 Murdock Foundation funds summer research
Kellar Autumn, Thomas Olsen, and Greg Hermann recently captured the attention of the M.J. Murdock Founda-tion and received grants to fund projects during the summers of 2002 and 2003.
"What I like about the Murdock program is that it raises the bar," says Kellar Autumn, assistant professor of biology. "So much of what we’re teaching doesn’t happen in the classroom; it’s happening in the lab, where students are learning to be scientists by doing science."
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 Reflections by the Teacher of the Year
by William Rottschaefer, Professor of Philosophy
One beautiful spring afternoon in the mid-1980s, Dave Martinsen and I were teaching our class on human sociobiology. While I lectured on, absorbed in my philosophical speculations, Dave, with his customary calmness, alerted me to another part of the room. There was one of our women students—a flaming copy of our textbook, sociobiologist E.O. Wilson’s notorious On Human Nature, in one hand and a bucket of water in the other.
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College promotes faculty members
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Faculty Focus
Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, professor of French, presented "Rituel et Rédemption: ‘Ainsi soit-il’ de Joseph Gay Ramaka" at the African Literatures Association annual meeting in San Diego, April 4-7.
Linda Isako Angst, assistant professor of anthropology, published "The Sacrifice of a Schoolgirl: The 1995 Rape Case, Discourses of Power, and Women’s Lives in Okinawa" in Critical Asian Studies, Volume 33.2 (June 2001). The article received honorable mention in the Critical Asian Studies Annual Prize competition. Angst also published "The Rape of a Schoolgirl, Discourses of Power, and Gendered National Identity in Okinawa," a chapter in the forthcoming book Okinawa Dilemmas: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Okinawa, edited by Mark Selden and Laura Hein (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
In addition, Angst received a Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. She also received the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Fellowship for short-term study in Japan, supported by the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission. Continue this article |
