Doug Grow’s April 3 column in the Star Tribune titled “Banned from the pulpit, but still a believer” featured Mel White, the Pride Month speaker at Carleton that day.

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.

Mel White, executive director of Soulforce, will give a talk titled “Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3 at Severance Great Hall at Carleton College. The talk is free and open to the public.

Richard Strong, director of facilities management and planning, was quoted in the April 2003 issue of American School & University in an article titled “Peak Performance.” The article highlighted Carleton’s efforts to make the campus environmentally friendly and develop sustainable, high-performance buildings. “It started out as student-driven,” said Strong, “but everybody seems to think it’s a very good thing to be involved with.”

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.”

John Schott, the James Woodward Strong Professor of Liberal Arts and director of media studies, was quoted in a story in the March 28 issue of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press titled “Pictures from Iraq show two different wars.” “The issue is the unwillingness of editors and publishers to put themselves on ‘the wrong side’ of a war,” he said in the story. “It’s not government censorship but censorship all up and down the line, for fear of retaliation from readers or viewers.”

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.