"The Psalms in Monastic Prayer," written by Music Prof. Joseph Dyer, has been published in The Place of Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages, edited by Nancy Van Deusen and published by the State University of New York Press, Albany.
Penn State University Press will publish a new edition of the 1841 book, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia by Joseph Willson, with annotations and a new biography of the author by History Prof. Julie Winch. The book will be available in Fall, 2000.
Prof. Richard Horsley of the Religious Studies Program has written a book, Archaeology, History and Society in Galilee: The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis, published by Trinity Press International (1998). He also published a commentary, "1 Corinthians," in the Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (1998)
Prof. Donaldo Macedo, director of the Bilingual/ESL Graduate Program has coauthored two new books: Critical Education in the New Information Age, with Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and Paul Willis, published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, and Paulo Freire Reader, with Anna-Maria Freire, published by Continuum Publications. As a series editor for Rowman and Littlefield, he edited and wrote forewards for Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire, Debatable Diversity by Raymond Padilla, and Latinos Unidos by Henry Trueba.
Art Prof. Anne McCauley's catalogue essay, "Geschickte Fotografen: Daguerreotypien und Portraits der Familie Bisson," was published in Die Brüder Bisson: Aufstieg und Fall eines Fotografen -unternehmens im 19. Jahrhundert (also in a French edition) for an exhibition currently on display at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, and travelling to the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the Münchner Stadtmuseum.
Theatre Arts Prof. Diane Almeida's book, Ramon del-Valle-Inclan and Luis Bunuel: The Esperpento Tradition, has been accepted for publication by Mellen Press.
Chemistry Prof. John Warner and Biology Prof. Manickam Sugumaran are coediting a compendium of presentations from the American Chemical Society meeting relevant to "green chemistry," to be published by Oxford University Press.
Prof. Richard Horsley of the Religious Studies Program delivered a featured lecture at a conference, Archaeology and the Bible: Jews and Christians in a Roman World, held at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the American Chemical Society Meeting held in Anaheim California, March 21 to 25, presentations were made by Profs. John Warner (Chemistry), Manickam Sugumaran (Biology), and Rachel Skvirsky (Biology); postdoctoral student Alessandra Morelli; graduate students Tian-Ying Jian, Donna DeVincent, and Carlos Tassa (Chemistry), and Steve Mullin (Biology); undergraduate students Felix Epie, Guimy Cesar, Khai Bui (Chemistry or Biochemistry); graduates Tiffany Palmer, Whitney Pressler, and Michelle Priego (BS in Chemistry or Biochemistry); Jie Bai (MS, Chemistry) and Can Eristi (BS in biology). Also attending the conference was undergraduate Man-Ching Ku, recipient of the Litton Scholarship.
NERCHE Director Deborah Hirsch presented at the national conference of the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators in New Orleans on the topic of "Changing Faculty Roles: Opportunities for Collaboration."
Art Prof. Anne McCauley served as a panelist for a symposium organized by the Houghton Library at Harvard University, "The Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography," held Mar. 10 and 11. On Mar. 15, McCauley presented a lecture at Tufts University, "Brides of Men and Brides of Art: The Photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron and the Women's Movement of the 1860s." In conjunction with the exhibition "French Photography: Le Gray to Atget" at the Museum of Fine Arts, McCauley presented a series of gallery talks in January and March.
Associate Dean Donald Babcock presented "Putting the Pieces Together" a workshop on creating effective distance learning programs, at the 9th Annual Telecon East Conference on March 18 in Washington, D.C.
Prof. Edmund Beard of the Political Science Department and McCormack Institute, presented an analysis of the Clinton impeachment to Boston Latin School teachers on Feb. 23.
History Prof. Julie Winch presents a lecture, "The Forten Family: Fighting for Liberty," at the Old South Meeting House on April 8 as part of their Midday at the Meeting House lecture series. Winch will speak on African American father and son James Forten and Robert Bridges Forten, who were Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans, respectively.
The Irish Studies Program sponsored a reading by Irish novelist Timothy O'Grady, author of I could Read the Sky, in the Harbor Art Gallery on March 12.
Theatre Arts Prof. John Conlon appeared as attorney Watson Frye in Close Ties by Elizabeth Diggs a the North Quincy Alumni Theatre through March 20. The cast includes theatre arts student Kevin Lowney and GCOE alum Michael Jorgenson, a faculty member at North Quincy High School.
Political Science Prof. Karen Callaghan has received the Goldsmith Research Award from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The award will support her research program, "Media Frames, Pressure Groups, and Politicians: An Analysis of Public Policy Debate Formation," which considers how the media, interest groups, politicians and others interact to frame public policy choices.
Art Prof. Anne McCauley has been appointed a Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor at the National Portrait Gallery to study their early 20th Century portraits.
A book edited by Anthropology Prof. Frederick Gamst, Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's Die innern Communicationen (1842-1843), was nominated for the Aurora Borealis Prize of the Federation Internationales des Traducteurs, Vienna, "for outstanding translation of non-fiction literature."
Jack Pizer, coordinator of the Gerontology Institute's New England Pension Assistance Project, was profiled in an article in the February issue of Readers Digest, on "New Choices in Retirement."
Dick Lourie, senior editor, Publications, appears in the April issue of National Geographic Magazine, playing saxophone behind Blues singer Big Jack Johnson in an article, "Travelling the Blues Highway."
CPCS Prof. Philip Hart and his wife Tanya Hart were recently featured in an article in the Los Angeles Times. The article touched on their movie, "Flyers in Search of a Dream" and his book, Flying Free: America's First Black Aviators," as well as the development of the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, the airports and flight schools located there, and the prominence of the neighborhood for African American culture.
Barbara Davis, administrative assistant in the Anthropology department and vice chair of the Holbrook school committee, was interviewed in The Boston Globe in March and in the Jan/Feb issue of MultiMedia Schools regarding her work with the Holbrook Public Schools web site.
On April 14, Helen Miltiades, Doctoral candidate in gerontology, defends her dissertation, "Filial Expression Across Geographic Boundaries: Asian Indian Immigrants to the United States and Their Non-Immigrant Parents," in the CPCS conference room, 4th floor, Wheatley Hall, at 2 p.m.
Terri Salmons, doctoral candidate in gerontology, defends her dissertation on April 13 at 10 a.m. in the Troy Colloquium Room, 2nd floor, Wheatley Hall. The title of her dissertation is "Wandering, Getting Lost, and Alzheimer's Disease: Influences on Precautions Taken and Levels of Supervision Provided by Caregivers."
Gerontology doctoral candidate Kathy Fabiszewski defends her dissertation "Choices and Tradeoffs in Advanced Alzheimer's Disease: Balancing Survival, Health, Comfort, and Cost" on April 2. The defense will take place in the CPCS conference room, 4th floor, Wheatley Hall at 10:30 a.m.
Prof. Sam Walker of the Art Department and president of the Boston Printmakers, has coordinated The 1999 North American Print Biennial, which is being held at the 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, through April 3. In addition, Walker also inaugurated the first Arches Student Printmaking Exhibition, a juried show of student work from art schools throughout Boston, which is also on display at the 808 Gallery.
"Flyers in Search of a Dream," a movie written and produced by
Prof. Philip Hart of CPCS and his wife Tanya Hart, was
recently screened at the 7th Annual Pan African Film Festival at the
Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles. Another Hart film, "Dark
Passages" was screened at the festival last year. Both films were
also screened at the Annual Women of Color Theater Arts Festival in
New York City in March.
The Center for Communications Media and Distance Learning Program served as the host site for a national tournament sponsored by the National Academic League on March 10. The University's PictureTel videoconferencing equipment was used in an academic competition between students from the Winthrop Middle School and students from a middle school in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Music Prof. David Patterson's portrait overture, Strayhorn in Harlem, 1941, was released in VMM compact disc 3047. The tribute to Billy Strayhorn was performed by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Toshiyuki Shimada.