Professors Janet Anderson, Leslie Hull, Charles Scaife, and Thomas Werner of the Chemistry Department participated in a Project Kaleidoscope workshop at Columbia University on “Revitalizing Introductory Chemistry.” The department's four courses for
non-majors were designated a “Program That Works” by Project Kaleidoscope. The four also serve as consultants to other institutions planning changes in their chemistry courses for majors and
non-majors.
James Adrian, assistant professor of chemistry, was a Visiting Pew Scholar at St. Lawrence University, where he gave a talk on “Biomithic Guest Orientation: Are We Going the Right Way?”
Todd Burgman, assistant professor of finance, discussed “Comparing the German and U.S. Corporate Governance Systems: Big Banks and Employee Co-Determination vs. Stockholders and Takeover Threats” at a conference in Washington hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, and Sharon Gmelch, director of Women's Studies, contributed “Barbados' Amerindian Past” to a recent issue of Anthropology Today. The Amerindian population of Barbados disappeared shortly after the first European contact in the 1550s.
Peter Heinegg, professor of English, has published a translation of God's Gentle Rebels (Gottes sanfte Rebellen) by Christian Feldman, a collection of short biographies of radical, eccentric, or otherwise noteworthy Catholic saints.
Martha Huggins, the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, is the author of two articles based on her Fulbright Foundation research into the murders of Brazilian street youth-“Scapegoating Outsiders: The Murders of Street Youth in Modern Brazil,” published in Policing and Society, and “Exclusion, Civic Invisibility and Impunity as Explanations for Youth Murders in Brazil,” in Childhood. A Global Journal of Child Research.
Amanda Leamon, assistant professor of French, is the author of “Eclipsing the Self: Sexuality and the Color Black in Blaise Cendrars' Prose Fiction” in the journal French Forum.
Rudy Nydegger, associate professor of psychology, was reappointed by the New York State Board of Regents to his third five-year term on the state Board of Psychology. He sits on panels that hear cases involving licensing and disciplinary issues.
Donald Rodbell, assistant professor of geology, received a $34,000 matching grant from the National Science Foundation for instrumentation that will be used in a number of geology courses.
J. Richard Shanebrook, professor of mechanical engineering, Lee Johnson, Jr. '94, and Richard Skoglund '93 are co-authors of “Device for Visualization of Anastamose Flow Pattern” in the French journal, Innovation and Technology in Biology and Medicine.
Robert Sharlet, professor of political science, is the author of “Post-Soviet Constitutionalism: Politics and Constitution-Making in Russia and Ukraine,” which was the lead chapter in a new book titled Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism. He contributed a survey of Russian politics and economics to the Encyclopedia Americana Annual and discussed the Russian presidential election campaign at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Terry Weiner, professor of sociology and political science, and Felmon Davis, associate professor of philosophy, are the authors of “Sociological Theory and Mental Retardation” in a recent issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.