Carol S. Weisse, associate professor of psychology, co-authored
(with Mary DePalma, associate professor of psychology at Ithaca College) a review article
titled “Psychological Influences on Pain Perception and Non-Pharmacologic Approaches
to the Treatment of Pain” published in The Journal of Hand Therapy.
Hilary Tann, professor of music, is featured on the Oxford
University Press Web page (http://www.oup-usa.org/Welcome.html) along with her
recent large-scale work, Here, the Cliffs. The piece was premiered Oct. 17 and 18
by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerhardt Zimmermann with violin
soloist Corine Cook. It was also performed by the Canton Symphony in November. The Western
Piedmont Symphony is to perform it on Feb. 8, the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony on
March 3, and the Salisbury Symphony this fall.
Thomas Werner, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Physical
Sciences, was a panelist in a session titled “Crossing Thresholds: Undergraduate
Research and the Real Worlds of Teaching and Learning” at the 84th annual meeting of
the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington. His presentation
focused on the history of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and on the
impact NCUR has had on the undergraduate curriculum.
Erik Hansen, professor of history, and Peter Prosper, professor
of economics, have published an essay, “Transformation and Accommodation in Dutch
Socialism: P.J. Troelstra and Social Democratic Political Theory, 1894-1914” in European
History Quarterly XXVII (October 1997) pp. 475-503. The article evaluates the
political and social theories and P.J. Troelstra, a key figure in the Dutch social
democratic movement during the late 19th and early 20th century.