On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
December 1, 2000 - Vol. 53, No. 24
Richard Abel, professor of English, had an essay titled "The Phantom of Louis Feuillade in the USA, 1910-1914," published in French translation in a special Feuillade issue of 1895 (October 2000). This special journal issue of the Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma appeared in conjunction with a retrospective of Feuillade's films, which was the major event of the 19th annual Giornate del cinema muto in Sacile, Italy, Oct.
14-21.
Mark Vitha, assistant professor of chemistry, recently presented an invited talk titled "New Solute Descriptors for Use in Linear Solvation Energy Relationships" at the Eastern Analytical Symposium in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Co-authors of the presentation included four Drake undergraduate students: Christopher Fennell, Sarah Ronnebaum, Kali Mulville and Josh Sandquist. At this meeting, Fennell received an undergraduate research award for the research he did in Vitha's laboratory.
Drake was well-represented at the Joint Iowa ASCD/Instructional Technology in Education Conference Oct. 15-17, with seven sessions presented by School of Education faculty. Sally Beisser, assistant professor of education, presented on "Encouraging Girls to Use Technology Effectively" and "Using Electronic Resources for Service Learning." Eunice Merideth, professor of education, presented "Harnessing the Power: Technology Integration and Internet Resources for Secondary Education". Jan McMahill, assistant dean/director of extension services and associate professor of education, presented on "Distance Learning Opportunities." Beisser and McMahill also presented jointly with educators from Des Moines and Norwalk Public Schools, AEA 11 and Head Start on the "Iowa Early Childhood Papert Project." Linda Espey, assistant professor of education, presented two sessions, as well as serving on the Executive Conference Planning Committee.
Two faculty members recently gave papers at a conference in Toronto, Canada, on "Musical Intersections," jointly sponsored by the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and other groups. Thomas Swiss, endowment professor of the humanities and professor of English, spoke on "Jewel Case: Pop Stars, Poets, and the Press." Bruce Horner, associate professor of English, spoke on "Teaching the Labor of Listening: Toward a Pedagogy of Music as Social."
Russell Lovell, professor of law, recently presented a paper, "The Constitution and Race: The First 200 Years, 1789-1989," at the Iowa National Bar Symposium titled, "Past, Present and Future Trends in Civil Rights Law in the U.S. and Iowa." The symposium was the highlight of the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the National Bar Association in Des Moines in 1925. It was held at the Neal and Bea Smith Law Center courtroom at Drake.