Donald T. Rodbell, assistant professor of geology, gave a lecture on
“Tracing El Niño through the Andes” recently in the Spring Science Series at
the Schenectady County Public Library. He also gave a seminar at Yale University titled
“Continuous Records of late Quaternary Climate Change and El Niño from High
Elevation Lakes in the Tropical Andes.” He co-authored a paper with students Peter J.
Castiglia '99 and Chris Moy '98 at the Geological Society of America,
Northeastern Section Meeting, in Providence, R.I., titled “Magnetic record of late
Holocene glacier fluctuation recorded in a lake sediment core from the Cordillera Blanca,
Peru.” The paper was presented by Castiglia.
Barbara Boyer, professor of biology, has been appointed to the editorial board
of the journal Invertebrate Reproduction and Development. She published a paper
with Jonathan Henry of the University of Illinois and Mark Martindale of the University of
Chicago titled “The cell lineage of a polyclad turbellarian embryo reveals close
similarity to coelomate spiralians” in Developmental Biology, (204: 111-123.)
She co-authored an article (with Henry), “Evolutionary modifications of the spiralian
developmental program,” which appeared in The American Zoologist, (38:
621-633.) This paper was based on an invited presentation which Boyer gave at a symposium
on “The Evolution of Development” during the annual meeting of the Society for
Integrative and Comparative Zoology in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Peter Heinegg, professor of English, has written three translations of German
books published recently. They are of Mary: Art, Culture, and Religion through the Ages
by Caroline Ebertshauser, et al. (Crossroad/Herder); Mother Teresa: Love Stays by
Christian Feldman (Crossroad); and My Hope for the Church: Critical Encouragement for
the 21st Century by Bernhard Haering
(Liguori).
William Finlay, associate professor of theatre, directed an Off-Broadway show
that opened April 13 in New York City. The show, titled e.e., is a musical based on
the poetry of e.e. cummings. It is part of the inaugural season at The Blue Heron Arts
Center, New York's newest Off Broadway theatre complex. A national tour is scheduled
this summer; a tour of France and Germany is planned for the fall.