Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 19, 2011
Activities
Caroline D'Abate, associate professor of management, was invited to speak at the June 2011 meeting of the New England Society of Applied Psychologists in Boston. Her talk, titled, "One plus one equals three: How mentoring, coaching, and other developmental interactions add up," covered her research on the strategic outcomes related to employee development and the psychosocial dimensions of mentoring relationships in work settings.
Kyle Nichols, associate professor and chair, Department of Geosciences, gave a presentation titled "Erosion of Grand Canyon tributary basins at multiple spatial and temporal scales" July 27 at the 18 th INQUA-Congress: Quaternary sciences ? The view from the mountains, in Bern, Switzerland. Once every four years the International Union for Quaternary Research draws researchers from around the world to its congress, held to exchange research results and develop agendas for future study. Nichols, co-author of the research with Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont, presented at a session titled "Reconciling modern and Quaternary rates of landscape erosion."
Publications
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, is the author of "That's It. I'm Not a Beatle Anymore" which has appeared on the OUP Blog at Oxford University Press. The piece reflects on the changes in the careers of the Beatles in the fall of 1966.
