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Carolyn Sanford (library) and Paula Lackie (ITS) present at EDUCAUSE.
9 April 2003Carolyn Sanford, head of reference and instruction at Gould Library, and Paula Lackie, academic computing coordinator for the social sciences and humanities, led a panel presentation titled “Focusing Support on the Disciplines: Effective Models of Collaboration and Assessment” at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference.
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“Vaudeville 1903” to be Topic of Convocation
9 April 2003Ronald Rodman, associate professor of music, and the North Star Cinema Orchestra will demonstrate the components of a typical Vaudeville show of 1903 at Convocation at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, April 11 in the Concert Hall.
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Faculty Share Research Opportunities With Students
8 April 2003Joel Weisberg, professor of physics and astronomy, takes students to the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico to do first-hand research.
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Sharla Fett ’83 wins James A. Rawley Prize
8 April 2003The Organization of American Historians (OAH) recently awarded Sharla Fett ’83 their James A. Rawley Prize for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. Fett’s book, “Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations” is an examination of the difference between the ways slaveholders and enslaved African Americans viewed health and healing on antebellum plantations. The OAH said Fett’s book is “skillfully researched, charts a new course in the human relations of healing and health and will surely alter the direction of future antebellum medical studies and the historiography of slavery.” Fett is currently visiting assistant professor of history at Occidental College. Fett majored in biology at Carleton.
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Arjendu Pattanayak (physics) presents in Wisconsin and Texas
7 April 2003Arjendu Pattanayak, assistant professor of physics, gave a panel presentation titled “Time-management and other survival techniques” at the New Faculty Workshop/Reunion of the American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers. Pattanayak also gave the R.G. Herb Materials physics seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on “Coherence and decoherence in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems.”
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Minnesota State Epidemiologist to Speak at Carleton
7 April 2003Minnesota State Epidemiologist Harry Hull will speak on “Plague, Polio, Measles and Smallpox: Disease Eradication and Bioterrorism” at Carleton College at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9 in Boliou Hall, Room 104. The annual Sigma Xi lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Carleton’s biology department.
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Parker Wheatley (economics) publishes in AJAA
7 April 2003W. Parker Wheatley, visiting instructor in economics, published an article titled “The natural and organic pork market: A sustainable niche for small-scale producers? A review and analysis of the evidence” in the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture.
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Brice Keown ’04 quoted in Washington Post
6 April 2003Brice Keown ’04 and his dad, Paul, were quoted in an April 6 Washington Post travel section article titled “This April in Paris” that interviewed American tourists about their experiences traveling in France during the current situation in Iraq. Their main concern was the appropriateness of a vacation holiday at this time, rather than safety. Ultimately, they decided “It’s more important then ever to come, to make connections and bridge cultures,” Paul said. Brice is majoring in economics.
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Laura McAfee ’88 quoted in Washington Post
6 April 2003Laura McAfee ’88 was quoted in an April 6 Washington Post article titled “The cruelest month: If it’s April, it must be agony” about the role of springtime campus visits in making college choices. McAfee said that her campus visit to Carleton influenced her to choose the College over her original first choice school. McAffee majored in English at Carleton.
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Ellen Benavides ’80 featured in Star Tribune career article
5 April 2003An April 5 Star Tribune article titled “Career moves mean more than just changing jobs,” featured Ellen Benavides ’80. Benavides has been director of health policy for the Hennepin County Bureau of Health, apprenticed as a furniture maker in Nova Scotia and is now making video documentaries. “If I’m not learning something new, contributing something and having fun, then it’s time for me to move on,” said Benavides.Benevides majored in psychology at Carleton. The article also mentioned former visiting assistant professor of history, Rachel Seidman, now a writer/researcher.
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