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Vol. 2, No. 4 - November 13, 2002
| Faculty-Staff Activities John Cunningham, Davidson Professor of Art, gave a lecture-presentation on his seismically isolated bridge designs Oct. 15 to Professor Taeg Nishimoto’s senior-level architectural design studio course at Texas A&M University. Cunningham currently has a show of his work exhibited at the university. Jordana Dym, assistant professor of history, delivered a paper titled “Reducing the Hinterland: Bourbon Reforms and City Government in Central America, 1700-1800” at a main session of the sixth International Conference on Urban History in September in Edinburgh. She also chaired and commented at a panel on ideology and society in 1870-1930 Central America at the sixth “Congreso Centroamericano de Historia” in Panama City, Panama, in July. In addition, she chaired a panel on “Sexual Mores in Early Modern Spain and Italy” at the 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women in June. Skidmore was represented at the annual meeting
and educational conference of the New York State College Health
Association Oct. 15-18 in Binghamton. Glenn
Egelman, College physician and director of the Office of
Health Services, was named president-elect of the organization.
Shelly VanSlyke, health educator, and
Egelman gave a presentation titled “Predatory Drugs: An Overview.” Samuel Fee, director of academic technologies, presented his paper “Teaching with Digital Video” at the annual International Visual Literacy Association conference Oct. 11 in Breckenridge, Colo. He also gave an invited lecture titled “IT and the Liberal Arts College” Sept. 30 at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. Mark Huibregtse, professor of mathematics, gave an invited talk titled “An elementary construction of an open affine covering of the Hilbert scheme of points of an affine space” in the Special Session on Hilbert Schemes at the AMS Sectional Meeting Oct. 5-6 at Northeastern University. Ken Johnson, professor emeritus of geosciences, received the Outstanding Educator Award of the Eastern Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, during the group’s annual meeting Oct. 2-4 in Champaign, Ill. Murray Levith, professor of English, presented an invited paper on Shakespeare in China at the South Central Modern Language meeting Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in Austin, Texas. The conference theme was “Language and Literature in a Global Context.” In addition, he has been asked to contribute a chapter for a book to be published by Palgrave on global Shakespeare and to be titled Shakespeare’s Local Habitations. R.S. White, University of Western Australia, will edit the volume. Mason Stokes, assistant professor of English, gave an invited lecture recently at the University of Kentucky titled “Father of the Bride: Du Bois and the Making of Black Heterosexuality.” The lecture was part of the university’s Langston Hughes Centennial Celebration. Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music, read his paper “A Delhi in London: Ecology, Networks, and the Life of Music in a Sixties Pop Milieu” at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, held this year in Estes Park, Colo. Thompson also met with the Society for Asian Music’s board (he is vice president) and the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology, for which he sits on the annual speaker selection committee. Publications & Exhibitions Virginia Murphy-Berman and John Berman, faculty in the Department of Psychology, have just published a paper with Cem Cukur titled “Micro- and Macro-Justice in the Allocation of Resources Between In-group and Out-group Members: A Cross-Cultural Comparison,” in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 6. Katherine A. Cartwright, lecturer in the Department of Geosciences, received the Grumbacher Gold Medal Oct. 20 at the Northeast Watercolor Society’s International Exhibition 2002 for her painting “Mail Order Madness.” The exhibition was on view at the Kent Art Gallery, Kent, Conn., through Nov. 3. Patricia M. Colby, assistant professor of psychology, is co-author of “Attachment Styles Impact on Pet Visitation Effectiveness” published in Anthrozoos, the Journal of the International Society for Anthrozooly, Vol. 15, No. 2. She wrote the paper with Angela Sherman ’02. Gove Effinger, professor of mathematics, co-wrote the paper “Twin Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields,” which was published in the Springer volume titled Finite Fields with Applications to Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Related Areas. His co-authors are Gary Mullen, Penn State University, and Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University. Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, assistant professor of anthropology, has a chapter titled “A Paradoxical Privatization: Challenges to Community-Managed Drinking Water Systems in the Valley of Mexico” published in Managing a Sacred Gift: Privatization of Water Rights in Mexico, edited by Scott Whiteford and Roberto Melville and published this year by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego. Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, has work included in a national juried exhibition titled “DPI: Digitally Propelled Ideas, 2002” at the Kellogg University Art Gallery at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, through Dec. 6. The gallery exhibition and web site (www.csupomona.edu/~kellogg_gallery) feature artists who have been actively involved in using computer technology to create works of art. As Patrick Merrill, curator of the exhibition, states, “We understand how digital technology has opened opportunities for research and experimentation and our goal is to bring together the most eclectic experience possible.” George W. Lowis, professor emeritus of sociology, has published “Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen and the discovery of the contagiousness of puerperal fever” in the Journal of Medical Biography 2002, Vol. 10.
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