Professor of Biology Patrick D. Reynolds has been appointed Associate Dean of Faculty at Hamilton College, effective July 1, 2007. He succeeds Associate Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow whose term ends on June 30. In addition, in a restructuring in the Dean of Faculty Office, the new position of Assistant Dean for Diversity Initiatives will be filled by Associate Professor of English Steven Yao. The announcement was made by Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo, who noted that "the new configuration identifies a point person on the faculty who will devote a considerable portion of his energies to diversity initiatives and programs on campus." Yao's appointment is also effective on July 1.
Reynolds, a National Science Foundation grantee, is an expert on marine invertebrate biology, particularly the evolution of Mollusca -- the phylum that includes snails, clams and squid. Earlier in 2006, he contributed a chapter to a new book, The Mollusks: A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation (the American Malacological Society). Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of their hollow, curved, conical tube shape. He is editor-in-chief of Invertebrate Biology, the journal of the American Microscopical Society.
Reynolds received his B.Sc. from University College, Galway, Ireland, and his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, Canada. He has worked with biology student research assistants on cruises and at marine field stations along both coasts of North America and in Antarctica. His recent publications have appeared in Advances in Marine Biology, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, and in Molecular systematics and phylogeography of mollusks (Smithsonian Institution Press). Reynolds has been a visiting scientist at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Caribo Cay, Belize, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum in London.
Steven Yao earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Ohio State University from 1997 to 2002. He is the author of Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2002). Yao's academic interests include literary translation, poetry, Asian-American literature and cross-cultural poetics. In 2005 he was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for his project "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Poetry and the Language of Ethnicity." He also served as a Stanford Humanities Center External Junior Faculty Fellow for 2005-06. The award involved a 10-month residency at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Yao has published in the journals Comparative Literature, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and Annales du Monde Anglophone. In 2005 he was elected to a four-year term on the board of directors of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Reynolds, a National Science Foundation grantee, is an expert on marine invertebrate biology, particularly the evolution of Mollusca -- the phylum that includes snails, clams and squid. Earlier in 2006, he contributed a chapter to a new book, The Mollusks: A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation (the American Malacological Society). Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of their hollow, curved, conical tube shape. He is editor-in-chief of Invertebrate Biology, the journal of the American Microscopical Society.
Reynolds received his B.Sc. from University College, Galway, Ireland, and his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, Canada. He has worked with biology student research assistants on cruises and at marine field stations along both coasts of North America and in Antarctica. His recent publications have appeared in Advances in Marine Biology, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, and in Molecular systematics and phylogeography of mollusks (Smithsonian Institution Press). Reynolds has been a visiting scientist at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Caribo Cay, Belize, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum in London.
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