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Achievements from Faculty in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

May 30, 2018

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Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry Sharon Burgmayer continues to break new ground in Molybdenum research.

Professor of Chemistry Michelle Francl published 鈥淎tomic Women,鈥 in Nature Chemistry.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Yan Kung鈥檚 research lab published the article 鈥淪tructural features and domain movements controlling substrate binding and cofactor specificity in class II HMG-CoA reductase,鈥 in issue 57 of Biochemistry. Professor Kung鈥檚 chapter was included in The Biological Chemistry of Nickel, edited by Deborah Zamble, Magdalena Rowi艅ska-呕yrek, Henryk Kozlowski.

Professor of Chemistry Bill Malachowski published 鈥淚ndoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase and Its Therapeutic Inhibition in Cancer,鈥 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology; 鈥淒iscovery of IDO1 Inhibitors: From Bench to Bedside,鈥 in Cancer Research; and 鈥淐atalytic Enantioselective Birch鈥揌eck Sequence for the Synthesis of Tricyclic Structures with All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters,鈥 in Organic Letters.

Classics

Chair and Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Catherine Conybeare published her chapter 鈥mundus totus exsilium est: On Being Out of Place鈥 in Reading Late Antiquity, edited by Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed and Mats Malm. Professor Conybeare also delivered four papers this spring: 鈥淗eresy and Apotheosis from Agamben to Prudentius鈥 (鈥極rigins and Original Moments鈥: Fordham University); 鈥淧arsing Augustine: the Collatio cum Maximino鈥 (鈥 Fide non Ficta: a conference in memory of Paul B. Harvey, Jr.鈥: Penn State University); 鈥淎ugustine鈥檚 Marginalia Contra Iulianum鈥 (鈥楾he Late [Wild] Augustine鈥: University of California at Berkeley); and a response for 鈥楶hilology鈥檚 Shadow II鈥: panel at Society for Classical Studies: Boston. In July, Professor Conybeare and colleague Simon Goldhill will lead a workshop in Cambridge on the subject of 鈥淧hilology鈥檚 Shadow.鈥 Participants from Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley, Yale, Toronto, and the University of British Columbia will attend and their resultant essays will be published as a book.

Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical studies Radcliffe Edmonds has been working on a number of forthcoming projects, including online entries for the Oxford Classical Dictionary on Underworld and Magic, an article for the Oxford Handbook of Hesiod, and his article, 鈥淒eviant Origins: Hesiod鈥檚 Theogony and the Orphica鈥 to be published this summer. Professor Edmonds has finished revising the manuscript of his book Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, which is scheduled to appear in January 2019. This summer, Professor Edmonds will present his paper "First-Born of Night or Oozing from the Slime? Deviant Origins in Orphic Cosmogonies鈥 at 鈥淏etween Dusk and Dawn: Valuing Night in Classical Antiquity,鈥 this year鈥檚 Penn-Leiden Colloquium On Ancient Values which will take place at the University Of Pennsylvania, June 14鈥16, 2018 and at 鈥淓x arches: looking back at the myths of origin鈥 at the Ohio State University, September 13-15, 2018. His recent volume Plato and the Power of Images, co-edited with Pierre Destr茅e (Universit茅 catholique de Louvain), was released in late 2017 and published by Brill.

Visiting Assistant Professor Charlie Kuper was awarded a through the Society for Classical Studies. He has also accepted a Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) Fellowship for study at Cambridge University for the summer.

History of Art

Katherine E. McBride Professor of History of Art Christiane Hertel published the chapter 鈥淎ugust Schmarsow's Theory of Ornament,鈥 in Ornament and European Modernism, edited by Loretta Vandi.

Assistant Professor of History of Art Sylvia W. Houghteling published 鈥淭he Emperor's Humbler Clothes: Textures of Courtly Dress in Seventeenth-century South Asia,鈥 in Ars Orientalis.

Professor of History of Art and Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities Homay King was awarded by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for her book Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality. This April, Professor King published an exhibition catalog essay titled 鈥淢yth for an Age of Lies and Marble for an Age of Walls,鈥 in , edited by Alex Klein and Milena H酶gsberg. She presented a conference talk titled 鈥淎nna May Wong and the Color-Image,鈥 at the College Art Association annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA in February, and at 鈥淒ocumentary After Farocki,鈥 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Oakland, CA last fall. A video interview with Professor King will be included in the forthcoming in July 2018.

Associate Professor of History of Art Alicia Walker published 鈥淭he Bereyozovo Cup: A Byzantine Object at the Crossroads of Twelfth-Century Eurasia,鈥 in The Medieval Globe.

Physics

Professor Emeritus of Physics Peter A. Beckmann published a note on 鈥淢ethyl and t-butyl group rotation in van der Waals solids,鈥 in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kathryne Daniel published 鈥淐onstraints on radial migration in spiral galaxies 鈥 II. Angular momentum distribution and preferential migration,鈥 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Assistant Professor of Physics David A. Schaffner published 鈥淢agnetothermodynamics: measurements of the thermodynamic properties in a relaxed magnetohydrodynamic plasma,鈥 in the Journal of Plasma Physics and 鈥淢easuring the equations of state in a relaxed magnetohydrodynamic plasma,鈥 in Physical Review E.


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