Faculty Research Presentations
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
1:30 – 2:15 pm
“Seduction and Heresy: A Story of Sex, Scandal and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France”
Sumita Choudhury (History), Rockefeller 203
“Faculty and Student Research in Astronomy at the Vassar College Observatory”
Frederick Chromey (Astronomy), Sanders Physics 207
“How Pete Seeger Came To My Class”
Paul Kane (English), CDF 308
“‘Fiji Water’ and Singapore’s ‘New Water’: Water Politics in Two Post-Colonial Nation-States”
Martha Kaplan (Anthropology) Taylor 206
“My Book On Hoelderlin and My Being A Comparatist”
Haoming Liu (Chinese and Japanese), Rockefeller 210
“Swimming Lessons: Fish and Fish-Like Robots”
John Long and Marianne Porter (Biology), Olmsted 300
“Editing Sixteenth-Century Music: A View From the Trenches”
Brian Mann (Music), Skinner 400
“Microfinance Use Amongst Ecuadorian Microentrepreneurs”
Sarah Pearlman (Economics), Kenyon 132
“Democracy and Public Space in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
Peter Stillman and Adelaide Villmoare (Political Science), Rockefeller 212
“Most Likely To Endure: Adolescent Personality and Sixty-Year Survival”
Susan Trumbetta (Psychology), Kenyon 134
“Dracula in St. Petersburg: The Myth of the Vampire and the Russian Revolution”
Daniel Ungurianu (Russian), Rockefeller 310
2:30 – 3:15 pm
“The Teen Species”
Abigail Baird (Psychology), Kenyon 134
“The Modern Origins of East Versus West? The Fall of Constantinople: 1453”
Nancy Bisaha (Medieval and Renaissance Studies/History), Rockefeller 203
“Light and Sound: How Ultrafast Lasers Let Us ‘Hear’ 29 Octaves Above Middle-C”
Brian Daly (Physics and Astronomy), Sanders Physics 207
“Poetic License in Ancient Rome”
Curtis Dozier (Classics), CDF 308
“Synthesis of Computer Games from Generative Design Patterns”
Thomas Ellman (Computer Science), Kenyon 217
“Sexuality, Spirituality and Art: Mystic Ascent via the Garden of the Song”
Marc Michael Epstein (Religion and Jewish Studies), Taylor 206
“Historic Fashion at Vassar”
Holly Hummel (Drama), CDF 109
“Our Ford Summer Project on Child Marriage in the Developing World: A Report on Student/Faculty Research Collaboration”
Shirley Johnson-Lans and Patricia Jones (Economics), Kenyon 132
“A Meeting in Verona: Mozart and Celestini in a 1770 Portrait by Saverio dalla Rosa”
Kathryn Libin (Music), Skinner 400
“The Tsunami Project: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Tsunami Risk Reduction”
Brian McAdoo (Earth Science), Ely 200
“Meet the Euler Characteristic”
John McCleary (Mathematics), Rockefeller 307
“Can Water Be Both A Human Right and a Commodity?”
Uma Narayan (Philosophy), Rockefeller 210
“Pollen, Pistils, and DNA”
Mark Schlessman (Biology), Olmsted 300
3:30 – 4:15 pm
“Pipe Dreams: The Organ and its Literature”
Gail Archer (Music), Skinner 400
“Choice and Free Will”
Mark Cleaveland (Psychology), Kenyon 134
“Should We Abolish the Gilded Age? Rethinking the Late Nineteenth Century United States”
Rebecca Edwards (History), Rockefeller 210
“Discovering New Lipid Metabolic Pathways in E. coli”
Teresa Garrett (Chemistry), Sci Vis Lab, Mudd Chemistry, 3rd Floor
“Complex Giants: Current Research on Brazil and China”
Brian Godfrey and Yu Zhou (Geography), Ely 200
“The Amazing World of Tiny RNAs”
Jennifer Kennell (Biology), Olmsted 300
“Enter the Cave of Your Heart: Sufis on the Path”
Margaret Leeming (Religion), Rockefeller 312
“Religion, Brain, and Belief: The Cognitive Science of Religion”
Kenneth Livingston (Cognitive Science), Kenyon 217
“Applied Optics at Vassar”
Jenny Magnes (Physics and Astronomy), Sanders Physics 207
“Advising the White House: A Look Back at the Past Year”
Robert Rebelein (Economics), Kenyon 132
“My Unreal Life: Recovering Nabokov’s Brother”
Paul Russell (English), CDF 308
“A Cathedral in the Classroom”
Andrew Tallon (Art), Taylor 206
“Relativism, or Is It All Just a Matter of Opinion?”
Bryan Van Norden (Philosophy), Rockefeller 203
“Juliet in Performance: A Story of Woe”
Denise Walen (Drama), CDF 109