Mic Jackson recently received the first Environmental Steward Award from the City of Richmond for his work on the Clean City proposal. Mayor Sally Hutton presented him the award at the Earth Day Celebration this past weekend.
Senior Peter Wigginton recently received an Honorable Mention in National Geographic Channel Preserve Our Planet film festival. To view the video titled What You Do Counts go to http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel click on the "preserve our planet" link and then the "film festival" link.
More than 500 students enjoyed the "Late Night Breakfast" that was held Sunday night. It was a huge success due to the hard work of the volunteers who prepared, cooked, served and cleaned up. A big thank you to: Nelson, Liz, Donna, Deb, Gail, Sonia, Josh, Greg, Rich, Derric, Mary Ann, Holly, Andrea, Michael, Kevin, Adam and Gypsy.
Candice Nicolas chaired the session Representations of Violence at the Sixty-first Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, and presented the communication Monstruosité revancharde: Lee Anderson et Vernon Sullivan.
Karim Sagna, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies was one of five panelists on Francophone Sub-Sahara African literature at the 61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, hosted by the University of Kentucky. Karim delivered a paper entitled, On dit les noms des morts pour sécher les larmes des vivants (You say the name of the dead to dry the tears of the living.)
Wes Miller participated as a panelist looking at the State of the Instructional Technology profession at the annual Instructional Technology Leaders conference sponsored by NITLE. The conference had participants from 50 liberal arts colleges and universities from around the country.
Congratulations to Lori Watson for oral presentations and a poster presentation at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans. The presentations were: Integration of research experiences into the introductory chemistry curriculum: A collaborative multidisciplinary model investigating metal contamination of a local watershed and The interactive online network of inorganic chemists (IONiC): Inter-institutional grant writing, project planning, and community building using social networking tools, and the poster presentation: IONiC: Interactive online network of inorganic chemists.
From Earlham Student Government a big thanks goes out to all of those who went out last Saturday, overcoming the wind and the cold, to help improve our community through the Day of Service. A big thanks also to everyone who helped organize the event. We look forward to more days like it for years to come.
Kathy Milar and Diana Punzo took eight students to the Annual Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference. The presenters and titles are as follows: Hailee Carter, Does Practice Make Perfect? A Look At Contributors to Academic Success; Philippa Lindwright, Simon Says...Direction Compliance in College Students; Christian Gossett, When Push Comes to Shove. How Stereotypically Ethnic Names Affect Person Perception in an Ambiguous Physical Situation; Stephanie Lyons, Mental Health Problems and Sources of Support at Earlham College; Neal DeVorsey, Perceiving and Responding to Emotive Faces: presenter; Helen Emery, Why don't You Like the Male Nurse? Implicit Attitudes Toward Individuals Who Fill Counter-Stereotypical Professional Roles; Sara Silvers, The Relationship between Autotelic Personality and Alcohol Consumption, Negative Rumination and Depression; and Jillian McCance, Trust, Communication and Commitment in Long-Distance Relationship. We are very proud of these students and their accomplishments.
Tom Hamm recently presided at the annual meeting of the Society of Indiana Archivists in Indianapolis. This is his second term as president of the organization.
David Karasick was recognized as a volunteer and intern and Wes Miller as Channel 20 Producer of the Year at the celebration of Whitewater Community Television (WCTV) 20th anniversary.
Because of generous hearts and hard work, the Ninth Annual Psych. Auction raised $927 this year for student research. The Psychology Department greatly appreciates all the people who made this possible!
John Iverson is the co-author of a chapter, Geographic variation in life history traits, in a new book, Biology of Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) published by John Hopkins University Press.
Six SoAn Seniors recently attended the Central States Anthropology Society’s annual conference in Indianapolis, accompanied by faculty members Deb Jackson and Stephen Butler. Each student presented a paper: Claire Brownlee, Passing : Autistic Navigation of the Social World; Lucy Huffman, The Green-Washing of Advertising; Nora Allen-Wiles, Nailed to the X: Straight Edge Culture Re-Examined; Jenna Hurley, Queer Women Out of the City; Katya Seligman, Hospice Workers and the Social Construction of the Self; Rebekah Epling, Hogwash and Hillbillies: Stereotypes and Preventive Health Care in Appalachia. All presentations were very well received. Congratulations to these exceptional SoAn Seniors!
Congratulations to Jamie Utt '08, Dan Mahle '08, Ishmail Sheriff Daoh '11, Syed Mafiz Kamal '11 and Safia Ansari '08 for their winning proposals for 100 Projects for Peace.
Marina Gorsuch, senior economics major, is one of 16 undergraduates nationwide to present at the 2008 meeting of the Midwest Economics Association in Chicago. She presented a paper entitled The Division of Household Labor as an Explanation of Earnings Differentials Based on Sexual Orientation as part of the Labor Markets and Discrimination session.
Nicolas Candice presented a paper titled "Cocteau et l’entre-monde poétique: Parcours initiatique et annihilation des limites" at the 20 and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium at Georgetown University.
Thank you to all who volunteered time and money to the Genesis Benefit Concert 2008. The Benefit raised more than $1800 for the Genesis Program of the YWCA Richmond. Also, if you missed the event, you may still support the program by purchasing a t-shirt in the Fine Arts office. They are now selling for $5.
In a letter to the Psychology faculty, Michael Jackson reports that the American Psychological Association (APA) has responded to pressure from critics, including the Earlham Psychology Department, by closing some crucial loopholes in its prohibition of abusive interrogations and torture. Earlham psychologists played a significant role in the change by initiating a protest against APA's policy among departments of psychology in several colleges and universities across the nation. Jackson's letter states, in part, "Even though we have not accomplished everything we would have liked (i.e., a complete cessation of psychologist's involvement in secret interrogations), we have helped to push APA into a more clear and unambiguous ethical stance. Psychologists may yet become involved in illegal interrogation procedures, but if they do, they will now, for the first time, be in clear violation of APA polices that ‘absolutely prohibit’ such procedures." Contact: For more information on this topic, visit http://www.earlham.edu/~psyc/ .
Thank you to Loretta Templeton who brought the tipi she hand sewed to SAGA for display along with a collection of her personal Native American artifacts. Also kudos for organizing a mini pow-wow which will be held Sun., March 9, 1 - 4:30 p.m. in Comstock.
Congratulations and thanks to all of the conveners and committee members who made the International Festival a huge success this year!!
Congratulations to the EC Equestrian Team for completing one of the most successful seasons ever. Winning multiple Reserve High Point Team, a High Point Rider and almost a Reserve High Point Rider, this team distinguished itself as a competitive force. Good luck to the six riders who have qualified for Regionals in April.
Tom Hamm was respondent for a session on "Comparative Biography" at the annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Historians held at IUPUI on Feb. 23.
Walt Bistline's photo, Jocelyn's Hand, was awarded the 3rd-place prize in the Professional Division at the 18th Annual Juried Art Show at Minnetrista Cultural Center in Muncie. Another Bistline photo was selected for the show and sale, which continues through March 30. Jocelyn's Hand features one of Walt's Explore-A-College students (well, her hand anyway) on a photo field trip to the Cope Environmental Center last summer.
Congratulations to the following students for being selected as New Student Orientation Committee Conveners: Tristian Gregory, Lucia Stewart, Ben O'Brien, Maria Salvador, Taylor Stanton, Ricardo Garciaherreros Quinones, Helen Staab, Mia Herring, Sydney Sogol and Laura Sullivan. What a great team! Next week is NSO Staff Recruitment time.
Congratulations to senior Juan Navarrete, whose editorial cartoon on the perils to EC students of crossing U.S. 40 was published in the Richmond Palladium-Item last week.
Psychology faculty Michael Jackson and Kathy Milar attended the Tri-State Symposium at Miami University. Kathy was part of a panel with faculty from Miami University, Northern Kentucky University and the College of Mount Saint Joseph discussing teaching research methods and mentoring undergraduate research experiences. In a second session, faculty answered questions from Miami University graduate students about teaching at predominantly undergraduate institutions.
Walt Bistline's photograph, "Irish Tree #2" is currently on display
in Whitewater Hall at IUE as part of the exhibition, "Selections from the Permanent Collection of Indiana University East."
SAB has many thanks for everyone involved in Air Guitar-- All the Contests who made the show a blast! Our wonderful judges Adam Putnam, Deb McNish, and Mounira Morris. The well-organized MCs Xander Cogbill and Jamie Utt. And of course the amazing student body that showed up to cheer, dance, and choose our winners!
Congratulations to the winners of Air Guitar. The show went down like this: First - Tempus Vernum - Carl 'THE' Maravec, Alex Graham, Nathan Myers. Second - Its Raining Men -Summer Leeper, Allison Blater, JJessica Kane, Felicia Array, Claire Fleming, Ryan Howe, Ian Kennedy, Saji Kuttab, Masaki. Third – Superfreak - Becca Swanger, Sara Bohall, Josh Burns, Jamey McPherson, Brian Kuzma
Candice Nicolas, visiting assistant professor of French, published an article Accroupissements: Rimbaud s’insurge et le clergé s’affaisse. Parade Sauvage 21 (November 2006): 12-21.
Kathy Milar has been appointed to a three-year term on the History Oversight Committee (HOC) of the American Psychological Association (APA). The HOC was established by the APA Board of Directors in 1993 to serve as an advisory committee to the Board on historical matters relevant to APA and the psychological community at large. HOC committee members work with Wade Pickren, APA
Historian, to initiate and pursue projects that further historical awareness within the APA and beyond.
Art History Professor Julie May delivered the keynote presentation at the Richmond Art Museum on January 20 in connection with the opening of the museum's latest exhibition, "A to Z -- Famous Artists in the Richmond Art Museum and Earlham College Collections." Julie also co-curated the exhibition and wrote the lead essay for the catalog.
Tom Hamm's essay, Disestablishment and Free Exercise: The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, appears in the January 2008 issue of the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History.
Stella Abagyan and Kim Wills, staff from the Admissions office, are pictured in the Jan. 25 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education for a story about application processing.
Thank you to all the staff who made possible the keynote speaking engagement, with Christopher Edley, Jr., for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Thanks to the following people: Marin Lagaard, Deena Ismail, Whitney England, Marisa Keller, Masumi Kikkawa, Anan Suleiman and Kaitlyn Husar.
Congratulations to Stephanie Mann, Carlos Paredes and John White for taking on the important leadership roles of New Student Orientation Co-Conveners. Look for more information soon on working with NSO for fall 2008.
In early January, John Iverson presented the results of his 2007 field research on Bahamas iguanas (which involved Earlham students) at the annual IUCN Species Specialist Group Meetings on the island of Utila off the coast of Honduras. He also participated in a workshop to develop an IUCN Action Plan to save the endemic Utila Island Iguana from extinction.
John Iverson was a coauthor on the following papers, recently published:
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (J. W. Bickham, J. B. Iverson, et al.). 2007. An annotated list of modern turtle terminal taxa with comments on areas of instability and recent change. IN: Shaffer, et al. (Eds.). Defining Turtle Diversity: Proceedings of a Workshop on Genetics, Ethics, and Taxonomy of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles. Chelon. Res. Monogr. 4:85-106. - Iverson, J. B., et al. 2007. In Search of the Tree of Life for Turtles. IN: Shaffer, et al. (Eds.). Defining Turtle Diversity: Proceedings of a Workshop on Genetics, Ethics, and Taxonomy of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles. Chelon. Res. Monogr. 4:173-199.
Thanks to Marlene and the grounds crew for their quick response to ESR’s request for snow removal on the morning of Jan. 3, the first day of our January Intensive classes. From Tracy and everyone at ESR
Paul Ogren is an article co-author: "Comparison of Ordinary, Weighted and Generalized Least-Squares Straight-Line Calibrations for LC/MS/MS, GC/MS, HPLC, GC and Enzymatic Assay" accepted for the Journal of Analytical Toxicology.
A big thank you to the volunteers who prepared, cooked and served Late Night Breakfast. You are great bunch! Hope to see you back again in April. Kevin
Thank you to all who worked, participated and attended the public events this fall. You are all the best. Lynn
A huge thank you to all who deal with snow removal here on campus! Thank you again for making it easier and safer to get around. Only three more months of winter!
Earlhamite Editor Jonathan Graham has two plays on nearby stages this month. His adaptation of The Snow Queen will be produced at Xavier University in Cincinnati Dec. 6 - 9. Jonathan is also a contributor to A Very Phoenix Christmas, a sketch comedy show at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, which runs Thursdays - Sundays, now until Dec. 23.
Joe Lopez has been elected co-convener, along with his colleague from Wabash, of the GLCA Multicultural Counselors Association (MCA) for the coming year. The MCA includes all of the multicultural admissions officers of GLCA schools and provides professional development and college counseling outreach.
Thank you to the awesome Peer Mentors for putting on a terrific study break for first year students. Great stress balls and the cider was yummy.
ESG is pleased to announce the winners of the Student Government elections for this fall: Xander Cogbill, Shelter Musasa, Callie Thompson and John White serve as the SEC for the coming year. SAB Co-Conveners are David Schley and Aaron Goldbeck. SOC Convener is Chelsea Pasmore and Secretary of Finance is Hannah Hale Leifheit. A big thanks goes to Gail Miller. Also, “thank you” to all 450 of you who voted. We appreciate your time and effort in making this election a big success!
and number 1: Lisa was recognized for an outstanding presentation at the 2007 Great Lakes Association of College and University Housing Officers Conference. Lisa's presentation, "Retention and Recruitment of Professionals of Color," was among the top ten presentations. She also presented "Intolerance is not a community value: Response protocols for acts of intolerance on college campuses" Way to go Lisa!
John Iverson was the Keynote Speaker at the Third Box Turtle Conservation Workshop in Maryland. His presentation summarized his 27 years of work with Earlham students on the ornate box turtle in western Nebraska, and concluded with recommendations about how to slow the precipitous decline in box turtles that is happening all over North America.