Barbara Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, is part of a team that has won a national award for a web site that they have developed over the past eight years to improve undergraduate geoscience education. The Web site On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty, has been awarded the 2009 Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine. More ...

Masaaki Kamiya, associate professor of East Languages and Literatures, recently served on a panel to select 30 recipients for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program at the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). The CLS Program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and provides fully funded intensive summer institutes for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to participate in group language programs overseas. More ...

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann delivered a paper, "Oil and American Hegemonic Decline," to the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, held in New Orleans, Feb. 17-20. The paper examined contending theories and arguments regarding America's relative power in the world, and oil's importance in the decline of U.S. economic and military power. More ...

A photograph by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was featured in the Winter 2010 issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. The photo,   "Cauliflower, 2006," was published within a supplementary section that features the work of 17 contemporary artists. More ...

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, presented a paper at a New York City meeting of the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy on Feb. 21. Franklin’s paper, titled "Black Subjectivity and the Significance of Voice," focused on the role of various expressions of voice in relation to the consciousness and agency of black youth. More ...

The following announcement was sent to the campus community by President Joan Stewart on Monday, Feb. 22, at 12:15 p.m. It is with very mixed feelings that I write to say that Vice President and Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo has been named president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, effective July 1. More ...

Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali gave an invited lecture at Mount Holyoke College on Feb. 18, titled “The Congo in the Colonial Imagination and the Response of the Congolese National Literature.” He discussed a range of topics including history and politics of colonization in the Congo and their relation to the present tragedy and the responses of the Congolese artists and writers. More ...

Andrew Dykstra, assistant professor of mathematics, spoke at Furman University on Feb. 18. His talk investigated examples of chaotic dynamical systems that arise in nature. In addition to finding mathematical models of these systems, the talk focused on using numerical analysis to describe long-term evolution. More ...

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Adam Van Wynsberghe has published a paper titled “Role of Secondary Sialic Acid Binding Sites in Influenza N1 Neuraminidase” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The work was carried out in collaboration with Jeffrey Sung, an undergraduate at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), and collaborators from the University of California-Irvine and UCSD. More ...

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give a poetry reading on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 12:30 p.m. at Utica College’s MacFarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, as part of the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series. More ...