Faculty-Staff Achievements

 

Jason Breves, assistant professor of biology, has won the New Investigator Award from the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society. The award recognizes the contributions of early-stage investigators in comparative physiology. Breves is the first recipient of this award from a liberal arts college and will be recognized at the 2019 Experimental Biology meeting this spring.

Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history, published "Cultural Representations: Head and Body Hair in Medieval Art" in “A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages,” edited by Roberta Milliken. She also participated in a session entitled "Patronage and Piety in 15th-Century French and Flemish Altarpieces" at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in New York.

JaeEun Kim, choral conductor in the Music Department, recently participated in the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra (BCO) Conducting Workshop, a week-long workshop at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

A new opera by Evan Mack, teaching professor of music, was announced in Broadway World. “Yeltsin in Texas” will premiere at the Opera in the Heights New Works Festival in February 2020.  The comedic chamber opera, with libretto by Josh Maguire, presents the story of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's visit to a Houston supermarket that challenges his view of communism.

Emma Newcombe, visiting assistant professor of American studies, published “Writing Whiteness: Antebellum Guidebooks and the Codification of the Landscape in Catskill Tourism and Print” In Early American Literature.

Murat Yildiz, assistant professor history, appeared on “The Ottoman History Podcast” as part of an episode on “The Histories of Childhood and Youth in the Middle East.”

 

 

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