Campus kudos A selection of recent achievements by faculty, staff, and students The staff of the Campanil, Mills’ student
Professor of Psychology
newspaper, took home four awards
Carol George led four sympo-
from the California Collegiate Media
sia at the annual meeting of
Association this year, earning top honors
the Society for Personality
for the best personal opinions column,
Assessment in March; her
best arts and entertainment story, best
book, The Adult Attachment
arts and entertainment column/criticism,
Projective Picture System, was
and best features-page design.
also published that month by
Diana O’Hehir, professor emerita of English and founder of the Creative
Diana O’Hehir, Carol George, and Kristina Faul
Guilford Press. Barbara Li Santi, professor of math-
meetings of the American Association
Writing Program at Mills, has com-
ematics and computer science, has
of Physics Teachers in August 2011
pleted a new book of poems. Walk Me
published With Cream and Sugar:
and February 2012.
to Schenectady is both a collection of
An Introduction to Object-Oriented
elegies for O’Hehir’s husband, Mel Fiske,
Programming in Java, with co-author
Francophone Studies Brinda Mehta
and a work of art in itself: the fine letter-
Lydia Mann (BVT Publishing, 2012).
gave the plenary address at the Arab
press clothbound edition was designed
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Professor of French and
Studies Symposium at Columbia
and produced at Arion Press in San
Kristina Faul and a colleague from the
University in February. She has also
Francisco and published by Depot Books
University of the Pacific were awarded a
been named to the advisory board
in Mill Valley.
two-year, $50,000 University of Southern
of the prestigious Proceedings of the
California Sea Grant to study the role of
Modern Language Association.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded
small upstream reservoirs in trapping
Ron Nagle, professor emerita of art, with
organic carbon, nutrients, and metals in
Chetkovich spoke on “Social Movement
a 2012 fellowship in fine arts. These
the San Francisco Bay Area. One of their
Theory, Occupy Wall Street, and
prestigious fellowships are bestowed
two test sites is the Leona Creek/Lake
Social Change” at a conference of the
to individuals in recognition of prior
Aliso system at Mills.
Association for Research on Nonprofit
achievement and exceptional promise in a variety of fields.
Dave Keeports, professor of chemistry and physics, presented papers at national
Professor of Public Policy Carol
Organizations and Voluntary Action, held in Toronto in November.
Cost-of-learning adjustment At its meeting in February, the Mills College Board of Trustees approved a modest rise in tuition and fees for the 2012–2013 academic year. Full-time undergraduate students will pay $38,850, an increase of 2.1 percent over last year. This is the lowest percent tuition increase at Mills since 1994 and is less than half of the average tuition increase—5.6 percent—at other Scientific American: More than 150 people attended a lecture by internationally recognized microbiologist Rita Colwell on April 17 in Littlefield Concert Hall. In this inaugural Russell Women in Science Lecture, Colwell described her ground-breaking research on the ecology, genetics, and transmission of the cholera bacteria. Before the lecture, Colwell met with science faculty and spoke with students over lunch about the challenges she has faced in her career as a woman scientist.
California liberal arts colleges. Full-time graduate students
The Russell Women in Science Lecture Series is made possible thanks to the generous support of former trustee Cristine Russell ’71, pictured above left with (left to right) Colwell, President Alecia A. DeCoudreaux, and Provost Sandra C. Greer.
students based on the number of semesters the student
at Mills will pay $28,850, which is a 2 percent increase. Meal plans will increase by 2.8 percent and housing by 2 percent, but efforts are being made to keep room and board prices low. The College is offering discounts on housing options for continuing undergraduate has attended Mills, or a $500 discount per semester for graduate students. Summer 2012
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