October 26, 2007

Phillip Cantu, senior sociology major, presented a paper titled “Growing Pains: Trends in Diabetes and Obesity from 1976 to 2005” at the Southern Demographic Association meetings in Birmingham, Ala., on Oct.13. Cantu conducted this research as part of The University of Texas at Austin’s National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates summer program.

Stephen M. Cherry, visiting instructor of sociology, won the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 2006 Distinguished Article award along with Michael Young from The University of Texas for their co-authored article “The Secularization of Confessional Protests: The Role of Religious Processes of Rationalization and Differentiation.” The article was published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion in December 2005.

Jennifer Esperanza, visiting instructor of anthropology, successfully completed her dissertation titled “Outsourcing Otherness: Pursuing Modernity in the Global Handicrafts Market” at the UCLA Department of Anthropology in October 2007.

James Gaeta, director of financial aid, was a guest on “The Ladies Room with Lolis,” a talk radio show that airs in El Paso. Gaeta was invited on to the show through his work with College Forward. The show focused on the college application and financial aid process.

Maria R. Lowe, associate professor of sociology, published an article “‘Sowing the Seeds of Discontent:’ Tougaloo College’s Social Science Forums as a Prefigurative Movement Free Space, 1952-1964” in the Oct. 15 online issue of the Journal of Black Studies.

Helene Meyers, professor of English, presented a paper titled “Wrestling with a Perceived Oxymoron: On Jewish Feminism” at the second annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center.

Emily Niemeyer, associate professor of chemistry, recently published an article titled “Isomeric Differentiation of Green Tea Catechins using Gas-Phase Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Reactions” with Jennifer Brodbelt, professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. The article appeared in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, spoke about “Understanding Revolutions” at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University on Oct. 16-17. Selbin also presented a paper on Political Violence and Political Change at the 2nd Regional Latin Americanist Conference.

October 19, 2007

Michael Cooper, associate professor of music and holder of the Margarett Root Brown Chair, traveled to Florida State University Oct 7-10 to receive the Warren D. Allen Faculty Citation for Excellence in Scholarship, an alumni award last presented in 1971. Concurrently, he held a guest residency as the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Chair in Musicology. The trip involved delivering a public lecture after presentation of the Citation, directing a Research Colloquium for undergraduate and graduate students in Musiocolgy, Ethnomusicology, and Music Theory, and one-on-one meetings with students to discuss issues pertaining to the field and their research.

Alicia Moore, associate professor of education, presented a two-part workshop on the "Mis-Education of the Negro" (Woodson, 1933) at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). The workshop was presented to social studies teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (North Carolina) and focused on the education of African American students and the integration of African American history into curriculum.

October 12, 2007

Melissa Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, was invited to Wesleyan University to present "Cleaning the Yard: Bush and Trash in Rural Creole Belize" as this semester's lecture for their Center for African American Studies on Oct. 2. She also visited with classes in anthropology and African-American studies.

October 5, 2007

Aaron Prevots, assistant professor of French, published a bilingual edition of a poetry volume by French writer Jacques Réda titled “Return to Calm” (Host, 2007). “Return to Calm” immerses the reader in Réda’s lyrical observations of the everyday. Its seven distinct sections offer an initiation into the world's beauty through the eyes of a writer deeply attuned to the passing of time and space. Prevots also had his translation of Réda's “Europes” accepted for publication (Host, 2008). “Europes” features travel recollections in prose and poetry that take the reader through seven countries including France, emphasizing personal views of cities, landscapes and people closely observed. A third bilingual French-English book of work by Réda translated by Prevots, “Thirteen Songs of Dark Love,” was accepted for publication by Editions VVV and is expected to be appearing soon.

A sculpture by Mary Visser, professor of art, "The Resurrection of Persephone" has been accepted for the juried professional division sculpture exhibition at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. The exhibition runs from Oct. 25 – Nov. 18th in the Fine Arts Gallery of Texas State University.