Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) will give a talk, "The Galileo Affair: Facts and Issues, Then and Now," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 6. Finocchiaro, MIT '64, will participate in the "Class Speaker Program," which is part of the 50th reunion of the MIT class of 1964.

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Janet Hollinger (Academic Affairs), Eric Lee (Academic Affairs), and Cheyenne Rogers (Education) received four of the nine Region 9 Academic Advising Awards given at the annual NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Region 9 conference held at the University of California, Berkeley. Johnson received the…

Bradley Davey (World Languages and Cultures) received one of just 20 nationwide Fulbright Teaching Awards to teach during 2014-15 in Frankfurt, Germany. The German major, who will receive his bachelor of arts degree this month, studied and taught from fall 2011 to fall 2012 in L?neburg, Germany. Now he will be assigned to a school where he will…

Deidre Clemente (History) has written a book, Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style  (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), a lively history of fashion on American college campuses. Whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool. The modern casual American…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) has been awarded a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study implicit bias in the evaluation of public officials. The project hypothesizes that implicit bias could shape the evaluation of judges in judicial performance evaluations. Implicit bias mobilizes people's images of who should be…

Donald Revell (English) has been chosen as this year's Phi Beta Kappa Poet for the annual Literary Exercises at Harvard University's commencement. Poets so honored in the past include Robert Creely, Allen Ginsburg, and Seamus Heany. Revell currently is writing a poem specifically for the occasion. Its over-arching theme will be the reason of…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been working on the Stanford University Chinese Railroad Workers Project and recently attended a workshop at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, where she presented a paper on Chinese railroad workers in Nevada. She also attended their anthropology workshop, where she headed a panel and commented on papers on…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is doing work on the effects of computer-mediated communication that is being recognized increasingly both nationally and internationally. He has been interviewed by Channel 8, FOX National News, Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, and CNet, and cited in the New York Times and the Pew Internet and American Life…

David Fott (Political Science) recently had a book published by Cornell University Press. The press published his translations of Cicero's "On the Republic" and "On the Laws."

Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) was one of the authors of a recently published study, "An International Comparison of the Ohio Department of Aging-Resident Satisfaction Survey: Applicability in a U.S. And Canadian Sample." Coauthors were Heather Cooke of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, J. Scott Brown and Jane…

Charles Whitney (English) wrote an essay, "Green Economics and the English Renaissance: From Capital to the Commons," that appears in Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). This essay links the 16th-century assault on commons rights to today's assault on the environmental commons…

Simon Gottschalk and Jennifer Whitmer (both Sociology) have published a coauthored chapter in the edited volume, The Drama of Social Life: A Dramaturgical Handbook (Ashgate). Additionally, two of Gottschalk's articles have been reprinted in the edited volume, Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology (Oxford…