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Volume 11, Number 8
February 2003
The Carleton College Board of Trustees announced that it has awarded tenure to Nelson Christensen, associate professor of physics, Clinton Cowan, assistant professor of geology, Fernan Jaramillo, assistant professor of biology, and Melinda Russell, assistant professor of music.
Jenny Wahl, professor of economics, will have an article titled "Riches to Riches: The Importance of Intergenerational Transfers on Wealth Distribution" appearing in the summer volume of Social Science Quarterly.
Elizabeth Day Geisen '91 was selected as a finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. The 33 finalists now compete for 10 awards, given to the most outstanding teachers in the Chicago, Ill., metropolitan area. Geisen teaches at Oscar Mayer Elementary School and will be recognized at a ceremony at the House of Blues in Chicago.
Kathleen Galotti, professor of psychology and cognitive studies, was appointed to serve a two-year term on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advisory Panel for the Decision, Risk and Management Science Program. She also just completed a third year of service as a panelist on the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
George Soule, professor emeritus of English, presented a lecture titled "The Ancient Mariner: A Consumer's Guide" at the Wordsworth Winter School in England.
Qiguang Zhao, the Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese, won a prize in a poetry competition sponsored by the Guangming Daily, one of China's major journals. Zhao's writing is a classic and rhythmic prose on the direction of culture development.
Yumiko Oshima-Ryan, assistant professor of music, performed at Landmark Center in Saint Paul as part of the Schubert Club's Courtroom Concert Series.
Arjendu Patanayak, assistant professor of physics, published a paper titled "Parameter Scaling in the Decoherent Quantum-Classical Transition for Chaotic Systems" in the January 10 issue of Physical Review Letters. The work was done in collaboration with Bala Sundaram of the City University of New York and Benjamin D. Greenbaum of Columbia University.
Greg Hewett, assistant professor of English, had a short story titled "Ruins" accepted for publication in the national quarterly Prairie Schooner.
Parna Sengupta, assistant professor of history, published an article titled "An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy" in Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly.
Jerome Levi, associate professor of anthropology, published "A New Dawn or a Cycle Restored? Regional Dynamics and Cultural Politics in Indigenous Mexico, 1978-2001." This was a lead chapter in a new edited volume "The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States."
Becky Boling, professor of Spanish, published an articled titled "The Masturbatory Subject: Ana María del Río's Siete días de la señora K" in Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamerican.
Julie Neiworth, professor of psychology, Eric Steinmark '01, Benjamin M. Basile '02, Ryann Wonders '02, Frances Steely '01 and Catherine Dehart '02 will publish an article titled "A Test of Object Permanence in a New World Monkey Species, Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)" in the international journal Animal Cognition. The journal has also selected the article to appear online at: http://link.springer.de/journals/ancog/
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