Olivia DrakeJoe Siry, professor of art, is the author of the book Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture, published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2011. Beth Sholom Synagogue provides the first in-depth look at the synagogue’s conception and realization in relation to Wright’s other religious architecture. Beginning with his early career at Adler and Sullivan’s architectural firm in Chicago and his design for Unity Temple and ending with the larger works completed just before or soon after his death, Siry skillfully depicts Wright’s exploration of geometric forms and structural techniques in creating architecture for…
Jeff Rider, professor of Romance languages and literatures, professor of medieval studies, is the co-editor of the book The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt and Hypocrisy, published by Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2011. The essays explore medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives in French, Spanish and Italian texts ranging from the 12th through 15th centuries. By following these women characters in their considerations, readers can hope both to learn something about the times the women were writing in, while to enriching and enlarging their own "emotionologies." More information on the book is available…
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, assistant professor of history, assistant professor of Russian and Eastern European studies, is the author of two essays published in 2011. They include: "Cosmic Enlightenment: Scientific Atheism and the Soviet Conquest of Space,” in Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture in Post-Stalinist Russia, published by the University of Pittsburgh, pages 159-194; and “The Contested Skies: The Battle of Science and Religion in the Soviet Planetarium,” in Cosmic Enthusiasm: The Cultural Impact of Space Exploration on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Since the 1950s, published by Palgrave/Macmillan, pages 57-78.
Michael Roberts, the Robert Rich Professor of Latin, professor of classical studies, professor of medieval studies, is the co-author of the book, The Letters of Symmachus, Book 1. The book was published by the Society of Biblical Literature, in 2011.
Ellen Thomas, research professor of earth and environmental sciences is the co-author of "End-Cretaceous Marine Mass Extinction not Caused by Productivity Collapse," published in (PNAS) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; "Blake Outer Ridge: late Neogene variability in paleoenvironments and deep-sea biota," published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 302: 435-451; "Seawater calcium isotopic ratios across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, published in Geology, 39: 683-686; "A core-top calibration of B/Ca in the benthic foraminifera Nuttallides umbonifera and Oridorsalis umbonatus: reconstructing bottom water carbonate saturation," published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 310: 360-368; "Ocean deoxygenation: past, present and future," published in EOS Transactions AGU, 92: 409-410, all in 2011.
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Does participating in combat sports (like martial arts and wrestling) or playing contact sports (like football and hockey) influence aggression outside of the sport? According to a study by Zander Parkinson '13, the answer might be, yes. "I found that among male adolescents there was a significant association between activity level and increased likelihood of getting into a physical fight," Parkinson explained during the Quantitative Analysis Center's Fall Poster Session Dec. 9. "Adolescents who played an active sport three or more times a week were significantly more likely to get into a physical fight than non-active adolescents who played an…