Faculty/Staff Achievements
Kevin Brien, professor of philosophy and religion, presented the paper “Mythos and Logos: Historical Materialism and Buddhism” this summer for faculty of the University of Warsaw, Poland. He also lectured on “Buddhism and Environmental Ethics” at the University of Delaware and on “Buddhism and Christianity” at a Summer Institute of Shrewsbury Church.
Martin Connaughton, assistant professor of biology, was invited by Cornell University to participate in the creation of an archive of marine sounds to be housed at the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, the largest collection of animal sounds in the world. He was invited to present his work on the “Use of Sound for Localization of Spawning Weakfish in Delaware Bay” at an international symposium on fish bioacoustics in Chicago in May. He also was invited to speak on “Weakfish Sonic Muscle: Influence of Size, Temperature and Season” at a satellite meeting of the XXXIV International Congress of Physiological Sciences in Wallongong, Australia.
Thomas Cousineau, professor of English, wrote a review of Anthony Uhlmann’s Beckett and Poststructuralism for the literary journal Criticism, and has been appointed editor of The Beckett Circle/Le Cercle de Beckett, the newsletter of the Samuel Beckett Society. He also will serve as the American representative of the Thomas Bernhard Foundation in Vienna, Austria. His article, “The Great Gatsby: Romance or Holocaust?”, has been accepted for publication by Contagion, a cultural-studies journal published by the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.
Assistant professor of biology, Doug Darnowski, has signed a contract with Rosenberg Publishers, New South Wales, Australia, for the publication of a book, tentatively titled Triggerplants. He was the second author on a paper, titled “Processing and Localization of Bovine b-casein -Expressed in Transgenic Soybean Seeds under Control of a Soybean Lectin Expression Cassette,” in Plant Cell -Reports. Darnowski also has been named to a term, through 2006, on the Editorial Committee of the Plant Science Bulletin, published by the Botanical Society of America.
Melissa Deckman, assistant professor of political science, published the article “Understanding the Mobilization of Professionals,” co-authored with Sue Crawford (Creighton University) and Laura Olson (Clemson University), in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. A book chapter, titled “Gender and the Political Choices of Women Clergy,” co-authored with Sue Crawford and Christi Braun, appeared in the book Christian Clergy in American Politics, published this year by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lisa Graham, instructor in German, gave a presentation at the Linguistics Colloquium at the University of North Carolina, titled “Exploring Grammatical Channels: The Interaction of Form and Function in the Development of ‘das’ in Old High German.”
This summer, the National Science Foundation awarded a $30,000 grant to Austin Lobo, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, for a project titled “ITR/ACS: Collaborative Research–Linbox: A Generic Library for Seminumeric Black Box Linear Algebra.”
Donald McColl, assistant professor of art, co-chaired a session titled “Art and the Reformation(s): Intention, Reception, and Interpretation,” in which he delivered the paper “Trial by Water: On the Role of Fountains, Rivers and Lakes in Early Modern European Iconoclasm,” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Denver.
Biologist Don Munson, the Joseph H. McLain Professor of Environmental Studies, attended two international conferences this past summer: The IX International Conference on the Biology and Pathogenecity of Free-Living Amoebae in Paris, France, and the XI International Congress of Protozoology in Austria. He had a paper published and co-chaired a session at the conference he attended in France, and delivered a paper at the conference in Austria.
Christine Pabon, associate professor of French, participated in three roundtable discussions on “Albert Camus–La revolte” at the Third International Colloquium of Poitiers.
George Shivers, professor of Spanish, had his translation of a short story by Brazilian Romantic writer Herculano Marcos Ingles de Sousa, titled “Maria’s Love,” accepted for publication in the forthcoming anthology Literary Amazonia.
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