Faculty Focus

Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, professor of French, chaired a session, "Literary Voices From French Polynesia," at the Congrès International des Etudes Francophones (CIEF) annual conference in Portland, Maine, in May. At the conference, she presented a paper, "Paradoxes du présent calédonien: Les Coeurs barbelés de Claudine Jacques." Aas-Rouxparis serves as an executive council board member for CIEF (as its U.S. representative) and for Women in French (as its western United States and western Canada representative).

Aas-Rouxparis published chapters in two books: "Interdiction et liberté dans L’Interdite de Malika Mokeddem," in Malika Mokeddem: envers et contre tout (L’Harmattan, Collection Critiques Littéraires, 2001), edited by Yolande Helm, and "Regards croisés: étrangeté et déplacement chez A.M. Niane," in Nouvelles écritures francophones: vers un nouveau baroque (University of Montreal Press, 2001), edited by Jean Cléo Godin. She also published the essay "Tableaux africains: Xala et Tableau Ferraille" in The French Review (March 2001).

Kellar Autumn, assistant professor of biology, published "Effects of Male Presence on the Vitellogenesis in Blood Pythons, Python Curtis" in the journal Copeia (2001). His coauthor is D. F. Denardo.

Autumn gave two seminars in April: "Biologically Inspired Design of Climbing Robots for Space Exploration" at the National Space Society and "The Gecko Effect: Structure and Function of a Self-Cleaning Dry Adhesive" for DuPont Horizons in Biotechnology.

Nora Beck, associate professor of music, had a short story, "The Good Witches of Porciano," accepted for publication in Artisan: A Journal of Craft. She also published a short story, "Uncle Riccardo’s Driving Lesson," in the June issue of Oregon Review.

Michael Broide, associate professor of physics, was a cowinner of the Looking Glass Bookstore’s annual spring poetry contest. Michele Glazer, an award-winning Portland poet, selected Broide’s poem "Remember" from more than 200 submissions. The winning poets and Glazer presented their work at a poetry reading at the bookstore in April.

Helena Carlson, professor emerita of psychology, presented three papers this summer: "Ireland’s Nomadic Women: The Travellers" at the European Congress of Psychology at Barbican Centre in London in July, and "Policing in Northern Ireland" and "Involving College Students in International Research: The Lewis & Clark College Approach" at the American Psychological Association Convention in San Francisco in August.

Annie Dawid, associate professor of English, will publish her short story "One Little Room an Everywhere" in the anthology Voices From the Couch, edited by Robie Darche Wiesner of The Hudson Annex, New York. She will include the story in her fall collection Lily in the Desert (Carnegie-Mellon University, 2001).

James Duncan, professor of chemistry, recently presented a poster and paper, "DFT Calculations on the Allenyl Cope Rearrangement of syn-7-Allenylnorbornene. Comparison With Results Obtained From CASPT2 Calculations." He made his presentation before the Organic Division at the 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego in April. Duncan’s coauthor of the poster and paper is Marie Spong ’01.

Mónica Flori, professor of Spanish, presented "La vida es ensueño en la ficción de Teresa Porzecanski" at Universos discursivos international conference at Autonomous University in Puebla, Mexico, in June.

Flori published "¿Qué escriben las mujeres uruguayas hoy día? Entrevista con Sylvia Lago" in Quimera: Revista Literaria in June. The article is one in a series of interviews with contemporary Uruguayan writers. She has three additional articles in the series scheduled for publication. Quimera: Revista Literaria also accepted "La narrativa de Teresa Porzecanski: Una conversación con la escritora uruguaya" for publication in August. Confluencia accepted "Tendencias de la narrativa uruguaya actual. Conversación con Hugo Achúgar" and Alba de América accepted "Mercedes Rein habla sobre la ficción uruguaya de postdictadura" for publication next spring.

John Fritzman, assistant professor of philosophy, will publish his paper on "Return to Hegel," edited by Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish, in the Continental Philosophy Review.

Micha Grudin, associate professor of English, has published a new article. The University Press of Virginia published "Chaucer Scholarship at the Turn of the 21st Century: Postmodernism, Poetry and Comfortable Assumptions" in the annual journal Review in August. Chaucer Review accepted "Credulity and the Rhetoric of Heterodoxy: From Averroes to Chaucer" for publication in its winter issue.

William Kinsella, assistant professor of communication, published "Nuclear Boundaries: Material and Discursive Containment at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation" in the spring issue of Science as Culture. He wrote "Big Science" for the Reader’s Guide to the History of Science (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), edited by A. Hessenbruch. Kinsella also published a book review on "Technocracy vs. Democracy: Issues in the Politics of Communication," by A. Mickunas and J. J. Pilotta, in the fall 2000 issue of the New Jersey Journal of Communication.

Kinsella presented "Taking Citizens Seriously? Public Participation in Environmental Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation" at a conference on "Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science and Environment" at the University of Oregon in February. In April, he was selected as vice chair of the Public Involvement and Communication Committee of the Hanford Advisory Board. The board provides advice on the Hanford nuclear cleanup to the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Administration and Washington State Department of Ecology.

Louis Kuo, associate professor of chemistry and department chair, received a $34,800 grant for his "Aqueous Investigations of Molybdocene Hydride Organometallic Complexes" from Research Corporation to conduct research with Lewis & Clark students. He has made an organometallic molecule that can perform traditional metal hydride chemical transformations in water. When key chemical transformations are performed in a nonflammable solvent, such as water, there are environmental benefits.

In June, Kuo spoke on "Active Metal Binding Sites for the Azoarcus RNA Enzymes" at the Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Seattle. He based the talk on collaborative work he has done with Lewis & Clark undergraduate students since 1996.

Jens Mache, assistant professor of computer science, published a paper, "Parallel I/O Performance of PC Clusters," which he presented at the 10th Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing in Portsmouth, Va., in March. His coauthors include Joshua Bower-Cooley ’01, Robert Broadhurst ’00, Jennifer Cranfill ’01 and Clark Kirkman IV ’01.

Mache also published a paper, "Cluster Computing in the Classroom: Topics, Guidelines, and Experiences," which he presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid in Brisbane, Australia, in May.

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Robert Miller, senior lecturer in art and program head of photography, will show his photography next year at the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, Calif.

Gary Reiness, professor of biology and dean of mathematical and natural sciences, received a $100,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke for his project "Nonclassical Export of Chicken Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor."

Reiness’ paper "Chick Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Is Secreted via a Nonclassical Pathway" was accepted for publication by Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. Coauthors of the paper are Danielle Dion ’98, Douglas Foster, Rae Nishi, Sean Sweeney ’95 and Midori Wilson-Seppa ’99.

Richard Rohrbaugh, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies and department chair of religious studies, presented a paper, "Semiotic Process: A Comparative Look at the Presentation of Jesus in Luke and John," at an international meeting of The Context Group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in June. The paper will be published in the South African journal Hervormde Teologiese Studies. Rohrbaugh also lectured at the University of Pretoria in May and gave a seminar on the anthropology of the biblical world to doctoral students.

William Rottschaefer, professor of philosophy, presented "Moral Agency Naturalized" as part of the Ideas Matter Series at Oregon State University in April. He recently published "No Messages Without a Sender: A Critique of Holmes Rolston’s Information-based Argument for the Existence of God" in Philo. Rottschaefer’s paper "What Are the Limits of Religious Naturalism?" will appear in the fall issue of Zygon.

Vern Rutsala, professor of English, gave workshops and readings at the Oregon Episcopal School in May.

Thomas Schoeneman, professor of psychology and department chair, presented a paper, "‘The Black Struggle’: Metaphors of Depression in Styron’s Darkness Visible," at the American Psychological Association in San Francisco in August. His coauthors are Katherine Schoeneman ’00 and Selona Stallings ’01.

Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities and department chair of philosophy, published "Making Things Good and Making Good Things in Socratic Philosophy" with coauthor T. C. Brickhouse. The article appeared in Plato, Euthydemus, Lysis, and Charmides (Academia Verlag, 2000), edited by T. M. Robinson and L. Brisson. The book contains selected proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Platonicum, held in Toronto.

Smith also published a recent article on "Some Thoughts About the Origins of ‘Greek Ethics’" in The Journal of Ethics. The article appeared in a special issue on ancient Greek ethics. Smith was elected as vice chair of the program committee for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division for 2001-2002.