Dianne M. McMullen, assistant professor of music, gave a paper on newly-discovered connections between German Lutheran music and early American sacred music at a conference held at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa. She has been invited to give a major paper on Freylinghausen's Geistreiches Gesangbuch, considered the most significant German Lutheran book of chorales published at the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, at a conference in August at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.
Read MoreAnnette LeClair speaks on Jane Austen
Annette LeClair, associate librarian in Schaffer Library, spoke on “Proper Admiration: Jane Austen's Encounters with Her Readers” at a regional meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America in Boston recently.
Read MoreSigrid Kellenter and colleagues attend “Technology-enabled Collaboration in German”
Sigrid Kellenter, Thomas Lamont Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, Wilfried Wilms, visiting assistant professor of German, Diane Keller, director of academic computing, and Mark Knowles, director of the language lab, attended a one day planning workshop for “Technology-enabled Collaboration in German” sponsored by the Center for Educational Technology (CET) in Middlebury, Vt. The Union College team was selected as one of the 13 core colleges (of 62 participating) in the Project 2001 initiative to develop a Virtual German Collaborative. Project 2001 is a group of integrated programs and initiatives designed to encourage inter-institutional collaboration in technology-enabled language instruction. It is sponsored by Middlebury College with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Read MoreJosef Schmee publishes paper in American Statistician
Josef Schmee, the Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Management, has published a paper, “Likelihood Confidence Intervals for Proportions in Finite Populations” in the February issue of the American Statistician. The paper was co-authored by John P. Wendell, professor of accounting at the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. student at Union. The paper shows a method to obtain the shortest possible confidence intervals for the number or proportion of items in a finite population that possess a particular characteristic. Such intervals are of great importance in applications such as auditing or in sample surveys from smaller populations. The proposed method is based on the likelihood of the observed sample and although computationally a bit more complex, it is superior to existing methods.
Read MoreLinda Stanhope presents research in Child Development
Linda Stanhope, associate professor of psychology, presented some research, along with Aileen Quigley '99 titled “Sibling Configuration and Assertiveness in Girls” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in April.
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