Tim O'Neill, professor of political science, had five articles published in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court. The articles discussed the Supreme Court cases of Boerne v. Flores, Bradwell v. Illinois, Craig v. Boren, and Korematsu v. United States. Another article analyzed the litigational tactics of Jehovah's Witnesses to expand civil liberties.

A paper titled "Using Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure to Determine the Vapor Pressure of a Volatile Liquid" by Fred Hilgeman, professor of chemistry, Gary Bertrand and Brent Wilson '06 has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Education. The paper represents an experiment that was done in Southwestern's General Chemistry II laboratory in collaboration with our laboratory and Gary Bertrand at the University of Missouri, Rolla. The laboratory work for the experiment was done by Wilson and supported by the Welch Chemistry Department Grant as a part of Wilson's summer research. Wilson has been accepted, with graduate assistantships in chemistry, at four major universities for next fall.

Ronald Swain, senior advisor to the president, and David Blair, director of institutional research, recently presented at the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools (SACS) Conference. The presentation, "Assessing Core Values Utilizing National Surveys" was well attended and well-received. Over 3,300 total participants attended the SACS Conference.

M. Cristina Alcalde, assistant professor of anthropology, had her article, "What Happens When She Leaves? Migration and Class as Constraints in Battered Women's Attempts to Escape Violence in Lima, Peru," accepted for publication in the journal Latin American Perspectives. In November 2005, she had her review of Blenda Femenias' book, Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru, published in the Journal of Latin American Anthropology.

Ben Pierce, professor of biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair, was an invited speaker and presented "Using Auditory Surveys to Study Amphibian Declines and Detect Frogs for Environmental Surveys" at the Environmental Health and Ecology Symposium held at Huston-Tillotson University, Feb. 3. Pierce published a college-level textbook Transmission and Population Genetics: A Short Course, an abridged version of his genetics book Genetics: A Conceptual Approach. Spanish and Italian translations of Genetics: A Conceptual Approach were recently published.

The Mathematics and Computer Science Department participated in multiple professional opportunities in San Antonio in January. John Chapman, professor, and Therese Shelton, associate professor, presented "Update to Assessment at Southwestern University" at a two-day workshop, "Assessing the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics." This was the third of a three-year project sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Gary Richter, associate professor, Rick Denman, associate professor, and Anand Pardhanani, visiting associate professor, participated in a two-day workshop sponsored by the American Statistical Association on the introductory statistics course, "Teaching College-Level Statistics using the GAISE Guidelines." Among the 5,000 mathematicians at the annual Joint National Mathematics Meetings (AMS, MAA, AWM, SIAM) were Chapman, Shelton, Pardhanani, Richter and Kendall Richards, professor. Pardhanani presented "Comparison of Two Different Project-Based Strategies for Teaching Introductory Statistics."

Tim O'Neill, professor of political science, had two articles published in the Oxford Companions to the Supreme Court of the United States. The articles on Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and Fullilove v. Klutznick are revised versions of articles written by O'Neill for the first edition "Oxford Companion".

Thomas McClendon, associate professor of history, has had an article accepted for publication in the /Journal of African History/. The article, "You Are What You Eat Up: Deposing Chiefs in Early Colonial Natal, 1847-1858," will appear in the July 2006 issue.

During the week of February 6, Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar, is serving on the site review team of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Charleston College in South Carolina. He and Maxine Atkinson of North Carolina State will review the department's program.

Thomas Noble Howe, professor of art and art history, will be shooting a half-hour documentary as a presenter on the Stabiae exhibit in the San Diego Museum of Art for Wealth TV Monday, Feb. 27.