Faculty Accomplishments (page 9)


October 23, 2020

Hao Huang – Music, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music

Professor Huang presented the following performances and talks: ·      “Strings & Sol” music conference, La Condesa Mexico City, MX, December 2019; ·      Visiting professor at the University of Belize Belmopan, BZ, where he performed […]

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Adam Landsberg – Physics

Professor Landsberg published the following: ·      “Modeling Cultural Dissemination and Divergence Between Rural and Urban Regions.” To appear: The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 2020  […]

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Aaron Leconte – Chemistry

Professor Leconte and six undergraduate co-authors (underlined) published the following research article in the journal Biochemistry:   A. S. Thompson, S. E. Barrett, A. G. Weiden, A. Venkatesh, M. K. C. Seto, S. Z. P. […]

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Julia Lum – Art History

Professor Lum published “Art in the Time of Captain Cook: A Conversation,” co-authored with Kailani Polzak (UC Santa Cruz) in the online open-access Journal18: a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture.   She […]

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Nancy Macko – Art, Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching

Professor Macko participated in a  themed portfolio project, “Printshop Signage,” for the SGCI International Conference Puertográfico scheduled to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico but was canceled due to COVID-19.

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Leila Mansouri – English

Professor Mansouri published “Slave Narratives, Black Disenfranchisement, and the Electoral Limits of Black Freedom” in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 8.2 (Fall 2020) as part of a special forum on electoral politics.

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Sarah Marzen – Physics

Professor Marzen published the following articles: ·      “Prediction and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium Molecular Sensors: Conditionally Markovian Channels Driven by Memoryful Environments,” Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Volume 82, Article number: 25 (2020); https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-020-00694-2 ·      Uppal, V. […]

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Jane Mi – Media Studies

Professor Mi participated in the following exhibitions: A two-person exhibition with Torika Bolatagici, “The Future of Our Kids” at Te Uru Waitakere in Auckland, New Zealand, curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith; “Curated Projects” on […]

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John Milton – Biology, William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in Computational Neuroscience

Professor Milton published the following: ·      G. Buza, J. Milton, L. Bencsik and T. Insperger (2020).  Establishing metrics and control laws for the learning process: ball and beam balancing.  Biological […]

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Katie Purvis-Roberts – Chemistry

Professor Purvis-Roberts co-authored a textbook:   Fahlman, B.D., Purvis-Roberts, K.L., Kirk, J.S., Daubenmire, P.L., Kelly, R., Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, 10th Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, February 2020.  

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Nathalie Rachlin – French, Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages

Professor Rachlin was invited to give a conference presentation on March 11, 2020 at the Columbia University Global Studies Center at Reid Hall, Paris, France. The talk was entiled “Gesturing […]

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Susan Rankaitis – Art, Emerita

 Professor Rankaitis’ work was included in the group exhibition “Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Art” curated by Toby Jurovics at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE, February 28 through […]

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Luis Salés – Religious Studies

Professor Salés published the following articles: ·      “To Kill a Matriarchy: Makədda, Queen of Ethiopia and the Specter of Pauline Androprimacy in the Kəbrä Nägäśt,” in African Journal of Gender and Religion (forthcoming, […]

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Irene Tang – Biology

Professor Tang published the following article in a peer-reviewed research journal: Wu M, Feng G, Zhang B, Xu K, Wang Z, Cheng S, Chang C, Vyas A, Tang Z, Liu X. Phosphoproteomics […]

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Diane Thomson – Biology and Environmental Science

Professor Thomson published three journal articles. Two of the articles were co-authored by Scripps alumnae who did research in her lab when they were students (denoted with *). ·      Thomson, […]

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Trang Tran – Art

Professor Tran’s Show “To View a Plastic Flower” featured new video and multimedia installations that engage themes of interconnectivity, perspectivism, and the poetics (as well as politics) of conflict. Los […]

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Ethan Van Arnam – Chemistry

Professor Van Arnam published the following journal article together with Keck science students (*): Chang, P. T.*; Rao, K.*; Longo, L. O.*; Lawton, E. S.*; Scherer, G.*; Van Arnam, E. […]

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Kevin Vennemann – German

Professor Vennemann published the following: ·      A German translation of Franco Berardi’s study The Soul at Work (Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 2020), February 2020; ·      A German translation of Donald Richie’s Tractate on […]

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Rivka – Weinberg Philosophy

Professor Weinberg published, “The Road to Auschwitz Wasn’t Paved with Indifference,” The New York Times, The Stone Opinionator Column, January 21, 2020. She was interviewed (video) by Ricardo Lopes, The Dissenter, on the […]

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Nancy Williams – Chemistry

Professor Williams was honored to give the ChemAIMS lecture at Stanford University entitled, “Trans Ligands, Transition Metals, and Trans Advocacy: No Other Way to Be Alive, a Queen, and Nearly […]

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