Washington College Magazine
Faculty/Staff Achievements
LOUISE AMICK, associate professor of mathematics, presented the paper, "Using Writing To Teach Math," at the 35th Annual Mathematics Symposium at Frostburg State University.
ERIN ANDERSON, associate professor of sociology, attended the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The theme of the conference was "Gender in the Context of Globalization: Exploring Diversity and Change."
Kitty Maynard, assistant professor of French, presented "New Directions in Epic: The Case of La Judit," at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco, and "To the Point: The Needle, the Sword, and Female Exemplarity in Du Bartas's La Judit" at the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Sarasota.
Marx, Reason, And The Art Of Freedom, 2nd Ed. by KEVIN BRIEN, professor of philosophy, was just published by Prometheus/Humanity Books. This is an expanded edition of the first edition published in 1987 by Temple University Press.
TOM COUSINEAU, professor of English, presented his paper, "Icarus . . . Ulysses . . . Dedalus . . . Murphy," at Trinity College, Dublin's celebration of the Samuel Beckett centenary. His recent book, Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction, was reviewed in the Woolf Studies Annual.
LISA DANIELS, associate professor of economics, was invited by ACDI/VOCA, an international development nonprofit organization, to attend a two-day workshop on Value-Chain Analyses in Washington, DC. She also reviewed a manuscript, "Bribes, Taxes and Regulations: Business Constraints for Micro Enterprises in Tanzania," as a referee for World Development, and the book, African Economic Development by Emmanual Nnadozie, for African Studies Review.
PEGGY DONNELLY, assistant professor of education, co-presented with her students at the Professional Development School conference in Baltimore. Titles of research presented included "Promoting Higher Level Thinking Through Discussion in Third Grade"; "The Story of How Two Opposites Attract Motivation in the First Grade"; "Improving Reading Comprehension through the Use of Vocabulary Building Strategies in Fifth Grade"; "Determining Main Idea and Supporting Details Using Graphic Organizers"; and "Boys and Reading: How Do We Get Their Attention?" Her article, "'Let Me Show You My Portfolio!' Demonstrating Competence Through Peer Interviews," was published in the Fall 2005 edition of Action in Teacher Education: The Journal of the Association of Teacher Educators.
Christine Wade, assistant professor of political science, presented the paper, "The Politics of Gang Violence in Post-War Central America," at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She also chaired a conference panel on "The Politics of Violence and Response in Post-Conflict Societies."
RICHARD DEPROSPO, professor of English, delivered the paper, "Reading to Transgress: Prison Autodidacticism from The Autobiography of Malcolm X to Monster," at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, and another paper, "Dissing the Master; 'Signifying' from Frederick Douglass to Spike Lee," in Baton Rouge at the National Association of African-American Studies Conference.
MICHAEL HARVEY, associate professor of business management, presented the paper, "'The Play's the Thing': The Power of Drama," at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago.
JUAN LIN, professor of physics, reviewed "The Parts and the Whole" for the International Journal of General Systems, and "Real Time Forecasting for Pandemic Influenza" for Epidemiology and Infection, published by Cambridge University Press.
LAUREN LITTLEFIELD, assistant professor of psychology, co-presented a number of posters with students at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Baltimore. Titles of projects included, "Do teacher-generated mnemonics help or hinder learning in elementary school children?"; "Is there a relationship between letter span and the ability to multi-task?"; "The importance of norms: Measuring the effect of sex and athleticism on self-concept"; and "Empirical vs. creative: A Comparison of emotional quotient scores among different majors."
Professor GEORGE SPILICH was also a collaborator on a poster titled "Metacognition and lies: Are we any good at detecting liars?"
ANNE MARTEEL-PARRISH, assistant professor of chemistry, had five students presenting at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Atlanta at the end of March. Students Cassie Slentz, Ed Hohenstein, and Jamie Johnson presented a poster on the student affiliates' chapter activities. Students Danielle Harlan and Jonathan Martin presented two posters on their past summer research in green chemistry.
DONALD MCCOLL, associate professor of art, was recently awarded a 2006 Summer Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Collection in Washington, DC. He gave a lecture, "Ad Fontes: Iconoclasm by Water in the Reformation World," at the School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and was interviewed for the article, "Critical Eye: Lifting the Shroud off Images of Jesus through the Ages," published in The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, April 9, 2006. Dr. McColl also delivered the lecture, "Early Christianity, Archaeology, and the Sign of Jonah," to members of the River Club, Chestertown, and he was an invited participant in Colloquium CCVII, Alexander Nagel, "Radical Art in Early Sixteenth-Century Italy," at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
MICHAEL MCLENDON, assistant professor of mathematics, published the paper, "Detecting torsion in skein modules using Hochschild homology," in the February 2006 issue of The Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications.
KATE MONCRIEF, assistant professor of English, presented a paper, "'We cannot any way pray her to eat': Starving Girls and the Performance of Femininity in Early Modern England," as part of the "Producing Girls in Early Modern England Panel" at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in San Francisco.
ANDREW OROS, assistant professor of political science, briefed the next crop of America's diplomatic corps to Japan on "Parties and Personalities in Current Japanese Politics" at the Foreign Service Institute. He also delivered an unclassified briefing, "Japan's Potential Contribution to East Asian Integration," to a U.S. State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis workshop in Washington, DC.
Amzie Parcell, professor of music, received the Alumni Association's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement.
CHRISTINE PABON, associate professor of Spanish, has had her article titled "Las Ausencias en 'El Curioso impertinente'" accepted for publication. The third edition of the book La Historia clínica del caballero Don Quixote, for which she wrote the preface and translated research, has been published.
Assistant Dean KATHY SACK, joined by Gallaudet College faculty, presented a program titled "Campus-wide Approaches to Enhancing Students' Emotional Intelligence: Two Case Studies," at the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in Washington, DC.
KAREN SENECAL, assistant professor of business management, moderated a session for the Teaching and Curriculum Section of the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region American Accounting Association on April 21.
KAREN SMITH, professor of physical education, served as an adjudicator for auditions for international dance companies to perform in the World Dance Showcase, to be presented at Publick Playhouse in Cheverly, MD.
RICHARD STRINER, professor of history, has concluded a lecture tour for his new book Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery, which was recently reviewed in The Weekly Standard. He also published an OP/ED, "Wartime Leadership: The First Republican President Versus The Latest," via the online History News Network.
JOHN TAYLOR, professor of political science, delivered a lecture on "The United States Supreme Court: Power and Controversy" to the postgraduate research colloquium of the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, in the United Kingdom.
SUSAN VOWELS, assistant professor of business management, took three students to the March meeting of the Baltimore chapter of APICS, the association for operations management, to hear a presentation by Denise Layfield, Director of Supply Chain Planning and Strategy for the U.S. Consumer Products Division of McCormick and Company. She also presented a paper at the 2006 Southern Association for Information Systems Conference titled "A Strategic Case for RFID: An Examination of Wal-Mart and its Supply Chain."
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