Janet S. Anderson, professor of Chemistry, recently co-authored two publications with collaborators David LeMaster and Griselda Hernández at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. The citations are: “Tetrathiolate Coordination of Germanium (IV) in a Protein Active Site” (also with Michael Minnich and Patrick J. Parsons), and “Role of Native-State Structure in Rubredoxin Native-State Hydrogen Exchange.”
Raymond Martin, chair and professor of Philosophy, has co-authored, with John Barresi, “The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity.” (Columbia University Press, 2006). He was interviewed on KQED Forum, a public radio show based in San Francisco, during an hour-long Q&A session.
Kathleen LoGiudice, assistant professor of Biology, has a new paper in the August edition of the journal BioScience, published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Her work is featured on the cover, with a pair of photos of Allegheny wood rats. The paper investigates the disappearance of the Allegheny wood rat from the northern part of its range, taking a synthetic, historical-ecological approach. The paper can be found at http://www.aibs.org/ bioscience/bioscience_online_2006.html.
Bonney MacDonald, associate professor of English, received a fellowship from the Center for Study of California and the West, an organization based at University of Southern California and The Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. She spent August at the Huntington Library researching the American West for a book project on 19th- and 20th-century interpretations of the historian Frederick Jackson Turner.
Andy Rapoff, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently published a paper, “Orthotropic Index for Bone” in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. Rapoff and colleagues Neel Bhatavadekar of the University of North Carolina and David Daegling of the University of Florida, recently published “Application of an Image-Based Weighted Measure of Skeletal Bending Stiffness to Great Ape Mandibles” in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
George Gmelch's essay, “Barbadian Migrants Abroad and Back Home,” was published in Returning to the Sources by the University of the West Indies Press, edited by D. Plaza and F. Henry. The essay focuses on what it means for migrants to come home, both for the individual and the home society. Gmelch is the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology.
Palma Catravas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who regularly merges music and engineering in her Union courses, has been awarded a prestigious Schiff fellowship for 2006-07 in support of her project, “Visualization of Information Content in Music Signals and Interdisciplinary Applications.” The project aims to contribute scientific visualization tools to reveal patterns in data that could help with hypothesis generation in experimental work.
Rachel Seligman, director and curator, the Mandeville Gallery, was guest juror recently for “Get Your Beverages Here,” at Gallery 100 in Saratoga Springs. The exhibition featured 48 works by more than 30 artists from a group of 100 submissions.
Lori Marso, director of Women's and Gender Studies and professor of Political Science, is author of a new book, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women. Marso's book examines the lives and works of historical and contemporary feminists, including Simone de Beauvoir and Ana Castillo. The author has been interviewed by a number of media outlets including National Public Radio.
“Shorelines,” a new work composed by Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, received its world premiere in July by the Sefton Young Musicians in St Faith's Church, Crosby, England, to a capacity audience. Tann, who attended the inaugural performance, was commissioned to write the piece for Sefton Youth String Orchestra, and she was inspired by the presence of prehistoric footprints now visible on the Sefton coastline at the edge of the West Lancashire plain.
Three works by Chris Duncan, professor of visual art, were on exhibit at the Cherry Valley Sculpture Trail in Cherry Valley, N.Y. He also had 10 sculptures and drawings in a two-person show at Gestures, a Cherry Valley gallery. Duncan's work was featured in North Bennington, Vt.'s Art Park, an annual summer celebration of sculpture and installation art.
Rudy Nydegger, professor of Management and Psychology, recently was honored with the David Mitchell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Psychology by the New York Psychological Association.
Robert Baker, the William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy, delivered the inaugural address at the University of Iowa's Centennial Celebration of the birth of the Viennese-American philosopher and his former colleague, Gustav Bergman. In keeping with the German tradition, the papers presented at the conference will be published as a festschrift, in tribute of the late logical positivist.
Younghwan Song, professor of Economics, is the recipient of a mini-grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research that will allow him to pursue his research on “Rising Health Insurance Premiums and Job Displacement.” Also, Song has had a paper accepted for publishing in Labour Economics relating to “Recall Bias in the Displaced Workers Survey: Are Layoffs Really Lemons?”