New & Notable

An occasional compilation of notes from and about the Mount Holyoke College community

Georgian exchange scholar on campus--Alex Rondeli, chair of international relations at the University of Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia, is visiting Mount Holyoke on an IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) grant this month to collaborate with Stephen Jones, associate professor of Russian. The two are researching U.S. foreign policy in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijian. Rondeli will participate in Jones' class Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Second Russian Revolution and will be available for consultation with students interested in the political and economic situation in the former Soviet Union.

Author-izations--Peter Viereck, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor emeritus of Russian history will read from and sign copies of his new book Tide and Continuities at the Odyssey Bookshop on Saturday, November 18, from 1 to 3 PM.

Robert Shaw, professor of English, will read from his book The Post Office Murals Restored at the Thirsty Mind Coffeehouse on Friday, November 10, at 8 PM.

Mark McMenamin, professor of geology, and his wife Dianna will sign copies of their new book, Hypersea: Life on Land, at the Globe Bookshop (38 Pleasant Street in Northampton) on Wednesday, November 8, at 7:30 PM.

Blue ribbon exhibit--Organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the show Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Blue Ribbon Paintings, is on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem through the end of the year.

Start me up--Mount Holyoke is the only U.S. college to win a prestigious Dreyfus Start Up Grant for Faculty at Undergraduate Institutions three years in a row. Chemistry professors Sean Decatur, Donald Cotter, and Helen Leung have been so honored over the past three years.

Mary Lyon Award--Doctors Charlene and James Morrow, directors of the SummerMath Program, have been honored with the Mary Lyon Award by the Massachusetts American Association of University Women for advancing gender equity in education.

Isn't it romantic?--Kathleen (Pierson) Eagle '70, saw her twenty-eighth novel, Reason to Believe, published by Avon Books this year. Eagle, who lives in Minnesota, has been writing romance novels since 1982, winning numerous awards over the past thirteen years.

Provost--Elaine Tuttle Hansen '69 has been named provost at Haverford College in Lancaster, PA. An accomplished writer and scholar whose work ranges from medieval English literature to feminist literary theory, Hansen's forthcoming book is titled Mother without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood.

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