Q: Which of Carleton's buildings was designed by the Scottish-born architect A.D. McMix?

Deadline reminder: Nominations and all letters of support for a Toni Award in the Arts prize are due to Associate Dean Elizabeth Ciner by Monday, March 17th at 5:00 p.m. (Laird 131). Please call the Dean of the College Office at x4300 with any questions.

• [Re]reading James Baldwin
• Perlman LTC/Mellon spring 2008 reading and discussion group for faculty and staff
• April 10, 17, 29, 2008
• 4:30-6:00 pm, Headley House

This all-day colloquium on Saturday, April 19 brings together national Baldwin scholars and Carleton, Macalester, and St. Olaf faculty for conversations on approaches for teaching and understanding James Baldwin’s essays and cultural criticism in liberal arts courses. Faculty invited from the three colleges and professors from the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, give an array of perspectives, discussing the importance of Baldwin as writer, moralist, human rights activist, democracy theorist, public speaker, and celebrity. Lectures and media presentations address such topics as the photo-text genre and visuality, history and race, masculinity, sexuality and Black Power, Christian thought, and the structures of feeling in black music and theatre.
Co-sponsors: Perlman LTC/Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant and Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities. Join by contacting Jennifer Cox Johnson (jcoxjohn@carleton.edu or x 4192), or for more information please visit http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ltc/ or http://apps.carleton.edu/events/baldwin/.

On April 28th and 29th, political sociologist and expert on democratization Larry Diamond, will visit Carleton to speak about issues of democratization in the Middle East and elsewhere. As you plan your spring term classes, please encourage your students to take advantage of this opportunity to interact with one of the leading scholars on democratization. Please click on the link above for details of Professor Diamond's visit, or if you would like more information or are interested in participating in a discussion of his book - please contact Bev Nagel or Carolyn Wong.

I am pleased to announce two opportunities to support faculty this summer. First, we again have a line in the academic budget to provide $1,200 for each faculty member who will spend significant time supervising student research this summer but who will not receive a stipend or salary from grants or other sources. In addition, we
have been able to reserve some money for faculty who would like to hire a student research assistant for part or all of the summer to help with a particular project.

Associate Professor of Economics, published “The Quality-Quantity Trade-Off in Fertility across Parent Earnings Levels: A Test for Credit Market Failure” in The Review of Economics of the Household.

Professor of Spanish, published an essay on the Spanish painter José Manaut Viglietti within the context of the European avant-garde in the spring issue of La Habana Elegante. A full copy of the article is available at: www.habanaelegante.com

Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics, recently gave a talk entitled "Sluicing and LF Copying: New Arguments from Islands" delivered to The Program in Linguistics at the University of Minnesota.

William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of Art History, co-chaired a session,"Gender and the Market in Netherlandish Art," at the annual College Art Association meetings (February 21, 2008, in Dallas).

Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences and alums Anton de la Fuente '03 and Abby Hedden '01 published a research paper on pulsar observations from Arecibo Observatory with scientists from the Universities of Wisconsin and Arizona, and CalTech. The paper appeared in the February 10 edition of the Astrophysical Journal.

Transylvania University invites Carleton faculty members to participate in a seminar July 24-27 in Lexington, KY titled "Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept." This seminar is sponsored by Transylvania University's Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching. Fifteen faculty members from national liberal arts colleges will be chosen to attend and will receive materials for the seminar, receptions and meals, three nights accommodation at the historic Gratz Park Inn, and a stipend of $500 to apply toward travel and incidental costs. Faculty members interested in being nominated should contact Éva Pósfay in the Associate Dean of the College Office at eposfay@carleton.edu for an application. Completed applications should be submitted to the Associate Deans' Office by Thursday, March 13 at noon.

The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning invites proposals from college and university faculty, staff, administrators, and students for concurrent sessions on the conference theme. We especially encourage proposals for sessions that will promote stimulating dialogue, reflect diverse perspectives, and involve student presenters or co-presenters from across institutions. Proposals are peer reviewed and sessions are selected based on criteria listed on The Collaboration website, which can be found at : www.collab.org

Together with the Minnesota Private College Council, Macalester will host Carol Robles, an Assistant Director for the CIES Fulbright Scholar program.

• When: Tuesday, April 1st from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided by MPCC.
• Where: Weyerhaeuser Hall, 62 Macalester Street - in Weyerhaeuser Board Room 127

The Colloquium will be held on Saturday, 29 March in Weyerhaeuser Board Room at Macalester College from about 8:30-4:30. Refreshments and lunch will be served. The Colloquium is limited to 30 participants and will include travel expenses and materials. To apply, send a short statement of interest to Marga Miller, Program Manager, Center for Scholarship and Teaching, Macalester College (millermk@macalester.edu). The Colloquium is funded by the Carnegie Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant to Carleton and Macalester Colleges and is designed to help faculty in both colleges develop more productive and satisfying careers and professional lives. Questions may be directed to Holly Barcus (Macalester, barcus@macalester.edu) or Tsegaye Nega (Carleton, tnega@carleton.edu). Application deadline is March 14. For additional information, please visit either of the following websites: http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ents/assets/Geovisualization.html or http://www.macalester.edu/cst/GeoVis.htm

Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology and Director of Neuroscience, will speak on a panel along with an anthropologist and a neuroscientist on Friday, April 4th following a public address by Frans de Waal. De Waal is a noted primatologist and author of many books including Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape, and a professor of primate behavior at Emory University as well as director of the Living Links Center - part of the National Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta, GA. The topic is "the possibility of animal empathy" and de Waal's presentation begins at 7:00 pm in the Student Union at Gustavus Adolphus College, Friday April 4th. The event is open to the public and free. Here is a link to all of Frans de Waal's public events while in the area: http://gustavus.edu/news/3741