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Vol. 5, No. 5 - March 31, 2006
Faculty/Staff Activities Kate Greenspan, associate professor of English, has been accepted into a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar titled "Seven Deadly Sins" to take place this summer in Cambridge, England. Denise Hughes, secretary in Art and Art History, has received a New York Credit Union Foundation Professional Development Grant to attend the 86th annual meeting and convention of the New York State Credit Union League May 15-18 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history and Kenan Professor of the Liberal Arts, accepted an invitation to the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Feb. 14-16. While there she gave a public lecture titled "Maternal Metaphors: Mary Magdalene and Pregnancy in 15th-Century Netherlandish Paintings" and presented a graduate student-faculty symposium on "Rogier van der Weyden's Braque Triptych: The Wise and Foolish Magdalene." Publications Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for a story titled "The New Gender Gap" published in the March 27 issue of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald. She also was interviewed for "Benefits clear, costs of selling MOHELA less tangible," published Jan. 30 in The Kansas City Star, about a proposal by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt to sell the assets of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a quasi-governmental agency that services student loans. Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, published an article on "Luigi Pirandello's American Sojourns: Reception and Representation of America," in the latest issue of the Pirandello Studies Annual, Vol. XVII (2005). He also serves as book review editor for the journal. Paula Newberg, dean of special programs, wrote "U.S. and Pakistan: An Insecure Alliance," an opinion essay published March 3 in the Daily Times of Pakistan. Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has had The Long Fault, a new book of poems, accepted for publication by Louisiana State University Press. Robert Shorb, director, Student Aid and Family Finance, was interviewed for a story titled "When Faculty Kids Apply to College, Egos and Emotions Come Into Play," published in the March 31 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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