October 8, 1999: Volume 47, Number 5

For the Record: Faculty, Staff works listed

Martha Huggins, the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, has been awarded the American Society of Criminology's Michael J Hindelang Award for the book published in the last three years that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology. Her book, Political Policing: The United States and Latin America (Duke 1998) has been published in several countries. The book also has received the 1999 Best Book Award by the New England Council of Latin American Studies, the largest regional association of Latin American scholars and teachers.

The North American Welsh Choir premiered a new composition by Hilary Tann, professor of music, in Minneapolis on Sept. 4. The piece, Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul), is for full chorus, organ and two trumpets. Also this fall, she is to travel to Charlottesville, Virginia for the 20th performance of The Open Field, an orchestral overture written 10 years ago and subtitled "in memoriam Tienanmen Square." In November, the East Texas Symphony Orchestra is to do the 10th performance of Tann's 1997 violin concerto, Here, the Cliffs. On January 12, the National Orchestra of Wales is to perform her large orchestral work, From Afar, based on the composer's memory of the music of Japan during a 1991 term abroad.

Thomas D'Andrea, professor emeritus of psychology, co-authored a paper, "Predicting Creative Behavior: A Reexamination of the Divergence Between Traditional and Teacher-Defined Concepts of Creativity," published in a special issue on creativity and deviance in the Creativity Research Journal. Co-authors are Professor Vicki Dawson of Skidmore (formerly of Union), Rosalinda Affinito '94, and Erik Westby '93. Parts of the study were based on the senior honors thesis by Affinito, directed by D'Andrea and supported by a grant from the Internal Education Foundation.

Grant Brown, assistant professor of biology, James C. Adrian Jr., assistant professor of chemistry, Erin Smyth '98, Heather Leet '99 and Scott Brennan '01 are authors of "Ostariophysan alarm pheromones: laboratory and field tests of the functional significance of nitrogen-oxides" to be published in the Journal of Chemical Ecology. Brown and Joseph Cowan, a Pew summer research fellow with Brown in 1998, have authored "Foraging trade-offs and predator inspection in an Ostariophysan fish: switching from chemical to visual cues" for the journal Behaviour.

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