Carleton senior researches use of immune system to battle cancer cells.

Ken Abrams, Associate Professor of Psychology, published a paper in the recently released Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium on Field Studies. The article was titled “Inducing ‘Disorienting Dilemmas’ through Visits to Psychiatric Institutions in Prague.” The ACM sponsored symposium was held last July in Colorado Springs.

Tun Myint, Associate Professor of Political Science, presented a paper titled, “Rationality beyond one life,” at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1 through 4, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology, co-authored a paper in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology titled, “Fine-scale association between parasites and sex in Potamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail) within a New Zealand lake.” The research for the paper was undertaken during the Biology Off-Campus Program to Australia and New Zealand in 2014. Co-authors include six Carleton alums: Maurine Neiman ’99, Dan Cook ’15, Laura Freymiller ’15, Darcy Mishkind ’16, Anna Quinlan ’14, and Jocelyn York ’15.

Frank McNally, visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, recently co-authored an article in The Astrophysical Journal titled “Anisotropy in Cosmic-Ray Arrival Directions in the Southern Hemisphere Based on Six Years of Data from the IceCube Detector.” This work was done in collaboration with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a member of the IceCube Collaboration.

Justin London, Professor of Music and Cognitive Science, was involved with a number of presentations at the recent International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, held July 5 through 9…

Michael Flynn, William H. Laird Professor of Linguistics and the Liberal Arts; and Jeff Ondich, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science; have been awarded a grant from the National Science…

Rob Hardy, Research Associate, has an invited essay in the Spring 2016 issue of The Bottle Imp, the online journal of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, which is devoted to Naomi Mitchison. His essay, “Encounters in the Fairy Hill,” explores the connections between Mitchison’s children’s book The Fairy Who Couldn’t Tell a Lie (1963) and her memoir of becoming an honorary member of the Bakgatla tribe in Botswana, Return to the Fairy Hill (1966). Hardy’s two earlier essays on Mitchison—”Naomi Mitchison: Peaceable Transgressor” (New England Review) and “‘Real and Not Real’: Naomi Mitchison’s Philosophy of the Historical Novel” (Readings)—were recently reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 327, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau (Gage/Cengage Learning 2016).