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Sauce for the Gander! Professor Nigel Boyle Awarded Fulbright. more... |
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Soros Fellow Susan Phillips Takes on Failures of U.S. Criminal Justice System. more... |
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Bill Anthes, assistant professor
of art history, gave
two invited lectures at
the University of Utah
and Oklahoma State
University. |
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Paul Faulstich, professor
of Environmental
Studies, was a featured
speaker at the EcoCity
World Summit in San
Francisco and gave a
presentation titled
“Building in Higher
Education.” He also published an article
titled “The Fine Art of Doodling” for the
Spring 2008 issue of Rock Art Research. |
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Judith V. Grabiner, Flora
Sanborn Pitzer Professor
of Mathematics, gave a
presentation titled “Why
Should Historical Truth
Matter to Teachers of
Mathematics?” at the
Research in
Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
by the Special Interest Group of The
Mathematical Association of America on
Research in Undergraduate Mathematics
Education in San Diego, California. She
also published two book reviews in the Association for Women in Mathematics
Newsletter and the British Journal for the
History of Science. |
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Melinda Herrold-
Menzies, assistant professor
of Environmental
Studies, published a
chapter titled “Gender,
Microcredit and
Conservation at Caohai:
An Attempt to Link
Women, Conservation and Development
in China” in Gender and Natural Resource
Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and
Interventions. She also gave a presentation
titled “Violence in the Marsh: Enclosure,
Community Development and Changing
Patterns of Resistance around Caohai
Nature Reserve” at the Association for
Asian Studies' annual meeting in Atlanta,
Georgia. |
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Jackie Levering-Sullivan,
founder and director of
Pitzer's Writing Center,
was chosen for the 2009
Kentucky Bluegrass
Awards Master List
(grades 3-5) for her book Annie's War. |
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Ming-Yuen S. Ma, assistant
professor of Media
Studies, organized the
inaugural Xin Lu Video
Bus Tour for the L.A.
Asian Pacific Film Festival
held in May. |
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Ronald Macaulay, professor
emeritus of linguistics,
gave a presentation
titled “Adolescents
and Identity” at the
Sociolinguistics
Symposium 17 in
Amsterdam. |
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David Moore, professor
of psychology, presented
a paper titled “Mental
Rotation in Human
Infants: A Sex
Difference,” at the
International Conference
on Infant Studies held in
Vancouver, British Columbia. |
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Erich Steinman, assistant
professor of sociology,
presented a paper titled
“Working with Indian
Tribes: Building
Community
Relationships in
Challenging Contexts” at
the Pacific Sociological Association
Conference. He also presented a paper titled
“Indian Gaming, Tribal Members and U.S.
Citizenship: Unresolved Issues in American
Political Development” at the Western
Political Science Association Conference. |
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Jack Sullivan, professor emeritus of Political
Studies, serves as county natural resource
director for the League of Women Voters
(LWV) of
Los Angeles County (LAC).
Prior to his election to the county
board, Sullivan served
two years as natural
resources director and
two years as legislation
director for the LWV of
California. As county natural
resources director,
Sullivan organized and
participated in a panel for League Day on
the water crisis in Southern California as
well as delivered a presentation on desalination
of ocean water. Sullivan also chairs the LWV's Claremont Area Sustainability
Committee and is a member of the LWV's
Claremont Area Water Committee. Sullivan
has written articles for the LWV/LAC voter
newsletter on such issues as water shortages
in Southern California, water recycling in LAC, and the crisis in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta and the resurgence of the
Peripheral Canal proposal. |
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Albert Wachtel, professor
of English and World
Literature, served as a
writer for two episodes
(“Billy Best” and “Bonnie
Lovett”) of the television
series The Incurables on
the Veria Network. |
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Andre Wakefield, associate
professor of history,
gave an invited lecture
titled “Science and State
in Early Modern
Germany” as part of a
series of lectures presented
this June at the École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in
Paris, France. He also published a chapter
titled “The Fiscal Logic of Enlightened
German Science” in Knowledge and its
Making in Early Modern Europe edited by
B. Schmidt and P. Smith (University of
Chicago Press). |
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Laura Skandera Trombley, president, published
an article titled “Mark Twain's Annus
Horribilis of 1908-1909” in the winter 2008
issue of American Literary Realism. She
delivered an invited lecture, “Mark Twain's
Annus Horribilis of 1908-1909,” at the
Center for Mark Twain Studies in Elmira,
New York, on September 19, 2007. |
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Michael Woodcock,
professor emeritus of art
and Creative Studies,
exhibited his artwork as
part of an exhibition
titled Ink'd at the
dba256 Gallery.Winebar
in Pomona, California
from May 3 to June 8. |
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