February
1, 2002
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PHOTO:PAUL
SCHNAITTACHER
Martha
Ackmann
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Flying High Martha Ackmann, MHC senior lecturer in women’s
studies, has received The Amelia Earhart Research Scholar Grant
to support her research on the Mercury 13 women who were tested
for astronaut viability in 1961. Her book on the subject will
be published by Random House; it is tentatively scheduled for
March 2003. The grant was awarded by the Ninety-Nines, an international
organization of women pilots founded in 1929 by Amelia Earhart.
(Earhart’s initial inquiry received responses from ninety-nine
women pilots.) Not a pilot herself, Ackmann was sponsored for
the award by Dr. Petra Illig, a pilot and physician who specializes
in aviation medicine. Illig is the former regional medical director
of air crew health services for Delta Airlines and is an active
speaker on flying and health. She is currently writing a book
on airline passenger health issues.
Grant Granted Mimi Hellman, MHC visiting assistant professor
of art, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
for her proposal “The Hotel de Soubise: Art and Ambition
in Eighteenth-Century France.”
Economics Polyglot Donal O’Shea, dean of faculty,
reports that he recently received a copy of Negah (“Perspective”),
a Farsi language journal that included a Farsi translation of
an article titled “The Rate of Profit and Economic Stagnation
in the United States Economy,” by Fred Moseley, MHC professor
of economics. This brings to eight the number of languages (including
English) into which Moseley’s work has been translated. His
work has also been published in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
German, Swedish, and Greek.
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