Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, will present “Evocations,” a program of diverse chamber music from the late 20th and early 21st century, with Eight Strings and a Whistle, a flute, viola and cello trio, at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. The program includes Tann’s “The Walls of Morlais Castle,” inspired by the ruins of the destroyed Welsh Castle of the same name, and William Dickerson’s “Night Music,” an eight-movement work chronicling an overnight walk in New York City. The concert, part of the Sterne Virtuoso Series, will be held in Filene Recital Hall. Tann and her trio recently performed “Night Music” at a reception for Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, where President Obama was among the distinguished guests.
Five students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy were among some 140 undergraduate students from the U.S. and Japan who presented posters at the Third Joint Meeting of
Five students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy were among some 140 undergraduate students from the U.S. and Japan who presented posters at the Third Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Division of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Physical Society of Japan in Waikoloa, Hawaii, in October. Daniel Barringer ’11 and Ana Mikler ’12 presented posters on their research in nuclear astrophysics with Professor Rebecca Surman. Colin Gleason ’11 and Chad Harrington ’11 reported on work they conducted with Professor Michael Vineyard on the elemental analysis of pollutants in aerosol samples using proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE). Katie Schuff ’12 presented a poster on the PIXE analysis of pollutants in rain water performed with Professor Scott LaBrake. The students all won competitive awards from the Conference Experience for Undergraduates program of the APS for travel and/or lodging.
Samuel Amanuel, assistant professor of physics, and three of his students, Hillary Bauer ’11, Peter Bonventre ’11 and Dana Lasher ’08, published a paper on nonfreezing interfacial layers of cyclohexane molecules inside nanoporous silica. The paper, which appears in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, addresses the fundamental question of how physical confinement (to nano scale) and interfaces influence melting and freezing behaviors of molecules and materials.
“Learning through Publishing the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics,” an article by Zoe M. Oxley, associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, recently appeared in “PS: Political Science and Politics.” Co-authors are Benjamin Bauer ’08, Whitney Ogás’ 08, Omar Shakir ’08 and Rosalee A. Clawson, associate professor at Purdue University. The article is based on their experiences hosting the undergraduate journal.