January
24, 2003
Quidnunc
Canterbury Tale
Professor of Philosophy Thomas Wartenberg received a Leverhulme
Visiting Professorship in the film department at the University
of Kent and will be spending the spring semester in Canterbury.
This award is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a British foundation
dedicated to the support of high quality research and education.
The purpose of Leverhulme Visiting Professorships is "to
enable U.K. universities to host an internationally distinguished
academic from overseas (chosen and invited by the host institution)
in order to enhance the research skills and work of the host institution.
Visiting professors will be expected to offer a short course of
‘Leverhulme Lectures' to mark their residence in a British
university."
Glorious Textbook
Romp The fourth edition of Biochemistry by Mary K. Campbell,
Class of 1929 Virginia Apgar Professor of Chemistry, has just
appeared with Thomson-Brooks/Cole publishers. Campbell's
book is one of the best-known biochemistry textbooks and has been
translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Portuguese. For
the new edition, she has taken a coauthor, Shawn Farrell, of Colorado
State University. Notes Dean of Faculty Don O'Shea, "The
book is visually stunning. It contains beautiful three-dimensional
pictures of large molecules, as well as discussions of their secondary
and tertiary structures unknown only a few years ago... Mary has
shamelessly snuck Mount Holyoke references in all over the text
(there is a picture of an MHC field hockey game in the table of
contents). Page one contains a photo and biography of Sean Decatur,
chair and associate professor of chemistry. Sixty pages later,
one encounters a profile of our internationally renowned alumna,
Lila M. Gierasch '70, head of biochemistry and molecular
biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. . . . The
visual lushness of the book combined with the limpid, pithy, direct
writing (none of those dreadful passive-voice constructions here)
make for a glorious romp through one of the youngest and most
active fields of current research."
All Donne
In Donne and the Resources of Kind (Associated University
Presses, 2002), by Eugene Hill, professor of English, and Frank
Brownlow, Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English, Hill explores
subversion and counsel in one of Donne's sermons, and Brownlow
examines transgression and convention in some of Donne's
religious sonnets. A.D. Cousins is the editor of the book. Hill
also wrote a chapter titled "Revenge Tragedy" in A.F.
Kinney's A Companion to Renaissance Drama, in which the MHC
professor argues that the best examples of the revenge genre have
a complex Janus-like quality that far transcends mere "blood-and-guts-mongering."
Select Three
Sheila Browne, professor of chemistry, and Curtis Smith, Professor
Emeritus of Biological Sciences, served as panelists on the selection
committee for the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for
Minorities Program last year. Browne will also serve this year.
Will Millard, associate professor of psychology and education,
served as a panelist on the selection committee for the foundation's
Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities Program
last year.
Impaneled Craig
Woodard, associate professor of biological sciences, served as
a panelist and prescreener for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Predoctoral Fellowship program for the past two years. He will
serve in these roles again February 9 – 11.
Recurring Nightmare
Associate Director of Communications Kevin McCaffrey's novel
Nightmare Therapy, which appeared last fall with Xlibris
Corporation, is now available from online booksellers including
amazon.com and Barnes and Noble (bn.com). The story takes place
in an increasingly dysfunctional society in the near future and
centers on a New Age, dream exploration group in which the members'
nightmares come to life with messy results.
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