Pearl (Lam) Bergad ’66 was featured in a May 16 article in the Saint Paul Asian American Press titled “Pearl Bergad to receive U of M Outstanding Achievement Award.” Bergad will receive the award at the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences commencement ceremony. The award is the highest honor given to alumni and recognizes exceptional achievement in a professional field or service. Bergad was chosen for her volunteer service to Chinese Americans in Minneapolis and for her use of music to improve understanding among people of different cultures. Bergad majored in biology at Carleton.

Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking” and “Thread of the Silk Worm,” will offer a reading and book signing at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 19 at Carleton College’s Laurence McKinley Gould Library Athenaeum. The event marks the recent release of Chang’s third book, “The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.” The event is free and open to the public.

Carleton will present its annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24 at Carleton’s Arena Theater. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. and the performance will begin at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Richmond Teye Ackam, a Ghanaian artist, will present a Robert Lehman Art Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, at Leighton Hall, Room 304, at Carleton College. The talk is titled “African and African American Painting Culture,” and is free and open to the public.

Kirk Campbell, director of maintenance and custodial services, gave several presentations at the recent Minnesota Midwest Operations Seminar and Trade Show. Campbell spoke on labor saving ideas to facilities professionals in health care and education.

Julie Neiworth, professor of psychology, Cara Sylvester ’03 and Janice Hassett ’03 gave a presentation titled “Is socially-mediated sharing ape-specific? The effects of cooperation and of a food prime on food sharing in cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)” at the Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting. Co-authors include Cassandra McMillan ’03, Melinda Jensen ’03 and Ben Basile ’02. Neiworth, Hassett and Sylvester also gave a presentation titled “Face processing by tamarins and humans: Evidence of conspecific and experiential effects” at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting.

The New York Times ran a story titled “Colleges Find Study Abroad Means SARS Fear at Home” on May 12. The story featured Carleton students who have returned from an off-campus studies program in Beijing. New York Times The Saint Paul Pioneer Press ran the same story under the headline “Carleton offers a case study in handling SARS.” Saint Paul Pioneer Press

Mija 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.”

Maxine 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.

Stephen 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.