Faculty and Staff Activities February 19
Art and Music Department
• Dr. Erika Schneider gave a presentation, “Talisman for the Symbolist Movement: Puvis de Chavanne’s Hope,” at the Subjective Objects: The Aesthetics of the Object in Symbolist Art and Writing conference at the University of Oxford, England, in December.
Education Department
• Dr. Charles Beck published an article entitled “Juggling Makes Physics Fun—Elementary Students Learn the Physical Science Concepts Behind Juggling” in the Science and Children Journal, March 2008.
• Dr. Diane Lowe received three additional grants from Inspiration Software, Inc. These grants provide Inspiration, Kidspiration and InspireData software for computers in the education department Mac Lab, computers in the FSC student lab, tech carts in D104 and D301, computers in the Curriculum Library, four computers at CASA, and all education department faculty office and home computers. Kidspiration is designed for students in kindergarten through grade five, Inspiration 8 for students in grades six through twelve.
English Department
• Dr. Alan Feldman’s poem, “A Man and A Woman,” was presented at a festival of international poetry in Berlin this past summer by American poet Tony Hoagland. It has appeared, with German translation, in Alle Uhren andere Zeiten: Berliner Anthologie published by Verlag Vorwerk 8. This same poem has been included in The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present, edited by David Lehman (New York: Scribner Poetry, 2008). It was originally published by The Atlantic Monthly in 1975.
• Dr. Bernard Horn, chair of the Modern Language Association Hebrew Literature Discussion Group, led a session, “Zionism and Its Literary Discontents,” in December at the MLA annual Convention in Chicago.
• ***Had his translations of five poems by Yehuda Amichai published in the current issue of Manhattan Review.
Sociology Department and Economics and Business Administration Department• Dr. Susan Dargan (sociology) and Professor Karen Druffel (business) attended the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research conference at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. They presented preliminary research findings on a project involving the use of course-specific electronic portfolios.