A paper titled “Irreversible Work in Rapid Expansion of Gases Against the Atmosphere” by Fred Hilgeman, professor of chemistry, Gary Bertrand and Robert Lockwood ’08 has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Education.  The work is the result of collaboration between Hilgeman’s laboratory and Bertrand at the University of Missouri, Rolla.  The experimental work of data collection for the publication was done by Lockwood, a chemistry major, and was supported by the Welch Chemistry Department Grant as a part of Lockwood’s summer research.

May 5, 2006

Shana Bernstein, assistant professor of history, presented her paper “Collaborating Against Conservatism: Jewish-Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold War Los Angeles” at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, which was held in Washington, D.C.

Professors Kerry Bruns, Lynn Guziec and Frank Guziec of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry were co-authors on a recent paper titled “Studies with Novel Sulfur-Oxide Alkylating Agents” presented at the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science, took Lissa Terrel ’06, Tyson Berger ’06, and Chris Bailey ’07 to the ASIANetwork Conference in Lisle, Ill., April 21-23 to present their research supported by the ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Research Grant.  Gaunder and five Southwestern students received this grant to travel to Tokyo, Japan, to conduct research on “Political Leadership in Japan” last summer. At the conference, Gaunder and Terrel participated on a panel titled “Faculty-Student Collaborative Research: Process and Results” and presented findings from their research on women and politics in Japan. This research was co-funded by Mundy and ASIANetwork Freeman grants. Terrel, Berger and Bailey also co-presented a poster on their summer research on “Political Leadership in Japan” at a session featuring the research of the ASIANetwork Freeman grantees. 

Don M. Parks, associate professor of economics and business, presented two papers, “Student Leader Training Exercise” and “Delivered Cost and Differentiation Applied to Threshold, 3rd ed.,” at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL) international conference.

Therese Shelton, associate professor of mathematics, was invited to present “Assessing the Math Program” at a meeting of the Texas Association of Academic Administrators in the Mathematical Sciences April 7. The meeting was held at Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas, in conjunction with the Texas Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America.