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February 2009
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council announces the 2008-2009 Hall of Fame recipients:
Sciences
- Frank Curran
- Nikola Kenjic
- Honorable Mention: William Conte
Humanities
- Jonathan Sheffield
- Ashley Boller
- Honorable Mention: Daniel Beaulieu
Social Sciences
- Matthew Schwarz
- Jared Hoffman
- Honorable Mention: Johnny Ramirez
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Communication Sciences and Disorders Website
- Dr. Pat Kricos became an international Ida Institute fellow. She joined twenty hearing care practitioners representing 14 nationalities in a unique collaborative seminar outside of Copenhagen, Denmark in January. The Ida Institute convenes collaborative seminars specifically supporting the non-profit educational institute’s commitment to fostering a better understanding of the human dynamics of hearing loss.
- Dr. Lisa Edmonds has been invited to give a talk at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Philadelphia on March 25, 2009. The Moss Institute sponsors interdisciplinary research aimed at improving human function and adaptation to disability. The topic of her talk is The effect of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in persons with aphasia: Findings across aphasia severity levels and in persons with bilingual aphasia.
English
- Roger Beebe appeared on NPR’s “Morning Edition” as part of a feature on the evolution of music video over the past two decades. The audio can be heard on NPR’s website. Since September 2007, he has continued to make and show films, with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, Duke University, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and elsewhere. His latest film, an 8-projector, 30-minute installation/performance called “Last Light from a Dying Star,” opened the MERGE VISUAL exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Science in Macon, Georgia in September 2008.
- Pamela Gilbert’s essay “History and Its Ends in Chartist Epic” appears in Victorian Literature and Culture 37 (2009): 27–42.
- Andrew Gordon’s essay “When In Rome: Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint and Bernard Malamud’s Pictures of Fidelman” appears in Philip Roth Studies 4.1 (Spring 2008): 39–46, a special issue on Roth and Malamud.
- Terry Harpold’s essay “Verne’s Errant Readers: Nemo, Clawbonny, Michel Dufrénoy” appears in Verniana 1 (2008–09): 31–42.
- David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk has been named as a winner of Italy's Premio Grinzane-Cavour for foreign literature.
News of Current Students
- Lisa Dusenberry and Cathlena Martin’s essay “Wiki Lore and Politics in the Classroom” appears in the collection Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, eds. Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton (University of Michigan Press, 2009).
- Anthony Luebbert’s short story “Just So You Understand” has been accepted for publication by The New York Tyrant. His short story “Mashed” appears in No Colony 002.
- Horacio Sierra’s entry “National Coalition of American Nuns” appears in The Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, ed. Jodi O'Brien (SAGE Publications, 2009).
News of Former Students
- Kenneth Chan’s essay “Cultural Misrecognition: A Post-9/11 Rereading of Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet” appears in the collection British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary. He has contributed an entry on “Queer Identity and Politic” to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature.
- Eric Otto’s encyclopedia articles on environmental science fiction and Sally Miller Gearhart appear in Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Robin Reid (Greenwood, 2009).
- Saara Myrene Raappana’s poem “Deer Blind” appears in Sotto Voce (Winter 2009).
Geography
- Andy Tatem (Geography/Emerging Pathogens Institute) and Dave Smith (Zoology/Emerging Pathogens Institute) received a $1.5 million grant from the Gates Foundation for their work on malaria.
Physics
- Professor Peter Hirschfeld's article on 'Defects in Correlated Fermi Sytems' was chosen for the cover of Reviews of Modern Physics January-March 2009 issue.
- Jacobo Konigsberg was invited to participate in a
Symposium at the upcoming 2009 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement
of Science) Annual Meeting in Chicago, February 12-16. Konigsberg will
be presenting on a panel with several VIPs from the Experimental Particle
physics community, including Fermilab's director, the person who built
the LHC and other scientific leaders from other experiments. The title
of the Symposium is: High-Energy Physics Discoveries: From
the Tevatron to the Large Hadron Collider. Konigsberg will be presenting
the discoveries and prospects from the Tevatron.
Info on the people and on the panel is located at:
http://smaria.home.cern.ch/smaria/aaas09/aaas09.htm
Information on the presentations is located at: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=50995
News of Current Students
- Chao Cao was awarded the 2008 Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics. Cao’s thesis title was First-Principles and Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano-Scale Systems. Cao received the award for creatively using a variety of computational tools to reveal physical mechanisms in complex materials, and for developing a computing architecture that allows massively parallel multi-scale simulation of physical systems.-scale sciences, condensed matter, and materials.
News of Former Students
- Dr. N. Irges, has been offered the Assistant Professor position at the Polytechnique University of Athens, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Nick, a recent recipient of a Von Humboldt Fellowship, obtained his Ph. D. from UF in 1999, under the supervision of Distinguished Professor Pierre Ramond.
Zoology
- Andy Tatem (Geography/Emerging Pathogens Institute) and Dave Smith (Zoology/Emerging Pathogens Institute) received a $1.5 million grant from the Gates Foundation for their work on malaria.
