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Jonson-Reid: Gets three year grant |
Child neglect to be examined by Jonson-ReidBy Ann Nicholson Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., assistant professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, has received a three-year, nearly $700,000, grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Justice to study child neglect and the relationships between risk factors, public service use and outcomes. The "Child Neglect: Cross Sector Services Paths and Outcomes" project is part of a Federal Child Neglect Research Consortium effort to better serve children. "While numerous studies have focused on services for child abuse, very little research has been done specifically on child neglect --even though about half of the 3 million child-abuse cases reported each year are reported for neglect," said Jonson-Reid, principal investigator on the study. |
Gareth Armstrong brings Shakespeare's Shylock to EdisonBy Liam Otten William Shakespeare's seemingly inexhaustible appreciation for human depth and complexity has given us some of Western literature's most memorable characters. With few sources beyond folktales and historical treatises at his service, the Bard was nevertheless able to recreate the intrigue of a Danish court ("Hamlet"), the dignity of a Moorish general ("Othello") and the splendor of ancient Rome ("Julius Caesar"). Yet in "The Merchant of Venice," we encounter what remains the playwright's most controversial creation: Shylock, the miserly Jew whose infamous, vengeful demands for a "pound of flesh" uncomfortably echo anti-Semitic stereotypes. |
 Gareth Armstrong's "Shylock" has drawn enthusiastic praise from the British press. |
 Kip S. Thorne |
Astrophysicist Kip Thorne to deliver Compton lectureHis talk, "Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future," will be held in Graham Chapel and is free and open to the public. Thorne's research has helped lay the groundwork for much of the current understanding of black holes, relativistic stars and gravitational waves. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1970 and currently is The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics. In addition, Thorne co-founded the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project. |
Gallery of Art presents lecture series in conjunction with exhibitionBy
Liam Otten
The University's Gallery of Art and Department of Ger manic Languages and Literatures will present a series of lectures in conjunction with the exhibition "Caught by Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s," on view at the Gallery until March 18. The series will feature nine scholars from the University and around the country addressing various forms of cultural exchange between exiled German artists, writers and filmmakers and their American counterparts during that period. |
Arts & Sciences Technology and Curriculum Initiative proposals dueThe deadline for proposals from Arts & Sciences faculty to fund projects using technology in their teaching is Wednesday. A $100,000 fund under the Arts & Sciences Technology and Curriculum Initiative will support projects approved by a reviewing committee. This is the second year that Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences, has made a $100,000 provision for faculty members to enhance their teaching with technology. Fourteen out of 19 proposals were funded last year, ranging from $2,000 for a laptop computer to develop a particular course to $44,000 to upgrade an electronic classroom. |
Campus Authors: Ireland and the Classical World"On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland was a land of myth and mystery in classical times. Classical authors frequently portrayed its people as savages - even as cannibals and devotees of incest - and evinced occasional uncertainty as to the island's shape, size, and actual location. Unlike neighboring Britain, Ireland never knew Roman occupation, yet literary and archeological evidence prove that Ireland was more than simply terra incognita in classical antiquity. "In this book, Freeman explores the relations between ancient Ireland and the classical world through a comprehensive survey of all Greek and Latin literary sources that mention Ireland. He analyzes passages (given in both the original language and English) from over thirty authors, including Julius Caesar, Strabo, Tacitus, Ptolemy and St. Jerome. To amplify the literary sources, he also briefly reviews the archaeological and linguistic evidence for contract between Ireland and the Mediterranean world. |
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