Faculty News

Professor of History Thomas Wilson spoke about Confucian philosophy has influenced modern Chinese cuisine and how “…Confucius has become a brand in a sense," in an article in the Chicago Tribune. In “Philosophy influenced Chinese cuisine,” published on Jan. 10, Wilson summarized the trend.  "It's marketable, and Confucius is the friendly face of civility that kind of replaces the scary face of Mao in past days."

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons spent a week at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute developing code for the computer algebra system Macaulay 2. 

"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn," a book written by Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, was ranked #2 in a Slant Magazine article titled “The 10 Best Film-Studies Books of 2013.”

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Chicago in January.  She organized a panel titled “Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority?" (with Chiara Sulprizio, who previously taught at Hamilton) and introduced the panel.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck co-authored a featured article published in the Jan. 3 issue of The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC).

Professor of Economics Stephen Wu participated in the 2014 American Economic Association Annual Meetings, held in Philadelphia on Jan. 3-5.  He was part of panel discussion of online learning in economics courses in a session titled "Research in Economic Education."

Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, contributed a column on the disappearance of Monarch butterflies to the January/February 2014 issue of the Adirondack Explorer.

An article by Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman titled “Starting Out in the Fifties” appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Dissent Magazine. The publication commissioned Isserman to write the article, a history of the magazine for its 60th anniversary celebration in October 2013.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Calin Trenkov-Wermuth ’00 took his United Nations and Global Security (GOV 388) class to the United Nations headquarters in New York in December.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate was featured in an article in the Deseret News National Edition  titled “How religious art makes secular museums into sacred spaces,” published on Jan. 3. Two sacred objects from the Wellin Museum of Art, an Austrian Schwaz Nativity and a pre-Columbian seated funerary urn, were also displayed prominently in the article.