Michael Vineyard, the Frank and Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Physics, was co-author of 10 articles published in 2008 by the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer Collaboration at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va. Eight of these articles appeared in the journal Physical Review C, and two were published in Physical Review Letters. All are aimed at developing an understanding of nuclear structure in terms of the fundamental constituents – quarks and gluons.
“The Neo-Assyrian Empire,” a paper and book chapter by Peter R. Bedford, the John and Jane Wold Professor of Religious Studies and director of Religious Studies, has been published in “The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium” (Oxford University Press, 2009), edited by Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel.
An article titled “Listen Up: Discovering the Reference and Instructional Applications of Apple’s iTunes” by Bruce Connolly, head of Public Services at Schaffer Library, and Gail Golderman, Digital Services librarian, appeared in a 2008 special issue of Urban Library Journal on the theme of “The Creative Library.” Guest editor Steven J. Bell described their work as “a first-rate example of how creative library minds can take an everyday technology and turn it into a resource that supports class assignments and promotes the library and its resources.”
Rachel Seligman, director of the Mandeville Gallery, is the curator of “Mutatis Mutandis: Appearance and Identity,” opening Friday, Jan. 15 at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy. The exhibit features works by six artists, including A. J. Nadel ’56, a practicing surgeon for more than 30 years. The show runs through March 22, with an opening reception Jan. 30, 5-9 p.m. The artists explore issues of physical appearance and its relationship to identity, focusing specifically on the portrait as they challenge perceptions about gender, beauty, race, age and culture.
Pilar Moyano, professor of Spanish, has published “Hacia la recuperación de la poesía del exilio español de 1939: Juan Rejano,” in “Burgos, Corazón de Castilla” (Burgos: Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua, 2008). This chapter is a reconsideration of the costs of political exile for Spanish intellectuals in Mexico in 1939, including journalist-poet Juan Rejano. It examines how the exiles' work was affected by their complex relationships to both the Francoist Spain they fled and the Mexico that welcomed them.