News / Posts from Media Relations http://apps.carleton.edu/news/ Reason Carleton College, 2008 Stephanie Cox, visiting assistant professor of French, recently attended the 20th Quebec Studies Symposium organized by SUNY-Plattsburgh on "Montreal Identities: Literature, Ethnicity and Culture" in Montreal, Quebec from April 4-6, 2008. She was invited to participate with other Quebec specialists from the US and Canada. Later that month, Professor Cox presented a paper entitled "Manifesting Marginality in the Visual Space of the Graphic Novel in Satrapi's Persepolis" at the recent Women In French conference in Dallas, Texas. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:57:58 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413541 Carol Rutz, director of the writing program, gave invited talks and faculty workshops on writing assessment during the month of March at Bard, Bates, and Whitman Colleges. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:55:51 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413538 The Carleton College Football team received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for their volunteer work this past fall in Rushford, MN for clean-up following major flooding in the area. Congressman John Kline presented the team, represented by coach Kurt Ramler and student James Colbenson (who is from Rushford) with an award on April 21st. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:53:27 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413536 Joe Chihade, associate professor of chemistry, accompanied five students: David Anderson, Karen Borchert, Nakita Natala, Lucas Riley, and Yirong Zhu to the annual meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Diego to present a poster describing their work on unusual mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. The same weekend, two other students, Julie Brown and Maraia Ener, presented their research in the Chihade lab at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in New Orleans. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:49:11 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413531 Eleanor Zelliot, Laird Bell Professor of History, Emerita, whose article "Dalit Literature" begun ten years ago, will appear in Cambridge University's volume on "Language in South Asia". Also, her article on "Understanding Dr. Ambedkar" will appear in the Religion Compass, an internet encyclopedia. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:13 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413526 Nancy Wilkie, William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology, and the Liberal Arts, was recently a speaker in a panel discussion on "The Who, What, Why and How of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC)" sponsored by The International Foundation for Art Research, New York. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:25:58 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413524 Mary Moore Easter, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Dance and the Performing Arts, was the featured speaker/performer on Undine Smith Moore Sunday at the First United Methodist Church, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Her talk was titled, "The Composer's Daughter: Legacy." In addition, Professor Easter was the Black History Month speaker/performer for the Veteran's Administration at Fort Snelling in February, where she was honored with a Certificate of Appreciation. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:22:32 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413520 Deborah Gross, associate professor of chemistry, presented a seminar in the School of Earth and the Environment at the University of Leeds, UK and a keynote address for the 2nd European Online Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Workshop, also held at the University of Leeds, in April. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:18:08 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413516 The 16 studio art majors from the Carleton Class of 2008 will present a display of their work in an upcoming campus-wide gallery exhibition entitled “Strata Incognita.” The show opens with a pair of receptions on Friday, May 16, beginning at 7 p.m. in Boliou Hall. The reception will then move to the Art Gallery at 7:30 p.m. The works will be on display in both locations through June 13. The opening reception and ongoing exhibition are free and open to the public. Fri, 09 May 2008 13:58:52 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413513 Carleton will begin construction on two new residence halls on the southeast part of campus on Monday, May 12. Following approval on May 5 by the Northfield City Council for a Conditional Use Permit for the project, construction of the $27.5 million halls will begin with a goal of occupancy for fall term 2009, or September of that year. The contractor, JE Dunn Construction, will mobilize on the site May 12. The two residence halls will accommodate 230 students in both suite and traditional dormitory style rooms. Approximately half of the new residence hall beds will be devoted to increasing the number of students living on campus, thus reducing future participation in the “Northfield Option.” Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:07 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/news/?content=content&module=news&id=413259