John Sowa, professor of chemistry emeritus, was a panelist at the inaugural Biological Safety Symposium, representing small colleges at the Northeast Biological Safety Association (NBSA) on April 8 at the state Department of Health's Wadsworth Center. He also serves as vice chair of the Committee to Study Fire Prevention and Fire District Assignments in the Industrial Parks in Glenville. He is co-organizer of a training conference in Springfield, Mass., on transportation of radioactive materials sponsored by the Eastern and the Northeast Chapters of the Health Physics Society.
Read MoreProf. Weisse to lead health professions advisors group
Carol S. Weisse, director of health professions and professor of psychology, has been appointed president-elect of the Northeast Association of Advisors to the Health Professions (NEAAHP), a position that places her on the board of directors of the National Association of Advisors to the Health Professions (NAAHP). Both organizations are devoted to the professional development of undergraduate advisors and to the enhancement of communication between advisors and professional schools. The positions will place Weisse in direct contact with admissions deans from professional schools across the country. One of her primary responsibilities will be to plan the 2006 annual regional conference for advisors in Portland, Maine, and to participate in the national conference in Portland, Ore.
Read MoreMueller delivers conference paper
Hans-Friedrich Mueller, professor and chair of classics, delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South: “From Rome to Theresienstadt: Friedrich Muenzer on Pliny Natural History 28.12-13.”
Read MoreProf. Furiya takes post at Berkeley
Sumi Furiya, assistant professor of classics, has accepted a position at the University of California at Berkeley, where the graduate program in classics is one of the most highly ranked in the country. Furiya's course offerings will include seminars on Latin prose of the Republican period, and theoretical approaches to the interpretation of ancient literature.
Read MoreOgawa gives paper at art history conference
David Ogawa, associate professor of visual arts, presented a paper, “Gustave Courbet's 'L'origine du monde' and Early Sex Photography” at a recent conference of the Association of Art Historians, Britain's leading group of scholars of the history of art, in Bristol, England. He participated in a panel, “Reconsidering the Artist-Model Transaction,” and his paper considered the French Realist's provocative painting (now in the Musee d'Orsay, Paris) of 1866 in the context of the arrests of male and female models by the Parisian police.
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