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December 20, 2019

Michael Spezio – Psychology

He presented his research at the following: “Investigating Dyadic Cooperation and Competition Using I-POMDP Models,” at the National Science Foundation-sponsored meeting of Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience, at the University […]

Kevin Vennemann – German

Professor Vennemann published two translations to German: Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s seminal study The Soul at Work. From Automation to Autonomy, published by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, Germany, October 2019; Donald […]

Rivka Weinberg – Philosophy

Professor Weinberg gave the keynote address, “Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad,” at the 2nd annual International Conference on Philosophy […]

Kevin Williamson – Dance

Professor Williamson previewed in collaboration with Scripps Presents Kevin Williamson + Company’s new evening length dance “Safe and Sound” at Garrison Theater, Scripps College, October 2019.

Stacey Wood – Psychology

Professor Stacey Wood was interviewed by Marketplace Radio regarding her work on robocall scams. http://www.scrippscollege.edu/news/releases/faculty/in-the-media-professor-stacey-wood-discusses-chinese-language-robocalls-with-marketplace

October 25, 2019

Yuval Avnur – Philosophy

Professor Avnur had the following papers accepted for publication: “Justification as a Loaded Notion” in Synthese; “Unicorn Agnosticism” in Inquiry; “What is Wrong with Agnostic Belief?” will be included in […]

Gayle Blankenburg – Music

Professor Blankenburg completed a 3-week residency at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand. She performed works written in the 20th and 21st centuries, several of which were written specifically for […]

Thierry Boucquey – French

Professor Boucquey received a Scholar-in-Residence Grant from Hunan Women’s University in Changsha, China, for teaching an intensive version of his Core 3 “Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic” course to […]

Suchi Branfman – Dance

Professor Branfman curated and performed the following works: “Shakti Rising,” a series of choreographed workshops and storytelling sessions with formerly incarcerated women negotiating reentry, Sacramento, CA, May 2019; “Embodied Landscapes,” […]

Myriam J. A. Chancy – Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Professor Chancy was the featured writer, with Monica Del Valle (Translator), Literary Salon, for the presentation of the Spanish Edition of Loneliness of Angels, at the 44th Annual Conference, Caribbean […]

Pete Chandrangsu – Biology

Professor Chandrangsu published the following: Do H, Makthal N, Chandrangsu P, Olsen RJ, Helmann J, Musser JM, Kumaraswami M. “Metal sensing and regulation of adaptive responses to manganese limitation by […]

Melissa Coleman – Biology

Professor Coleman gave the Masakazu Konishi Endowed Lectureship entitled “Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Duet Singing in a Neotropical Wren,” in the Neural Systems and Behavior Course at the Marine […]

David Cubek – Music

Professor Cubek gave the following performances: Conducted the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestras Philharmonic at the Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, CA; Led the Simón Bolívar Symphony and dictated advanced score analysis workshops […]

Meiver De la Cruz – Dance

Professor De la Cruz was a keynote speaker at the closing plenary, “The State of the Field,” at the Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. […]

Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert – Biology

Professor Edwalds-Gilbert presented the following: An invited talk “Regulation of gene expression by mRNA translation in response to stress” at the Symbioza Research Conference in Warsaw, Poland, and at the […]

Marino Forlino – Italian

Professor Forlino authored “Estratti di vita lucana,” a collection of poetry and prose published in Basilicata-Terra Terra, a photography book by Vincenzo Frangione. ISBN 979-12-200-5123-1. July 2019. His short story “Respirando” […]

Cindy Forster – History

Professor Forster was invited to organize speakers for a conference co-hosted by the Vice-Ministry of Decolonization and the Law School of the National University in Bolivia. She participated at the […]

Ken Gonzales-Day – Art

Professor Gonzales-Day work was featured in the following exhibits: “Black, Brown and Beige” at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 17 through Sept. 27, 2019; https://kengonzalesday.com/black-brown-and-beige/ “Frieze New York” […]

Anne Harley – Music

Professor Harley completed a one-month residency at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China as a guest teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework which is a type of voicework for actor training programs. […]

Amy Hough-Dugdale – Italian

Professor Hough-Dugdale’s published paper “Periphaural Vision: Sound and the Rhizomatic Reconfiguration of Image in Fellini’s La voce della luna” won the California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS) Prize.