Gill Report, May 2005
At
every monthly faculty meeting during the school year, the dean
of faculty presents brief overviews of recent publications and
other achievements by the Mount Holyoke faculty. Here are excerpts
from the April 2005 report of Penny Gill, acting dean of faculty:
Prizes and Publications:
Charlene Morrow, codirector of SummerMath and lecturer in psychology
and education, and Jim Morrow, codirector of SummerMath and lecturer
in mathematics, have received a grant of $5,000 from the Mathematical
Association of America to support their work encouraging more
young women to study mathematics. Congratulations on this continuing
support for SummerMath.
Director of athletics Laurie Priest and her colleagues have received
a two-year grant to support a minority intern in the athletic
program from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. This
is one of only 15 awards in the country this year. Like the Five
College Fellowship and the Committee for a Significant Minority
Presence, this internship program seeks to increase the pool
of highly qualified young people of diverse backgrounds for careers
in higher education.
Many
Mount Holyoke faculty will be in Europe this summer, doing
their
research, checking out possible sites for students’ study
abroad, and working in seminars. Ombretta Frau,
assistant professor of Italian, has just received an NEH grant
for a seminar on Italian
fascism at the American Academy in Rome. DAAD is sponsoring a
seminar in Germany on “Trends in Higher Education in Germany
and Europe” this summer, and Eva Paus,
economics professor and director of global initiatives, will
be one of 20 seminar
participants. And Donna Van Handle, senior lecturer
in German and dean of international students, will participate
in a special
trans-Atlantic seminar on German children’s and youth literature
in Bremen, sponsored by the government of the Federal Republic.
She has also just been elected to the executive board of CALICO
(Computer-Assisted Language and Instruction Consortium) for a
three-year term.
Anthropology professor Andy Lass, as you know, has worked for
many years to assist first the libraries of the Czech Republic
and then libraries across Central and Eastern Europe, including
Georgia. Much of that work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation.
His recently published book, Union Catalogs at the Crossroad (Hamburg University Press), edited with Richard E. Quandt, includes
chapters on the experiences of Eastern European, Baltic, and
South African research libraries.
Irene Kaplan
Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies and chair of religion Larry
Fine’s recent book, Physician of the Soul,
Healer of the Cosmos, has received a 2004 Choice Outstanding
Academic Titles Award from Choice magazine, a publication of
the American Library Association.
Read
previous issues of:
The April 2005 Gill Report
The March 2005 Gill Report
The
February 2005 Gill Report
The
December 2004 Gill Report
The
May 2004 O'Shea Report
The
April 2004 O'Shea Report
The
March 2004 O'Shea Report
The February 2004
O'Shea Report
The
December 2003 O'Shea Report
The
October 2003 O'Shea Report
The
September 2003 O'Shea Report
The
May 2003 O'Shea Report
The
April 2003 O'Shea Report
The
February
2003 O'Shea Report
The
December 2002 O'Shea Report
The
November 2002 O'Shea Report
The
October 2002 O'Shea Report
The
September 2002 O'Shea Report
The
May 2002 O'Shea Report
The
April 2002 O'Shea Report
The
March 2002 O'Shea Report
The
February 2002 O'Shea Report
The
December 2001 O'Shea Report
The
November 2001 O'Shea Report
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