Chalmers C. Clark,
visiting assistant professor in philosophy, will spend next year as a
visiting scholar at the Ethics Institute of the American Medical
Association (AMA) in Chicago. During his residency he will conduct
research on the topic of “Medicine, Trust, and the `Basic Structure
of Society'.” He also will lead a
series of seminars for the Ethics Standards unit of the AMA
and be available to the staff of the Council on Ethical and
Judicial Affairs (CEJA) as well as the Ethics Resource
Center staff. Other activities include availability for AMA
fellows' seminars and preparing and teaching an online ethics course.
Chris Duncan, associate professor of visual arts,
installed two new outdoor sculptures in May, for “Sculpture Now” at
the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Mass., and for the
5th annual Sculpture and Performance Exhibition,
North Bennington, Vt. One of the pieces was developed during a
Union fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in April. Both works
are on view through the summer. Duncan's 2001 concrete and
steel piece, “Pirate Jenny,” has been on extended loan to the
sculpture garden at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in
Utica, which also exhibited “Nervous System,” a large charcoal and
ink drawing, as part of their “New Acquisitions” exhibit this
winter; the drawing is in the museum's permanent collection.
Duncan was a panelist for “Installation vs. Object,” a public presentation
on contemporary sculpture organized by Mary Murray,
Curator of Contemporary Art at the Munson in January. He
also exhibited work this term in “Drawing for Sculpture” at
the Andrews Gallery at the College of William and Mary.
Martin A. Strosberg, professor, Graduate
Management Institute, spoke recently before an audience of physicians,
nurses and administrators on “Trends in U.S. Hospital
Administration: Applications for China?” at
the Tianjin Bureau of Public Health, Tianjin, China.
Seth Greenberg, Gilbert R. Livingston Professor of
Psychology, and his colleagues Asher Koriat and Hamutal Kriener
at University of Haifa published “The extraction of
structure during reading: Evidence from reading prosody” in the May
2002 issue of Memory and Cognition. The study demonstrates that
the prosodic or rhythmic pattern and intonation produced
when reading a text out loud for the first time depends almost
entirely on the placement of structural markers in a text (e.g., articles
and prepositions), and surprisingly not at all on a text meaning.