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Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology, co-authored a paper in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology titled, "Fine-scale association between parasites and sex in Potamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail) within a New Zealand lake." The research for the paper was undertaken during the Biology Off-Campus Program to Australia and New Zealand in 2014. Co-authors include six Carleton alums: Maurine Neiman '99, Dan Cook '15, Laura Freymiller '15, Darcy Mishkind '16, Anna Quinlan '14, and Jocelyn York '15.

William H. Laird Professor of French and the Liberal Arts Chérif Keïta participated in the induction of the late Nokutela Mdima Dube into the Hall of Heroes and Heroines of the South African Liberation(Pretoria, South Africa). The event was widely covered by official government press releases and independent newspapers and radio stations. Click here and here to read some samples.

Laurence Cooper, Professor of Political Science, published an article, "The New Spirituality, or The Democratization of Divinity and Vice Versa (Has the New Age Come of Age?)," in Perspectives on Political Science, Fall 2016 (Vol. 45: 4).

Frank McNally, visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, recently co-authored an article in The Astrophysical Journal titled "Anisotropy in Cosmic-Ray Arrival Directions in the Southern Hemisphere Based on Six Years of Data from the IceCube Detector." This work was done in collaboration with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a member of the IceCube Collaboration.

Cathy Yandell, W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature, Language, and Culture, has published an article in the online journal Arts and Savoirs, "The Dialogic Body and the Humanist Woman in the Self-Portraiture of Catherine des Roches." This volume of the journal is the English translation of a collection to be published in Paris by Éditions Garnier in 2017, Savoirs, identités et représentations des femmes à l’époque moderne, edited by Caroline Trotot.  

Liz Raleigh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented her paper, "A Nationally Representative Comparison of Black and White Adoptive Parents of Black Children," that was co-authored with Rose Kreider at the U.S. Census Bureau at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Seattle, Washington.

Jeff Snyder, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies, recently published an essay on the state of free speech on college campuses in Inside Higher Ed.

Carol Rutz, director of the College Writing Program, led a workshop titled, "Aligning Outcomes, Assessment, and Faculty Development to Support Student Learning," at the Council of Writing Program Administrators' annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina, in July.

Liz Raleigh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, served as a co-organizer of the Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies, held in Seoul. This event coincides with the Gathering of Korean Adoptees sponsored by a consortium of international Korean adoptee associations (IKAA). An MPR story about the Gathering can be found here.

Annette Nierobisz, Professor of Sociology, presented her paper "Seeing Race: Teaching Racial Segregation with the Racial Dot Map" at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. The paper was co-authored with Charles Seguin (University of Arizona) and Karen Phelan Kozlowski (University of Southern Mississippi).