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Mija Van Der Wege (psychology) publishes article.
12 May 2003Mija Van Der Wege, assistant professor of psychology, published an article titled “The effects of information scent on visual search in the hyperbolic tree browser” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Van Der Wege also gave two presentations at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting titled “Grounding through using pointing and placing gestures” (co-authored with Herbert H. Clark and Anna Katz) and “Grounding multiple tasks in different communication media.”
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Writer Maxine Hong Kingston to Speak at Carleton
10 May 2003Maxine Hong Kingston, author of “The Woman Warrior,” “China Men,” and “Tripmaster Monkey,” will present the convocation address at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, May 16 at Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel. A book signing will follow the convocation. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Stephen Kelly (dean for budget and planning) quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education.
9 May 2003Stephen Kelly, dean for budget and planning and the Dye Family Professor of Music, was quoted in a May 9 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Higher and Higher: Many Private Colleges Plan to Raise Tuition at a Rate Exceeding Inflation and Recent Increases.” Kelly commented on Carleton’s efforts to keep costs down. “We’ve left no stone unturned,” he said.
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Arnold Donald ’76 featured in St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
9 May 2003Arnold Donald ’76, CEO of Merisant, was featured in a May 9 interview in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled “Arnold Donald Wants To Equal-ize His Business.” The interview centered on the challenges of marketing sweeteners. Donald majored in economics at Carleton.
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Robert Woolsey ’70 cited in Vancouver Business Journal.
9 May 2003Robert Woolsey ’70, was featured as a “Person of the Day” by the Vancouver Business Journal on May 9. Woolsey was recently named vice president of Columbia Credit Union’s business banking department. A recent survey by Goldman Sachs named Columbia as one of the top 25 credit unions nationwide in terms of business loan assets. Woolsey majored in government at Carleton.
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Jason Lord ’06 presents prize-winning paper at Twin Cities conference.
8 May 2003Jason Lord ’06 presented a paper on direct foreign investment in Russia at the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities Russian and Eastern European Studies Conference. Lord was awarded first place in the student research paper competition. Lord is majoring in studio art and economics at Carleton.
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Qiguang Zhao (Chinese) appears on Chinese television.
8 May 2003Qiguang Zhao, the Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese, appeared on Chinese national television channels CCTV-2 and CCTV-9 (the English channel) discussing American culture and the war in Iraq. He also worked with the Chinese national channel CCTV-4 on a comparative culture program which will air in the near future.
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Scott Harrison ’65 appointed to Great Lakes Protection Fund board.
8 May 2003D. Scott Harrison ’65 was featured in a Cook County News-Herald story on May 8 titled “Governor appoints Scott Harrison to lake protection fund board.” Harrison, owner of Lutsen Resort, is the newest member appointed by the Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty to the Great Lakes Protection Fund board of directors. “It’s an honor, particularly since I live on the water. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t look out there and think about its future,” Harrison said. Harrison majored in government at Carleton.
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Carleton Players Present ‘Spring Awakening’
7 May 2003The Carleton Players present “Spring Awakening” by the German Expressionist playwright Frank Wedekind, translated and adapted by Thomas Hughes. The play opens Wednesday, May 14 and run through May 17 at Carleton’s Arena Theater. Performances will begin at 8 p.m. each night and the doors will open at 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
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Even Pay ’05 featured in story about China experience.
7 May 2003Even Pay ’05 was interviewed for a story titled “Rapid City student gets first-hand glimpse of SARS outbreak” that appeared in the May 6 Rapid City (S.D.) Journal and the May 7 Aberdeen (S.D.) American News. Pay was one of 35 students on a Beijing off-campus study program that returned to campus early because of the threat of SARS. “We believed the [Chinese] government’s numbers. We didn’t perceive a threat,” Pay said regarding the decision to go ahead with the program. Pay is a political science/IR major.
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