Trinity Magazine - Winter 2015

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tonics and Impacts on Carbonate Platform Evolution” in Basin Research.

was recently published by Boydell & Brewer as part of their Anglo-Saxon Studies Series.

Health Care Administration

Modern Languages and Literatures

Amer Kaissi authored Flipping Health Care:

Nina Ekstein published “Dramatic Point of View. L’École des femmes and Le Misanthrope” in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature.

Retail Clinics and Convenient Care Models, published by IGI Global.

History Kenneth Loiselle’s book, Brotherly Love— Freemasonary and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France has been published by Cornell University Press.

Music Diane Persellin co-authored the book, A Concise Guide to Improving Student Learning: Six Evidence-Based Principles and How to Apply Them, published by Stylus Press. Persellin has also been named to the editorial board of the journal College Teaching.

Nicole Marafioti’s

co-edited volume, Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England,

Philosophy Andrew Kania’s essay, “The Twisted

Femmes Fatales of Christopher Nolan,” was published in Aesthetics for Birds.

Physics & Astronomy Niescja Turner was awarded Rice University’s Outstanding Space Science Undergraduate Alumna award at the Rice Space Science 50th Anniversary celebration last Spring.

Political Science John Hermann published the article “Legis-

lator Judges: The Warren Court and Justices’ Use of State or International Policies in Criminal Procedure Cases” in Judicature.

Psychology Paula Hertel, along with co-authors Nilly Mor (Hebrew University in Jerusalem), Chiara Ferrari, Olivia Hunt ’13, and Nupur Agrawal ’14, published a report titled “Looking on the Dark Side: Rumination and Cognitive-Bias Modification” in Clinical Psychological Science.

Academic Partnership Forged in Taiwan Religion professor receives Fulbright Award, spending year at Tunghai University Randall Nadeau, Jennie Farris Railey King Professor of Religion, received a Fulbright Senior Scholar award to spend the academic year at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, where he is currently advising on curriculum for the new International College. Nadeau, who has been an East Asian scholar at Trinity since 1990, has conducted fieldwork in religion in Taiwan for 30 years. Nadeau has chosen to work at Tunghai, which has entered into an academic partnership with Trinity, to develop a liberal arts curriculum for a cohort of 48 students who may want to transfer to Trinity for their final two years of college. He is creating a series of seminars

Nadeau has conducted fieldwork in religion in Taiwan for 30 years. in history, political science, arts, and the environment, and teaching a first-year seminar course in English called “Global Leadership: Personal Identity in Historical Perspective.”

Joining Nadeau at Tunghai is Elizabeth Whitney ’14, who graduated from Trinity in May with majors in Chinese and political science. As part of Nadeau’s “mentor program,” Whitney is assisting the initial student cohort with English and other course work. Nadeau hopes to encourage Trinity students to attend Tunghai for an international educational experience, an opportunity which Nadeau says is “ideal for business majors at Trinity who want to learn Chinese and for study abroad programs.”

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