Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar, had a comment published in Teaching Sociology titled "SOTL, SHE, and the Evidence of an Incomplete Paradigm Shift. A Response to 'The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?Done by Sociologists: Let's Make that the Sociology of Higher Education."

November 11, 2005

Mary Grace Neville, assistant professor of business, presented a paper titled "Global Social Change Leadership" at the Institute for Behavioral and Applied Management?s XXIII conference in Arizona.

Neville received a Samual Taylor Foundation grant to go to a conference sponsored by the European Academy of Business in Society titled "Corporate Responsibility and Competitiveness: Developing Human Capital for Sustainable Growth" in Warsaw, Poland, in December.

Neville and A. J. Senchack, professor of economics and business, participated in a conference Oct. 19-21, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The summit was co-sponsored by the Weatherhead School of Management and the Aspen Institute. More than 150 international academics and professionals engaged in dialogue on the future of management education at the intersection of business and society, and to involve business as an agent of world benefit.

Ken Roberts, holder of the Cullen Chair in Economics and enjoying Brown Senior Fellowship this semester, just returned from a trip to China. In Beijing, he presented a paper at a conference on "Migrant Communities, Urban Poverty and Social Protection in China," hosted by the Division of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The paper explored the potential for settlement of hundreds of millions of rural migrants in the cities over the next several decades, as part of a proposal he is developing with Chinese and American colleagues for the National Science Foundation and The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. After that, he spent several days visiting factories and migrant areas in Dongguan, the center of Chinese exporting in the Pearl River Delta near Hong Kong. The trip concluded with a stay at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he presented a paper that projects possible futures of Chinese migration based upon the evolution of Mexican migration to the United States over the past four decades. That paper titled ?The Changing Profile of Chinese Labor Migration: What Lessons Can the Largest Flow Take From the Longest Flow?? will be published in Chinese in Zhongguo Renkou Kexue (Chinese Population Research), the leading demography journal in China, and in a volume edited for Oxford University Press.

November 4, 2005

Phil Hopkins, assistant professor of religion and philosophy, had his article "Zeno's bo?theia t?i log?i: Thoughts Problems About Problems for Thought" accepted for publication at Epoch?: A Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, and Staci Benson '05 co-authored a manuscript "Coffee, Tea and Me: Moderate Doses of Caffeine Affect Sexual Behavior in Female Rats," which was accepted for publication in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.

Guarraci and junior Melanie Stanzer have been awarded a $1,500 grant from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services in cooperation with Pre-hospital Care Research Forum (PCRF) to conduct a study on the psychological well-being of paramedics. The project titled "Stress, Social Support and Partner Preference of Paramedics" was one of the two proposals nationwide that were funded. Stanzer has been invited to present the results from her study at the 2007 Emergency Medical Service Today Conference and Exposition. Her results also will be published in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. Click here to visit Guarraci's website.

Helene Meyers, professor of English, contributed signed entries on Michael Chabon, Rebecca Goldstein, Laura Hobson, Judith Katz, Leslea Newman and Lev Raphael to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (2005). Her review of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representations in the Postmodern World appears in the latest issue of Philip Roth Studies.