Deidre Hill Butler, assistant professor of sociology, recently gave an invited talk, titled “The Many Meanings of Michelle Obama,” for the Mandela-Parks Lecture Series sponsored by the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, African and African American Studies Program, Liberal Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan.
Scott Kirkton, assistant professor of biology, will lead a symposium, “Respiratory Control in Insects: Integration from the Gene to the Organism," Sunday, April 29 at the American Physiology Society annual meeting at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
Pilar Moyano, professor of Spanish, has published “Mujeres que se descubren: Wallada Bint al-Mustafki en la biografía novelada de Matilde Cabello,” refereed Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of ALDEEU, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, 2006. The article examines Matilde Cabello’s historical novel on the famed poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, daughter of the Umayyad Caliph al-Mustakfi in 11th century Moorish Spain. In addition, the article discusses how this book charts Arab-Andalusian women’s contribution and indelible mark in the masculine, public sphere of the period.
Andrew Rapoff, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Scott McGraw of Ohio State University, and David Daegling and Jennifer Hotzman of the University of Florida, recently published a paper in the Journal of Morphology entitled “Material Property Variation of Mandibular Symphyseal Bone in Colobine Monkeys.” They found that bone becomes less stiff but tougher in the mid-chin region of the lower jaws in this subfamily of Old World monkeys when their diet consists of predominately harder foods.
In addition, Rapoff, McGraw and Daegling recently presented their research, “Isostress Analysis of Maxillary Canines in Cercopithecoid Monkeys,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Chicago, giving evidence that canines in a wide variety of genera of Old World monkeys are tapered to provide maximum strength with minimum mass given their observed feeding behavior. This work was supported in part by an NSF grant awarded to Rapoff.
Gail Golderman, Schaffer Library Digital Services librarian, and Bruce Connolly, head of Public Services, have completed their eighth year as contributing editors of Library Journal’s netConnect, publishing review articles on electronic resources in the areas of business, health care, the environment and eBook collections.