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From the president's office, news about recent accomplishments and publications by Middlebury's faculty

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Courtesy of the president’s office, here’s a look at recent accomplishments and publications by Middlebury’s faculty, and in some cases their students.

Chris McGrory Klyza (Political Science and Environmental Studies) has recently published a series of co-authored works with David Sousa of the University of Puget Sound.

A book: American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock, 2007, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
A book chapter: “Policy Pathways,” 2007, in Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement, edited by Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage, Washington: Island Press.
An article: “New Directions in Environmental Policy Making: An Emerging Collaborative Regime or Reinventing Interest Group Liberalism?,” 2007, Natural Resources Journal, 47: 377-444.

Steven Viner (Philosophy) has been promoted to the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Leger Grindon (Film & Media Culture), has published several articles recently. They include: “The Boxing Film and Genre Theory,” which appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, v. 24, #5, (2007); and "Q & A: the Poetics of the Documentary Film Interview," in The Velvet Light Trap #60, fall 2007. Finally, his book chapter, titled “Mocking Success in Every Which Way But Loose,” recently appeared in Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives edited by John Gourlie and Leonard Engel (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2007).

Erik Bleich (Political Science) has published an article titled, "Hate Crime Policy in Western Europe: Responding to Racist Violence in Britain, Germany, and France," in American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 51, No. 2 (October 2007): 149-165.

Matt Dickinson (Political Science) had an edited book published, titled Guardian of the Presidency: The Legacy of Richard E. Neustadt (2007). The volume was co-edited with Elizabeth E. Neustadt and published by The Brookings Institution, 2007. Matt has also had a refereed article appear, titled “Worked Out in Fractions: Neutral Competence, FDR and the Bureau of the Budget” in Congress and the Presidency 34, n. 1 (Spring, 2007). The article was co-authored with Andrew Rudalevige.

Amy Yuen (Political Science) has published (with Cliff Carrubba and Christopher Zorn), "In Defense of Comparative Statistics: Specifying Empirical Tests of Models of Strategic Interaction," in Political Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2007): 465-482.

Michael Kraus (Political Science) has published an article titled "Whither Russia? Our Expectations vs. Russia's Challenges" at the Center for Economic, Political, and Social Studies, Prague, No. 20, September 2007. The article was co-authored with Jefim Fistejn, Vladimir Lastuvka, and Petr Steiner,

Ted Sasson (Sociology & Anthropology) has published an article, titled "A House Divided: Grassroots National Religious Perspectives on the Gaza Disengagement and the Future of the West Bank" in Journal of Church and State 49 (Summer 2007) 423-33. The article was co-authored with Ephraim Tabory.

Matty Woodruff (Philosophy) published a book chapter titled, "Plato's Different Device: Reconciling the One and the Many in the Philebus," in an edited volume titled Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices, edited by Gary Alan Scott (Northwestern UP, 2007).

David West (Geology) has published a paper "Use of U-Pb geochronology to identify successive, spatially overlapping tectonic episodes during Silurian-Devonian orogenesis in south-central Maine, USA" which appeared in Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, p. 1218-1231. The paper is co-authored with a colleague from the University of Maine.

Patricia Saldarriaga (Spanish) had an article published, titled "El Aguilucho y el carpe diem posmoderno: García Montero lee a Góngora." in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Volumen 31.2 Invierno 2007. 359-71.

Justin Stearns (Religion) had an article published titled, "Contagion in Theology and Law: Ethical Considerations in the Writings of Two 14th Century Scholars of Nasrid Granada." It appeared in Islamic Law and Society, v. 14 (2007).

John Schmitt (Mathematics) also had an article appear. It was titled “Graphic Sequences with a Realization Containing a Friendship Graph.” It appeared in Ars Combinatoria, Vol. 85 (2007), 161-171. The article was co-authored with M. Ferrara and R. Gould.

Several colleagues in the biomedical sciences have received individual one-year grants from the Vermont Genetics Network (part of a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Vermont):

Catherine Combelles (Biology) received a new project grant for research that has implications for human reproductive health (title: Profiling of pro-/anti-oxidants during ovarian folliculogenesis). The grant provides funding for summer and academic year effort and stipends for two undergraduates.
Roger Sandwick (Chemistry & Biochemistry) was granted a renewal of support for his ongoing research (title: The Maillard Reaction between Ribose 5-Phosphate and Proteins) The grant provides funding for summer and academic year research including stipends for two undergraduates.
Mark Spritzer (Biology) received a new grant to support a pilot neuroscience research project titled Testosterone, hippocampal neurogenesis, and spatial memory in adult male rats. The grant included funding for one summer undergraduate assistant.
Matt Kimble (Psychology) also received a new grant to support a pilot research project titled Changing perceptions of threat in military cadets. This is a collaborative project that also involves researchers at Norwich University. The grant included funding for the required eye-movement tracking equipment at both institutions.

Phani Wunnava (Economics) has published an article in International Journal of Applied Economics. The title of the article is "Financial Liberalization and Economic Growth: Lessons from the South African Experience." The article was co-authored with David Tswamuno '06 and Scott Pardee (Economics). The paper is an extension of an honors thesis David wrote under Phani and Scott.