Alan Taylor, the Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Mathematics, has been named the recipient of the Clarence F. Stephens Distinguished Teaching Award of the Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section. This section includes all of New York north of the Pennsylvania border as well as the provinces of Quebec and Ontario (excluding Thunder Bay). Taylor will receive his award April 27 at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.
Lorraine Morales Cox, assistant professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, presented a paper titled "The Power and Poetics of Jonathan Calm's Urban Video Collages" in October at Columbia University in New York for the New York Metro American Studies Association conference, "Crash / Landings: Friction and Flow in the American City."
Christine Henseler, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, is the co-editor of "Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film and Rock Culture" (Vanderbilt University Press, April 2007), with Randolph Pope, the Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. This volume of essays explores the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.
Hans-Friedrich Mueller, the William D. Williams Professor of Classics and department chair, will deliver a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 14. The paper is titled, "School Politics and the Monarch's Court: Speusippus' Letter to Philip."
