Peter V. Minorsky, visiting assistant professor of
biology, has had a manuscript titled “Latitudinal Differences in Coconut Foliar
Spiral Direction: A Re-evaluation and Hypothesis” accepted for publication in the Annals
of Botany.
Seth N. Greenberg, Gilbert Livingston Professor of
Psychology, has co-authored a paper with A. Inhoff and R. Radach (both of Binghamton
University) titled “Does Recognition of Words During a Fixation Progress in a
Strictly Serial Order?” It was presented at the fifth European Workshop on Language
Comprehension in Marseille, France, recently. The authors argue that eye fixations during
reading are, in part, a response to higher-order structuring of text done
“online” while one reads. Data reported at the conference includes the work
performed by Union undergraduate Rachel Seely, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology.
Amanda Leamon, assistant professor of French, recently
presented a paper titled “'Moi e(s)t un(e) autre,' or The Mirror has Two
Faces: Discovering and Recovering the Self in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de
Sable,” at the 20th Century Literature conference in Louisville, Kentucky. She also
presented a paper titled “'Je suis l'Autre': Smoke and Mirrors in the
Autobiographical Fiction of Blaise Cendrars,” at the Northeast Modern Languages
Association conference in Baltimore.