• Peggy Stevens, professor of biology, received word that a paper for which she is senior author, entitled “SpTie1/2 is expressed in coelomocytes, axial organ and embryos of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and is an orthologue of vertebrate Tie1 and Tie2.”  has been accepted for publication in Developmental & Comparative Immunology. Two former Ripon undergraduates, Dustin Zuelke and Jatinder Dhillon, are co-authors, as well as colleagues from George Washington University, where Stevens spent a sabbatical in 2001, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto.
  
  
• Paul Schoofs, professor of economics, delivered an address titled “Coming Out of the Recession – Fantasy Sports and the Economy” at the 2010 Winter Business Conference of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) in Las Vegas.
   
  
• Jody Roy, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story  as told to Jody M. Roy (Professor of Communication at Ripon) is now available directly from the publisher, www.hawthornebooks.com. It will be available in bookstores nationwide on April 1, 2010.
  
  
• Peng Huang, assistant professor of economics and business administration, published the article "Interest-Rate Risk Factor and Stock Returns: A Time-Varying Factor-Loadings Model," with C. James Hueng.  Applied Financial Economics, 19 (22), 2009, pp. 1813-1824.
  
  
• Rafael Salas, assistant professor of art, authored a review for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's online art blog: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/79446122.html
  
  Rafael is also preparing for a group exhibit at the Kohler Arts Center this spring.
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• Lorna Sopcak, associate professor of german, was among eight US German instructors selected to receive American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) grants to subsidize the program fee for the professional development seminar, “Metropolen an der Donau,” sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture in cooperation with the AATG. The seminar, focusing on Vienna’s history, art, culture, economy and politics, took place July 1-12, 2009, in Vienna and concluded with a 3-day excursion to Budapest.
  

  Lorna also received a Goethe-Institut grant for the seminar, “Zwei Universitätsstädte,” in Göttingen and Weimar from July 12-August 1. The seminar compared the two university cities and focused on the lingering east-west differences and tensions in Germany twenty years after unification. 

  
  
• David Graham, professor of english, published the poem "Huge Underpants of Gloom" in The Huge Underpants of Gloom 3, edited by Jessy Randall, five poems in Poet's Corner: Summer, and the poem "Air Supremacy" in Big Bridge 14.  With Brent Goldman, Ripon '93, David also did a reading of his poetry at the Windhover Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac in May 2009.
  
  
• Geoff Guevara-Geer, assistant professor of spanish, received word that his essay, "The Rumba of the Flying Buttresses," was included in the playbill for "Cambio," a musical resetting of Notre Dame de Paris in today's Cuba.
  
  
• Kelly Stage, assistant professor of english, published "The Roaring Girl's London Spaces" in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 19.2 (2009) 417-436. Stage is also the author of the forthcoming"Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604" in Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. In October, Stage will participate in the symposium, "Theatre and the Reformation of Space" at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Mark Kainz, associate professor of biology, presented the poster "Identification of candidate Arabidopsis thaliana proteins involved in the replication cylce of Tomato spotted wilt virus" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Philadelphia in May 2009.
  
  

• Robert Wallace, professor of biology, and Hilary Smith '07 co-wrote the entry "Rotifera," Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, volume 3, pp. 689-703. Edited by Gene E. Likens, published by Oxford: Elsevier in 2009.

  Wallace has been very busy in recent months, presenting at the XIIth International Rotifer Symposium in Berlin, Gerrmany in August, continuing his NSF funded research with E.J. Walsh, and publishing four new works. Details of "Dr. Bob's" activities follow:
  
  Walsh, E.J., T. Schröder, R.L. Wallace, J.V. Ríos-Arana, and R. Rico-Martínez. 2008. Rotifers from selected inland saline waters in the Chihuahuan Desert of México. Saline Systems 4:7. doi: 10.1186/1746-1448-4-7 // Available from: http://www.salinesystems.org/content/4/1/7
  
  Smith, H.A., J. Ejsmont-Karabin, T. Hess, and R.L. Wallace. 2009. Paradox of planktonic rotifers: similar structure but unique trajectories in communities of the Great Masurian Lakes (Poland). Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30(6): 951–956.
  
  Wallace, R.L.  2009. Choice review: Aridland springs in North America: ecology and conservation. (Lawrence E. Stevens and Vicky J. Meretsky, eds.). Arizona/Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2008. (April 2009).
   
  Walsh, E.J. T. Schroeder, R.L. Wallace, and G. Santos Medrano*. 2009. Cryptic speciation in Chihuahuan Desert zooplankton? I. Lecane bulla (Monogononta: Rotifera). Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30: 30(7): 1046–1050.
  
  Wallace, R.L. & T.W. Snell. 2010. Rotifera. Chapter 8. In: Jim Thorp & Alan Covich, editors. Ecology and Classifications of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition.  Elsevier. Oxford.
  
  

• Presentations at the XIIth International Rotifer Symposium, Berlin, Germany (16–22 August 2009).
  

• Wallace, R.L., T. Schröder, E.J. Walsh, & T.E. Gill. Invertebrate community assembly and reset in ephemeral desert rock pools.
• Jersabek, C.D., W.H. De Smet, D. Fontaneto, R.J. Shiel, R.L. Wallace, & H. Segers.. Towards a list of zvailable names in zoology, partim Phylum Rotifera.
• Obertegger, U., H.A. Smith, G. Flaim, & R.L. Wallace. Using the guild ratio to characterize pelagic rotifer communities.
• Wallace, R.L. & H. Segers. There and back again, or whatever happened to the sessile & colonial rotifers?

NSF Supplement Award: E.J. Walsh (UTEP) and R.L. Wallace (RC) — Investigating aeolian dispersal of zooplankton diapausing stages in the Chihuahuan Desert.

• Tim Petersik, professor of psychology, published the article "Orientation anisotropy in the Ternum phenomenon" in "Perceptual and Motor Skills," (2009) 108, 405-410.
  
  Petersik, J. T., & Rice, C.M. (2008). Spatial correspondence and relation correspondence: Grouping factors that influence perception of the Ternus display. Perceptions, 37,725 739. http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p5900
  
  
• Mary Avery, associate professor of business, has been elected to the board of the Blue Mountain Project, an NGO located in Hagley Gap, Jamaica.
  
  
• Jackie Clark, assistant professor of sociology, has been invited to join the service award selection committee of the Wisconsin Sociological Association.
  
  
• Richard Coles, associate professor of exercise science, has been selected to be the national chair of the American Football Coaches Association Division III Assistant Coaches Committee.  The AFCA is the national professional association of college football coaches.
  
  
• Kristine Kovack-Lesh, assistant professor of psychology, cowrote three recent articles concerning infant cognition: 
  
  

  Kovack-Lesh, K.A., Horst, J.S. and Oakes, L.M. (2008). "The cat is out of the bag: The joint influence of previous experience and looking behavior on infant categorization." Infancy, 13, 285-307.

  Oakes, L.M., Horst, J.S., Kovack-Lesh, K.A. and Perone, S. (2008).  "How Infants Categorize." In A. Needham and A. Woodward (eds.) "Learning and the Infant Mind" (pp. 144-171).  New York City:  Oxford University Press.

  Oakes, L.M., Kovack-Lesh, K.A. and Horst, J.S. (in press). "Two are better than one: Comparison influences infants’ visual recognition memory." "Journal of Experimental Child Psychology."
  
  
• Rafael Salas, assistant professor of art, selected exhibitions:
  
  Solo Exhibition, Paintings by Rafael Francisco Salas, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wis., April 2009.http://www.nevillepublicmuseum.org/exhibits/
  
  Solo Exhibition, Rafael Francisco Salas: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Edgewood College, Madison, Wis., February 2009. http://www.edgewood.edu/community/studioArt/salas.aspx
  
  
  Personal Culture: New Art From Latin Americans, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wis., January 2009.  http://www.miad.edu/component/option,com_exhibits/time,future/event,651/Itemid,259/
  
  Salas was featured in solo exhibits at Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis., and Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wis.
  
  Paper presentation for panel on Contemporary Portraiture, chaired by Brandon Brame Fortune, curator of Painting at The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  
  The Earnest Face of the Contemporary Portrait, CAA Conference, Los Angeles, Calif., February 2009.
  
  

• William Whitehead, adjunct scholar of anthropology, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley in December. In recent months, Whitehead has contributed to several scholarly publications and conferences, including the 47th annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies and the edited volume In Kala Uyuni: An Early Political Center in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin.
  
  
• Memuna Khan, assistant professor of biology, has been sharing her studies with community members. At the South Woods Association Annual Meeting, she delivered the presentation "Banding Baby Bluebirds: Starting a Research Population at Ripon College."  She also recently addressed the Oshkosh Bird Club on the topic"Inspiring Indonesia."
  
  
• Joe Hatcher, professor of psychology, has been elected to the board of directors for the Blue Mountain Project, a service-learning organization that brings students to Hagley Gap, Jamaica.
  
  

• Soren Hauge, associate professor of economics, recently traveled to Managua, Nicaragua, to participate in a panel presentation of a new book,"El Impacto Social de la Microfinanzas en Nicaragua" (The Social Impact of Microfinance in Nicaragua). The book reports initial findings from analysis of a 2006 survey of clients of Nicaraguan financial institutions that specialize in serving poor and female borrowers and depositors. The survey and analysis were carried out in a collaboration between the International Foundation for the Global Economic Challenge (FIDEG), the Nicaraguan Association of Microfinance Institutions (ASOMIF) and the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN). Hauge presented the chapter he wrote: "Metodología del Estudio" (Methodology of the Study).
  
  
• Jacqueline Clark, assistant professor of sociology, co-wrote "Analyzing the Social Construction of Gender in Birth Announcement Cards," which will be included as a chapter in "Sociology Through Active Learning," second edition, edited by Kathleen McKinney, Frank Beck and Barbara Heyl, Pine Forge Press.
  
  She also has been asked to serve as film and book editor for "Sociological Imagination," a journal of the Wisconsin Sociological Association.
  
  Clark also presented the paper, "Using Graphic Novels to Teach the Sociology of Illness and Disease" at the annual meeting of the WSA.
  
  Clark publish a review of Sociology Through the Projector in Contemporary Sociology.