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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Courtesy of the president's office, here's a list of recent accomplishments and publications by Middlebury College faculty members, and in some cases their students.
Barbara Hofer (Psychology) has been awarded the 2006-2007 Paul P. Fidler Research Grant by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition for a project entitled, The Electronic Tether: Parental Regulation, Self-Regulation, and the Role of Technology in College Transitions. This project builds on a faculty-student collaborative project with Elena Kennedy '06 and Katie Hurd '06.5 and will involve additional student researchers. Barbara's project was selected from 92 submissions from throughout the United States.
Barbara has also received a fellowship from the Associated Kyoto Program which will help support her academic leave in 2007-2008. She will teach a course titled "Cultural Psychology: Japan and the U.S." for the AKP program at Doshisha University in Japan and will carry out research on culture, cognition and beliefs.
Ana Martínez-Lage (Spanish) has had her textbook, Intermediate Spanish in Cultural Contexts, published by Houghton Mifflin. One of her co-authors is Llorenç Comajoan.
Ted Perry (Film and Media Culture) has edited and contributed to an original collection of essays published by Indiana University Press as Masterpieces Of Modernist Cinema.
Jim Butler (Studio Art) has curated a show entitled "Transparency" at the Corridor Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland. It will run October 15 through December 31, and includes work by Hedya Klein, also of the program in Studio Art.
Erik Bleich (Political Science) had an article entitled "Institutional Continuity and Change: Norms, Lesson-Drawing, and the Introduction of Race-Conscious Measures in the 1976 British Race Relations Act" appear in the journal Policy Studies (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2006).
In addition, Erik's article, "Constructing Muslims as Ethno-Racial Outsiders in Western Europe" was published in the European Studies Newsletter, vol. XXXVI, nr. 1/2, September 2006, pp. 1, 3-7.
Will Pyle (Economics) has had two articles published recently: "Resolutions, Recoveries and Relationships: The Evolution of Payment Disputes in Central and Eastern Europe," Journal of Comparative Economics (June 2006), 317-337; and "Collective Action and Post-Communist Enterprise: The Economic Logic of Russia's Business Associations," Europe-Asia Studies (June 2006), 491-521.
Rich Wolfson (Physics) published a textbook, Essential University Physics, with Addison Wesley; the book came out in July. This is a new introductory physics text, considerably shorter and less expensive than many current offerings.
Molly Costanza-Robinson (Chemistry and Environmental Studies) has co-authored a chapter entitled "Gas-Phase Dispersion in Porous Media," published by Springer in an edited volume, Gas Transport in Porous Media.
Tom Manley and Pat Manley (both Geology) have received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project titled Analysis of Historical Data Sets and Further Investigations Within the Restricted Arm of Lake Champlain. This is a cooperative research effort involving scientists from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The grant will fund one undergraduate research assistant.
Chris Watters (Biology) has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support a Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education, to be held at Bryant University in July 2007. The grant provides funding to attract a diverse group of participants from North America and abroad, as well as to award five "Visionary" grants for exploratory multidisciplinary research on visualization. It also supports pre-conference workshops.
Peter Nelson (Geography) has received additional funding from the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support his ongoing research on the migration of the baby boomer generation. The title of this project is Effects of baby boom migration on the population size and demographic characteristics of nonmetro counties.
Jacob Tropp (History) has had his book, Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei, published by Ohio University Press.
Matt Dickerson's (Computer Science) most recent book, Ents, Elves, and Eriador: the Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien, has been published by the University Press of Kentucky. It has a forward by John Elder (English and Environmental Studies) and was co-written with Professor Jonathan Evans of the University of Georgia.
This fall Sallie Sheldon (Biology) was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering (VASE). Sheldon joins Middlebury professors Frank Winkler, Rich Wolfson, and Pat Manley as members of the academy. VASE is dedicated to recognizing outstanding achievement, educating and promoting discourse, and providing expert and impartial advice within scientific and engineering disciplines throughout Vermont.
Middlebury College has received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support an emeritus fellowship for Victor Nuovo, A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. The grant provides funding for research trips to England as well as trips to Cambridge, Mass., New Haven, Conn., and Princeton, N.J., and other expenses related to both his ongoing research on John Locke and a new research project on Catharine Cockburn, an 18th century British philosopher.
Jason Arndt (Psychology) has had an article appear in the journal Memory and Cognition. Co-authored with Heekyeong Park and Lynne Reder, it is entitled "A contextual interference account of distinctiveness effects in recognition."
Christopher McGrory Klyza (Political Science and Environmental Studies), Jonathan Isham (Economics and Political Science), and Andrew Savage (Class of 2003.5), have published "Local Environmental Groups and the Creation of Social Capital: Evidence from Vermont," Society and Natural Resources, 19: 905-919.
Peggy Nelson's (Sociology-Anthropology) article "Single Mothers 'Do' Family," has been published in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, along with comments from four other sociologists and Peggy's response to them.