, held at CSU Channel Islands on October 25.

Virginie Pouzet-Duzer (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “Mallarmé’s Orient, or the Silken Self,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium “Empire, Identity, Exoticism,” held at Vanderbilt University, October 16-18.

On October 20, Dara Rossman Regaignon (College Writing and English) met with the Department of English faculty and several members of the administration at Amherst College to advise them on implementing a writing-intensive first-year seminar, as well as on developing a college-wide culture of writing. The conversations focused on the importance of ongoing faculty development, and how a writing studies scholar-administrator housed in English could help foster an interdisciplinary commitment to writing across the college.

Larissa Rudova (German & Russian) is the author, with Marina Balina, of “Reflections on the School Uniform,” Teoriia mody (Fashion Theory) 8 (September 2008), pp. 25-46. She is also the author of “Grigorii Oster: From Harmful Advice to the Internet,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas (Emergency Supplies) 2 (2008), pp. 192-202..

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave an invited talk for the Honors Program at the University of La Verne on October 22. She spoke about the situation of women in France during the German occupation as well as about women in the French Resistance.

Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was a plenary speaker at the second Polish Combinatorial Conference, October 17-23, in Bedlewo, Poland. His talk was titled “Chain Partitions of Normalized Matching Posets.”

James Taylor (Theatre & Dance) designed the set and lighting for a production of N. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker at A Noise Within Theatre in Glendale. The production has been selected as a Critic's Pick by both the Los Angeles Times and Backstage West.

October 2008

AT THE MUSEUM: Two new exhibits are on display at the Pomona College Museum of Art. A faculty show features professors Sheila Pinkel, Mercedes Teixido, Mark Allen and Sandeep Mukherjee, and Project Series 36: Predock_Frane offers an installation, Inland Empire, from the award-winning architecture firm. The shows' opening reception was held on September 6. The last day to view the exhibitions is October 19.

Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “Translating Yu Hua,” at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, held at Hamilton College, September 26-27.

Angelina Chin (History) gave a paper, “From Contagious Diseases to Madness: The Construction of ‘Deviant’ Women in 1930s Colonial Hong Kong,” at the Society for the Social History of Medicine 2008 Annual Conference, held in Glasgow, Scotland, September 3-5.

Edward Copeland (English, Emeritus) received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship to continue his research on the “silver fork” novelists of mid-19th-century England.

Last month Stephen Erickson (Philosophy) was the discussion leader at the Liberty Fund colloquium “Machiavelli, Lear, and Measure for Measure,” held in San Diego, and a discussant at the Liberty Fund colloquium “Hayek and von Mises on Liberty, Socialism, and Interventionism,” held in Indianapolis.

Robert Gaines (Geology), Derek E. G. Briggs, and Zhao Yuanlong are the authors of “Cambrian Burgess Shale-Type Deposits Share a Common Mode of Fossilization,” in Geology 36:10, pp. 755-58.

The research that Fred Grieman (Chemistry) is carrying out at JPL/Caltech on the reaction of acetone with the peroxy radical (H02) and its probable importance in the troposphere was presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia in August.

Art Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) presented a paper, “The Dance of Death in Verges: The Community as Agent of Public and Religious Observance,” as part of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration and Public Display at Bowling Green State University on September 27.

Glenn Hueckel (Economics) presented a paper, “Malthus’s ‘Crotchet of Mind’: Labor Command as Invariable Standard—the ‘Doctrine of Proportions’ Gone Awry,” to the U.K. History of Economic Thought Conference at the University of Edinburgh on September 3.

Nina Karnovsky (Biology) and Zachary Brown ‘07 were among several coauthors of a poster, “Cassin’s Auklet Foraging Behavior at Southeast Farallon Island, CA,” presented at the Third International Biologging Science Symposium, held at Asilomar, September 1-5. Bradley, J. Jahncke from PRBO Conservation Science were also coauthors of the poster.

Peter Kung (Philosophy) gave his paper “What Makes a Good Skeptical Thought Experiment?” at the Central State Philosophy Association meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 26-27.

Genevieve Lee (Music) performed Dvorak’s Piano Quintet with Los Angeles musicians on the “Sundays Live” series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 7. The series can be heard live via LACMA’s streaming audio on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. or on delayed broadcast on Wednesdays at 12:00 noon over KCSN 88.5 FM.

Pardis Mahdavi’s (Anthropology) book, Passionate Uprisings: The Intersection of Sexuality and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran, has been published by Stanford University Press.

She also gave a keynote lecture, “The Status of Iranian Women,” at the San Francisco Iranian Professionals forum on September 5; a talk, “Iranian Women in Iran’s Sexual Revolution,” at the Sacramento Public Library on September 6; and a paper, “Changing Sexual Identities and the Body Politic,” at the Rockefeller “Theorising the Sexual” conference in Bellagio, Italy, on September 16. She also organized a Mellon-sponsored conference entitled “The Trade and Traffic of Persia,” held at Pomona September 19-20, at which she gave a paper, “The Trade and Traffic of Persians in Dubai.”

She was also recently featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” where she discussed her new book, and on BBC World News, where she discussed the children of Iran’s revolution.

Daniel Martinez (Biology) was an organizer of and invited speaker at the 3rd Cnidarian Tree of Life Meeting, held in La Pax, Mexico, in July. His talk, coauthored with Abril Iñiguez ’08, was titled “The Symbioses of Hydra.” He was also an invited speaker at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan, in September, and his talk there was titled “Phylogeny and Biogeography of Green and Brown Hydra.”

Denise Miller's (Romance Languages & Literatures) daughter Elizabeth Miller and her horse Miss Tattletail traveled to Ramona, California, for the Copper Meadows Horse Trials September 12 to 14, and finished third with a score of 34.7 in Novice Rider Senior Division. They also just returned from Twin Rivers Horse Trials in Paso Robles, California, with a first place finish in Senior Novice Amateur Rider with a score of 30.8.0.

Gilda Ochoa (Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies) spoke on “Schooling for Justice: Challenging Power, Privilege, and Exclusion” to Columbia Basin Community College faculty and staff in Washington State during their orientation week in September.

Sheila Pinkel (Art & Art History) helped plan and curate an exhibition and symposium, “In Transition Russia 2008,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her work is featured there and in several other exhibitions this month: “Just How Does a Patriot Act?” at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, “Change America” at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, and “My Father’s Party Is Busted” at BC Space in Laguna Beach.

Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) gave a talk about Jean Anouilh and his play The Rehearsal at A Noise Within on September 17.

Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) spoke about her book, Héroïnes françaises 1940-1945, to Pomona alumni in San Francisco on September 14 and to Google employees in Mountain View on September 15 (YouTube link), and she gave a talk about “Women in the French Resistance” to the Alliance française in Los Angeles on September 23.

Commissioned by Joti Rockwell (Music), who will use it in his teaching, Jack Sanders (Music) built a monochord, a type of single-stringed instrument said to have been invented by Pythagoras. Historically, the monochord was used to explore different tuning systems and demonstrate connections between musical harmony and celestial order.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society Senate has chosen John Seery (Politics) to receive the 2009 Sidney Hook Memorial Award, a triennial award recognizing “national distinction by a single scholar in each of three endeavors—scholarship, undergraduate teaching and leadership in the cause of liberal arts education.” The award will be presented at a banquet in Austin, Texas, on October 3, 2009, at which Seery will be the keynote speaker.

Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the Mathematics Colloquium speaker at Occidental College on September 18. His talk was entitled “Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance.”

Slavi Slavov (Economics) has published a paper, “Measuring and Modeling the Effects of G-3 Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Small Open Economies: A Natural Experiment,” in Economic Systems 32:3 (September 2008), pp. 253-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2008.02.002

Charles Taylor (Chemistry) received a $90,000 research grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for sensors material research. He also presented research at the Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Las Vegas on September 25. The title of his presentation was “Using Precursor-Controlled Microstructures for Preparing Selective Gas Microsensors by Chemical Vapor Deposition.” Adam Chaimowitz '10 also presented a poster at the meeting.

Hung Cam Thai (Sociology and Asian American Studies) has been awarded a Senior Scholar Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He also recently delivered lectures at Vietnam National University, the University of Arizona, Brandeis University, and the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.

Samuel Yamashita (History) has been invited to deliver the Grant Goodman Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies at the University of Kansas in spring 2009. The lecture will be his first attempt at writing a history of everyday life in wartime Japan.

September 2008

ORIENTATION DAY: On Sunday, August 24, the residence halls opened for the Class of 2012. New students arrived on campus, registered for their Orientation Adventures, met their sponsors and began to get to know one another. In addition to helping with move-in chores, their parents took part in Parents Orientation, which introduced them to the Claremont community and life on campus for their new student. See all photos here

Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a Dahlem Humanities Center Lecture entitled “L’Homme Machine: Pascal/Bourdieu” at the Freie Universität Berlin on June 3.

At the 51st International Federation of Theatre Conference, held at Chang-Ang University in Seoul in July, Betty Bernhard (Theatre & Dance) gave a talk, “Using Asian Theatre Conventions in Hamlet Production,” as part of a panel entitled “Reinvention of Shakespeare in Asia and Cultural Encounters.” She also chaired a panel, “Asian-ness: Introspection & Cross-Cultural Convergence,” with speakers from Israel, Poland and Iran.

Mary Booker (Financial Aid) has been announced as the new Director of Financial Aid, taking over for Pat Coye who is retiring after 31 years at Pomona. Mary Booker, currently director of financial aid at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where she earned her BA, will begin work at Pomona on October 1. She previously served as associate director of financial aid at Dartmouth College and also at Oberlin College before returning to Gustavus Adolphus two years ago. Mary also has an MA in Ethnic Studies and Education Administration from Minnesota State University, and is working toward an MA in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College.

Pam Bromley (Writing Center) is the new assistant director of college writing.Pam taught in the Writing Program at Scripps last fall and in the Politics department at Pitzer in the spring. She has just completed her PhD in Politics (International Relations) at Princeton, and was a double major in Political Science and Biology at Williams College. While at Princeton, she worked in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, training undergraduate tutors to help their peers with general academic skills, and running academic skills workshops for students.

During August, Laurie Cameron's (Theatre & Dance) troupe, Laurie Cameron & Company, was in residence at the Dragon’s Egg, a performance facility in Mystic, Connecticut.

Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) is the author of “Flexible Insurance for Separate Accounts,” in The ICFAI University Journal of Risk and Insurance 5:3 (July 2008), pp. 7-30.

Grace Dávila-López (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Donde el viento hace buñuelos: lugares de encuentro en los exilios de la globalización,” in the XVI Jornadas de Teatro Latinoamericano in Puebla, México, July 7-10. She also participated in a discussion panel, “Perspectives on Spanish Dramaturgy,” at the Educational Programs Conference of the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami on July 26.

Vin de Silva (Mathematics) has an article, “A Weak Characterisation of the Delaunay Triangulation,” in Geometriae Dedicata 135:1 (August 2008), pp. 39-64.

He also gave a plenary lecture, “Zig-Zag Persistence,” at the Computational Algebraic Topology workshop held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in Oberwolfach, Germany, June 29 to July 5. During July he gave four lectures at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley as part of a workshop on “Geometry and Representation Theory of Tensors for Computer Science, Statistics, and Other Areas.”

Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s (English and Media Studies) article “Obsolescence” has appeared in PMLA 123:3 (May 2008), pp. 718-22.

Peter Flueckiger (Asian Languages & Literatures) has published an article, “The Shijing in Tokugawa Ancient Learning,” in Monumenta Serica 55 (2007), pp. 195-225.

Oldenborg welcomes the following new staff members: Luz Forero is the new assistant director of Oldenborg and Tammi Rendon is the new administrative assistant. Hilary Gay has a one-year internship at the new Foreign Language Resource Center in Mason.

Erika Gamst (Donor Relations) has completed her MBA with concentrations in Strategy and Leadership at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at CGU.

Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) and Mihai Putinar have an article, “Interpolation and Complex Symmetry,” in Tohoku Mathematical Journal 60:3 (second series).

Roberto Garza-López (Chemistry) gave a talk about his translation of the autobiography of scientist Ahmed Zewail, “Viaje a través del tiempo: vida del Dr. Ahmed Zewail, Premio Nobel de Química," at the Centro Cultural de Samurra, Mataquescuintla, Guatemala, on August 8.

He's also the author, with Aaron Kaufman ‘10, Reena Patel ‘10, Joseph Chang ’10 et al., of “Reaction Efficiency of Diffusion-Controlled Processes on Finite, Aperiodic Planar Arrays,” in Chemical Physics Letters 459 (June 2008), pp. 137-40.

Jenifer Gilio (Major Gifts) is the new regional director of advancement, Eastern United States and Europe. She will telecommute while basing her Pomona operations from an office in Pennsylvania. Jenifer joins Major Gifts as a highly experienced and successful development professional and community volunteer. She began her development career as a student Annual Fund volunteer for her alma mater, Muhlenberg College, then joined the staff after graduation and quickly rose to be the director of the Muhlenberg Fund.

Paula Goldsmid (Graduate Fellowships & Health Sciences) made presentations on “Advising Faculty on Effective Letters of Recommendation” and “Compelling Personal Statements” at a workshop sponsored by the National Association of Fellowships Advisors, held at the University of Arkansas in July.

Jill Grigsby (Sociology) presented her research on “Residential Segregation in Large Multiethnic Metropolitan Areas” at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston on August 3.

Laura L. Mays Hoopes (Biology) is the author of “Great Ecology Tour,” North Carolina Literary Review 17 (2008), pp. 163-66.

Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) sat on a dramaturgy panel entitled “Difficult Dialogues: Dramaturgy and the Rules of Engagement,” presenting a paper, “Attempts on a Dramaturg’s Life: A Journey through Co-Production Miasma and Artistic MacGuffin-ism,” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s national conference, held in Denver in early August.

Kamran Javadizadeh (English) received his PhD in English from Yale University in May.

Meg Jolley (Theatre & Dance) attended the 8th International Congress of the Alexander Technique, held in Lugano, Switzerland.

Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) gave a talk, “An Unreasonable Reading Component for a Reasonable Course: Readings for a Transitional Class,” at the contributed paper session “Incorporating Humanities and the Arts into the Mathematics Classroom (and Vice Versa)” at MathFEST 2008, the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, held in Madison, Wisconsin, July 31-August 2.

Jade Star Lackey (Geology) co-authored the article “Ti-in-Zircon Thermometry: Applications and Limitations” in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 156 (August 2008), pp. 197-215.

Thomas Leabhart (Theatre & Dance) taught a workshop at the National Theatre School of Estonia in Tallinna, May 26-30. He also taught for Arts en Scène in Lyon, June 2-13; for Association Hippocampe in Paris, June 16-27; for La Montade in Aurillac, France, July 7-18; and for the Nottle Theatre in Korea, July 31-August 10.

In August, Genevieve Lee (Music) performed solo and chamber music works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Gernot Wolfgang, as well as pieces by film composer Nino Rota and jazz pianist Billy Childs, in the Fifth Annual Beverly Hills International Music Festival concert series.

Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave a lecture, “Using Medical Anthropology to Meet the Unmet Needs of Iranian Women Today,” and was a discussant on two roundtables at the Mehregan International Conference in San Diego in late August.

April Mayes (History) has published an article, “Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women’s Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1940s” in Gender & History 20:2 (August 2008), pp. 349-71.

Denise Miller's (Romance Languages and Literature) daughter Elizabeth Miller and horse Miss Tattletail competed at the Shepherd Ranch Horse Trials in Santa Ynez on August 22-24, securing a first place win in the Novice division. Their next horse trials is on September 12-14 at Copper Meadows in Ramona.

Catalin Mitescu (Physics & Astronomy), John P. Koulakis ’06, Francoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Etienne Guyon have an article, “The Viscous Catenary Revisited: Experiments and Theory,” in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics 609 (August 2008), pp. 87-110. The paper is a significantly expanded version of Koulakis' 2006 undergraduate senior thesis. It was written at the urging of Professor de Gennes (1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics), and is the last published paper bearing de Gennes' name, as he passed away as the paper was being prepared in May 2007.

Catherine Okereke (Major Gifts) is the new regional director of advancement for the Greater San Diego Region, and will also maintain a portfolio of donors in the San Francisco Bay area. Catherine joined the Advancement Staff as an Associate Director of Annual Giving in 2007 and has led Pomona alumni in achieving numerous records for class giving in reunion years.

Cathy Paolozzi (Major Gifts) is the new administrative assistant in the Office of Major Gifts. Cathy comes to us from the private sector where she most recently was self employed as a professional organizer. She has extensive experience working for Bates Advertising, one of the nation’s leading advertising firms. Cathy holds a BA in Religion from Vanguard University of Southern California and has completed her coursework for an MA in Religion at Vanguard.

Sheila Pinkel’s (Art & Art History) work is featured in the three-person exhibition “Art and Advocacy,” running from August 17 through November 23 at the Platt and Borstein Galleries of American Jewish University in Bel Air.

Bruce Poch (Admissions) is author of “The Process: Keep It Honest, Keep It Real,” a chapter in the 2009 Newsweek-Kaplan How to Get into College Guide, published last month.

Jaquelin Pollock (Major Gifts) will serve as John Norton’s Administrative Assistant and also provide support for the Office of Major Gifts. Jaque has been working in this capacity on a temporary basis since mid-July. Jaque is a 2001 graduate of California State Polytechnic University and holds a BS in Business Administration and Marketing. She has extensive experience in customer relations and marketing, and has worked in real estate, insurance and automotive industries.

Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) has an essay, “Closed and Open Societies: The Revenge Dramas of Japan, Spain and England,” in Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre, ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He also gave a lecture and led a discussion of Ibsen’s Ghosts for the Scholars Circle at A Noise Within on September 3.

Lynn Rapaport (Sociology) organized a session on “Sociology of the Holocaust” and presented a paper, “Superman Fights the Nazis,” in that session at the International Sociological Association’s Annual Conference, held in Budapest in June.

Slavi Slavov (Economics) gave his paper “Do Common Currencies Facilitate the Net Flow of Capital among Countries?” at the 15th World Congress of the International Economic Association in Istanbul on June 28. He gave his paper “Structural Current Account Imbalances: Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates?” at the Bulgarian National Bank in Sofia on July 31.

Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations) spoke on "Partnering to Offer Alumni Career Services" at the national Small College Alumni Directors conference at Whitman College in July. Nancy also moderated a workshop on "Best Practices in Alumni Relations" on Campus on September 3 for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VII. The workshop included independent schools, colleges and universities from throughout California and Arizona.

Jessica Wimbley (Pomona College Museum of Art) is joining the Museum as Museum Coordinator. Jessica holds a BFA from RISD, an MFA from UC-Davis, and is currently enrolled in CGU's MACAM and Executive MBA programs. Her broad experience in the arts includes teaching undergraduate classes in art appreciation and drawing, organizing undergraduate and graduate symposia, serving as Assistant Director of Tinlark Gallery, and exhibiting her own work as an artist.

August 2008

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

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.

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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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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For information, contact Editor Laura Tiffany at (909) 621-5803 or by email at laura.tiffany@pomona.edu.