Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology and Director or Neuroscience, published an article in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, February issue, 2009, together with Carleton alumni Elizabeth Johnson, Katie Whillock, Julia Greenberg, and Vanessa Brown. The article was titled "Is a Sense of Inequity an Ancestral Primate Trait?: Testing Social Inequity in Cotton Top Tamarins."

Carol Rutz, Director of the Writing Program, attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Seattle, where she was the co-presenter of a workshop on general education assessment and also participated in a panel presentation on communication among writing programs and upper administration.

Gao Hong, Performance Activities Coordinator in Music and Adjunct Instructor in Chinese Musical Instruments, has been awarded her first Global Connections Award from Meet The Composer Inc. in New York. This grant will support her as a composer in performances of her works in New Delhi, India, and Beijing, China. Gao will also perform in both concerts. These performances will mark her India debut and the first time she will be featured as a composer in China.

Eric Egge, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and Tracale Austin '07, Hans Bantilan '07, Isao Jonas '07, and Paul Kory '07 have published a paper called "The Pfaffian Transform'' in the Journal of Integer Sequences. The paper, which is available here, is based on work Austin, Bantilan, Jonas, and Kory did in their 2006-07 mathematics comps project, which was supervised by Egge.

Paula Lackie, Academic Technologist, and Andrea Nixon, Director of Curricular and Research Support, presented "Curricular Uses of Visual Materials: A Mixed-Method Institutional Study" at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) annual conference. The presentation focused, in part, on research findings that relate a Carleton student's acculturation to the ways in which students report seeking help with assignments. See more information here.

Chérif Keïta, Professor of French, latest documentary film entitled "CEMETERY STORIES: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa" (edited by Dominic Fucci) is one of 128 films officially selected from a total of 664 entries to compete at the 2009 FESPACO (Pan African Film Festival) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from February 28 to March 7. It will compete with 30 other documentaries from 16 African countries. Professor Keïta will travel to Ouagadougou with Dominic Fucci and Ms. Fellina Fucci, a student from ArtTech in Northfield. They will be joined by 90-year-old Reverend Jackson Wilcox, from Fresno, California, whose grandparents are the Northfield missionaries featured in this film about the beginnings of the Civil Rights and Democracy struggle in colonial South Africa, between 1881 and 1918.

Kelly Connole, Assistant Professor of Art, currently has ceramic sculptures in three invitational exhibitions including Circa Gallery in Minneapolis, Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, and at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. She delivered a visiting artist talk at Clark College in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition titled "Beasts and Botanicals." Her work at Circa was noted as one of the best exhibitions of 2008 in a recent Star Tribune article.

Becky Boling, Professor of Spanish, read a creative nonfiction piece, "Mrs. Wilkerson," for Winter Words at the Northfield Arts Guild in January.

Peter Balaam, Assistant Professor of English, has published reviews of new books in the Emerson Society Papers and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies and has contracted to write the afterword for a new Signet edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's, The Country of the Pointed Firs.

George Vrtis, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Technology Studies and History, presented a paper at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston as part of the Boston Environmental History Seminar series. The title of George's paper was “‘Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!:’ Mining and Environmental Change in the 19th-Century Colorado Front Range.”

Anna Moltchanova, Associate Professor of History and Susannah Ottaway, Associate Professor of History, published a chapter in The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England entitled, "Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England," ed. Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan), 2009, 15-36.

Alison Kettering, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of Art History, gave a seminar lecture in December entitled, “Country Home: Caspar Netscher and the South Holland Peasant Interior,” at the Centrum voor de Studie van de Gouden Eeuw (Center for the Study of the Golden Age), at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.