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Recognition

Corinne Moss-Racusin, assistant professor of psychology, has been selected a 鈥淩ising Star鈥� by the Association for Psychological Science. The award recognizes 鈥渙utstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research creer post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals geat potential for their continued contributions.鈥�  Moss-Racusin鈥檚 research explores sterotyping, diversity, gender roles, implicit social cognition, and evidence-based diversity interventions. Awardees span all areas of psychology; Moss-Racusin was the only honoree from a liberal arts college. .

Amber Wiley, assistant professor of American studies, was one of 12 college faculty and staff from throughout the country named an

The recognition 鈥渉ighlights under 40 scholars from around the country who are making their mark in the academy thorugh teaching, research, and service. Scholars are selected based on research, euciaonl background, publishing record, teaching record, competitiveness of fields of study, and uniqueness of field of study, according to Maya Minter of Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Wiley, whose research interests are centered on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities鈥攁rchitecture as a literal and figural structure of power鈥攚as called a , which featured her on the .

Activities

Larry Britt, associate director of Campus Safety, was elected a director-at-large on the board of the Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association at its 62^nd annual conference in 2015.

Tom Lewis, emeritus professor of English, discussed his new book, Washington:  A History of Our National City (Basic Books, 2015), during a Dec. 4 interview with Joe Donahue of WAMC-FM at Northshire Books. On Monday, Feb. 8, Lewis will deliver the Overbeck Lecture at Hill Center. .

Publications and Exhibitions

Susan Bender, emerita professor of anthropology, has published a summative article on her multi-year Colorado research program, "Modeling Forager Settlements of Mountainous Landscapes,鈥� in Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 60, No. 236, November 2015.

Ariel Osterweis, visiting assistant professor in dance, contributed a chapter titled 鈥淕eo-Choreography and Necropolitics: Faustin Linyekula鈥檚 Studios Kabako, Democratic Republic of Congo,鈥� to the edited volume, Choreographies of 21st Century Wars (Eds. Jens Giersdorf and Gay Morris, Oxford University Press, 2015). And her article, 鈥淧ublic Pubic: Narcissister鈥檚 Performance of Race, Disavowal, and Aspiration,鈥� is published in TDR/The Drama Review (TDR Consortium Special Issue, Ed. Rebecca Schneider), Winter 2015, T228, 60.1, 101-116).

Paul Sattler, associate professor of art and director, Schick Art Gallery, has a solo exhibition through Feb. 24 at the , Boston. The exhibition includes new works produced during Sattler鈥檚 sabbatical, including new personalized variations of and works inspired by Joachim Wtewael鈥檚 The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, 1612 (Clark Art Institute). , critic Cate McQuaid wrote, 鈥淎llegorical narrative can seem fusty in this age of irony and anti-heroes, but Sattler makes it work with his nimble technique; his brushwork fleetly moves us from physical reality into the ether 鈥� that equally potent world of spirit, memory, and imagination.鈥�

Jeffrey Segrave, professor of health and exercise sciences, is the author of "The Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games: Current Issues and Problems," which will be published in Russia out of the Naberezhnochelninsky Institute of Socio-Educational Technologies and Resources in the Journal of Pedagogical-Psychological and Medico-Biological Problems in Physical Culture and Sports. 

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of gender studies and religion, has a chapter titled "A Big Bang for 'the Little Woman:' Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America," in the just-released three-volume work , edited by Glenn H. Utter, and published by the Praeger imprint of ABC-CLIO. Stange鈥檚 chapter appears in Volume 2, Cultural Issues Related to Firearms in the United States.

In the News

Paul Arciero, professor of health and exercise sciences, earned a 鈥渟enior superlative鈥� from WAMC鈥檚 鈥淎cademic Minute.鈥� In a year-end round-up that aired Dec. 28, Arciero was listed as 鈥淢ost Likely to Change the World鈥� for an invigorating analysis of the proper way to exercise, which the station said 鈥渨ill be helpful for all of us as we attempt to lose all those holiday pounds!鈥� Arciero鈥檚 most recent 鈥淎cademic Minute鈥� on .
In addition, he was a source for 鈥�6 ways your health suffers when you stop working out鈥� published Dec. 13 by and republished since then on a number of web sites, including menshealth.com and prevention.com

Ian Berry, Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tange Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, had a half-hour segment discussing spring programming at the Tang with 鈥淩oundtable鈥� host Joe Donahue.

Jennifer Delton, professor of history, is the author of 鈥淪alvaging Wilson鈥檚 legacy,鈥� published Dec. 16 in the Albany Times Union as a tu+ article, which is password protected.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, was a source for 鈥淩ediscovering Mr. and Mrs. Henpeck,鈥� which aired .

Tom Lewis, emeritus professor of English, was interviewed by Elizabeth Floyd Mair of the Albany Times Union about his new book Washington:  A History of Our National City (Basic Books, 2015). Titled 鈥淗is capital idea is now history,鈥� the article was published Jan. 10 as a tu+ story, available to subscribers only.

Ron Seyb, Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Professor of Government, was interviewed , Ch. 13 about the impact of Donald Trump in the last Republican debate prior to the Iowa caucus.

Research by Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology, was cited by Vox.com for published Dec. 17.  

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