November 17, 2006

During the week of November 6, Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar, chaired the site visit team for the Sociology Department at Colorado College. Other members of the team were Jan Thomas from Kenyon College and Mustafa Emirbayer from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Alicia Moore, assistant professor of education, received a grant to enable Southwestern education students to participate in this month’s national “Mix it Up at Lunch Day,” a program designed to get students to interact with people they might not otherwise interact with (see mixitup.org).

Southwestern students went to Huston-Tillotson University Nov. 16 to eat lunch in their cafeteria and engage in conversations about social justice teaching. On Nov. 28, the HTU students will come to Southwestern to have lunch and continue this conversation.

Elizabeth Green Musselman, associate professor of history, chaired the women’s caucus at this year’s History of Science Society meeting in Vancouver. She organized two sessions sponsored by the Women’s Caucus, one on gender-and-science pedagogies and one on improving the diversity of the field.

November 10, 2006

Bob Bednar, associate professor and chair of the Communication Studies Department, presented a paper titled “Touching Images: Towards a Visual/Material Cultural Study of Roadside Shrines” at TRANS: A Visual Culture Conference on Oct. 20, in Madison, Wis.

Jennifer Lovell ’06, Abby Diehl ’06, Elizabeth Joyce ’07, Jenifer Cohn ’06, Jose Lopez ’06 and Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, had a manuscript titled “Some Guys Have All The Luck: Mate Preference Influences Paced-Mating Behavior in Female Rats” accepted for publication in Physiology & Behavior.

Mary Hale Visser, professor of art, and her sculpture students April Mosher ’07, Elizabeth Keating ’07, Gerald Chapa Jr. ’07, Lisa De la Cruz ’08, Larcy Levins ’08 and Carling Hale ’08 presented their work in the 12X12X12 sculpture exhibition at the 9th Texas Sculpture Symposium at Texas Tech University Nov. 3, 4 and 5. The title of this Collaborative Project is “Visual Linking Beyond the Singular: 6 Sculptures.”

November 3, 2006

Phil Hopkins, assistant professor of philosophy, had his article “Zeno’s boêtheia tôi logôi: Thought Problems about Problems for Thought” published in the fall 2006 issue of Epoché.

Thomas McClendon, associate professor and chair of the History Department, has a chapter titled “Interpretation and Interpolation: Shepstone as Native Interpreter,” in the collection Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa.