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Arjendu Pattanayak (physics) gives talks in India.
17 March 2004Arjendu Pattanayak, assistant professor of physics, gave a talk titled “Coherence and decoherence in nonlinear quantum and classical systems” at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi and at the Institute of Physics in Bhubaneswar, India. Dan Brooks ’05 also was at JNU over winter break, working with a colleague, Ram Ramaswamy.
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Elizabeth McKinsey (English and American studies) serves on panels.
17 March 2004Elizabeth McKinsey, professor of English and American studies, organized and served as a panelist for a session titled “Liberal Learning and the Scholarship of Teaching” at the meetings of the American Conference of Academic Deans and Association of American Colleges and Universities.
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Michael McNally (religion) receives NEH Fellowship.
17 March 2004Michael McNally, assistant professor of religion, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support completion of a book, “Honoring Elders: Ojibwe Aging, Religion and Authority.” The NEH Fellowship will allow him to take a year’s leave to investigate attitudes toward aging in the context of Ojibwe traditions, particularly in how this concept plays out in the Ojibwe oral tradition.
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Kristina Garrett publishes in Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.
17 March 2004Kristina (Tina) Garrett, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, published an article titled “A Combinatorial Proof of the Sum of q-Cubes” in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. Kristen Hummel ’04, a math major, assisted Garret with the research.
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Neil Lutsky (psychology), Melinda Jensen ’03 and Elizabeth Sehr ’04 present at conferences.
17 March 2004Neil Lutsky, professor of psychology, organized a day-long pre-conference titled Teaching Social and Personality Psychology that was held prior to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting. Lutsky presented a talk titled “Teaching the Science of Social Psychology” at the pre-conference and a research paper, co-authored with Melinda Jensen ’03 and Elizabeth Sehr ’04, titled “Palm Readings of Conscientiousness” at the main conference. Lutsky also has been appointed treasurer of Division 1 of the American Psychological Association.
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Shazad Bashir (religion) awarded ACLS and NEH Fellowships.
17 March 2004Shazad, Bashir, assistant professor of religion, received the 2004-05 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from The American Council of Learned Societies and a 2005-06 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The awards will allow Bashir to take a two-year sabbatical, during which he will compose a manuscript on the late medieval religious history of the Islamic East.
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Eric Janus ’68 named new vice dean at William Mitchell.
17 March 2004Eric Janus ’68 has been named the vice dean for academic affairs at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. Janus has been teaching at William Mitchell since 1984, after 11 years as staff and managing attorney for Minneapolis Legal Aid. He is a national expert on public policy approaches to sexual violence and helped to establish William Mitchell’s Law and Psychiatry Clinic. Janus majored in mathematics at Carleton.
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Anne Patrick (religion) gives lecture at St. Bernard’s School of Theology.
17 March 2004Anne Patrick, the William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, gave a lecture titled “Conscience in Process: Becoming a More Confident Decision-Maker” at St. Bernard’s School of Theology in Rochester, N.Y.
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Qiguang Zhao (Chinese) publishes in China Information.
17 March 2004Qiguang Zhao, the Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese, published an article titled “Appearances of Chinese and Western Dragons” in the February 2004 issue of China Information.
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Wally Weitz ’70 Named to USA Today’s All-Star Mutual Fund Team
15 March 2004Wally Weitz, a 1970 Carleton graduate and a member of the Board of Trustees, has been named to USA Today’s All-Star Mutual Fund Team. Weitz manages the Weitz Partners Value fund in Omaha. In its February 23 issue, USA Today says: “Wally Weitz sees his fund as a sort of bridge between short-term traders and long-term investors: When traders panic, he gets good stocks cheap.”
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