The East Laird Times

Professor of Chemistry, Co-Director of the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science Initiative (CISMI), and Senior Research Fellow at SERC, designed and participated in a faculty workshop at Carleton in June funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The workshop is the first of several in 2009-10 involving a small cohort of nine faculty from five colleges who are doing scholarly classroom inquiry into interdisciplinary science learning. The workshop was facilitated by Whitney Schlegel of Indiana University, Professor of Biology and Director of Human Biology.

Professor of Linguistics, recently gave two talks "Ideogram and Morpheme in Kanji" at Kyoto University and "Kanji from a Linguistic Point of View" at Chuo University.

Assistant Professor of Music, will have his Sonata for Piano (2000) featured on an alumni recital at Wheaton College, in September. Alex's composition will be performed by Brian Lee, who recorded the work this summer, thanks to a targeted opportunity grant from Carleton, and who visited Carleton College in 2008 as part of the Christopher U. Light Lectureship in Music.

Assistant Professor of Music, will have his chamber composition “Blueshift” performed by The Society for New Music in Syracuse in conjunction with Syracuse University's Syracuse Symposium celebrating light in October.  Information about the Syracuse Symposium can be found at http://syracusesymposium.org/about.html and The Society for New Music Web page: http://www.societyfornewmusic.org/concerts.cfm. 

Professor of French, had his films reviewed in France and South Africa. Continue reading for a complete listing of the reviews.  His film making activity in South Africa was also recognized by Durban Mayor, Mr. Obed Mlaba, during a ceremony commemorating the opening of the city's first movie theater 100 years ago.

Accounting and Purchasing Assistant, recently passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. This examination culminates years of academic study and is reflective of her commitment to bring professionalism and excellence to her accounting position here at Carleton. Please join the Business Office in congratulating Kara!

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, gave the keynote address at Spelman College's opening faculty retreat, August 13. His talk was titled "Curricular Sudoku: Quantitative Reasoning across the Curriculum." He also served as the consultant for Spelman and Smith Colleges' collaborative workshop at Spelman, August 12, on ePortfolios and QR Assessment.

Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, has published a new edited volume from the University of Pittsburgh Press, entitled Ambition and Division: Legacies of the George W. Bush Presidency, available here: http://www.amazon.com/Ambition-Division-Legacies-George-Presidency/dp/0822960494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250869196&sr=8-1