Olivia DrakeAn emerging worldwide energy crisis demands a new approach for a sustainable energy future. "How we adapt will determine our future on this planet," said physicist Fred Schlachter, during the Department of Physics' Colloquium Series Feb. 26 in Exley Science Center. Schlachter, a guest speaker from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source Division, is the co-author of Energy Future: Think Efficiency, a report that examines how America can look within to achieve energy security and reduce global warming. At Wesleyan, he gave a presentation titled "Over a barrel: A world wide energy crisis." The topic of energy is…
Judy Buden, assistant director of employee benefits, has announced her decision to retire after 27 years at Wesleyan. Her resignation will be effective April 1.
Francisco Rodríguez, assistant professor of economics, assistant professor of Latin American studies, is the co-author of “Anarchy, State, and Dystopia: Venezuelan Economic Institutions before the Advent of Oil,” published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research 28(1), January 2009, pp. 102-21. In addition, Rodríguez is the author of two book reviews in the December 2008 edition of the Journal of Economic Literature: “Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics by Roberto Mangabeira Unger,” and “A Year without ‘Made in China’: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy by Sara Bongiorni.”
A chapter from the novel, Abe, written by Richard Slotkin, the Olin Professor of English, emeritus, was reprinted in The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, published by the Library of America No. 192, edited by Harold Holzer. The anthology was prepared in honor of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, and is being sold separately and as part of a boxed set with Library of America's edition of Lincoln's writings and speeches.
Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, is the co-author of “Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘reasons for concern” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009.
Masami Imai, assistant professor of economics, assistant professor of East Asian Studies, presented his paper "Crowding-Out Effects of a Government-Owned Depository Institution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan," at the Japan Economic Seminar at Columbia University.
Michael Lovell, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, emeritus, is the author of "Social Security’s Five OASI Inflation Indexing Problems,” published in Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 3, 2009.
Richard Grossman, chair and professor of economics, was quoted in an article titled “The Turning Point” about the Lehman failure at Thedeal.com (carried by Reuters). In addition, Grossman gave interviews on banking system “stress tests” and the prospects for government ownership on WOOD (Grand Rapids, Mich.), WJNO (West Palm Beach, Fla.), WHAS (Louisville, Ky.), WFLA (Tampa, Fla.), XM Satellite Radio, KOGO (San Diego, Calif.), WILM (Wilmington, De.), WSYR (Syracuse, N.Y.), KVI (Seattle, Wash.), and WGST (Atlanta, Ga.).
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Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, received a $798,368 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project "Structure and Function of Holliday Junctions complexed With Proteins Probed by Fluorescence and UV Raman Spectroscopic Methods." The grant is a continuing grant which has been approved on scientific / technical merit for approximately four years. The grant will be awarded April 1.
As a former U.S. Army sergeant, Max Krafft ’09 has a lot to say about his two stints serving in Iraq. The English major was deployed in December 2005, and again in January 2007. On both occasions he was touring as the bass player and sound engineer for a rock/pop/country/R&B ensemble affiliated with the 389th Army Band. "We were there to perform for the members of the military and government contractors who were stationed there during the holidays in an attempt to entertain them and boost their morale," Krafft explains, regarding his role overseas. Krafft, who lived and worked within 300…