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Dr. Jacqueline Webb, Biology has received a three-year
National Science Foundation grant renewal for $234,546 to continue her
work on the laterophysic connection in coral reef butterflyfishes.
Four members of the History Department presented research
papers at the American Historical Association conference in Chicago, Jan.
2-5. Professor Judith Giesberg presented: “ ‘To forget and
forgive:’ Textbooks and the Memory of the U.S. Civil War.”
Professor Christopher Haas presented “Mountain Constantines: The
Christianization of Aksum and Iberia.” Dr. Rachel O’Toole
presented “Fugitives and Forasteros, Slaves and Communal Indians:
Boundaries of Slavery and Colonization in Colonial Peru.” Professor
Paul Steege discussed “Finding Blockaded Berlin: Translating Local
Crisis into a Global Icon.”
Professor Jeffrey Johnson lectured on “Science and
Technology: Old and New Models” at an international business-history
symposium in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 28, 2002. He also presented “Shadows
of Two Towers: Cultural Creativity and Political Revolution in the Emergence
of Modernism, 1889-1919” to an interdisciplinary session of the
International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii on
Jan. 13.
Dr. Gerald Long has published an article in the latest
issue of American Journal of Psychology titled “Evidence of multilevel
grouping effects.” Two former Psychology Department graduate students,
Joseph Stewart and Diane Glancey co-authored the article.
Dr. Lauren Shohet has been awarded a 2003-2004 Research
Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor Charlene Mires has been elected a council member
of the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
Professor James J. Kirschke has published “Benjamin
Franklin; ‘The Father of All the Yankees,’ ” in the
current issue of The Early America Review (Winter/Spring 2003).
Laura Papish, who is pursuing a doctorate in philosophy,
was awarded a Jacob Javits Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Dept. of
Education. The award was received through the Graduate Studies Department
and is a four-year award totaling $130,124.
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