Academics

• Lora Taub-Pervizpour, Chris Borick & Mark McKenna, collaborated with the Lehigh Valley Health Network on the HYPE program (Healthy Youth Peer Education) in Walson Hall. Eleven local teenagers wrote, filmed and produced a documentary about their role as young advocates for healthy community change in Allentown. The program runs through July 26. Watch the video! (produced by Tony Dalton, Digital Cultures Media Assistant).

• Jim Marshall, professor of economics, and John Malsberger, professor of history, get rave reviews for their most recent book "The American Economic History Reader:Documents and Readings." Read More
  

• Laura Sheard, '07, received an Honorable Mention for her National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship application. Laura was a Neuroscience major, RJ Fellow and Goldwater Award recipient. Laura is pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Washington.

• Kaitlyn Zerbe '10 has been awarded the $1000 Pennsylvania Public Relations Society scholarship. She is a media and communication major with a minor in business administration.

• Vivian Walsh, distinguished visiting scholar of philosophy and economics, was selected as a recipient of the Lehigh County "Unsung Heroes" community award.
  

• Six faculty attend and present at the Lilly East Conference on College and University Teaching, Apr. 16-17 at the University of Delaware. Read More
  

• Five students are presenting at the Berks County Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. Read More
  

• Academic Resource Center Senior head tutors present at National Conference in Salt Lake City. Read More
  

• Beth Halpern, director of community service and civil engagement, attended the AICUP Student Lobby Day in Harrisburg along with three Muhlenberg students and Deborah Kipp, associate VP of development. Read More

• Cathy Ouellette, assistant professor of history, and Trish Boyles, the William '49 and Virginia Miers Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, received service-learning course development grants from the Lehigh Valley Research Consortium. Both will be working to develop exciting new courses for next fall through the support of this grant.

• Penny Dunham, Mathematics and Computer Science, has an article published in the March 2009 issue of Primus, Volume 19. The paper, titled 'Preparing Mathematics Teachers for Technology-Rich Environments', was co-authored with Rod Sturdivant (USMA at West Point) and Dick Jardine (Keene State College).
  

• Erika Iyengar (Biology), Kate Goodrich (Biology) and Lana Williams (Anthropology), participated in Darwin Day at the Da Vinci Science Center on Saturday. The three presented talks and hands-on activities on various aspects of evolution. 69 News covered the event, Dr. Iyengar appeared in a segment Saturday evening.

• Sharon Albert (religion studies) and Clif Kussmaul (computer science) had their chapter "Why Wikis are Wonderful for Writing" published in "Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the Computer-MediatedClassroom". The journali is edited by Terry Carter and Maria Clayton and published by Fountainhead Press.

• Sarah Vodzak delivered a presentation at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics entitled, "Using Absorbing Markov Chains to Model Caterpillar Populations Under Different Environmental Conditions." Her summer research was sponsored by Drs. Benjamin and Niesenbaum.
  

• Kathleen Harring, associate dean for institutional assessment, and Lisa Perfetti, director of the Faculty Center for Teaching, attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Seattle. Read More
  

Alumni & Development

• Mike Schlossberg '05 was among the top vote getters in the primary race for Allentown City Council.

Anthropology

• Lana Williams, asst. professor of anthropology, published "Evidence of amputation as medical treatment in ancient Egypt" in the InternationalJournal of Osteoarchaeology, preprint, published online March 2009. Read More

• Christopher Kovats-Bernat, associate professor of anthropology, is finishing his sabbatical in Haiti where he is conducting fieldwork in a Vodou community with bush priests and practitioners in support of his second book, titled: Dangerous Crossroads: Vodou and the Crisis of Childhood in Haiti (Rutgers University Press).

Art Studio

• Joe Elliott, professor of art, is part of the Hidden City of Philadelphia project. Joe took all the photography for the project, which includes tours, maps and a game. Read More
  

• Scott Sherk, professor of art, has an exhibition that just opened. It is titled "Installations: Material/Immaterial" and is in the Lederer Gallery at SUNY Geneseo. He has installed three sound sculptures. The exhibition continues through April 18. Read More
  

• Amze Emmons, assistant professor of art, will be part of a panel discussion and printmaking exhibition at Parkway Central, the Free Library of Philadelphia. The event, titled "Intaglio à Go-Go: Etching Moves Forward," is free and open to the public Friday at 6 pm.

• Amze Emmons, assistant professor of art, will have his artwork on display as part of a group exhibit at the Siegel Gallery at Lehigh University, Jan. 19 - May 1.
  

Athletics

• RiRi Ferrigno '09 was named third team All-District by the National Fastpitch Softball Coaches' Association. Read More

• John DeLuca '09 was named honorable mention All-America by the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. Read More

• Softball team garners awards Roni Rivera was named Centennial Conference Coach-of-the-Year and four players earned All-Conference honors:Sam Crist first team; Ashley Brewer and RiRi Ferrigno second team; Alyssa Bruckner honorable mention. Read More

• Chris Conti and John Kalis were named second team All-Centennial Conference for baseball. Read More

Biology

• Dan Klem, Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology, published an article in the June issue of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, a highly regarded peer-reviewed journal. This paper discusses ground-breaking work in the area of glass manufacturing and architecture to prevent bird fatalities.

• Emily Petchler '09, Erika Iyengar, Kate Goodrich, Kimberly Heiman and Richard Niesenbaum (all of the Biology Department) attended the Lehigh Valley Ecology and Evolution Symposium last weekend. Petchler won the Best Undergraduate Talk award. Iyengar and Heiman also presented talks, while Goodrich and Niesenbaum co-authored a poster.

• Rich Niesenbaum, professor of biology, has been appointed a founding member of the Salisbury Township Environmental Advisory Council by the township Board of Commissioners.

• Dan Klem, Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology, and Peter Saenger, Acopian Ornitholgy Specialist, co-published an article in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology. The article related to bird fatalities and glass structures.

• Rich Niesenbaum, professor of biology, had his article, The Quest for Environmental Sustainability , published in the journal "Ecology."

• Elizabeth McCain, associate professor of biology, published an article in the journal Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, (2008, vol 51, pp 91-101). She is the sole author. Title: "Poecilogony as a tool for understanding speciation: Early development of Streblospio benedicti and Streblospio gynobranchiata (Polychaete:Spionidae)."
  

Business Administration

• Stephanie Plumeri '12 was a grand prize winner in the category of multimedia/social marketing campaign category conducted in part by the college's online alcohol education program - "Outside the Classroom." Read More
  

Career Center

• Alana Albus, assistant director of the Career Center, co-presented at the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual conference in Las Vegas. Her presentation was titled "Me and My Shadow: Two Approaches to a Successful Externship Program."

Chemistry

• Jane Flood received the Paul C. Empie '29 Award at this year's Commencement ceremony.

• Four students (senior Chris Woolcock and juniors Micheal Gillies, Steven Kalman and Kyle Keinath) presented talks at the 73rd Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Convention held at Franklin&Marshall. Kalman and Woolcock each won first-place awards in their respective divisions.

• Elaine Gannon, lecturer in chemistry, is a proctor of the Lehigh Valley and National Chemistry Olympiad Exam. The national competition is Apr. 24 at 'Berg. Read More

Community Service

• Five students were honored for outstanding community service at the Muhlenberg College Board of Associates dinner last night. The students were seniors Mike Cali, Melissa Berman, Wilma Cespedes-Rivera, Ashley Rider and Monique Ellison.

Computer Science

• Clif Kussmaul, associate professor of computer science, presented papers on using industry patents with student teams, and on using free and open source software in CS education at the American Society for Engineering Education Conferencein Austin, TX.

• Clif Kussmaul, associate professor of computer science, gave a presentation on free and open source software (FOSS) in education at an NSF workshop at Drexel University on humanitarian uses for FOSS.

• Clif Kussmaul, associate professor of computer science, attended the Portal Conference in Gettysburg, PA, and gave a presentation on "Lightweight portals using free and open source software".

• Clif Kussmaul, associate professor of computer science, attended the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Annual Meeting in Alexandria, VA. Read More
  

Economics

• James N. Marshall, professor of economics, took four econ. majors to the Omicron Delta Epsilon Undergraduate Research Conference at Ursinus. Ryan Foster '10, Olga Skoropad '09, Glenn Solomon '10 and Kyle Wachter '10 served as discussants for papers presented at the conference. Marshall chaired the session on Labor, Wages and Employment.

English

• The College is mentioned in Philip Roth's 2008 novel "Indignation." "I didn't know one college from another. Auburn. Wake Forest. SMU. Vanderbilt. Muhlenberg. They were nothing but the names of football teams to me.....I had little idea of the academic differences between the contening schools."Roth is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "Goodbye Columbus."

• Amra Brooks, visiting lecturer in the English department, will present her work and speak on a panel of artists, musicians, and writers, in the Bard College MFA program this week.

• Amra Brooks, visiting lecturer in the English department, will read from her novella CALIFORNIAand sign books at the Anne Bonny in Seattle Sun. night at 5 pm.

• Jim Bloom, professor of English and American Studies, was an invited participant in a roundtable on the 40th anniversary of "Portnoy's Complaint" at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association in Boston.

• Amra Brooks, visiting lecture in the English department, participated in the Living Writer's Series at the University of California Santa Cruz. She read from her published novella California, her novel in progress, and her poetry manuscript The Pinking Sky.

• Amra Brooks, visiting lecturer in the English department, will be reading from her novella, 'California', and other works at Cedar Crest College. Brooks will have a book and reading at the Tompkins College Center, Mon. Apr. 27 at 7 pm.

• Grant Scott, chair of the English department, was invited to be a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Keats-Shelley Review, which is the annual publication of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome. He has also been recently appointed to the International Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary journal, European Romantic Review.

• Tom Cartelli, professor of English, presented a paper entitled "The Spell of the West in Orhan Pamuk's SNOW and Amitav Ghosh's IN AN ANTIQUE LAND," to a seminar on Global&Local Identities and the Return of Nationalism at the 2009 meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, at Harvard University.

• Tom Cartelli, professor of English, organized and directed a 12-member research seminar on new approaches to "Experimental Shakespeare" at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Washington, DC.

French

• Lisa Perfetti, associate professor of French, presented a paper at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment conference in Victoria, British Columbia. Her presentation was titled "Promoting Student Interest in Environmental Issues in the Foreign Language Classroom."

History

• William Tighe, associate professor of history, had his critical review "The Shape of the Liturgy," earn an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press. Tighe has been a contributing editor of the monthly journal *Touchstone: A Journal of mere Christianity.* Read More

• Ed Bonekemper '64, adjunct professor of history, is speaking about Grant and Lee at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD.

• Ed Bonekemper '64, adjunct professor of history, will speak on Grant and Lee in Wilmington, DE. On March 11, he speaks at the Smithsonian Institution on the Six Turning Points of the Civil War.
  

• Ed Bonekemper '64, adjunct professor of history, will speak to the Utica County Civil War Roundtable in Kingston, NY, and discuss Lincoln and McClellan at the annual meeting of the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the U.S. in Alexandria, VA.

• Cathy Ouellette, assistant professor of history, has received a 2009 Ping Faculty Development Fellowship from the Council on International Educational Exchange. The Fellowship (with additional funds from the College) will allow her to participate in a CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar in Guanajuato, Mexico, in June 2009.
  

• Tom Cragin, associate professor of history, published an article in Film & History (2008, 38:2: 11-20) titled "Making Anti-Fascism into Fascism: The Political Transformation of Tiro al Piccione" (1961).
  

• Daniel J. Wilson, professor of history, published "Psychological Trauma and Its Treatment in the Polio Epidemics," in The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 82 (Winter 2008), pp. 848-877.

Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

• Erika M. Sutherland, presented her paper "New Bodies of Knowledge: Society, Science, and the Woman Writer" at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. 16-18 April, in Lexington, KY. There she also chaired the six-paper panel that she had organized on the representation of the woman writer in Spain's XIX Century.

• Mirna Trauger mentored and accompanied three students to a conference titled: Educators, Artists and Activists Working in Latino and Latin American Communities" at Lafayette College. Students Stephanie Flackman, Ashley Rider and Gabrielle Luongo presented papers.

• Fulvia Alderiso, Flor Maria Buitrago, Luba Iskold, Ilana Levy, Kellen Mickley' 09,and Harry Miller (OIT) participated in the annual NEALLT (Northeast Association of Language Learning Technologies) conference "Teaching, Learning & Assessing with Technology," at Lafayette College. Read More
  

• Mirna Trauger, visiting lecturer in Spanish, presented a paper titled: "Parodia e intertextualidad en La llegada de José Luis González" at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica held in Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
  

• Luba Iskold, associate professor of Russian, presented her paper "Producing Digital Videos: A Sociocultural Approach" at the CALICO with IALLT 26th Annual Conference "Language Learning in the Era of Ubiquitous Computing," hosted by Arizona State University. Read More
  

• Joan Marx, professor of Spanish, Joan Marx presented a paper and moderated a panel at the XXX Conference of MACLAS (Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies), "Latin America and the World: Challenges and Opportunities," at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on March 6-7, 2009. For More Details, Click Here

Mathematics

• William Dunham, Koehler Professor of Mathematics, published an article titled "A Tribute to Euler" in the Annual Report of the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This piece is a companion to the 2008 Clay Public Lecture that Dunham delivered at Harvard University on October 14, 2008.

• Mike Huber, associate professor of mathematics, gave two presentations at the Mellon-sponsored Computing Across the Sciences Workshop, held at Denison University. The presentations centered on modeling with differential equations and establishing interdisciplinary collaborations.

• William Dunham, Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics, gave an invited talk, "Euler in Two Acts" to the Mathematics Faculty of The Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K.

• William Dunham, Koehler Professor of Mathematics, gave an invited talk to the mathematics history interest group at All Souls College, Oxford, England.

• Byungchul Cha, assistant professor of mathematics, gave a presentation on "Linear independence of zeta zeros" at the American Mathematical Society sectional meeting in Worcester, MA.

• Mike Huber, associate professor of mathematics, has been named Chair of the Omar Nelson Bradley Fellowships Committee, responsible for annually selecting 10 Army officers who will receive research fellowships in the mathematical sciences. General Bradley was the first Operations Research analyst in the Army.

• William Dunham, Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics, published a paper "When Euler Met l'Hopital" in the February, 2009, issue of the MAA journal MATHEMATICS MAGAZINE, pp. 16 -- 25.
  

• Mike Huber, associate professor of mathematics, co-authored a technical report with Dr. Bill Walters for Army Research Laboratory entitled, "On the New Evaluation of an Old Integral." It was published as an ARL technical report in December 2008.

• Mike Huber, associate professor of mathematics, presented two research talks (on Gothic architecture and calculus, and cumulative home run rates) and was an NSF panel member on interdisciplinary projects at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Jan 5-7, 2009, in Washington, DC.

Media and Communication

• Lora Taub Pervizpour, associate professor of media and communication and department chair, participated in the 73rd National Leadership Forum sponsored by the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. The forum was held in Washington, DC.

• Paul McEwan, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication and Co-Director of Film Studies, presented a paper this past weekend at the Film Studies Association of Canada conference in Ottawa. His paper was titled "Cinephilia and Nostalgia in Recent Quebec Cinema."

• Susan Kahlenberg, Kate Ranieri, John Sullivan and David Tafler presented a panel at the Union for DemocraticCommunications conference on Friday, May 29, at Buffalo State College. The panel, "Communication and Social Justice, Reclaiming the CriticalIdeal in the Spaces of our Teaching," was chaired by Lora Taub-Pervizpour.

• Sue Curry Jansen presented two papers at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in Chicago: "The Dewey-Lippmann Exchange in Historical Context" and "Refocusing the Social Justice Tradition to Pluralistic Voices: How Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology Might Contribute."

• Jeff Pooley gave a paper ("James W. Carey's Chicago School: Drafting a Usable Past") at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, in Chicago.

• Sue Jansen was awarded the Christian R. And Mary F. Lindback award at this year's Commencement.

• Jeff Pooley, assistant professor of media and communication, gave an invited paper ("The Authenticity Bind: From Flappers to Facebook") at a conference on Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Paradigms, at NYU. The paper will be published in an edited collection based on the conference.

• Jeff Pooley, assistant professor of media and communication, gave an invited paper ("The Marginal Revolution: The Place of Economics within the Behavioral Sciences Movement in Mid-20th Century America," with Mark Solovey) at a conference on Economics and the Other Social Sciences at Duke U. The paper will be published in the journal History of Political Economy.

• John Sullivan, associate professor of Media and Communication, has published a book chapter entitled "Leo C. Rosten's Hollywood: Power, Status, and the Primacy of Social Networks in Cultural Production." It is featured in Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. Read More

• Lora Taub, associate professor of media and communication, had her chapter titled " Digital Storytelling with Youth: Whose Agenda Is It?" published in the book, Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World John Hartley (Editor), Kelly McWilliam (Editor), published by Wiley. Read More
  

• David Tafler has been nominated by The Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts to be an 'expert of international standing' in order to assess a number of Discovery Projects scheme proposals this year.

• Susan Kahlenberg, assistant professor of media and communication, had an article accepted for publication in the journal Sex Roles, titled "Progression on Nickelodeon?: Gender-role stereotypes in toy commercials." This forthcoming issue of the journal features "Content Analysis" research.

• Jeff Pooley, assistant professor of media and communication, delivered a public lecture ("Facebook and the Self: A Status Update") at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, where he is a visiting Annenberg Scholar this semester.

• Jeff Pooley, assistant professor of media and communication, delivered a talk "The Strange Shape of James W. Carey's Renown: Reputation and Prestige Gaps Between Fields" at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a visiting Annenberg Scholar this semester.

• Paul McEwan, assistant professor of media and communication, and associate director of film studies presented a paper at the conference "States of Violence: Representations of Conflict in the Film, Fiction, and Media of South Asia" at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle. His paper was titled "Modes of Violence in the Films of Ram Gopal Varma."

• Agility: Muhlenberg Thrives in a Changing World The Muhlenberg College 2007-2008 Annual Report has won the Bronze CUPPIE Award which will be presented at the CUPRAP (College & University Public Relations Association of Pennsylvania) Annual Conference in March. The report is published by the Public Relations Department. Read More
  

• Paul McEwan, assistant professor of media & communication, and associate director of film studies, delivered a guest lecture this week at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute on the reception of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.
  

• Jeff Pooley, assistant professor of media and communication, had his article, "Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research" (co-authored with Elihu Katz), published in the Journal of Communication. Read More

• Paul McEwan, assistant professor of media & communication and associate director of film studies, published an article in the most recent issue of the journal Film History. The article is titled "Lawyers, Bibliographies, and the Klan: D.W. Griffith's Resources in the Censorship Battle Over The Birth of a Nation in Ohio."
  

Music

• Douglas Ovens and James Thoma traveled to Queens College this pastSaturday, May 9 with students, Jeff Levy '09 and Lauren Ross '11 to performin a Percussive Arts Society "Day of Percussion." They performed Marta Ptaszynska'sMobile and Ovens' Possible Music #2.

• Doug Ovens, professor of music, will have his composition "She Sings..." three songs for soprano and marimba on texts of e.e. cummings" featured in a presentation at the International Voice Conference in Paris this summer. The presentation will be given by Dr. Jane Hagness.

Philosophy

• Ted Schick, professor of philosophy, had his text, the 4th edition of "Doing Philosophy: an Introduction through Thought Experiments" recently published by McGraw-Hill.

• Ted Schick, professor of philosophy, had his article "The 'Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God" published in Knowledge, God, Mind and Morality, ed. by David Ohreen, (Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2009).

• Ted Schick, professor of philosophy, had his article "Life, Death, and Immortality" published in Star Trek and Philosophy: the Wrath of Kant, ed. by J.T. Eberl and K.S. Decker (Chicago: Open Court: 2009).
  

• Mark Holowchak, visiting asst. professor of philosophy, will deliver a paper titled "The Compulsion to Repeat: Freud on Play, Games, and Sport", at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting in Chicago in February.
  

Physics

• Jane Flood received the Paul C. Empie '29 Award at this year's Commencement ceremony. She was incorrectly listed as being from the chemistry department yesterday.

Political Science

• Mohsin Hashim, associate professor of political science, is presenting his paper "Power-Transition or Power-Loss? Assessing the Limits of Using Energy Resources in Reviving Russia's Geopolitical Stature" at the 2009 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in New York.
  

• Chris Borick, associate professor of political science, has been invited to be a panelist at a conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The discussion is titled "Governing the Climate: Lessons from the National Conference on Climate Governance." Read More
  

Psychology

• Laura Edelman, Kathy Harring, and Jeff Rudski along with recent graduates Lauren Bernstein, Ben Katz, and Joy Mitchell attended the Association of Psychological Science annual meeting where they presented their works. Muhlenberg alumni, Josephine Welsh '88, Amy Brunell '00, and Joanna Salapska-Gelleri '97 also presented their research.

• 54 students will be presenting at the LVAIC undergraduate pscyhology conference this weekend at DeSales University. A list of the presenters (two names are missing) is attached: Read More

• Jackie MacFarlane '09 has a first-authored publication, "What Does it Mean to be Autistic? Inter-state Variation in Special Education Criteria for Autism Services," in The Journal of Child and Family Studies. View at: Read More
  

• Karly Rodriguez '09 and Kaitlin Merritt '09 presented their honors research at the Association for Women in Psychology Conference in Newport, RI. Both were sponsored by Dr. Kate Richmond. For full details, click here
  

Religion Studies

• Peter A. Pettit (Religion Studies; IJCU) recently was an invited seminar leader at the national Seminarians Institute at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, on "Christian Theology and the Promised Land."

• Peter A. Pettit, director of the Institute of Jewish-Christian Understanding, recently presented a keynote address on "The Church's Witness to Conflict and Peace in the Middle East" for a "Conversation at the Crossroads" at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg.

• Peter A. Pettit, director of the Institute of Jewish-Christian Understanding recently presented the 25th annual Wallenberg Tribute on campus.

• Peter A. Pettit recently served as general moderator for the international theology conference of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, on the topic, "Living in the Shadow of Death."

• Hartley Lachter, associate professor of Religion, is giving a presentation to leading Kabbalah scholars at a symposium on the state of the field at Florida Atlantic University this weekend.
  

Sociology

• Janine Chi, associate professor of sociology/anthropology, presented a paper, "Makan - Singapore's National Pastime: Nation-Building and the Construction of a National Food Industry," at the 2009 Association for Asian Studies meeting in Chicago.
  

Staff Activities

• Phil Ellmore, assistant vice president for development, was honored as a "CASE Faculty Star" for his presentation at the Campaign Strategies Conference in Charleston, SC.

• Dave Furman, Hillel Program Engagement Associate, presented two sessions at the Cornerstone Seminar hosted by the Foundation for Jewish Camp, "From Darkness to Great Light: The Jewish Connections Contained in Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech and Barack Obama's 'Yes We Can' Speech" and "Jewish Journeys."

• Phedra Fishbein, the College's webmaster, sang the national anthem before a sold out crowd of 10,000 people at the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs baseball game Sunday.

• 2008-09 Peer Recognition Award Winners acknowledged at Staff Development Day Read More
  

• Glenn Gerchman and Mike Bruckner led a panel on planning for campaign events at the CUPRAP conference in Hershey. CUPRAP is an organization for communicators in higher education.

• Harry Miller, director of Information Technology, was part of a panel on crisis management on college campuses. He made his presentation at the CUPRAP conference in Hershey. CUPRAP is an organization for communicators in higher education.

• Richard Begbie, assistant director of Plant Operations, had 2 photographs from his Watkins Glen series accepted in the 30th National Juried Art Show at the Allentown Art Museum... Read More
  

• Chelsea Lobdell, presidential asst. for the Academic Resource Center and a computer science major, presented a poster on "Free/Open Source Software Tools for a Library Website: A Comparative Analysis" at the Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Philadelphia. It was based on work she did with Mary Moulton (Trexler Library) and Clif Kussmaul (computer science).
  

• The Development Office Muhlenberg has won THREE 2009 CASE District II Accolade Awards! The College won two gold and one honorable mention awards. The awards will be presented at the District II 2009 Annual Conference which will be held in Baltimore this March. Read More

Student Activities

• Alan Bass '12 is one of three finalists for the National Hockey League's rookie writer of the year award. Read More

• Adrian Shanker '09 was elected to a one year term on the Board of Governors to the National Union of Jewish LGBTIQQ Students.

• Muhlenberg College EMS Muhlenberg College EMS won the "Striving for Excellence Award" at the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation Conference in Washington DC. This award is given to select schools that hold themselves to a high standard in both patient care and organization operations.

• Joshua Glueck '09 and J. Matt Marini '11 gave a talk at the Eastern Psychological Assn. meeting in Pittsburgh. Josh, Matt and Matt Eadline '09 conducted the study in the fall 2008. They were the only undergraduates to give a talk in the "Animal Learning and Behavioral Neuroscience" sessions. The three are research assistants with Gretchen Gotthard.

• Senior Tim Murray has been added to the broadcast team for the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs minor league baseball team. Read More
  

• Adrian Shanker '09 received the Sylvia Stengle Community Leadership Award from the Allentown Women's Center at its 30th anniversary reception this weekend.

• Rejoice, the College's Gospel Choir, took first place in the inaugural valley-wide gosepl choir competition (Faith! Clash of the Valley Choirs)' at Symphony Hall in Allentown.

Theatre

• The cast of Forever Plaid, which runs July 8-26, sang the national anthem at the Iron Pigs baseball game at Coca-Cola Park. The quartet included Ty Hooker-Haring, Mike Miller, Gabe Martinez and Zach Chiero.

• Francine Roussel and the MTA production of "A Flea in Her Ear" received a Certificate of Merit for Ensemble Work at the American College Theatre Festival. Juniors Gabe Martinez and Katie Brandenstein also receive Irene Ryan nominations in acting.
  

• Tim Averill, Lex Gurst, Doug Ovens, and James E. Thomas, all received Certificates of Merit at the American College Theatre Festival for the MTA production of The Possibilities by Howard Barker. The show was directed by department chair Jim Peck, Shannon Fitzsimons '09, and Aaron Lawson '09.

• Christa Wroblewski, Natalie West, and Robert Grimm, members of the class of 2009, all earned Irene Ryan nominations in the acting category for the MTA production of The Possibilities by Howard Barker at the American College Theatre Festival. Possibilities has also been recommended to perform at the Regional Festival next year.

• Troy Dwyer and Charles O. Anderson's production of Caw was adjudicated by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and received an unprecedented five Certificates of Merit, including scholarship award nominations for students Deacon Harris (set design), and Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship nominations for Eric Thompson and Zach Chiero. Full details, click here

• Francine Roussel, associate professor of theatre and dance, delivered a lecture on circus arts at Lehigh University. It was part of the pre-show lecture series for Cirque Eloize and Theatre Sunil.

Women's Studies

• Beth Schachter, associate professor of theatre and dance and director of the women's studies program, will moderate a panel on "Re-Imagining Gender" at the LVAIC Women's Studies Conference. Students Abigail Simons, Lauren Ross, Olivia Wingeroth and Stephanie Plumeri will present their papers.