June 2, 2000: Volume 49, Number 10

Faculty, Staff Works Listed

William Murphy, Thomas Lamont Research Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, was quoted in an article, "Has Gates' Combativeness Hurt Microsoft in Court Case?" in the May 7 edition of the Seattle Times. Written by Paul Andrews '71, the piece quotes Murphy, "I suppose you could characterize Gates' tragic flaw as righteousness. Early on, all Gates had to do to preserve his pre-eminent position in the industry was to give up one small thing – break apart the browser from Windows. But he wouldn't do it. He wanted 100 percent." Murphy compared the software mogul to King Lear, who banished his faithful daughter Cordelia for the sin of telling him the truth.

Seth Greenberg, Gilbert R. Livingston Professor of Psychology, was a co-author (with A. Inhoff, M. Starr, R. Radach) of a chapter, "Allocation of Visuo-spatial Attention and Saccade Programming During Reading." He published a commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled "Words do not stand alone: Do not ignore a word's role when examining patterns of activation." It examined whether investigations that report that differential brain activation resulting from the processing of words fitting different grammatical classes is reasonable evidence that classes of words are stored in different locations in the brain. Theoretical commentary was co-authored by M. Nisslein of the Max Plank Institute in Germany. Joanna Tai '00, a student of Greenberg's presented a paper, "Nursery Rhymes and Missing Letters," at the 28th annual Hunter College Psychology Convention on May 6. The paper reports on one of several studies she did to investigate whether readers process different grammatical categories of words differently in familiar as compared to unfamiliar texts.

Teresa Meade, associate professor of history, presented a paper, "Becoming Honorable: Marriage and Identity on the Alta California Frontier, 1769-1850," at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Miami this spring. She presented a talk, "Reconfiguring the Frontier: Alta California in the 19th Century," for the Latin American Studies Program at SUNY-Stony Brook. Also, she spoke before the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians in Stockbridge, Mass., on "Perspectives on the Berks: The Next 40 Years."

M. Estellie Smith, research professor of anthropology, has published a book, Trade and Trade-offs: Using Resources, Making Choices, and Taking Risks (Waveland Press), which deals with making choices and dealing with the sociocultural costs and benefits of them. The book "casts aside the idea that economics deals only with things that can be measured with money," Smith writes, and deals with the questions that arise from the necessity of individuals and groups to deal with matters related to production, distribution and consumption.

George Butterstein, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, authored a paper (with V. Daniel Castracane of Texas Tech Health Sciences), "Effect of Particle Size on the Prolonged Actum of Subcutaneous Danazol in Male and Female Rats," in Fertility and Sterility. Also, Butterstein, acting dean of arts and sciences, was interviewed by a reporter from the Missoulian during NCUR 2000 at the University of Montana recently. "What's important about this conference is the diversity of topics," said Butterstein, who attended the conference with 47 Union students and five other faculty. "It's not only science-oriented, it's across the fields."

Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Professor of Political Science, in November spoke on the jurisprudence of the Russian Constitutional Court at the National Slavic Conference (AAASS) in St. Louis. This spring, he made presentations on post-Yeltsin constitutional issues at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, and at the Political Science Graduate Colloquium at the University of California at Riverside. Of essays recently published in Americana Annual 2000 (Grolier), a major one was on Russian political and economic developments during 1999. He also evaluated applications of law professors from post-Soviet states for research placements at U.S. law schools.

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