Academics

• Rich Niesenbaum, Marten Edwards , Jenifer Levy '06, Emily Kluger '04, and Norris Muth published a paper, "Increased Per Capita Herbivory in the Shade: Necessity, Feedback, or Luxury Consumption?" in the Ecoscience journal.
  
• Muhlenberg College Hillel Director Patti Mittleman was presented the “Ally of the Year” award for her commitment to supporting a proactive and positive pro-Israel agenda on campus by AIPAC at the AIPAC Campus Activism Awards Banquet held earlier this month during the organization’s annual Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Clif Kussmaul, Associate Professor of Computer Science attended the NSF Chautauqua on Teaching Communication Skills in the Software Engineering Curriculum at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Clif presented on "Enhancing student collaboration and coordination with wikis and related tools."
  
  
• Clif Kussmaul, Associate Professor of Computer Science will attend the Usability Professionals Assocation meeting June 17-20 in Baltimore, MD, and will give a presentation onna model for iterative prototyping using multiple approaches.
  
  
• The Doctors of Rock musical group will be performing at the Lehigh Valley Council of the Arts "Rock the Arts" Event at Merchants Square Mall Concert Hall May 30. Read More
  
  
• Meaghan Healy '08 has received a teaching & study award through the Fulbright program for Argentina. Meghan is a business and Spanish double major. She has worked on an Honors Thesis on nonprofits and has studied abroad. Her research project will involve studying the intersections of poverty and education.
  
  
• Melissa Detrick '09 won the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic/Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship. Melissa is a History major and one of 10 undergraduates selected nationally to participate in a research seminar at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Brooke Steinhauser '08, , double majoring in Art and Theatre, has received the Katzenberger Foundation Art History Internship at the Smithsonian Institution. She will serve in the education department at the National Portrait Gallery, working with collections research and supervising urban youth.
  
  
• Erica Cohen, Laura Stein and Jaclyn MacFarlane presented a symposium paper at the national conference for the American Education Research Association (AERA) in New York City.
  
  
• Dr. Anna Adams, Professor of history and Spanish will give a talk entitled, "The Coming of Latinos to the Lehigh Valley", presented by Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society on February 1, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.

Alumni & Development

• AT&T Grant Muhlenberg is one of five PA colleges to be awarded a technology grant from AT&T. Read

Anthropology

• Christopher Kovats-Bernat, associate professor of anthropology, provided an affidavit concerning the social and political situation in Haiti for a US Federal immigration hearing. The hearing concerns political asylum for a Haitian woman and 5 children. The woman, with anti-government ties, was raped (and now pregnant) by pro-government partisan gang members.

Art Studio

• Carol Heft's work will be shown in the exhibit “Ensemble” at the Blue Mountain Gallery in NYC. The exhibition features the collaborative, individual, and simultaneously conceived work of three of New York’s finest contemporary artists.
  
  
• Amze Emmons, assistant professor of art, received an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship Grant from the Pennsylvania Arts Council. Emmons also took third Place in the highly competitive 2008 Miami University (Ohio) Young Painters Competition.
  
  
• Joe Elliott , professor of art, will have an exhibit of photographs on view at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia from Jan. 7 through Mar. 21. A lecture and reception will be Jan. 31. Read More

Athletics

• Football coach Mike Donnelly was the guest speaker at the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Dinner. Read More
  

Biology

• Dan Klem, Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology, presented about his bird fatalities and glass structures research at the joint Wilson Ornithological Society and Association of Field Ornithologists meeting held this past weekend in Mobile, Alabama.
  
  
• Amy Hark, assistant professor of biology, published an article titled "Crossing Over: An Undergraduate Service Learning Project That Connects to Biotechnology Education in Secondary Schools" in the journal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.
  
  
• Dan Klem, Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology, is cited in the book "The World Without Us", by Allan Weisman.
  
  
• Elizabeth McCain, associate professor of biology, published a case study titled "When Drug Sales and Science Collide," in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. This explores the conflict between drug sales and science, through the eyes of a fictional Merck drug representative who has been put on the Vioxx® account in Feb. 2001.
  
  
• Bruce Wightman and Sheila Clever of the biology department, along with Muhlenberg alumni Stephen DeMeo, Rebecca Lombel, Eric L. Smith, Danielle Snowflack and Kristy Reinert, published an article on the molecular biology of nuclear hormone receptors in the journal BMC Molecular Biology. Read More
  

Business Administration

• Roland Kushner, assistant professor of business, will perform this Fri., May 2, at the Banana Factory, 25 West Third Street in Bethlehem. This is part of the First Friday celebration in South Bethlehem. Roland will take the stage from 6:30 until 9 in the Binney&Smith Gallery, which also features the work of visionary photographer John Isaac.
  
  
• Michael London, associate professor of business, presented at the Lilly East Conference on College and University Teaching. His presentations was "The Poetry Wall as a Vehicle for Classroom Transformation."
  
  
• Michael London, assoc. professor of accounting, business and economics and Amanda Clifford '08, presented at the Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference at LaSalle University in Philadelphia on Coaching in the Classroom: Teaching to the Real Issues Undergrads Face.

Community Service

• Muhlenberg College The College has been selected to participate in the Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania program. The AmeriCorps Education Award is a state-wide initiative whose purpose to encourage meaningful community service among college students

• Ryan Chapoteau,Miles Davison,Ali Fales,Damara Gonzalez,Beth Schwartz recently received Muhlenberg College's Board of Associates Community Service Award and were recognized for their outstanding commitment to service at the Board's annual spring dinner.

Dance

• Charles O. Anderson, assistant professor of dance and several dancers have been selected to present at the American College Dance Festival in New York. Read More

Economics

• Vivian Walsh, Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Economics&Philosophy , has published an article titled "Freedom, Values and Sen, Toward A Morally Enriched Classical Economic Theory," in the Review of Political Economy, Vol. 20, 2, April 2008.
  
  
• Randy Salani '07 co-authored an article in the University of Connecticut Quarterly Review. It was titled "State health care reforms: Lighting the Way or Stoking the Fire?" Randy Salani '07 co-authord an article in the University of Connecticut Quarterly Review. It was titled "State health care reforms: Lighting the Way or Stoking the Fire?"
  
  
• Sam Laposata, visiting lecturer in economics and former dean of the Wescoe School, is one of four people being honored as 2008 Lehigh Valley Mentors of the Year. Laposata will be honored at an awards breakfast Jan. 9.

English

• Jim Bloom, professor of English, chaired and organized a session titled "Philip Roth and the Visual Arts" at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco over Memorial Day weekend.
  
  
• Grant Scott, professor of English, published a review essay of Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright, in the latest issue of "Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly." The novel is set in 1790s London and features William Blake as a character. It's not worth reading, though her earlier Girl with a Pearl Earring is.
  
  
• Jeffrey Ethan Lee, adjunct professor of English, was published on the UNESCO sponsored site, The Other Voices International Project. This is a cyber-anthology that erases the boundaries of nations, ethnicities, religions, cultures, and age to publish world's best poetry. Publication is by invitation only, and includes Nobel and Poet Laureates. Read More
  
  
• Jill Stephen and David Rosenwasser gave a faculty workshop at Louisiana State University. The workshop is titled "Writing as Thinking Across the Curriculum."
  
  
• Tom Cartelli, professor of English, delivered a paper titled "Channeling the Ghosts: the Wooster Group's Remediation of the 1964 Electronovision Hamlet," to a meeting of the University Seminar on Shakespeare at Columbia University.
  
  
• Tom Cartelli, professor of English, is co-directing a research seminar on Shakespeare on Screen in Theory & Practice this spring at the Folger Library in Washington, DC.
  
  
• Jeffrey Ethan Lee, adjunct professor of English, was part of the 5th anniversary reading/celebration of Many Mountains Moving Press in NYC at the Cornelia St. Cafe, one of the best venues in NYC for literary events (other authors featured included Susan Settlemyre Williams, Anne-Marie Cusac, Patrick Lawler, Alison Stone and Thaddeus Rutkowski). Read More
  
  
• Jeffrey Ethan Lee, adjunct professor of English, was part of a panel at the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP). His talk was about how authors can create book tour events. He also represe nted Many Mountains Moving Press as Senior Poetry Editor at the AWP Bookfair, the largest national gathering of literary and small presses.
  

French

• Lisa Perfetti, associate professor of French, presented a paper at a conference at Hofstra University called "Humor in Romance Literatures." The paper was titled "Laughing at Learned Women in the Late Medieval French Farce." She reports that no one laughed at her presentation (except when she was hoping they would!).
  

Health Professions

• Susan Kahlenberg, assistant professor of media and communication, attended a two-day curriculum development conference for Undergraduate Public Health in Crystal City, Virginia on July 14 and 15. Muhlenberg was selected through a competitive application process to participate in this education initiative.

History

• Ed Bonekemper '64, adjunct professor of history, will present "How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War" at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua Society in Mt. Gretna this week.
  
• Ed Bonekemper '64, adjunct professor of history, addresses the Lancaster Sons of the Revolution and then the Lancaster DAR on "Virginian Slavery and the American Revolution." On May 6&7, he will be speaking at the Smithsonian Institution and then in Darlington, MD on "Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian."
  
  
• Daniel J. Wilson, professor of history, recently presented "Polio, Rehabilitation, and the Lessons of History," to a meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Care held at Seven Springs Resort in Western Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Mark Stein, assistant professor of history, had a Turkish edition of his book published. "Guarding the Frontier: Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe," has been published in Istanbul under the title Osmanli Kaleleri Avrupa'da Hudut Boylari.
  
  
• Ed Bonekemper '64 had his new hardcover book, Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian, released by Praeger. List price is $49.95, but Ed is offering signed, personalized copies of it directly from him for $37.00 each (plus $3 shipping).

Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

• Erika M. Sutherland, associate professor of Spanish, presented her paper “Entre sombras y sangre: La representación y recepción de la violencia doméstica en Pardo Bazán” at the Congreso Internacional “La Literatura de Emilia Pardo Bazán,” held in A Coruña, Spain. A brief interview with a photo appeared in A Coruña’s largest daily paper, La Opinión. Read More
  
  
• Luba Iskold, associate professor of Russian, presented her paper “CALL Design & Video Comprehension:Insight from Research & Practice” at the CALICO with IALLT 25th Annual Conference hosted by Univ. of San Fran. She moderated “Emerging Digital Media for Language Learning” & attended the workshop “Virtual Worlds in Second Life: The Reality of Language Learning.”
  
  
• Erika M. Sutherland, associate professor of Spanish, presented her paper “On the Love of Cobardes and Cuyos: Discourses of Domestic Violence in Nineteenth Century Spain” at the Modern Language Association's annual conference in Chicago in December.

Leadership and Greek Affairs

• Sisters from Delta Zeta (Xi Iota Chapter) attending four workshops and won 12 awards at its Region Day. Awards included: Philanthropy, highest chapter GPA in the region, Outstanding Large Chapter Award, Outstanding Region 2 President Award (Immediate Past President Amanda Clifford). The region covers New Jersey and Eastern PA.
  

Mathematics

• Clif Kussmaul, assistant professor of computer science, attended the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance 12th Annual Conference in Dallas, TX. He presented a paper and moderated a panel. Details attached. Read More
  
  
• Mike Huber, associate professor of mathematics, has had "0⁰" (Zero raised to the zeroth power) published in Convergence, a journal of the Mathematical Association of America. He co-authored the paper with Fred Rickey. Convergence stresses interaction of mathematics, history, and teaching. Read More
  
  
• Byungchul Cha, assistant professor of mathematics gave a presentation on his research "Chebyshev's bias in function fields" at the spring eastern meeting of the American Mathematical Society 2008, at New York University.
  
  
• Linda McGuire, associate professor of mathematics, had the paper "Long Cycles in 2-Connected Triangle-free Graphs" appear in the journal Ars Combinatoria Vol. 86 (2008). This paper is the result of joint work with D. Bauer, N. Kahl, and E. Schmeichel.
  
  
• William Dunham, Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics, presented a talk titled "When Euler Met l'Hospital" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego on Wednesday, January 9, 2008.
  
  
• Mike Huber, associate professor of mathematics, presented "Using the Sympodium to Support the Teaching and Learning of Modeling" at the Joint Math Meetings in San Diego. He also moderated a contributed paper session and attended two editorial board meetings for a journal and NSF grant of which he is a part.
  
  
• Penny Dunham, professor of mathematics and computer science, attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Jan. 5-9. She presented two papers while there: "The 'Write' Transition to Abstract Mathematics" and "Show Me Your Data: Statistics for Millennials."
  
  
• William Dunham , mathematics, won the Beckenbach Book Prize for his book "Euler: The Master of Us All."

Media and Communication

• Lora Taub, Chris Borick and Jon Nelson '09 are leading the HYPE (healthy youth peer education) program, which begins Monday and runs through July 18, in Walson Hall. It's a collaboration with Lehigh Valley Hospital. Participants will learn about social marketing, spoken work, media education, and digital storytelling.
  
  
• Kate Ranieri, visiting professor, was an invited guest lecturer at Lehigh University, Monday April 21. She spoke to women's studies majors on Rebels and Revolutionaries: Female Activists in American History, 1800-Present. Kate presented elements of her current documentary on reproductive justice and the Allentown Women's Center.
  
  
• Ara Osterweil, assistant professor of art and film studies, participated in the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference held in Philadelphia. She chaired a panel on "The Pedophilic Imagination" and presented a paper titled: "Invasion of the Child Snatchers: The Pedophilic Imagination of American Independent Film."
  
  
• Paul McEwan, assistant professor of media and communication and associate director of the film studies program, chaired a panel at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference held in Phila delphia. The panel was "Early Cinema History" and he presented a paper titled: "Fleeing the Burden of History: The Sound-era Version of The Birth of a Nation."
  
  
• David Tafler, associate professor of media and communication, gave a presentation as part of a workshop titled: "Architectures and Designs of Global Media Circulation, 1858-2008." The workshop was part of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference held in Philadelphia.
  
  
• Jeff Pooley, asst. professor of media and communication, had his edited book, The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories (co-edited, with David Park), published by Peter Lang. The book includes chapters by Pooley and Sue Curry Jansen, professor of media and communication ("Walter Lippmann: Straw Man of Communication Research").
  
  
• Susan Kahlenberg and Michelle Hein '05 had their paper "Progression on Nickelodeon: Gender-role stereotypes in toy commercials" accepted for presentation at the Broadcast Education Association Conference April 16-19, 2008. Their paper won Second Place in the Debut category in the Gender Issues Division at BEA.
  
• Sue Curry Jansen, professor of media and communication, had her article, "Designer Nations: Neo-liberal nation branding -Brand Estonia" published in the current issue of Social Identitities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Routledge).
  
  
• Sue Curry Jansen, professor of media and communication, had her 2002 book published in a Chinese edition by The University of Fudan Press, Shanghai, China. The book is titled "Critical Communication Theory: Power, Media, Gender and Technology" and was translated by Cao Jin.
  
  
• Jefferson Pooley, assistant professor of media and communication, published a journal article, "Edward Shils' Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection," in the current issue of The American Sociologist.
  
  
• Sue Curry Jansen, professor of media and communication, had her essay, "History Matters," published in the December issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 24, n. 5.

Music

• Doug Ovens performed his percussion work, "Brightly Shining," in NYC on the National Association of Composers, USA, concert on 6/9/08. Performing with Ovens was Jim Thoma, lecturer in Percussion . "Brightly Shining" is a new version of a work from Ovens' critically acclaimed solo CD, Seven Improvisations.
  
  
• Ty Hooker-Haring '09 will be playing bass behind Lindsay Rush as the opening act for Pat Benatar at the House of Blues in Atlantic City Sat. night. The concert is sold out.
  
  
• The Muhlenberg Chamber Singers traveled to Lafayette College on Saturday and participated in a Choral Festival with Lafayette, Moravian,and DeSales.

Philosophy

• Lawrence Hass P'11, professor of philosophy, published a philosophical book for magicians titled "Transformations: Creating Magic Out of Tricks." The book has received outstanding reviews and has become an international bestseller among magicians. In December 2007, Hass lectured on magic and performed at Princeton University.
  
  
• Lawrence Hass P'11, professor of philosophy, will lecture and teach at The World Magic Seminar, a major international gathering of magicians in Las Vegas. Hass will also lecture and perform at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, May 18-27, 2008.
  

Political Science

• U.S. Election Assistance Commission The College is one of 27 organizations to receive a grant from the USEAC. The grants are designed to help train students to become poll workers. Read More
  
• Mohsin Hashim, associate professor of political science, was an invited speaker at the University of Pittsburgh's University Center for International Studies. His topic was "The Changing Nature of Corporate-State Relations in Post-Communist Russia."
  
  
• Chris Borick, associate professor of political science, hosted a Lehigh Valley Econ. Development and Pennsylvania Community&Econ. Development foreign press contingent that included journalists from France (Figaro, Radio France, BFMTV); the Beijing Daily and the Wall Street Journal of India.
  
  
• Eric Feld '09 was awarded first prize for research, writing and presentation at a conference by the Center for Russian and East European Studies and the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  
• Lanethea Mathews-Gardner, assistant professor of political science, and Kirill Meleshevic '08 presented a paper titled "Did the UN Contribute to the Decline of US Civic Engagement?" at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
  
  
• Brian Mello, assistant professor of political science, with research assistance from Katherine Pearson '08, presented a paper on the impact of radical labor activism in Japan and Turkey at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
  

Presidential Activities

• Ken Butler, executive assistant to the President, attended the 21st annual meeting of the National Association for Presidential Assistants in Higher Education in San Diego, CA, February 8-10. In addition to attending workshops and plenaries, he presented a workshop session, "The Trustee Website: No, Really ... You Can Do It."

Psychology

• LVAIC Psychology Conference Several students presented at the LVAIC undergraduate psychology conference at Lehigh University. Here is the ENTIRE LIST of presenters. Read More

Religion Studies

• Peter A. Pettit recently returned from the annual conference of the International Council of Christians and Jews in Jersualem, where he delivered a workshop paper, "Towards a Critical, Constructive Theology of the Promised Land." The presentation and a response will be posted shortly. Read More
  
  
• Peter A. Pettit recently led a study session jointly with Prof. Yehezkel Landau of Hartford Seminary on Community and Promised Land for Jews and Christians, at the seminarians conference of Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
  

Spanish

• Joan F. Marx, professor of Spanish, presented the paper, "Transformation and Restoration: Identity and Exile in Demetria Martinez 'Lengua madre,'" at the 61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky April 17-19, 2008.
  
  
• Mirna Trauger, visiting lecturer in Spanish, presented the paper, "La redefinición de la puertorriqueñidad a través de la fotografía en La llegada de José Luis González," at the MACLAS XXIX Conference, "Beyond Borders: New Collaborations," at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  
  
• Jamie Schneider '08 and Drew Krumholz '08 presented at the MACLAS Conference at UMBC. Schneider presented a paper and documentary titled: "Equality for All Amigos: The Representation of Latinos in American Media." Drew Krumholz presented a paper titled: "Understanding the Maya-Quiché Popol Vuh Through the Hindu Puranas." Mirna Trauger was the advisor.
  
  
• Joan F. Marx, professor of Spanish, presented the paper, "The Political Discourses of Memory and Exile in Volando bajito by Alicia Partnoy," at the MACLAS XXIX Conference, "Beyond Borders: New Collaborations," at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  
  
• Joan F. Marx, professor of Spanish, served as the moderator of a panel: "Mapping Nature, Culture, and Power: Issues in Latin American Environmental History" at the MACLAS XXIX Conference, "Beyond Borders: New Collaborations," at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  

Staff Activities

• Marjorie Lauer, administrative manager of the Graver Arboretum, won a blue ribbon at the Bethlehem Garden Club's flower show. Lauer prepared a photo display on the topic of "Conserving Graver Arboretum." The blue ribbon was in the Education category, and Lauer also won a National award in the same category.
  
  
• Capital Campaign DVD "The Talents Entrusted To Our Care" DVD received a gold award in the Hermes Creative Awards of Arlington, Texas. There were over 4,000 entries. Kudos to videographer and editor Scott Stoneback and producer Stacey Prohaska (development).
  
  Ethel Drayton-Craig, director of the Multicultural Center, was on the program with Toni Morrison for "Words Matter," at Cedar Crest College.
  
  
• Kent Dyer, Chief Business Officer, and Jim Steffy, retired long-time vice president and interim president, published an article about the Village in the National Association of College and Univ. Business Officers' magazine. Read More

Student Activities

• Adrian Shanker '09 has been named the Campus Progress Student Representative of the Year. The ceremony will be televised, 7/8, on CSPAN 3, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
  
  
• Erika Koop '08 will be part of a fine art exhibit at the Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art Exhibit in Easton. The opening reception is July 12. The exhibit runs through August 31. Read More
  
  
• Adrian Shanker '09 is in Harrisburg today representing the Gay-Straight Alliance as part of a delegation of local LGBT leaders lobbying against Senate Bill 1250, the proposed amendment to the PA Constitution to ban same-sex marriage and benefits.
  
  
• Adrian Shanker '09 will be presenting his workshop "Constructing GenderSAFE Campuses" at the annual conference for the National Union of Jewish LGBTIQ Students this Saturday at Columbia University