Posted on Nov 2, 2001

Joyce A. Madancy, associate professor of history, is author of an article, “Unearthing Popular Attitudes toward the Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Late Qing and Early Republican Fujian,” in the journal Modern China (Volume 27, no. 4, October 2001, 436-483).

Posted on Nov 2, 2001

Karen Williams, associate professor of biology, and James Hedrick, adjunct associate professor of electrical engineering, presented a paper, “Using a Summer Workshop to Recruit Talented Minority Students” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Engineering Education. The paper was based on six years experience with Union's Summer Science Workshop, which has brought 17 students to Union.

Posted on Nov 2, 2001

Tim Olsen, assistant professor of music, and Hilary Tann, professor of music, has been chosen as ASCAP award recipients. The cash awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers are awarded based on each writer's catalog of original compositions and recent performances of those works.

Posted on Nov 2, 2001

William Murphy, Thomas Lamont Research Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature emeritus, was honorary chairman and keynote speaker at a conference, “The Prodigal Father: John Butler Yeats and His American Friends,” recently in Chestertown, N.Y., where the Dublin native was buried in 1922. The Irish artist, whose contributions were overshadowed by his sons – poet William Butler Yeats and painter Jack Butler Yeats – was the subject of Murphy's 1979 biography, The Prodigal Father.

Posted on Nov 2, 2001

Wilfried Wilms, visiting assistant professor of German, presented a paper, “Against Universal Friendship – Ernst und Falk and the Necessity of Conflict” recently at a conference of the German Studies Association in Washington. Prof. Wilms also moderated a panel titled “The Historical Avant-Gardes and the Ethnographic Imagination.”