George Butterstein, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, presented a paper titled “Erythropietin increase in the pregnant rat is mediated by increasing androgen levels” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction. The paper's coauthor is Charles Doering '94 in collaboration with Daniel Castracene at Texas Tech Health Sciences.
Mary Caroll, assistant professor of chemistry, with coauthors, has published “Solid-state Microprocessor-controlled Detector for Doublet Peak Measurements in Flow Injection Analysis” in
Analytica Chimia Acta.
Felmon Davis, associate professor of philosophy, is the author of “Discourse Ethics and Ethical Realism: A Realist Realignment of Discourse Ethics” in the
European Journal of Philosophy.
Erik Hansen, professor of history, and Peter Prosper, professor of economics, are the authors of “Political Economy and Political Action: The Programmatic Response of Dutch Social Democracy to the Depression Crisis, 1929-1939,” an essay in the
Journal of Contemporary History XXIX
Peter Heinegg, professor of English, has contributed a translation of Jean-Claude Pressac's “The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz” to
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited by Ysrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum and published by Indiana University Press. Also, Doubleday has published his translation of Uta
Ranke Heinemann's “Putting Away Childish Things,” a critique of orthodox Christian interpretations of the New Testament.
Kurt Hollocher, assistant professor of geology, is the author of “North Central Colorado as a Model Field Area for Integrated Lab Exercises in Map Interpretation” in the
Journal of Geological Education and (with two others) “Composition Changes in Ash Flow Cooling Unite During K Metasomatism, West Central Arizona” in Economic Geology.
Martha Huggins, Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Fulbright Commission's discipline advisory committee for criminology. She will review and recommend grant proposals for international research and teaching in crime and justice. She has twice held Fulbright senior research and teaching fellowships in Brazil. Also, she has been elected first vice president of the International Sociological Association's research committee on crime and deviance.
Susan Lehrman, assistant professor in the Graduate Management Institute, was nominated for the long term care research award presented by the Foundation of the American College of Health Care Administrators. She is co-founder of the Institute for
Long Term Care Policy Studies, which conducted one of the few surveys of care provided to persons with AIDS in long-term care facilities.
Steven Leavitt, assistant professor of anthropology, gave a two-day series of colloquia on “Nostalgia for the Dead: Interpreting Bumbita Arapesh Personal Narratives of Cargo” at the annual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Society.
Bonney MacDonald, associate professor of English, is the author of “Eastern Imaginings of the West in Hamlin Garland,” published in
Western American Literature.
Victoria Martinez, assistant professor of Spanish, is the author of “In Search of the Word: Performances in Luisa Valenzuela's
Novela negra con argentinos,” which appeared in Chasqui: Revista de literatura
latinoamericana.
Melanie Rinaldi '96 was one of the three students in New York to receive a scholarship award from the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State. The award is for outstanding students who intend to teach high school or elementary mathematics. Rinaldi, of Mansfield, Mass., is enrolled in the College's Master of Arts for Teachers program. She tutors in the College's Calculus Crisis Center and in Schenectady County Community College's mathematics lab.
Thomas Werner, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Physical Sciences, has received a two-year, $25,000 grant from the Petroleum Research Fund for research with undergraduates on a project titled “Fluorescence Probe Studies on Cyclodextrin
Polymers. “This is the fifth grant Werner has received to support his research with undergraduates.
Brenda Wineapple, the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has been named a co-director of the Biography Seminar, a professional organization, at New York University.