Nicholas Adams, professor of art, has contributed an essay to the January 2008 issue of Arkitektur, the Swedish Review of Architecture, concerning the proposed renovation of Gunnar Asplund’s City Library in Stockholm. Adams was one of a dozen authorities, and the only American, invited to critique the plans.
Visiting assistant professor of geology David Gillikin was recently awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation faculty career enhancement grant for "inter-institutional initiatives" for a projected titled "Freshwater Bivalves as Archives of Past Environmental and Climatic Conditions." As one of three to receive the grant, he will act as principal investigator.
Paul Kane, professor of English, delivered a paper on Emerson’s poetry at the MLA conference in Chicago in December. He also published a new volume of poems, A Slant of Light (Whitmore Press), in January. His work has also recently appeared in the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2008 (Alhambra Publishing) and in Best Australian Poems 2007 (Black Inc).
Denise A. Walen, associate professor of drama, recently published "Unpinning Desdemona" in Shakespeare Quarterly (Winter 2007).
Associate professor of geography Yu Zhou published The Inside Story of China’s High-Tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing (Rowman & Littlefield). Zhou also served on the Fulbright Screening Committee at the Institute of International Education in New York City.
Professor of film Sarah Kozloff has been asked to join the editorial board of Cinema Journal, the periodical published by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.