Kirk Anderson, associate professor of French, translated from French to English the short story “Brown Hounding” by Franck Pavloff in Metamorphoses (April 2012).

William Goldbloom Bloch, professor of mathematics, published the article “Lost in a Good Book: Jorge Borges’ Inescapable Labyrinth” in Springer Verlag (April 2012). Also, Bloch and Michael Drout wrote the essay “Fair and Unfair Division in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon” in Mathematics and Popular Culture (McFarland, February 2012).

Alex Bloom, professor of history, published the article “The Sixties” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (Oxford University Press, March 2012). He also presented the talk “The End of the Tunnel: The Vietnam Experience and American Life” on April 11, 2012, at Capitol Community College in Hartford, Conn. [Read more...]

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John Miller, professor of economics, coauthored the article “Why the United States is Not Greece” with Katherine Sciacchitano in the January/February issue of Dollars & Sense magazine.

John Kricher, professor of biology, presented “Our Changing World” on February 7 at the Tucson Audubon Society Fourth Annual Gala. He spoke about the concept of balance of nature, why it is not true, and how, in a changing world, conservationists can be effective in influencing societal decisions.

Michael Drout, professor of English, published the article “Variation within Limits: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure and Dynamics of the Multiform” in Oral Tradition (December 2011).

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