During the past few months, Anne Mayer, the Dye Family Professor Emerita of Music, has appeared in a Carleton visiting composer's concert, performed Beethoven and Schubert in a Minneapolis recital, accompanied 10 Saint Olaf students in recitals and auditions, judged music competitions in Northfield and Rochester, attended the Music teachers National association convention in Salt Lake City and served as an outside reviewer for the music department of Skidmore College.

Carolyn Sanford, head of reference and instruction at Gould Library, and Paula Lackie, academic computing coordinator for the social sciences and humanities, led a panel presentation titled "Focusing Support on the Disciplines: Effective Models of Collaboration and Assessment" at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference.

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) recently awarded Sharla Fett '83 their James A. Rawley Prize for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. Fett's book, "Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations" is an examination of the difference between the ways slaveholders and enslaved African Americans viewed health and healing on antebellum plantations. The OAH said Fett's book is "skillfully researched, charts a new course in the human relations of healing and health and will surely alter the direction of future antebellum medical studies and the historiography of slavery." Fett is currently visiting assistant professor of history at Occidental College. Fett majored in biology at Carleton.

Arjendu Pattanayak, assistant professor of physics, gave a panel presentation titled "Time-management and other survival techniques" at the New Faculty Workshop/Reunion of the American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers. Pattanayak also gave the R.G. Herb Materials physics seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on "Coherence and decoherence in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems."

W. Parker Wheatley, visiting instructor in economics, published an article titled "The natural and organic pork market: A sustainable niche for small-scale producers? A review and analysis of the evidence" in the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture.

Robert E. Bonner, the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor Emeritus of History and the Liberal Arts, has been awarded a Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale University next fall term. Bonner will be in residence there the month of October 2003, finishing research on his book on Buffalo Bill Cody in Wyoming.

Stacy N. Beckwith, assistant professor of Hebrew, has been awarded a Maurice Amado Foundation Research Fund in Sephardic Studies grant for her book project on Spanish and Israeli literature and national memory.

Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, edited "The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in U.S. Politics" and has a new book out titled "You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy."

Andrew Fink '04 has been awarded a highly competitive Linguistic Society of America Fellowship to attend the 2003 Linguistic Institute at Michigan State University in summer 2003. At the Institute, Fink will participate in seminars led by some of the most prominent linguists in the field. Fink majored in physics at Carleton.

Jerome Levi, associate professor of anthropology, presented a talk titled "Rethinking the Chiapas Rebellion: Regional Dynamics and Cultural Politics in Indigenous Mexico" at Hamline University.

Timothy Raylor, associate professor of English, has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars by the American Council of Learned Studies (ACLS). The fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and social sciences. Raylor's project is titled "The Foundations of Hobbes' Natural Philsophy: Texts and Contexts" and will be based at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Macalady, assistant professor of geology, published an invited "Frontiers Review" paper titled "Molecular geomicrobiology: genes and geochemical cycling" in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Macalady's co-author is Jillian Banfield from the University of California, Berkeley.