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Charles Adler, Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of Science and associate professor of physics, published "Magnetism and Simultaneity" in The Physics Teacher. He was topical editor for "Light and Color in the Open Air" special topics issue of the journal, Applied Optics, in which "Rainbows in the Grass I: External Reflection Rainbows from Pendant Droplets" and "Rainbows in the Grass II: Arbitrary Diagonal Incidence" appeared.
Karen Anderson, assistant professor of English, wrote her first book of poems, Punish honey, Carolina Wren Press, Durham, North Carolina. She published "Snowshoe Hare" in the journal, Ecopoetics. Anderson presented "Science and Poetry" at Providence Athenaeum Library; "Solutions at Home" at the Association for Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, Vancouver, British Columbia; and "Poetry and the Environment" at the Associated Writers Program conference, New York, New York. She gave invited readings at the following: Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University; Lake Forest College Literary Festival; A New Cadence Reading Series, Santa Cruz, California; ADA Books, Providence, Rhode Island; Towson University; Myopic Books, Chicago, Illinois; and Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, New York.
Sybol Cook Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, wrote her first monograph, Hegel's Theory of Recognition: From Oppression to Ethical Liberal Modernity, Continuum International Publishing. She co-authored with Angela Johnson, associate professor of educational studies, and Kathryn Norlock, associate professor of philosophy, "A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Science Education" in Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2.
Katy Arnett, assistant professor of educational studies, presented a paper, "Why Good Foreign Language Teaching Includes Exceptional and Diverse Learners," at the annual convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Orlando, Florida. She presented co-authored papers, "Inclusion in French Immersion: Views from Both Sides of the Desk," at the joint conference of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition and the Center for Applied Linguistics in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and "Exploring Tensions Between Policy and Practice in French Immersion in Canada," at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics in Ottawa, Ontario. Arnett was an invited presenter at two conferences for second language educators in Canada, where she gave a series of research-based, practitioner-oriented sessions on inclusion and differentiation within the second language classroom. She designed and delivered several different professional development sessions on supporting diverse learner needs in second language contexts for school boards in Maryland and in western Canada.
Aileen Bailey, associate professor of psychology, served as editor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience for the American Journal of Undergraduate Research and as a reviewer for Neuroscience, Neurochemistry International and Behavioral Brain Research.
José Ballesteros, associate professor of Spanish, published "Verano Sureño" online in the bilingual literary journal, Rio Grande Review, University of Texas, El Paso. He presented "Ay, mami, qué será lo que quiere el negro: Esclavos, amantes e imperio en El prevenido engaéado de Maria de Zayas" at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature.
Thomas Barrett, professor of history, presented a paper, "Go East Young Man: The Ruritania Theme in American Popular Culture," at the joint conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. As part of the Will Jenkins Day celebration, he spoke on "The Cold War Science Fiction of Will Jenkins/Murray Leinster" and helped curate an exhibit on the writer at the Gloucester Museum of History.
Betül Başaran, assistant professor of religious studies, published a book chapter, "The 1829 Census and the Population of Istanbul During the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries," in Studies on Istanbul and Beyond: The Freely Papers, Vol. I, edited by Robert G. Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications. She presented parts of her work at the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati as an invited speaker at the Taft Seminar Lecture on Popular Cultures and at the annual conference of the Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America.
Joanna Bartow, associate professor of Spanish, published "Testimonial Literature" in Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia, editors Maria Claudia Andre and Eva Paulino Bueno, Routledge, New York. She also published a book review of Against Machismo: Young Adult Voices in Mexico City by Josué Ramirez in Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.
Leslie Bayers, assistant professor of Spanish, published an essay, "Words of the Dead: Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho," in Telling Ruins in Latin America, edited by Vicky Unruh and Michael Lazarra, Palgrave Macmillan. She presented the paper, "Estamos con la raza: The Poetics of Resistance in Bolivian Rap," at the XXVIII Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Zara Bennett, assistant professor of French, presented "Remembering Slavery, Responding to Restricted Liberty in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle" at the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) conference in Guadeloupe, Mexico.
Anne Marie Brady, assistant professor of psychology, published "Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesions Disrupt Set-shifting Ability in Adult Rats" in the journal, Behavioral Brain Research. She co-presented the poster "Cognitive and Behavioral Deficits in Beta-catenin Knockout Mice: An Endophenotype Approach to Modeling Bipolar Disorder" with student Rob Blackwell '09 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Brady's research was funded by a 5-year sub-award from the University of Maryland-Baltimore, under a research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She served as faculty adviser to the Third Annual Southern Maryland Brain Bee.
Adriana Brodsky, assistant professor of history, published "Re-configurando Comunidades. Judíos Sefaradíes/árabes en Argentina (1900-1950)" in Árabes y judíos en Iberoamérica: Similitudes, diferencias y tensiones, Raanan Rein, editor, (Tres Culturas, Madrid). She organized and chaired panels and presented papers at conferences for the Association of Jewish Studies, American Historical Association, and Latin American Jewish Studies Association and participated in a symposium held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "Returning To Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences and Representations." Brodsky was elected as a board member to the Latin American Jewish Studies Association and as the secretary of the Chile-Rio de la Plata chapter of the Conference of Latin American History (CLAH).
Jeffrey Byrd, Aldom-Plansoen Distinguished Professor and professor of biology, co-authored a paper examining the resistance of DNA to acid damage because of a binding protein in Escherichia coli in the journal, BMC Microbiology.
Cristin Cash, assistant professor of art history, presented "Architectural Representation and the Iconography of Place in Early Modern Mid-Atlantic Prints" at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, in Los Angeles, California. She and David Ellsworth, assistant professor of theater, film and media studies, co-authored and co-presented "The Construction of Gendered Space and Place in Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema and Photography," at the annual International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Benjamin Click, professor of English, with Linda Coughlin, associate provost for academic affairs, Brian O'Sullivan, assistant professor of English, Lois Stover, professor of educational studies, and Elizabeth Nutt Williams, dean of the core curriculum and first year experience, published "Using Assessment Data to Improve Student Engagement and Develop Coherent Core Curriculum Learning Outcomes" in Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice, edited by Banta, Jones, and Black.
Jennifer Cognard-Black, associate professor of English, wrote the spoken text for Terrae Mariae, an original symphony which debuted in June. She was an artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and gave creative readings of "Lip Service" (an essay) and "Blink" (a short story) in New York, Richmond, and Washington, D.C. Cognard-Black was named the first runner-up of The Journal''s annual flash fiction contest and wrote a book review for Ms. magazine.
Kenneth Cohen, assistant professor of history, gave the following invited lectures: "Gaming and Democracy in Early American Taverns," a John Yagerline public lecture, at Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, and "Sport for Grown Children: Sporting Themes in American Political Cartoons, 1790-1850" at an international symposium on "The Visual in Sport" at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Karen Crawford, professor of biology, served as a research mentor and program coordinator for the Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory (JUSTL) at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This program, funded by the Hong Kong government, brings six graduate students/postdoctoral fellows from Hong Kong and mainland China to the MBL each summer to do research. She continues to serve on the Scientific Board of the Indiana University Center for Regenerative Medicine and has served as a member of the National Institutes of Child Health and Development study section to which she was recently reappointed. Professor Crawford presented a paper, "Growth Factor Induced Intercalary Regeneration in Salamanders," at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings. She continues to serve as chair of the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology for this same society.
Renee Dennison, assistant professor of psychology, co-published "A Look at Adolescents' Hopes and Fears about Marriage: The Views of Adolescents after Parental Divorce" in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage. She presented a co-written paper, "Family-of-Origin Effects on Current Marital Satisfaction: A Dyadic Approach," at the National Council of Family Relations Annual Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Erin De Pree, assistant professor of physics, co-published with Gardner Marshall and Marc Sher at the College of William & Mary, "The Fourth Generation t-prime in Extensions Beyond the Standard Model" in Physical Review D, which was also published in two conference proceedings, the 17th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions and the 2009 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.
Todd Eberly, assistant professor of political science, published "Obama Landslide, or Nailbiter?" for the National Review Online.
Samantha Elliott, assistant professor of biology, completed her year-long education research residency with the National Science Foundation-funded Biology Scholars Program and presented her work from this residency at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference for undergraduate educators in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Michael Ellis-Tolaydo, professor of theater, film and media studies, appeared in U.S. premieres as Asher Motahedeh in Benedictus by Motti Lerner, directed by Rahala Nassri, and as Adam in The Accident by Hillel Mittelpunkt, directed by Israeli director Sinai Peter at Theatre J. He appeared in Caryl Churchill's controversial Seven Jewish Children, subtitled A Play for Gaza, jointly presented by Forum Theatre and Theatre J, and played as Henri in Heroes by Gérald Sibelyras (translated by Tom Stoppard) at Metro Stage. Professor Ellis-Tolaydo performed his one-person presentation of St. Mark's Gospel at the National Cathedral in Washington and gave three benefit performances, including one at Three Notch Theatre in Lexington Park. He performed in two professional play readings for Theater J's audience-invited New Play Reading Series; in the Arena Stage Audience Invited Staged Reading Series; led several workshops at St. Albans High School in D.C.; worked with Banneker High School students on Henry V; and was the co-workshop leader at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's professional development workshop for Shakespeare teachers. Professor Ellis-Tolaydo remains the senior drama consultant for The Folger Shakespeare Library's Education Department and adjudicated at the Shakespeare High School Festival sponsored by The Washington Post. He is the exhibit narrator at St. John's archaeological site.
David Ellsworth, assistant professor of theater, film and media studies, and Cristin Cash, assistant professor of art history, co-authored and co-presented "The Construction of Gendered Space and Place in Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema and Photography" at the annual International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
David Finkelman, professor of psychology, and Lois Stover, professor of educational studies, presented "Madness in Literature: Fictional Journeys and Clinical Realities in Young Adult Literature Reflective of the Dislocations of Adolescent Women Experiencing Mental Health Difficulties" at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Women in Madrid, Spain.
David Froom, professor of music, wrote Three Love Songs (poetry by Sue Standing) with a premiere performance by Lucy Shelton and Lisa Emenheiser, members of the 21st Century Consort, the Smithsonian Institution's New Music Group-in-Residence. His work for solo saxophone, Flying High, was performed by Lois Hicks-Wozniak at a concert of the Poné Ensemble in New Paltz, New York. His Saxophone Quartet was performed by two different groups at the Manhattan School of Music. Professor Froom signed an agreement to have all of his music, past and future, published by American Composers Edition (ACE), the publishing arm of the American Composers Alliance. It was founded in 1937 by a group of composers (including Aaron Copland) dedicated to the promotion of American music. So far, it has issued Arirang Variations, Circling, Clarinet Trio, Flying High, Lightscapes, Saxophone Quartet, Serenade for Trumpet and Strings, and Sonata for Solo Violin.
Katherine Gantz, assistant professor of French, published a review of Flaneurs & Idlers by Margaret A. Rose, editor, in Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 37. Her article, "Not that there's anything wrong with that: Reading the Queer in Seinfeld," is in The Norton Mix, a customizable print reader database from W.W. Norton and Company. Gantz presented "Perverting Performance, Subverting Spectacle: Dirty Dancing with Rachilde" at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium.
Sanford Ganzell, associate professor of mathematics, was awarded a Mathematical Association of America (MAA) National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program grant, funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Laraine Glidden, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Human Development, received a Distinguished Research Award from the U.S. Arc, which she accepted at its National Convention. She continued as series editor of the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation published by Academic Press/Elsevier. In Volume 36, the 15th of her editorship, a chapter co-authored with Brian Jobe ‘03, was included as well as St. Mary's Project research that was conducted by Heather Wasson ‘04 and Kristin Coffey ‘04. Professor Glidden also co-authored an article with April Corrice ‘08, "The Down Syndrome Advantage: Fact or Fiction?", in the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Among her other professional activities were five invited addresses, including two in South Africa and two in Australia, and four conference papers. Professor Glidden continued to serve on the executive councils of both the Academy on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Division 33 of the American Psychological Association and as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health. She accepted an invitation to serve on the Board of Directors of the Arc of Southern Maryland.
Haomin Gong, assistant professor of Chinese, published "Qian Zhongshu" in the Encyclopedia of Modern China, Vol. 3, pp. 227-229, edited by David Pong, and a book review, "TV Drama in China," in The China Journal, No. 62. He presented a paper, "Classical Culture in Commercialization: Yu Qiuyu's Prose Writing," at the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) biennial conference at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Joshua Grossman, assistant professor of physics, received two grants from the Office of Naval Research. In collaboration with Frank Narducci of Naval Air Systems Command, a three-year grant for "High Atom Number in Microsized Atom Traps" supports summer research. A one-year grant for "Large-Number and Individual-Atom Microchip Traps for Sensor Applications and Fundamental Studies" will fund equipment for both the collaborative project with the Navy and Grossman's individual research. He presented "Bichromatic Forces for High Atom Number in Microsized Atom Traps" at the Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics in Tilton, New Hampshire. Sara DeSavage ‘10 and Grady White ‘09 were co-authors, along with Charles Adler, associate professor of physics, and Frank Narducci. Grossman was co-author on a talk given by Dan Powell ‘09 on their joint work, "Quantum-walk Analogues of Optical Phenomena," at the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics conference of the American Physical Society.
Linda Jones Hall, associate professor of history, wrote Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity, printed in hardback in 2004. It was issued in paperback in 2008 and made available via Amazon's Kindle, the electronic reader.
Jeffrey Hammond, George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts and professor of English, published two essays, "The Snow Woman" in Hotel Amerika and "Close Enough for Jazz: A Drummer's Recovery" in River Styx. Three short pieces appeared in Ohio Magazine: "Crossing Borders," "Candy and Terror," and "Gift-Challenged." His book, Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age, (Kent State University Press) tied for third place for a 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Essays/Creative Nonfiction category; a 2008 essay, "Rebuilding Babel: A Writer's Midrash," received a "Special Mention" for Nonfiction in the 2009 Pushcart Prize annual; and his 2000 book, The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study, was selected for reissue in paperback by Cambridge University Press. In other activities, Professor Hammond participated in a panel on "What I Write, Why I Write It" at the Virginia Festival of the Book at Charlottesville; gave a workshop in literary nonfiction at Georgetown University; served on the advisory board of the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature; reviewed book manuscripts for the Edwin Mellen Press and Kent State University Press; judged the Kroehle Competition in Creative Nonfiction for Hiram College; and was a contributing editor for the Pushcart Prize annual.
Walter Hill, professor of political science, published "Statewide Races in Maryland: Unusual Beginnings of a New Era in Electoral Politics?" in Vol. 129, pp. 99-110, in the National Political Science Review. He published a book review on "Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed" in the International Journal on World Peace.
Allan Hovland, associate professor of chemistry, presented "Designing Labs for a Green Building," which described the green components of the chemistry labs in Goodpaster Hall, in a symposium on "Building and Renovating Your Science Building" and "Using Writing to Enhance Learning in an Advanced Chemistry Course" in the symposium on "Using Writing as Part of a Learner-Centered Chemistry Curriculum" at the 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE). He presented "Greening the Chemistry Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland" in collaboration with Greg Mella, a principal with The Smith Group, the architectural firm that designed Goodpaster Hall. The presentation was given at the Mid-Atlantic regional conference of the Society for College and University Planners about green chemistry in general and specific examples of how the chemistry department was greening many of the experiments.
Alan Jamieson, assistant professor of computer science, published "Some Graph Classes and the Wimer Edge Variant" in Congressus Numerantium and co-published "A Variant of the Wimer Method for Designing Edge-Based Algorithms" in the AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics. He made a presentation at the 40th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing.
Angela Johnson, associate professor of educational studies, co-authored "The Minority Arts and Sciences Program: Averting the Waste of Talent" in Broadening Participation in Undergraduate Research: A Publication of the Council on Undergraduate Research. She co-authored with Sybol Cook Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, and Kathryn Norlock, associate professor of philosophy, "A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Science Education" in Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2.
Sue Johnson, professor of art, was awarded an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia. Her work was selected for the 98th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College and featured in a two-person exhibition, Evolutionary Drift: Works by Sue Johnson and Pam Longobardi. Professor Johnson's artworks appeared in three group exhibitions including the Alonzo Davis Fellowship Exhibition at the Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WPA Exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C.; and Personal Vocabulary curated by Anna Fine Foer at the James Backus Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. She presented a paper on the panel, "Revisiting Daniel Pink -- The Arts, Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinarity and the Whole New Mind," at the annual meeting of the National Council of Arts Administrators at Florida State University and New College of Florida in Sarasota and also participated in the Helen Clark Berlind Symposium at Randolph College, a day-long symposium held in conjunction with her exhibition, Evolutionary Drift. With Don Moore, associate director of animal care at the Smithsonian National Zoo, Professor Johnson served as a juror for Wild Things, a national juried exhibition of contemporary art organized by Annmarie Garden, Solomons, Maryland.
Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies, published "Resisting Simplification: Gender Analysis, the Ethic of Care and the Holocaust" in the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, pp. 59-75, and "Revisiting Anti-Judaism in Feminist Theology: A Response to Maria Clara Bingemer" in Concilium, pp. 147-154. She presented "Response to Fr. Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets" at the American Academy of Religion in Chicago and "Interreligious Dialogue and the Development of a Transreligious Identity" at the Christian Scholars Group in Boston.
Julia King, associate professor of anthropology, co-wrote Pathways to History: Charles County, Maryland, 1658-2008 (The Smallwood Foundation), which won the 2009 Maryland Historical Trust Heritage Book Award. She published "Creating Digital Access to Archaeological Collections: The View from Maryland" in The SAA Archaeological Record, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 25-30. King co-published with Thao Phung ‘06 and Douglas Ubelaker, "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Excessive Animal Protein: The Question of an Adequate Diet in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake" in Historical Archaeology, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 61-82.
Joanne Klein, professor of theater, film, and media studies, published an essay, "Teaching Film to Trouble Verisimilitude," in Practical Approaches to Teaching Film, edited by Rachel Ritterbusch, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Cynthia Koenig, associate professor of psychology, co-wrote the 2nd edition of Test Bank for Psychology: A Concise Introduction (Worth Publishers, New York). She co-authored with Monika Ardelt, University of Florida, a chapter, "Differential Roles of Religious Orientation on Subjective Well-Being and Death Attitudes in Old Age: Mediation of Spiritual Activities and Purpose," in Faith and Well-Being in Later Life: Linking Theories with Evidence in an Interdisciplinary Inquiry.
Björn Krondorfer, professor of religious studies, wrote Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader (London: SCM). His chapter, "Whose Memory is it Anyway? Reflections on Remembering, Preserving and Forgetting," was published in Testifying to the Holocaust by the Australian Association of Jewish Studies, Sydney. His review of Shaye Cohen's Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? appeared in the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. He presented papers on the critical study of men in religion at the Evangelische Kirchentag in Bremen, Germany, and at the American Academy of Religion in Chicago. Professor Krondorfer presented "Discourses of Victimization in Autobiographies of German Theologians" at the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, and moderated a panel on concepts of community at a conference in Trier, Germany. He spoke on a panel with Ernestine Schlant Bradley at the JCC Manhattan, New York, for the Scholars Program of Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, as well as the 40th anniversary of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Philadelphia. His collaboration with artist Karen Baldner resulted in a solo exhibit at Mathers Museum of World Cultures in Bloomington, Indiana, in conjunction with an interdisciplinary symposium on the exhibit. Professor Krondorfer was invited to consult in a Palestinian-Israeli-German educational peace effort, a work that continued through the summer in Jerusalem, Israel.
Sterling Lambert, assistant professor of music, published "Beethoven in B flat: Op. 130 and the Hammerklavier" in the Journal of Musicology, Vol. 25, pp. 430-468, and "Schubert, Mignon and their Secret" in the Journal of Musicological Research, Vol. 27, pp. 1-27. He presented "Mendelssohn's "Marian' Symphony" at the Seventh Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-century Britain in Bristol.
Randolph Larsen, associate professor of chemistry, was awarded grants from the National Transportation Center in collaboration with Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Morgan State Estuarine Research Lab and Jefferson Patterson Park and from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Society Research Fund.
Deborah Lawrence, assistant professor of music, was one of 12 invited participants to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Music Books in Early Modern Europe," at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Daniel Meckel, assistant professor of religious studies, published a critical essay on the history of psychoanalytic studies of Hinduism, as part of a volume with Springer Press on post-Freudian studies of religion.
Rachel Myerowitz, professor of biology, co-published the following: "Murine Muscle Cell Models for Pompe Disease and Their Use in Studying Therapeutic Approaches" in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism and "The Values and Limits of an in vitro Model of Pompe Disease: The Best Laid Schemes O'mice an' Men..." in Autophagy. She also co-published "Aptamer-based Endocytosis of a Lysosomal Enzyme" in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Kathryn Norlock, associate professor of philosophy, wrote Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland. She co-authored with Angela Johnson, associate professor of educational studies, and Sybol Cook Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, "A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Science Education" in Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2.
Brian O'Sullivan, assistant professor of English, co-presented "Writing Across the (Core) Curriculum" at the American Colleges and Universities meeting session on "Up, Down, Across and Around: Designing an Integrative Approach to General Education" in Baltimore. He and Benjamin Click, professor of English, Linda Coughlin, associate provost for academic affairs, Lois Stover, professor of educational studies, and Elizabeth Nutt Williams, dean of the core curriculum and first year experience, published "Using Assessment Data to Improve Student Engagement and Develop Coherent Core Curriculum Learning Outcomes" in Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice, edited by Banta, Jones, and Black.
Carrie Patterson, associate professor of art, exhibited her work in a traveling exhibition, Placing Color, including the work of artists Brett Baker and Kayla Mohammadi, in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and Minnesota. Her work was chosen by artist and juror, Sean Scully, for a group exhibition, Open City, at the New York Studio School in New York City. Patterson also participated in three Maryland shows: Maryland My Maryland at North End Gallery, Sensing the Sacred in Southern Maryland at Lexington Park Library, and a faculty invitational at University of Maryland University College.
Robert Paul and Christopher Tanner, professors of biology, co-presented "The St. Mary's River Project, a Decade of Water Quality Monitoring in the Lower Potomac" at the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society fall meeting at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
P. Joan Poor, associate professor of economics, completed her term as the Hobart Houghton Fellow in the department of economics and economic history at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. As the Hobart Houghton Fellow she researched student values and opinions of campus-built heritage, comparing campuses at Rhodes and St. Mary's College of Maryland. She gave an invited lecture in Washington, D.C., for the Duke University Environmental Leadership Program, Nicholas School of the Environment. Poor also served on the Maryland Higher Education Commission State Plan for Higher Education on economic growth and vitality and participated in the Higher Education Resources Services Wellesley Program. She published with Ju-Chin Huang and Min Qiang Zhao an article, "Economic Valuation of Beach Erosion Control Programs," in Marine Resource Economics, which received an Honorable Mention Award for Outstanding Article.
Jordan Price, associate professor of biology, published the following papers: "Species Recognition in a Vocal Mimic: Repetition Pattern not the Only Cue Used by Northern Mockingbirds in Discriminating Songs of Conspecifics and Brown Thrashers," co-authored with Dustin Reichard '07, in Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 120, pp. 717-724; "Losses of Female Song with Changes from Tropical to Temperate Breeding in the New World Blackbirds," co-authored with Scott Lanyon (University of Minnesota) and Kevin Omland (University of Maryland Baltimore County), in Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Vol. 276, pp. 1971-1980; "Evolution and Life History Correlates of Female Song in the New World Blackbirds" in Behavioral Ecology, Vol. 20, pp. 967-977; and "Plumage Evolution in the oropendolas and caciques: Different Divergence Rates in polygynous and monogamous taxa," co-authored with Luke Whalen '08, in the online edition of Evolution. He was an invited speaker at Cornell University and presented "The Evolution of Female Song in New World Blackbirds" and "A History of Blackbirds: Reconstructing the Evolution of Song and Color Patterns in the Orioles, caciques and oropendolas." Price presented "The Evolution of Female Song in the New World Blackbirds" at the American Ornithologists' Union meeting in Philadelphia. He was the Centennial Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Michigan Biological Station. Price received a Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation to fund continuing research on the evolution of female song in New World orioles.
Russell Rhine, associate professor of economics, published with co-authors Thomas A. Garrett and Stratford Douglas, "Disallowances and Overcapitalization in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry" in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. He continues to work at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as an invited visiting scholar.
Gail Savage, professor of history, presented a paper, "Oslo or Reno? Competing Models of Modernity in Early Twentieth Century English Divorce Law Reform," at the British Scholars' Conference in Austin, Texas. She gave the keynote address, "Major Seton in the Drawing Room, with a Pistol: Murder, Insanity and Divorce after the First World War," at the meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies. Professor Savage was appointed to a five-year term as book review editor of the Journal of British Studies.
Lisa Scheer, professor of art, completed three sculpture commissions, including a 26-foot sheet metal work for the lobby at the Park Place Office complex in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, a sculpture for 455 Massachusetts Avenue, in Washington, D.C., and a pair of flanking sculptures for the Oak Preserve in Bethesda, Maryland.
Sahar Shafqat, associate professor of political science, presented the following papers: "The Movement to Restore the Judiciary in Pakistan" at the annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and "Rethinking 'The Most Dangerous Place in the World': Pakistan and the War on Terror" and "The Politics of the War on Terror in Pakistan" at the Left Forum annual conference at Pace University in New York. She gave a talk on "The Crisis of the 'Failed State' in Pakistan: An Alternative View" at the City University of New York on the Bombay attacks of November, 2008. Shafqat was the keynote speaker at an event organized by the Veterans for Peace chapter in Madison, Wisconsin.
Donald Stabile, professor of economics, wrote The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought, Edward Elgar Publishers. He did a book review on The Business of Sports, Volume 2, Economic Perspectives on Sport, edited by Brad R. Humphreys and Dennis R. Howard, in the Journal of Sport Management.
Ivan Sterling, professor of mathematics, presented "Visualizing Pseudo-spherical Cone Points" at the American Mathematical Society Conference in Urbana, Illinois.
Lois Stover, professor of educational studies, presented "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Adult: Young Adult Characters Using Art to Negotiate Their World" with Connie Zitlow of Ohio Wesleyan and "Mapping Shakespeare for the Diverse Urban Classroom in the Twenty-First Century: A True Story" with Hal Foster and Megan Nozal of the University of Akron at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference ALAN Workshop in San Antonio, Texas. With David Finkelman, professor of psychology, she presented "Madness in Literature: Fictional Journeys and Clinical Realities in Young Adult Literature Reflective of the Dislocations of Adolescent Women Experiencing Mental Health Difficulties" at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Women in Madrid, Spain. With Benjamin Click, professor of English, Linda Coughlin, associate provost for academic affairs, Brian O'Sullivan, assistant professor of English, and Elizabeth Nutt Williams, dean of the core curriculum and first year experience, she published "Using Assessment Data to Improve Student Engagement and Develop Coherent Core Curriculum Learning Outcomes" in Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice, edited by Banta, Jones, and Black. Professor Stover reviewed six young adult novels for ALAN Picks and Signal and reviewed manuscripts for The English Journal. She continues to serve on the board of examiners for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
Michael Taber, assistant professor of philosophy, presented a paper, "A Value of Family: The Moral Significance of Involuntary Affiliations," at the annual conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum in Baltimore, Maryland. He co-presented "Community Building in Small College Honors Programs" and "Developing and Studying Leadership in Small College Honors Programs" at the annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council, San Antonio, Texas.
Christopher Tanner, professor of biology, co-published with Katie McKone ‘06, "Role of Salinity in the Susceptibility of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) to the Wasting Disease Pathogen Labyrinthula zosterae" in Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 377, pp. 123‚Äì130. He and Robert Paul, professor of biology, co-presented "The St. Mary's River Project, a Decade of Water Quality Monitoring in the Lower Potomac" at the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society meeting at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Merideth Taylor, professor of theater and dance, received a PNC Foundation Legacy Project grant administered by Maryland Humanities Council to produce a documentary on the desegregation of Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland. The hour-long documentary, scripted and directed by Taylor, was based on interviews she collected in collaboration with faculty and students at Great Mills over a five-year period. After the documentary's premiere at Great Mills High School, there was a panel discussion with individuals who appeared in the film. The documentary will be shown on local cable stations and has been placed in local schools and libraries thanks to an additional grant from Booz Allen Hamilton.
Leon Wiebers, assistant professor of scenography, completed his sixth season at California Music Circus by designing costumes for Guys and Dolls directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and for Man of La Mancha with Tony Award actor, Gary Beach.
Michael Ye, associate professor of economics, co-authored the following papers: "A Forecast Model for Short-Run Crude Oil Price with a Ratchet Effect" in Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1; "Updating the Fleet Ordnance Model (FOS-M) to Include Ordnance Logistic Support and Explosive Safety Activities," CNA Research Memorandum CRM D0018964.A1; and "What Factors Drive Recurring Environmental Costs?", CNA Research Memorandum CIM D0018756.A1 for the Center for Naval Analyses. He co-authored and presented "Use of Crude Oil Futures as an Indicator of Market Changes" at the 67th International Atlantic Economic Conference in Rome, Italy.
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