Melissa Yeager chaired and commented on a panel at the North American Conference on British Studies this month, entitled ‘Britain and the Mediterranean since 1945’. She is also co-editing a book, Melissa Yeager and Charles Carter, Pacts and Alliances in History: Diplomatic Strategy and the Politics of Coalitions, I.B. Taurus, 2011, with a contracted delivery […]
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Phil Cantrell presented a paper at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in Boston in January, 2011 titled “‘We Were a Chosen People’: The African Revivalist Tradition among the Tutsi Refugees in Uganda” He also has seven short biographies appearing on Rwandan historical figures in the forthcoming Dictionary of African Biography, by Oxford University Press.
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Consuelo Alvarez participated with faculty from 14 other colleges and universities in the 2010 GCAT Synthetic Biology workshop at Davidson College. Information about the workshop is at the first link below. As a result of the workshop Consuelo co-authored a peer-reviewed paper that can be found at the second link below: http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/insideed/guest_post_gcat_2010 http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/9/4/399
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Rhonda Brock-Servais and Matt Prickett have had an article accepted for Palgrave Macmillan Press’s C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia Casebook: “The Author, The Movie, and the Marketing: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Early Reader Adaptations”
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Mark Baldridge has almost completed work on his house which he considers his biggest work of art and representative of not only his design skills, but wood working, stained glass and metal work. It has been a 34 year old venture. It has a strong emphasis on light in many different forms including water which […]
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Tom Akre received a multi-year $270,000 matching grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s State Wildlife Program (SWG) to develop scientifically-based conservation strategies for the endangered wood turtle in Virginia and on regional National Forests. A video celebrating the ten-year anniversary of SWG was just released and includes a brief clip of this project […]
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