Faculty Accomplishments (page 13)

December 20, 2019

Julin Everett – French

Professor Everett presented the talk “The Apparel of Others: Used Clothing in Colonial Contexts,” as invited speaker for the Fashion and Justice Workshop at Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, […]

Professor Forster’s article “Bolivia: ‘We’ll Launch a Coup if Evo Wins’” was published in several Latin American newspapers including Amandala, a leading newspaper of Belize. https://www.resumen-english.org/2019/10/bolivia-well-launch-a-coup-if-evo-wins/#more-10932

Martha Gonzalez – Chicanx-Latinx Studies

Professor Gonzalez performed two of her compositions which were specially orchestrated for her and the Arizona State University symphony, for “Towards A More Perfect Union,” a theatrical, symphonic concert with […]

Ken Gonzales-Day – Art

Professor Gonzales-Day’s work was featured in the following exhibits: “Photography For Social Justice” at the Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference & Exhibition, co-hosted by the West and Southwest Chapters […]

Anne Harley – Music

Professor Harley performed “Women Awake: Four Musical Premieres,” newly commissioned pieces of vocal chamber music by composers Richard Cornell, Ping Gao, Pablo Ortiz, and Marjorie Merryman ’72, setting texts by […]

Hao Huang – Music

Professor Huang wrote, produced, and performed “LA Chinatown Massacre of 1871 Commemoration,” a multimedia-performance event with narration, videoscape, soundscape, and improvisations on Chinese and Western instruments, at Scripps College Boone […]

Aaron Leconte – Chemistry

Professor Leconte received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop new faster methods to understand and modify luciferase, an important protein used in biomedical imaging. Over three […]

Nancy Macko – Art

Professor Macko’s work “The Fragile Bee” was on view in two exhibitions: Chicago Academy of Science in Chicago, IL, through January 2020; Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, through November 15, […]

Sarah Marzen – Physics

Professor Marzen gave two colloquium talks, both titled “How can we predict efficiently?” at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, October […]

Nancy Neiman – Politics

Professor Neiman’s article titled “Plant Justice: A Case Study in Radical Pedagogy and Food Justice in an Alternative Education Setting” was published in Creative Education (CE), Vol.10 No.8 2019. http://www.scirp.org/journal/CE/ […]

Roberto Pedace – Economics

Professor Pedace presented “THC and the FDIC: Implications of Cannabis Legalization for the Banking System” at the 94th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, San Francisco, CA, summer 2019.

Susan Rankaitis – Art

Professor Rankaitis’ work is currently in three group exhibitions: The Museum of Photographic Arts, “The Stories They Tell: A Hundred Years of Photography,” Balboa Park, San Diego CA, October 2019-February […]

Babak Sanii – Chemistry

Professor Sanii gave the following invited talks: “Scalable biomembrane manufacturing” as part of the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics seminars, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. […]

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 […]