 Miller retires—but continues to teach
Ann Miller began playing piano when she was only 22 months old. She gave her first recital at the age of 3.
"I can’t remember a time when I didn’t play piano," she says.
So when Miller, professor emerita of music, was feeling a little uneasy about retiring in May, her son knew just what to say to reassure her.
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 Anton Andereggen to scale new heights
Anton Andereggen first set eyes on the United States from the deck of the Leonardo da Vinci, an ocean liner en route from Italy.
"I came to this country on my honeymoon in 1963," says Andereggen, professor emeritus of French, who retired after 24 years with the College. "My wife, Lilo, and I planned to live here for two years, but we liked it so much that we stayed."
Continue this article | |  Emblen retires after 26 years in physical education
During his 15 seasons as head swimming and diving coach at Lewis & Clark, Gary Emblen rarely broke a sweat. But behind that calm, low-key demeanor beats the heart of a true competitor and a master motivator.
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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. Continue this article |
