Faculty News - Week 13

Cathy Romagnolo had an article published in ­_Narrative Beginnings:  Theory and Practice_ edited by Brian Richardson  http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Narrative-Beginnings,673979.aspx.  The title of her article is “Recessive Origins in Julia Alvarez’s Garcia Girls: A Feminist Exploration of Narrative Beginnings” She presented a paper titled “Waves of Beginnings:  The Ebb of Heterosexual Romance in H.D.’s _Paint it Today_” at the 25th International Conference on Narrative in Cleveland, OH April 8-11.  Cathy will also have an article forthcoming in New Horizons in the Analysis of World Narrative Fiction edited by Frederick Aldama and due out January 2011 with University of Texas Press.  That article is titled “Initiating Dialogue: Narrative Beginnings in Multicultural Narratives.” 

Grant Taylor is the feature artist at this year’s Block of Art in Pottsville, Schuylkill County. Grant will have an art installation in the Trinity Episcopal Church on South 2nd Street and will also have a gallery installation in the Many Worlds Gallery on Market Street. (12-25th of April) 

Anderson Marsh delivered two presentations at the 239th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in late March.  The first was on a new experiment students and he developed for the CHM 321-322 laboratory course and the second was on results from their NSF-sponsored project on "green" hydrogenation reactions using platinum nanocatalysts.  Five students accompanied him to the meeting to give poster presentations.  Kim Manbeck '10 and Nate Musselwhite '11 presented posters on their research stemming from the NSF project during the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry poster session.  Mike Schmidt '11 presented during the same session on the research he has been performing on a Merck/AAAS project in collaboration with Courtney Lappas from Biology.  Ellen Adams '10 and Heather Howard '11 presented their posters during the Recent Advances in Experimental and Observational Astrochemistry poster session sponsored by the Division of Physical Chemistry.  Ellen's poster was on the research she has performed on a project funded by Research Corporation, whereas Heather's poster was on work she undertook as a summer intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.  To help support the trip, the students applied for and received competitive travel awards from ACS Student Affiliates and the Southeastern PA ACS Section. 

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