Warren Rochelle, professor of English, recently had his story “Feathers” accepted for publication by Second Hand Stories Podcast. A broadcast version will be available for listening in the next two weeks. The story is part of a collection-in-progress of gay-themed retellings of traditional fairy tales.
Mara Scanlon, Professor of English, published the essay “‘Afoot with my vision’: Whitmania and Tourism in the Digital Age” as a chapter in From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors, eds. Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe, U of Massachusetts Press. The chapter, drawing on a multi-university teaching experience using […]
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, published an article titled “Leaf-wise Harmonic Maps of Manifolds with 2-Dimensional Foliations” http://web.math.sinica.edu.tw/bulletin/archives_articlecontent16.jsp?bid=MjAxNjIwMg in the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica.She also presented her publication “Exponentially harmonic maps, exponential stress energy and stability” at International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Beijing, China. She was on a sabbatical leave in […]
Doug Gately performed with the NSO and American R&B and jazz recording artist Ledisi at two performances at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Feb. 24 and 25. Both concerts were sold out.Ledisi has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards and is a mainstay on Billboard‘s R&B charts. Also on the concert was the legendary pianist and […]
Sushma Subramanian’s story “Worse Than Tuskegee” has recently been published as a cover story in Slate. The story is about a study that remained hidden until fairly recently, involving American researchers in the 1940s infecting unknowing Guatemalans with syphilis to test prophylactic measures. Unfortunately, many of the subjects were not treated, and they’ve passed on the disease and its many […]
