The American Red Cross honored Matt Cellini '09 at the awards ceremony acknowledging the Eighth Annual Heroes of Mid-Fairfield County in Connecticut on March 26. Matt was honored for helping to revive a girl who nearly drowned in a pool where Matt was a lifeguard last summer.
Assistant Professor of Psychology Sarah Conklin published a paper in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine titled “High omega-6 and low omega-3 fatty acids are associated with depressive symptoms and neuroticism.” She has also been invited to speak as a distinguished researcher at the University of Southern Maine's Summer Health Institute. She will give a talk on her research involving lipids, brain, and behavior.
Judson Herrman, assistant professor of classical studies, presented two papers by invitation at the University of Colorado in Boulder on March 7: he led a seminar for classics faculty and graduate students on the new Hyperides in the Archimedes Palimpsest and delivered a public lecture titled “Divided reactions: Athenian politics after Chaeronea.”
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Gregory M. Kapfhammer was appointed the program co-chair for the Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2008). In collaboration with the conference chair, program co-chair, and an international program committee, Kapfhammer will organize the conference and handle the reviewing of submitted papers. Matthew Engel '02, systems administrator in the Department of Computer Science, was chosen to serve as the information systems chair for TAIC PART 2008. Engel will manage the software infrastructure that supports both the conference Web site and the paper review process. TAIC PART is an IEEE-affiliated conference that brings together industrialists and academics in an environment that promotes meaningful collaboration on the challenges of software testing. More information about the conference is available at http://www.taicpart.org/.
Mike Richwalsky of the Office of Public Affairs was interviewed in the February 2008 issue of University Business for an article exploring institutional uses of Facebook and the new Facebook developer platform. The article is available at http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1005.
Professor of History Barry Shapiro will be presenting two very different papers at two very different conferences during the weekend of April 4-6. On Friday, April 4, he will present “Conflict Resolution Theory in the Post-14 July Political World” to the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. On the following day, he will present “Poisoning Chicago's Waters: Psychedelic Magic and the Specter of ‘the Other' at the 1968 Democratic Convention” to a conference on “The Legacy of 1968” at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.
Associate Professor of Political Science Sharon Wesoky has two new publications on her research on Chinese rural women's organizing. Her article “Rural Women Knowing All: Transnational Influences on Rural Women's Organizing in China” was published in the September 2007 issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her chapter “A Story of Suicide and Social Change in Contemporary China” is forthcoming in May in Telling Stories to Change the World, edited by Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, and Kayhan Irani (New York: Routledge).
Computer science majors Tierney Wirth '09, James Devine '10, Jim Kukunas '10, and Joseph Shaffer '09 took part in the 2008 Carnegie Mellon Spring Programming Contest held on March 29 at Carnegie Mellon University.
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