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GSAS Spring 2019 Faculty Achievements

May 16, 2019

Achievements from Faculty in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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Archaeology

Assistant Professor Jennie Bradbury will continue her work as director of the Lebanon-Kubba Coastal Survey in Lebanon this summer. She will be joined by graduate students Tracey Cian and Shannon Dunn. Professor Bradbury was co-organizer of the 今日吃瓜 conference Crossing Over: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Death in April.

Chemistry

Sharon Burgmayer, Dean of Graduate Studies and W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry was co-author of a paper with Doug Gisewhite (Ph.D. Chemistry, '17) and Alexandra Nagelski (A.B.), titled

Professor Michelle Francl published鈥淚sotopic enrichment鈥 and 鈥淓phemeral elements鈥 in Nature Chemistry, 11.

Assistant Professor Yan Kung published the co-authored article 鈥淪tructural insight into substrate and product binding in an archaeal mevalonate kinase鈥 in PLoSOne, 13.

Professor Bill Malachowski published the co-authored paper 鈥淒iarylhydroxylaminesas pan or dual inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3- dioxygenase-1, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-2 and tryptophan dioxygenase鈥 in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 162.15.

Classics

Associate Professor Annette Baertschi chaired a session on "Medieval and Renaissance Reception," and presented a paper entitled "Between Epic and Elegy: The Love Story of Massinissa and Sophonisba in Petrarch's Africa" in the session "Late Antique and Neo-Latin Poetry" at the annual CAMWS meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska in early April. On April 6, Professor Baertschi participated in a workshop organized by "Antiquity in Media Studies" (AIMS), a new professional organization consisting of researchers and teachers interested in promoting and supporting scholarship on the various uses of the ancient world in modern media, including film, television, video games, comic books, and beyond. In early May, Professor Baertschi presented a paper entitled "Revolutionary Electra: Mikl贸s Jancs贸鈥檚 Electra, My Love (Szerelmen, Elektra) (1974)" in the Women's Network Panel at the annual convention of the Classical Association of Canada at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. On June 14, 2019, she will give a talk entitled "Exemplarity in Petrarch's Africa" at the international conference "Paradeigmata: Examples and Precedents across Time" at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Professor Catherine Conybeare published her 2017 St. Augustine lecture at Villanova, 鈥淭he Creation of Eve鈥 in Augustinian Studies, 49.

Professor Radcliffe Edmonds, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Chair of Greek, Latin, and Classical studies published his book Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, available in July from Princeton University Press. Professor Edmonds was co-organizer of the 今日吃瓜 conference Crossing Over: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Death in April.

History of Art

Assistant Professor Jie Shi was co-organizer of the 今日吃瓜 conference Crossing Over: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Death in April.

Mathematics

Professor Leslie Cheng published the co-authored paper 鈥淓ndpoint Estimates for Oscillatory Singular Integrals with H枚lder Class Kernels鈥 in the Journal of Function Spaces, 10

Professor Victor Donnay published the paper 鈥淎 New Proof of the Existence of Embedded Surfaces with Anosov Geodesic Flow鈥 in Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 23.

Professor Paul Melvin was co-author of 鈥淚sotopy of surfaces in 4-manifolds after a single stabilization鈥published in Advances in Mathematics, 341.

Physics

Professor Emeritus Peter Beckmann published 鈥淧roton spin-lattice relaxation in methylphenanthrenes IV: 1,4-dimethylphenanthrene鈥 in the Journal of Chemical Physics, 150.

Associate Professor Xuemei May Cheng published the co-authored paper 鈥淭uning the Neel Temperature of Hexagonal Ferrites by Structural Distortion鈥 in Physical Review Letters, 121.


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