This newsletter, prepared monthly, provides highlights of H&SS faculty and graduate student recent accomplishments including: grant awards, program and curricular initiatives, appointments, publications, performances, conference papers, and the like.

AWARDS

Arts Faculty, including Pauline Oliveros, Curtis Bahn, Tomie Hahn, and Michael Century, along with Jonas Braasch from Architecture and Suvranu De (Biotech) are collaborating on an EMPAC SEED GRANT 2007-08 of $25,000 for Haptics Mediated Collaborative Performance.

APPOINTMENTS

Nancy D. Campbell, Assoc. Prof. in STS, co-organized the second international conference of an organization devoted to the diversification of science studies: Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Science Studies (FEMSS). She also presented a paper, "Science, Social Reproduction, and Social Justice" on the panel, "Reclaiming Social Reproduction."

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, is a member of the program committee, the Workshop on Agent Organization:  Simulations and Models, at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), Hyderabad, India, January 2007.

PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCE, & EXHIBITIONS

Sharon Anderson-Gold, Prof. and Head of STS, published  “Cosmopolitan Right: Kant’s Key to Perpetual Peace”  in Kant's Perpetual Peace: New Interpretative Essays  ed. Luigi Caranti , Roma:  Luiss  University Press, 2007.

Nao Bustamante, Asst. Prof In Arts, had her performance imagery included in a performance art pilgrimage by Nicolas Dumit Estevez. The pilgrimage travels from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to the Queens Museum of Art. The work of six artists is featured and presented along the route; she performed an untitled work at the Delancy Lounge in downtown Manhattan on February 22nd; and her short video, "Brothers and Sisters," in collaboration with Ben Coonley screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California on January 17th.

Shawn Lawson, Asst. Prof. of Arts, exhibits "Surface Traversal" in the Web Biennial 2007 at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, published with I. Naveh "A cognitively based simulation of academic science," in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Vol. 12, pp.313-337. 2006.

LECTURES & PANELS

James D. Adams, Prof & Head of Economics, chaired and served as a discussant for a session on “Measuring the Impact of Government and Foreign Funding of R&D” at the American Economic Association Meetings in Chicago, January 5-7, 2007; and he discussed the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-NBER Scientific Papers Database at the Spring Productivity Meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research, March 9, 2007.

John M. Gowdy, Prof. In Economics, wrote a book review of "The Origins of Ecological Economics: the Bio-Economics of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen," in Economica 74 (2007): 180-181.

Kenneth L. Simons, Asst. Prof. in Economics, published “Shakeouts, Innovation, and Industrial Strategy and Policy” in the Australian Economic Review 40 (March 2007), and his paper, authored with John Marsh and Donald Siegel, “Assessing the Effects of Ownership Change on Women and Minority Employees" was accepted for the International Journal of the Economics of Business.