Honors – Wheaton Quarterly

Faculty publications, honors and creative works

Assistant Professor of Political Science Alireza Shomali published Politics and the Criteria of Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Professor of Religion Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus and Professor of Biology Betsey Dyer presented their paper “Cultures and Cultures: Fermented Foods as Culinary Shibboleths” at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery in July at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Xuesheng Chen, professor of physics, published the paper “Size Reduction and Rare Earth Doping of GaN Powders through Ball-milling,” in III-Nitride Materials for Sensing, Energy Conversion, and Controlled Light-Matter Interactions, in the Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (2010). [Read more...]

Alumnae/i publications

Sue Smith Johnson ’61, co-author of the fifth edition of GrandLoving (Heartstrings Press, 2010), won top honors in the parenting/family category of the International Book Awards.

In her third book of poetry, Van Gogh in Poems, Carol Dine ’65 illuminates the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh. (Bitter Oleander Press, July 2009).

Gardner McFall ’74 published Amelia (University of Washington Press, 2010), a libretto commissioned by Seattle Opera.

Mary Kennard McHugh ’50 published the humorous How Not to Act Like a Little Old Lady (Magni, 2010).

In her new book High School Stories, Mary Mallon Nyman ’57 addresses issues she encountered while teaching teens for 21 years (iUniverse, 2010).

Trish Ryan ’91, author of He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, has returned with another spiritual memoir, A Maze of Grace: A Memoir of Second Chances (FaithWords, 2010).