• JAMES HUFFMAN, H. Orth Hirt Professor of History, to be honored with first-ever Japan and the World Conference. Huffman will retire at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year. Read more ...
• KATHERINE ROWELL, adjunct instructor of sociology, and her Women and Poverty class have planned several events to raise awareness of hunger and homelessness. Read more ...
• DAN FLEISCH, associate professor of physics, will give a free public lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, during the Springfield Museum of Art's Äerospace Design: The Art of Engineering From NASA's Aeronautical Research. Fleisch will also lead free tours of Weaver Observatory beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, as part of the museum's programming.
• THOMAS T. TAYLOR, professor of history, has shared "This Month in History: 1919: on Veterans Day 2006." Read more ... Those World War I veterans were also remembered on a bronze plaque contained in the stone pillar at the entrance to East Campus Drive, a gift of the Class of 1920. In part it reads: “They counted not happiness nor property, nor life itself dear, when the call of humanity came.”
• Jerry Pankhurst, professor of sociology, attended conferences in Granada, Spain and Morocco last summer. Read more ... In addition, Pankhurst and students from his Islam and Islamic Societies class hosted its first-ever Community Iftar, a meal after a day of fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, on Oct. 11. Read more ...
• MICHAEL ZALEHA, associate professor of geology, presented his recent research at the prestigious annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. Read more ...
