Maritza Osuna, lecturer of Spanish, delivered a paper at the annual meeting of UNTELE (Usages des Nouvelles Technologies dans l’Enseignement des Langues Etrangères) in Compiègne, France, last month. The paper was titled, “Constructing Latin-American Identities through Information and Communication Technologies.”
Younghwan Song, assistant professor of Economics, has had a paper accepted for the Review of Economics of the Household relating to “The Working Spouse Penalty/Premium and Married Women’s Labor Supply.”
Dan Lundquist, vice president for Admissions, Financial Aid and Communications, will address the annual College Clinic in Westchester, N.Y., next month. He will present “Bridging the Divide: Issues Facing the Next College Generation” with John M. McCardell Jr., president emeritus of Middlebury College. The annual program, co-sponsored by the Westchester/Putnam/ Rockland Counseling Association, serves hundreds of high school and college admissions counselors in the Hudson Valley.
The Science News recently ran a story describing research by Professor of Mathematics Julius B. Barbanel and New York University political scientist Steven J. Brams. The article, “Cutting a Pie is No Piece of Cake,” describes the two collaborators’ efforts to find a way to slice a pie that is “envy-free,” equitable and efficient. The pie research is instructive for dividing such things as land borders or homes in settlement disputes.
George Gmelch, professor of Anthropology, was an invited speaker at Rhodes College and Skidmore College this month. At each institution he gave a talk on “Baseball and American Culture.”