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If you're looking for a quiet spot to enjoy this summer's sunny days, visit the Root Glen, where you'll also be treated to a riot of colors provided by the thousands of flowers growing there.

Associate Professor of Government Carol Drogus will travel to Brazil to complete research on a co-authored book, thanks to a Fichter Research Award from the Association for the Sociology of Religion. She also has been named by the Institute for International Education for a three-year term on the country selection committee (Brazil and Southern Cone) for Fulbright-Hayes grants. The committee selects nominees whose names are forwarded to host countries for finalization. Fulbright-Hayes funds doctorate and some master’s-level research. Earlier this month, Drogus’ co-authored paper, "National Alliances: Catholic Activists and Grassroots Feminist Organizations in Brazil and Chile,” was presented by her co-author at the Latin American Studies Association meeting in Washington, DC.

In June, Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel attended the Tenth International Symposiumon Marine Natural Products in Nago, Okinawa. He also supervised four students in research this summer, including a Cornell University student who worked with him under the auspices of the New York Science Education Program. The students made presentations at CHOG, the Colgate-Hamilton Organic Group, which Kinnel initiated and established with Colgate colleagues four years ago

Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner authored the chapter "Democratic Party Ideology in the 1990s: New Democrats or Modern Republicans?" in John Kenneth White and John C. Green, eds., The Politics of Ideas: Intellectual Challenges Facing the American Political Parties (SUNY Press, 2001). In addition, his book, The Losing Parties: Out-Party National Committees, 1956-1993 (Yale University Press, 1994), was cited by Lingua Franca as one of the "best recent books about U.S. political parties." Klinkner has been selected as co-chair of the Politics and History Program for the 2002 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

In May, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Kodat attended the American Literature Association's annual conference in Cambridge, MA, where she presented her paper, "Faulknerian Homotexuality: The Saming Change in Go Down, Moses." In June, she attended the annual conference of the Society for Dance History Scholars at Goucher College in Baltimore, where she presented the paper "The Figure in the Carpet: George Balanchine and the Cold War.”

Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Craig Latrell traveled to Southeast Asia with Emerson Scholar Carter Cox ’03, where they worked on an adaptation of Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Rabinowitz's translation of Euripides' Alcestis utilizing the West Sumatran theatre form "randai." In addition, Latrell presented the paper "Ethnographic Theory in Intercultural Performance" at the Association for Asian Performance Conference at Northwestern University on August 1. As president of the Association for Asian Performance, he helped to coordinate both that conference and the organization's activities at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual conference in Chicago.

Earlier this month, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren presented "Catecholase Activity Associated with Cu-S100B” at the 10th International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry in Florence, Italy. In addition to Elgren, co-authors included SueAnn Senior (laboratory supervisor), Heather VanGuilder '02, Elizabeth Guancial '01, Laura Mans '00 and Kimberly Kelly '96. The abstract was published in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2001) 86, 210. In addition, Elgren and Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel have been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Dreyfus Scholar/Fellowship Program for their project, “An Integrative, Investigative and Advanced Chemistry Laboratory.”

Associate Professor of Economics Christopher Georges presented a paper titled "Learning Dynamics in an Artificial Currency Market" at the 7th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics at Yale University in June.

Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman was awarded an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts for work on her current manuscript, Galactopoiesis. Her poem, "Ultrasounds," will be published soon in the e-book anthology, Sad Little Breathings & Other Acts of Ventriloquism, edited by Heather McHugh and published by PublishingOnline (PublishingOnline.com). Two poems from the cycle Galactopoiesis, "Breather" and "Ward," appeared in the latest edition of the journal River Styx (#60). This past summer Guttman mentored Emerson Summer Collaboration Award recipient Meghan Lynch ’02 on a poetry project, a series of monologues and lyric poems based on the history of the Merrimack River Valley.

Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Levitt Center Paul Hagstrom received a grant from the Institute for Research on Poverty for $12,130 for his research project titled “Food Stamp and Program Participation of Refugees and Immigrants: Measurement Error Correction for Immigrant Status.”