Faculty News - Week 14

Rick Chamberlin and Joerg Meindl attended the annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Montréal, Canada from April 8-11. Rick presented in the panel “Questioning the Queer German Canon.” His paper was called “Silence=Death in Venice: Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz and the Assembly of a Real Queer Canon” Joerg Meindl participated in a roundtable on the new definition of the concept of “Heimat” (panel title “Transcending the Binaries: Re-conceptualizing Heimat and Fremde”) and presented in a panel on the use of multilingual texts in the foreign language classroom. The title of his paper was: “Linguistic Polygamy as a Teachable Moment.” 

Dr. Will Delavan, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented his thoughts on the environmental, economic and community development impacts of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation at the Bucknell University on April 17th. The panel was part of a symposium titled “The Marcellus Shale: Development, Environment, and Community” sponsored by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP).  Dr. Delavan presented an extended version of his remarks in his Intermediate Macroeconomics Analysis class as part of Earth Day on April 22. 

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. We were notified this week that Heather received an award for her poster presentation.  Here is a link to the list of award winners: http://phys-acs.org/PosterWinnersSpring2010.htm.  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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