October 2014 Spotlight

October 2, 2014

Brandon Bartels co-authored Making Law and Courts Research Relevant: The Normative Implications of Empirical Research (Routledge).

Yvonne Captain appeared on a panel entitled "Protection from Persecution – Immigration & Asylum Seekers of African Descent” at the 44th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Conference.

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen edited Inhuman Nature (Oliphaunt Books).

Columbian College launched a Weibo account to connect with international alumni and prospective students.

Keith A. Crandall was part of an interdisciplinary research team that published a Journal of Clinical Microbiology study on precisely diagnosing pneumonia.

David Kieran, PhD ’09, published the book Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory (University of Massachusetts Press), an expanded version of his dissertation.

Nicole Lee, a University Writing Program instructor, was awarded a 2014 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship by the Library of Congress to research her historical novel.

Ira Lurie received a $292,808 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice for a project that tests the effectiveness of fluid chromatography in analyzing seized drugs, particularly synthetic cannabinoids.

Bonnie J. Morris won a residency at Hedgebrook, a feminist writers' retreat.

Eugene Montague presented his paper “Towards a Phenomenology of Agency in Performance” at the eighth European Musical Analysis Conference at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium.

Peter Nemes was awarded a $360,622 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cell heterogeneity using mass spectrometry techniques.

Bibiana Obler published the article "Point of No Return: A Review of ‘Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937’” in Artforum. Her book Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Muenter, Arp and Taeuber (Yale University Press) was reviewed on the website Choice.

Political Science PhD student Alex Reisenbichler published an article entitled "Safe As Houses: Comparing Housing Finance Policies in the U.S. and Germany" in the journal Transatlantic Perspectives.

Ronald Workman was part of a team awarded a $80,996 grant from the National Science Foundation for work on computational services for the discovery of new particles.