selected papers from that conference, tentatively titled Constructing Publics: Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern German Lands. It will be published in the Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies Series (Early Modern German Studies, 2). McColl also received a travel grant from Oberlin College to carry out research on the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s collections for Phase II of the CD-ROM project, Masterworks for Learning.
Donald Munson, the Joseph H. McLain Professor of Environmental Studies, attended the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Denver, where he participated in a symposium on “The Use of Protozoa as Indicators of Ecological Stress.” At that same meeting, he was installed as the president-elect of the American Microscopical Society for 1999. He will assume the role of President in 2000.
SEAN O CONNOR, professor of education, conducted a two-day workshop on “Interactive Teaching—A Developmental Journey” for the Teacher Training Faculty of 80 of Volda College in Loen. He met with faculty and section leaders to discuss program implications and curriculum development. In July, he conducted a series of workshops at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, for faculty from each of the state capital cities. In December, he served as chair of the Maryland State Department of Education Team for Approval of the UMES Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Teacher Education.
KLAUS PLONIEN received a grant from the American
Loichot also recently had an article, “Renaming the Name: Glissant and Walcott’s Reconstruction of the Caribbean Self,” accepted for publication in The Journal of Caribbean Literatures in a special issue titled “The Caribbean That Is,” to be released this November. In addition, her essay “Negations and Subversions of Paternal Authorities in Glissant’s Fictional Works” was accepted for publication as a book chapter in Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literatures.
EUGENIA PORTO, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, in November presented a paper titled “Universal Health Care: Whose Medicine Are We Distributing?” at the Third International Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association
Jason Rubin, assistant professor of drama, had his book review “The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870” published in November’s Theatre Survey, Journal of American Society of Theatre Research.
JEANETTE SHERBONDY, associate professor of anthropology, has published her chapter on “Andean Irrigation in History” in the new book Searching for Equity: Conceptions of Justice and Equity in Peasant Irrigation. She has also published a book review of Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua’s Relacion de antiguedades deste Reyno del Piru: An Ethnohistorical and Linguistic
JIM SIEMEN, professor of psychology, once again succeeded in having all class projects from his Health Psychology class included at poster sessions at this year's annual meeting of the Eastern Psychology Association.
KAREN SMITH, professor of physical education, was the host and producer of the 26th State Dance Festival, held at W.C. in October. She authored the article "The Spiritual Foundations of Dance" and was the editor of a feature section by the same name will appear in the spring issue of ICHPER-SD Journal (Intl. council for Health, Phys. Ed., Recereation, Sport and Dance).
