Stacy N. Beckwith, assistant professor of Hebrew, has been awarded a Maurice Amado Foundation Research Fund in Sephardic Studies grant for her book project on Spanish and Israeli literature and national memory.

Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, edited “The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton’s Legacy in U.S. Politics” and has a new book out titled “You Call This an Election? America’s Peculiar Democracy.”

Jerome Levi, associate professor of anthropology, presented a talk titled “Rethinking the Chiapas Rebellion: Regional Dynamics and Cultural Politics in Indigenous Mexico” at Hamline University.

Timothy Raylor, associate professor of English, has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars by the American Council of Learned Studies (ACLS). The fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and social sciences. Raylor’s project is titled “The Foundations of Hobbes’ Natural Philsophy: Texts and Contexts” and will be based at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Macalady, assistant professor of geology, published an invited “Frontiers Review” paper titled “Molecular geomicrobiology: genes and geochemical cycling” in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Macalady’s co-author is Jillian Banfield from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jerry Mohrig, the Hermann and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of the Natural Sciences, has co-authored a new laboratory textbook titled “Modern Projects and Experiments in Organic Chemistry, 2e” published by W. H. Freeman. Mohrig’s co-authors are Christina Hammond, Paul Schatz and Terry Morrill. Mohrig has also been reappointed as a consultant to the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Professional Training.

Matt Semanoff, the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classical Languages, recently gave a presentation titled “Vati parete perito: Triangulating the Roles of the Narrator in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria” at the annual meeting of The Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Maurice Clark, visiting assistant professor of physics, recently gave a presentation for the Bucknell University physics department titled “Asteroid Photometry with a CCD Camera.”

Susan Singer, the Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning and the Coordinator of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, published a paper in Plant Physiology titled, “Axillary Meristem Development: Budding Relationships between Networks Controlling Flowering, Branching, and Photoperiod Responsiveness.” Singer’s co-authors from Australia and the United Kingdom are Christine A. Beveridge, James L. Weller and Julie M.I. Hofer.

George Tangalos ’03, a senior geology major and biochemistry minor, recently spoke at a meeting of the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG), Minnesota Section. Tangalos was the recipient of the AIPG Minnesota student research grant in fall 2002. During the summer of 2002, George worked with the United States Geological Survey and a University of Southern California grad student on Kodiak Island, Alaska, studying the near trench intrusion residing there. Tangalos’ talk was titled “Genesis and contamination of the Kodiak Batholith, Kodiak Island, Alaska: using d18O to quantify the assimilated component of the Batholith.”