Janet Anderson, professor of chemistry, is the author of “Polymers and Material Science: A Course for Nonscience Majors,” which appeared in the Journal of Chemical Education (December 1994). The article was based on a course she developed for the General Education laboratory science requirement.
Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, and Martin Strosberg, professor of management, are the coeditors of a book, Legislating Medical Ethics: A Study of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law. The book grew out of a conference held at the College in 1990, which brought together public officials, researchers, and health care providers to assess the impact of the new law. Partially as a result of the conference, the law was amended.
Joseph Board, Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Government, spent the past academic year as a visiting fellow at Oriel College, Oxford University. He also continued work about the rise and decline of the Swedish welfare state.
Vuk Fatik, associate professor of electrical engineering, delivered papers at the IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation and the IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation. All three papers developed an original variational theory that considers the evolution of dynamical processes in reverse directions-past to future and future to past-in order to extend Hamilton's principle to
linear dissipative processes.
Hilary Tann, professor of music, had her composition for mixed trio, Of Erthe and Air (for flute, clarinet, and frame drums) performed and broadcast in Ireland by the Concorde Ensemble
in Dublin and Galway. This and other compositions were performed by orchestras from Sacramento, Calif., to Pwllelli, North Wales.