April 26, 1996: Volume 37, Number 2

For The Record

Karen Williams, counselor for the Health Professions Programs and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, recently presented a paper, "An Antepartum Screening Questionnaire for Postpartum Depressive Symptoms (PPDS)" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology. This research study also was cited in a recent edition of Medical Tribune.

Janet Anderson, Leslie Hull, Charles Scaife and Thomas Werner of Chemistry participated in a Project Kaleidoscope Workshop titled "Revitalizing Introductory Chemistry" recently at Columbia University. PKAL designated the department's innovative non-major chemistry courses as a "Program That Works." The faculty members gave two workshops on the four courses that constitute the non-majors component. They also served as consultants to other institutions planning changes in their majors and non-majors chemistry courses.

Sigrid Kellenter, Thomas Lamont Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature (German), has four new publications. She wrote the lead article in The German Studies Review on the fairytale poems of the German poet Geertje Suhr titled "Geertje Suhrs Maerchengedichte: Grimms Heldin meundig?" The article is a substantial revision and expansion of a paper delivered on this topic in Leipzig, Germany. Also, she has written complete biographies on the German exile writers Hans Sahl, Walter Sorell and Otto Zoff published in the edited volume Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933: Bibliographien USA."

Todd Burgman, assistant professor of finance, is to give a talk titled "Comparing the German and U.S. Corporate Governance Systems: Big Banks and Employee Co-Determination vs. Stockholders and Takeover Threats" at a conference hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany held this month in Washington. Also, he is to present a paper titled "The German Universal Banking System and Corporate Finance" at the Multinational Finance Society annual meeting in June.

George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, and Sharon Gmelch, director of Women's Studies, published an article titled "Barbados' Amerindian Past" in the winter issue of Anthropology Today. The article reviews what scholars have learned from archaeological excavations of Amerindian settlement sites. Barbados' Amerindian population disappeared shortly after the first European contact in the 1550s.

Thomas Werner, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Chemistry, gave a presentation titled "The Binding of Pyrene and Other Probes to CD Polymers" at the 8th International Cyclodextrin Symposium in Budapest, Hungary. The paper was the result of research with two senior research students - Jodie Iannacone and Mary Amoo - who were co-authors. Both students worked on this project last summer and during the academic year.

Peter Heinegg, professor of English, has published a translation of God's Gentle Rebels (Gottes sanfte Rebellen) by Christian Feldman with Crossroad Press. The book is a collection of short biographies of radical, eccentric or otherwise noteworthy Catholic saints.

David Peak, Frank and Louise Bailey Professor of Physics, has received the 1996 Prize for Research in an Undergraduate Institution from the American Physical Society. The prize was established by the Research Corporation to honor a physicist whose research in an undergraduate institution has contributed to the professional development of undergraduate physics students. Peak is on leave from Union College as visiting professor of physics at Utah State University.

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