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• DONALD BUSAROW, professor of music, will direct the Wittenberg Choir in its annual Home Concert at 8 p.m. Friday, March 16, Weaver Chapel. Read more ...



• MARGARET DILL, adjunct instructor of music, will direct the Wittenberg and & Sinclair Community College Handbell Choirs at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 18, Weaver Chapel.

• LAWRENCE PITZER, guitar, adjunct instructor of music, will perform at a Faculty Artist Recital at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 18, Krieg Hall. "Classical Period Guitar Music at Home" forms the repertoire for this recital, and Pitzer will be assisted by Leslie Arendt and Deb Toy.


• TRUDY FABER, professor of music, will present her 40th consecutive Faculty Artist Recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Weaver Chapel. Faber will perform both organ and harpsichord selections. Read more ...


• DAR BROOKS HEDSTROM, associate professor of history, has received a Research Fellowship from the Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt, for her proposal "Constructing Monastic Space in Egypt." As a nine-month Fulbright scholar she will continue excavations at the White Monastery, visit other archaeological sites and document other monastic settlements, all as part of her work on Coptic monastic archaeology. Read more ... Brooks Hedstrom was also awarded a 2007-08 Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant in Byzantine Studies by the Trustees for Harvard University for $10,000. The Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant is for support for her project, Archaeological and Multidisciplinary Investigation of the White Monastery Federation, Sohag, Egypt,". It is her second project grant awarded by Dumbarton Oaks.

• MOLLY WOOD, associate professor of history and department chair, wrote an essay titled "Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and 'the Social Game' in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905-1941," which was selected by the Organization of American Historians as one of the 10 best American history essays. Read more ...

• THOMAS T. TAYLOR, professor of history, distributed the last in the four-part series on the issuance of the Wittenberg College charter on Feb. 11, 2007, the 162nd anniversary of the event. Read more ...


• FITZ SMITH, assistant professor of English, incorporated a project similar to National Public Radio's program This I Believe into his WittSem by creating the "Believe in Belief" project. Read more ...


• STAN MICKEL, professor of languages, will give a talk titled "Concepts of Disaster in Ancient Chinese Oracle Bone Inscriptions" at an East Asian studies colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 29, Bayley Auditorium.


• DOUG LEHMAN, director of Thomas Library, attended the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington from Jan. 19-22, 2007. He attended meetings as a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries Scholarly Communication Committee, the ACRL College Libraries Section Leadership Committee and the ACRL 2007 National Conference Poster Sessions Sub-Committee.