Rebecca Zacher '98
and Shelley Wollen '98 performed in the spring producnon of the / 8rh-century English farce The R i va b .
Computer-Generated Images in the Organic Chemistry Classroom. " presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (co-authorT. Poon) / "Approaches to the Synthesis of a Constituent of Brown Rot Fungus" (co-authors C Goudreau '98. S. Salman '94. K.P. Rice '96 and T. Poon); "Methytat1on of Tertiary Alcohols Using Dimethyltitaniumdichtoride towards the Syntheses of Herbetene and Cuparene" (co-authors F G . Favaloro '96. C . Goudreau '98. A. Greenberg and T. Poon); "A New Approach to the Synthesis of Selected Natural Products. The Investigation of the Synthesis of Seven-Membered Cyclic Ethers" (co-authors K. Raiche '98. S. Olbrich '97, E . Olivares ·95 and T. Poon); "A Computa tional and Experimental Investigation of Hydroboration and Elimination: Remote Functional Groups and Ring Size Ef fects" (co-authors S. Olbrich '97. C.J. Lee and T. Poon); "The Search for Novel Bioactive Compounds in Maine's Indig enous Species" (co-authors D.N. Luke '98, T.R. Moffitt '97. J.M. Fine '98, C.S Frangione '97. A.I. Hofman '98. S.S Papagiotas '97, M.E. Polichronopoutos '97, K M Straus '98. R.R. Thomlinson '98. F. Fekete and T. Poon), presented at the Student Research Symposium of the Northeast Re gional Section of the American Chemical Society. Elisa Narin van Court. Ph.D . . Assistant Professor of English "The Hermeneutics of Supersession: The Revision of the Jews from the B to the C-Text of Piers Plowman." The Yearbook of Langland Studies.
Randy A. Nelson, M.A. '90, Ph.D., Douglas Professor of
Economics and Finance "Congestion Pricing on the Maine Turnpike: Final Report of 1 995-1 996 Field Trials and Surveys" (co-author).
Robert E. Nelson, M.A. '96, Ph.D . . Professor of Geology "Evidence from Sub-Fossil Coleoptera for the Origins of the Mirna Mounds . Southwestern Washington State," Geo logical Society of Amenca Abstracts with Programs I "Evi dence from Sub-Fossil Coteoptera for the Evolution of the Mirna Mounds, Southwestern Puget Lowland, Washington," Quaternary Research.
Shelby F. Nelson. Ph.D .. Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Pro fessor of Physics "Pentacene Organic Thin Film Transistors-Molecular Or dering and Mobility," IEEE Electron Device Letters (co-authors D.J. Gundlach, et at.) I "Ohmic Contacts to n-type Silicon Germanium," Applied Physics Letters (co-author T.N. Jackson) I "Atomic Force Microscopy of Evaporated Pentacene Thin Films," presented at the Materials Research Society, Boston. Cheryl Tschanz Newkirk, D.M.A., Adjunct Assistant Profes
sor of Music Colby Music Series concerts wrth Karen Beacham, Portland String Quartet and Elizabeth Patches I Performance at Universrty of Maine-Orono I Solo and chamber performance, South Paris, Maine, Community Concert/ Performance with members of West Coast Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota. Fla. / Performance, con ducting and opera festival, Hancock County, Maine. David L. Nugent, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology
Workshop on Progress Concerning Damage Assess ment, presented to the Cultural Committee of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Natural Resource Damage Assessment Team, and the Environmental Economics Research Group, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and Boston, Mass. / Workshop on Anthropo logical Economics Involved in the Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage Assessment Case, presented at the Envi ronmental Economics Research Group, Portland, Maine I
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Maternity in Louise Ackermann, Louisa Siefert and Marie Krysinska," presented at the 1 9th Century French Studies Colloquium, Toronto.
"Coeur d'Alene Socio-Economic and Poht1cat Patterns Prior to the Commencement of Mining Contamination," "Mining Contamination and Its Impact on Pre-Mining Socio-Economic and Political Patterns among the Coeur d'Alene Indians" and "Contemporary Patterns of Sharing and Cooperation among the Coeur d'Alene Indian People," presented at the Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage Assessment Meeting, Denver. Coto I Discussant. "Modernity Matters: Comparative Perspectives on the Uses of Modernity: and "The Morality of Modernity and the Travails of Tradition. Nation and the Subaltern 1n Northern Peru," presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Cat1f. / "Free1ng 'the People' to Make 'the Nation·: The State and the Subaltern 1n the Northern Peruvian Andes." presented at the Council on Latin American Studies. Yale University I "State and Shadow State in Turn-of-the Century Peru: Illegal Political Networks and the Problem of State Boundaries," presented at the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Con ference. Tarry1own, N.Y. / Discussant. "Globalization, State Power and Struggles over Identity· Social Movements in Comparative Perspective," presented at the American An thropological Association, Washington, D.C. Steven R. Nuss, Ph.D .. Assistant Professor of Music
"Japanese Instruments, Western Music: Issues of Har mony and Texture in Minoru Miki's Jo no kyoku," Music 1n Theory and Practice / "Music from the Right: Noh and Politics in the Music of Tashiro Mayuzumi," presented at the Music of Japan Today Conference. Hamilton College I Conductor, the Locrian Chamber Ensemble in the American premiere of Canadian composer John Tenney's Cognates and Canons, New York I Performed the principal role in the Kanze Noh Theater's production of Adachi ga hara, Tokyo. Jorge Olivares, M.A. '93. Ph.D .. Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature "El deseo del desaseo: De la represi6n a ta expresi6n en 'Paseo· de Jose Donoso," Romance Notes! "The Others in My I," Colby Quarterly I "i.Por que tiara Reinaldo Arenas?," presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico I Co-editor, issue on Other Identified: Issues of Alterity in Hispanic Literature. Colby Quarterly (co editor Betty Sasaki). Keri II N. O'Neill, Ph.D., Taylor Assistant Professor of Classics "Women As Witches in Latin Love Elegy: A Cautionary Tale," presented at the Missouri Valley History Conference I "Propertius 4.2: Slumming with Vertumnus?", presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Laurie E. Osborne, Ph.D . . Associate Professor of English "Editing Frailty in Twelfth Night, 'Where lies your text?'", in Joanna Gondris, ed . . Editing Shakespeare in the Eigh teenth Century: Territoriality, Anonymity and Erasure, Fairleigh Dickinson Press/"Uniting Film and Pedagogy: 'To New-found Methods and Compounds Strange' (Son. 76)," presented at the Shakespeare Association of America. Adrianna M. Paliyenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor of French Mis-reading the Creative Impulse: The Poetic Subject in Rimbaud and Claude/, Restaged, Southern Illinois Univ.
Press I "Replacing Women in Poetic History: The Romantic Fallacy," presented at the Southeast Modern Language Asso ciation, Atlanta / "Reconceiving Poetic Women: Discourse of
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Veronique B. Plesch. Ph.D .. Assistant Pro fessor of Art "Notes for the Staging of a Passion Play,.. presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Tamae K. Prindle, Ph.D .. Professor of Japanese "'Men's Time,' 'Women's Time' and the 'Karayuki-san' Films" ("Otoko no jik an" to "onna no jikan" to "karayuki-san" films). U.S. -Japan Women's Journal! "Shimizu lkk6's 'Silver Sanctuary' (Gin no seiiki): A Japanese Business Novel," in Joe Moore, ed. . The Other Japan: Conflict, Compromise and Resistance Since 1945, M . E. Sharpe I "Research Report: Whores. Mothers, Girts and Women in Japanese Cinema: Identity Politics," The Japan Foundation NewsletterI "Female Identities That Transform Business Data into a 'Business Novel': A Reading of Shimizu lkk6's The Artery Archipelago, in Japan Studies I "Self-Sacrificing Mothers or Frustrated Mothers?: A Paradigm Shift of Motherhood in Modern Japan," presented at the Fourth Annual Japan in the 20th Century: Viewed from International Perspectives Conference at Teikyo Loretto Heights University, Denver, Colo. / "Money, Sex and Power: A Socialist Feminist Analysis of Mori Ogai's The Wild Geese and Toyoda Shire's The Mistress: presented at the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago/ "Japanese Business Novels: An Overview," presented at the University Center for International Studies, the University of Pittsburgh I "In the Lacuna of Identities: Girls in Japanese Cinema," presented at the Japanese Popular Culture Conference, the University of V1ctona I "Suspended Identities: Japanese Films on Girts," presented at North Carolina State University. Tarja Raag, Ph.D . . Assistant Professor of Psychology "Touch by Intrusive and Withdrawn Mothers with Depres sive Symptoms" (co-authors J. Malphurs et al.) and "Mothers' Perceptions of Infants Labeled 'Depressed'" (co-authors A. Martinez, et a l . ) , Early Development and Parenting I "Preschoolers· Awareness of Social Expectations of Gender Typed Play: Relationships to Toy Choices and Gender Sche mata," presented at The Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Pittsburgh (co-author C. Rackliff) I Chair, session atthe Maine Psychological Association, Bangor. Scott H. Reed I ll . M . F.A., Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Exhibitions: The 71 st Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pa.; Los Angeles Printmaking Society 1 4th National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; Florida Printmakers Society 9th Annual National Print Exhibition, Nathan H. Wil son Center for the Arts, Florida Community College, Jackson ville; The Boston Printmakers 50th Anniversary North Ameri can Print Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; One-person show, Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, Maine; "50 Years of American Prints: Technique and Image," Colby College Museum of Art. Leonard S. Reich, M.A. '95, Ph.D., Professor of Administra tive Science and of Science, Technology and Society "The History of Snowmobiling and Its Industry," pre sented at Johns Hopkins University. Clifford Reid, M.A. '89, Ph.D., Professor of Economics "Voting Behavior, Discrimination and the National Base ball Hall of Fame, Economic /nquiry (co -author David Findlay) I "Discrimination and the National Baseball Hall of Fame," presented at the Ninth Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, Cooperstown, N.Y.