At its meeting on February 3, 2007 the Board of Trustees granted tenure to the following faculty: Christopher Bakken, assistant professor of English; Jennifer Hellwarth, assistant professor of English; Rachel O'Brien, assistant professor of geology; Stephen Onyeiwu, assistant professor of economics; PJ Persichini, assistant professor of chemistry; and Caryn Werner, assistant professor of mathematics. They will become associate professors in fall 2007.
Eight Allegheny students have been selected to perform with the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band — the nation's oldest intercollegiate band — at its 60th annual festival, to be held at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania from March 2 to 4: Damon Harvey '07 (trumpet), Glenna Kramer '08 (trombone), Michael Lloyd '09 (clarinet), Bonnie Sand '08 (tuba), Christopher Seeley '10 (tuba), Rachel Stamateris '10 (clarinet), Chrissy Ungaro '07 (flute), and Christopher Wahlmark '09 (alto saxophone). They will be accompanied to the festival by three faculty members: Lowell Hepler, director of bands at Allegheny; Ronald Stitt, trombone and low brass instructor and assistant director of bands; and Julie Hepler, woodwinds coordinator.
Nathan Clendenin '07 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Carla Bluhm have been invited to present their paper “The look of another: Psychoanalytic perspectives on face transplantations” to the Division of Psychoanalysis at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco in August 2007.
Professor of Modern Languages Peter Ensberg's book The Beautiful God: Structures of Aesthetic and Theological Experience is scheduled to appear next month in Germany. Published by Königshausen & Neumann, a prestigious press for interdisciplinary studies, the book discusses representations of God in works of art from a philosophical perspective, starting with Plato and ending with Wittgenstein and Derrida. The project was supported by the German Fritz Thyssen research foundation through a grant that allowed Professor Ensberg to take a leave of absence in 2001 and a publication grant in 2006 upon completion of the project.
Julie Hepler, adjunct instructor of music and woodwinds coordinator, was a featured soloist with the River Cities Symphony, performing the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b. She serves as principal bassoonist for the orchestra, which is based in Marietta, Ohio and Parkersburg, W.V. She also frequently serves as the acting principal bassoonist with the West Virginia Symphony and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.
Terrence Mitchell, assistant to the president for institutional diversity, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. NADOHE is the principal organization of the chief and senior diversity officers in higher education institutions. The association was established in response to the growing need for higher education to leverage and maximize investments in diversity initiatives, provide opportunities for cross-institutional exchange and fertilization of ideas, and enhance professional standards among diversity workers.
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