November
1, 2002
Quidnunc
If You Build It,
They Will Come Architecture Unbound, a conference to
be held November 7–9 at the campuses of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst and Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke,
and Smith Colleges, will bring together internationally renowned
architects, architectural historians, and scholars from a wide
range of disciplines for an in-depth analysis of the built environment
and its implications for every aspect of human activity. The conference
is part of a yearlong planning effort aimed at developing a new
model of architectural education for the future. Both the planning
and the conference are made possible in part by a grant to Five
Colleges, Incorporated, from the Graham Foundation of Advanced
Studies in the Fine Arts. As part of the conference, a half-day
symposium titled Building and Thinking will be held on Saturday,
November 9, in Gamble Auditorium from 9 am to noon. It will feature
four noted architects and architectural historians reflecting
on a single project they have designed or written about in terms
of its process and the areas of inquiry involved in bringing it
to completion.
Tenor
William Hite
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Lyon Tracks On
October 27, MHC’s crew team claimed its seventh Seven Sisters
title in the past eleven years after winning the first varsity,
second varsity, and first novice races at the Seven Sisters Regatta
held at Bryn Mawr College. The equestrian team won its third consecutive
show with a first-place finish at the MHC Horse Show (Kyla Makhloghi
’06 won the High Point Rider Award), and the team continues
to lead region III, zone I, in points this season. The College’s
field hockey team finished its New England Women’s and Men’s
Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season with a 6–0 win
over MIT, and its conference record (six wins, two losses) guarantees
the team home-field advantage for the first round of the NEWMAC
championship on Saturday.
Grants Granted
Darren Hamilton, Mary E. Woolley Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
has received a three-year (July 2002–August 2005) award of
$49,500 from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research
Fund for his project titled “Exploration of a General Strategy
for Assembly and Application of Responsive Organometallic Host
Systems.” The grant will allow Hamilton and his students
to build on their previous work, which established a reliable,
general way to construct a variety of complex organic molecules
with prescribed geometry and a core including metallic atoms (“designer
molecules”). Their ultimate aim had been to build molecules
that will detect prescribed molecules and that could be fashioned
into, for example, films around which sensing devices could be
constructed. The grant will allow them to start to create these
sensing molecules.
Research Corporation
has awarded a Cottrell College Science Award of $46,000 to Janice
Hudgings, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Physics, for
her project titled “The Role of Spin Coupling and Dichroism
in Semiconductor Laser Dynamics.” The grant will allow Hudgings
and her students to continue working toward a deeper understanding
of the fundamental physics and perplexing nonlinear phenomena
that govern the behavior of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.
In particular, it will allow them to explore a number of questions
regarding physical responses to optical feedback that have immediate
applications to the development of such lasers for commercial
use.
Psyched Gail Hornstein, professor of psychology and education,
has received the School of Advanced Study Visiting Professorial
Fellowship at the University of London, and she will be resident
there from January to June 2003. The fellowship will allow her
to continue her work on patient narratives of mental illness.
Together with Joanne Greenberg (author of I Never Promised
You a Rose Garden, one of the best-known patient narratives
ever written), Hornstein will deliver the keynote address at the
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy annual
conference in Portland, Oregon, on November 21. Hornstein is the
author of To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: the
Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (Free Press/Simon & Schuster,
2000). Fromm-Reichmann is the therapist fictionalized in Greenberg’s
book.
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