Peter V. Minorsky, visiting assistant professor in biology, and R. Paul Willing, laboratory coordinator in biology, have had a paper “Samara
Dispersal in Boxelder: An Exercise in Hypothesis Testing” accepted for publication in The American Biology Teacher.
Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary
and Historical Studies, has just published an essay, “Mourning Becomes
Biography,” in the winter issue American Imago: Studies In Psychoanalysis And
Culture. She discusses how, for her and many others, all biography begins in mourning
and loss. She has also been appointed by Columbia University's Writing Division to
work with one of Columbia's Hertog Fellows, a group of specially-selected creative
writing students who apprentice themselves for one semester to writers, like Wineapple,
who are engaged on a special project. Wineapple is on sabbatical at work on her next book,
a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Knopf).
Manfred Jonas, John Bigelow Professor of History Emeritus, has
been awarded Phi Beta Kappa's Certificate of Recognition “for more than a decade
of dedicated service to the Society and to the advancement of liberal learning as an
officer of the Alpha Chapter of New York at Union College.” On April 18, he is to be
commentator for a session on Theodore Roosevelt and Europe at a conference at Siena
College titled “Theodore Roosevelt and the Dawn of the 'American
Century'.” On June 4, he is to deliver the principal address – “The
Cold War as History: A World War II Perspective” – at the College's 12th
annual World War II Conference.
Rudy Nydegger, associate professor of psychology, was appointed
co-chair of the Continuing Education for the New York State Psychological Association, and
will be involved with the policies and approvals for all CE programs offered through the
NYSPA.
Joyce Madancy, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a
fellowship to conduct research in the southeastern China city of Fuzhou. It is funded by
the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China's (CSCC) National Program for
Advanced Study and Research in China. She expects to travel to China during the winter
term of 1999, and will work with materials in municipal and provincial archives in the
hopes of transforming her dissertation on opium suppression in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries into a publishable manuscript.