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Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology, delivered a book presentation to the Project "Embodied Belonging" (Research Group Affective Societies) and the Working Group on Medical Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin on July 20, as well as a moderated book reading at the Afrika Medien Zentrum, one of the centers of the Afro-German movement in Berlin, on July 26. 

Cam Davidson, Professor of Geology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Tectonics grant (#1727991) for a collaborative four-year project with John Garver at Union College. Their project, "Collaborative Research: RUI: Translation and Accretion of the Yakutat Microplate and Prince William Terrane, Alaska," will further their study of the geology of southern Alaska, and involves training of ~25 undergraduate students. Drawn from Carleton, Union, and other liberal arts colleges participating in the Keck Geology Consortium, the students will work with Davidson and Garver in the field in Alaska as well as in the lab at Carleton and Union. In addition, the project entails substantial public education efforts at the Kenai Fjords National Park and the Tongass National Forest about the geological evolution of these areas. This project continues work begun by Davidson and Garver with a previous NSF grant (Tectonics award ID #111655) and other support.

Matt Whited, Associate Professor of Chemistry, co-authored a report for the National Science Foundation entitled, "Mid-Scale Instrumentation: Regional Facilities to Address Grand Challenges in Chemistry." The report will form the basis for a new grant program through NSF Chemistry funding $4M-$120M instrumentation facilities for collaborative, multi-disciplinary research, and was featured in Chemical & Engineering News earlier this year.

Scott Carpenter, Professor of French, recently published a piece of narrative non-fiction about life in Paris called "La Modification," and it was published in JMWW.

Annette Nierobisz, Professor of Sociology, presented "Religious Coping and the Job Loss Experience: A Qualitative Study of Older, Unemployed Workers," at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The paper was co-authored with Dana Sawchuk, Associate Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University.  

Anna Rafferty, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was the recipient of a Schloss Dagstuhl – NSF Support Grant to attend and present her research at a seminar in Germany. Financed by the National Science Foundation CNS-1257011, her grant covered travel and accommodations for the Machine Learning and Formal Methods seminar held August 27 through September 1.

Hans Wietzke, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, recently presented the paper, "Another Species of Mimesis: The Function and Aesthetics of Aristotle's Zoological Diagrams," at the conference Zoographein: Depicting and Describing Animals in Ancient Greece, Rome, and Beyond hosted by Cornell University.

Joel Weisberg, Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences, recently delivered the Lovell Memorial Public Lecture at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory near Manchester, United Kingdom.  The title was, "Pulsars: Lighthouses of the Skies.

Alex Knodell, Assistant Professor of Classics, recently published an article, "The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project: Landscape Archaeology in the Northern Hinterland of Petra, Jordan," in the American Journal of Archaeology. The piece, co-authored with several collaborators, details the findings of the first diachronic, "intensive" archaeological survey to take place in the immediate vicinity of the ancient city of Petra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the "New 7 Wonders of the World." The article also contextualizes the results of the project with an archaeological history of the region from the Lower Paleolithic to the present day. Knodell served as field director of the project and lead author of the study. The journal has published the article open access and it can be downloaded through the first link above.

Kathleen Galotti, W. H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, recently published a new edition of her textbook in cognitive psychology, Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory (6th ed), with Sage Publications. It was released on August 1 and includes many photos of colleagues, their children, her children, and even some of her dogs.  

Barry Costanzi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, recently co-authored a paper with collaborators at the University of Minnesota entitled "Emergent 1/f noise in Ensembles of Random Telegraph Noise Oscillators." The article appears in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.

Juliane Shibata, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, gave two invited talks, one at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia, the other at the Watershed Clay Forum V at New York University. In addition, Abbott Northwestern Hospital commissioned a sculptural piece titled Stream & flowers, which now hangs in the Piper Breast Center in Minneapolis.