Honors College
Erin Mountz, Assistant Dean of the Honors College, presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America in San Diego, California on April 5. The title of the paper was “Rediscovering the Imperfect: John Dee’s Natural Philosophy and his Conversations with Angels.”
College of Liberal Arts
Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Associate Professor, Department of History, delivered an invited-commentary at Harvard University and MIT University’s joint Conference on “Nature and Technology in French History” (April 4-7 2013). Dr. Dombrowski Risser’s commentary, “Rivers and the Land: Life and History in “La France Profonde,” identified trends in recent scholarship in French studies which investigate the relationship between the built and natural environment. In particular, her paper analyzed current work looking at the flight of rural women from farm work in post World War II France, the impact of urban tourism on the French rural economy and the changing markers of self-identification for French men and women from those linked to the natural environment to markers expressive of commercial and industrial production.
Diane Scharper, English, had her review of David Ferry’s book of poetry, Bewilderment, (winner of the National Book Award) appeared in The Weekly Standard (April 29, 2013).
College of Fine Arts and Communication
Jessica Ring and her students from her Graphic Design for Social Issues course were featured on WYPR’s The Signal on April 19, 2013, for their collaborative work with Word on the Street . Word on the Street is Baltimore’s newest “street paper,” an independent newspaper produced by homeless people and their advocates. Professor Ring and her students work with the newspaper staff to design layouts for each edition. Lisa Morgan of WYPR’s The Signal interviewed Professor Ring and student John Bright about the collaboration. Listen to the podcast.
College of Education
Donna Janney led a research team whose study was published in the April 2013 issue of Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.
