Posted on Sep 17, 2004

Amy C. Hsiao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded
a NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship and spent the summer at NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. She worked on the magnetically-actuated microshutters to be
used on the James Webb Space Telescope, to be launched in 2011 as the successor
to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Posted on Sep 17, 2004

Tomas Dvorak, assistant professor of economics, has written a paper to be
published in the Journal of Finance.
The paper, “Do Domestic Investors Have an Information Advantage? Evidence from Indonesia,” on whether domestic investors in emerging stock markets
earn higher profits than foreign investors. His paper investigates two
arguments: that domestic investors have an advantage
because information does not travel, and that foreign investors have an
advantage because of experience and expertise.

Posted on Sep 17, 2004

Karin Hamm-Ehsani, assistant professor of German, has written a paper, “Ex Oriente Lux: Cosmopolitics of Orientalism in Ludwig Tieck's Alla-Moddin,” to be published in Acta Germanica, the yearbook of the Southern
African Association of German Studies (SAGV). The paper examines how Ludwig Tieck's play partakes in the late 18th-century
critical discourses regarding the movement of Sentimentalism as well as the
question of empire.

Posted on Sep 17, 2004

Chris Duncan, associate professor of visual arts, has a sculpture in a group
show at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City.

Posted on Sep 17, 2004

Frank
Wicks,
associate professor of mechanical engineering, has authored an article in the
July issue of Mechanical Engineering
titled “Picture This” about the history of photography and the life and
contributions of George Eastman. This year was the 150th anniversary
of the birth of the inventor of popular photography, and Wicks attended a
celebration at the Eastman House. Mechanical
Engineering is the professional journal of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.