Rebecca Koopman,
assistant professor of physics, gave an invited talk at the
Ringberg Workshop on the Virgo Cluster in Germany last month. The title
of her talk was “An Halpha Imaging Survey of Massive Star
Formation in Virgo Cluster Spirals.”
Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Professor of
Political Science, recently presented a paper on “Progress and Resistance
to Putin's Federal Reforms for Russia” at the Kennan Institute
of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. As the sequel
to Sharlet's article last year on President Vladimir
Putin's extensive restructuring of the Russian federal system, the
paper focuses on political, legal and bureaucratic resistance to
the changes. A summary prepared by the Kennan Institute has
been distributed through various professional electronic
networks here and abroad.
Hilary Tann, professor of music, was invited to the
University of Wisconsin-River Falls on May 14 for a concert
devoted entirely to her music. “The Power of Nature: Music of Hilary
Tann” included two choral works, three chamber pieces, and three
works for full orchestra. The final work in the program was the
premiere of “Sarsen,” written last fall
and jointly commissioned by the St. Croix Valley Symphony
Orchestra and the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. The
local premiere was May 5. Each of the three movements refer
to different standing stones: an erratic in the Adirondacks, the
Bat Stone from the Garden of the Master of the nets in
Suzhou, China, and one of the Kennett Avenue stones from the
ancient stone circle in Avebury, England.
Leo J. Fleishman, professor of biology, is the second
author on a paper published recently in the Journal of
Experimental Biology. The other authors are Ellis Loew, Cornell University; and
Russell Foster and Ignacio Provencio, the University
of Virginia.