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Faculty/Academic Staff Workshops and Programs

Economics
Thomas Kemp presented a paper titled "Commons, Economics Policy and the Bargaining School" at the Western Social Science Association Conference April 8-12 in Las Vegas, Nev. Kemp and UW-Eau Claire economics student Juna Miluka presented a paper titled "Strategic Transactions and Human Agency: Some Lessons from Psychology" at the same conference.

Foundations of Education
Cynthia Gray-Mash recently completed a review of a manuscript for an upcoming book by author Gregory Michie for Teacher's College Press, Columbia University.

McIntyre Library
Janice Bogstad's articles on three novels, “The Friends," by Kasumi Yomoto,” “The Good Children," by Kate Wilhelm, and “The Diary of a Red Scarf Girl," by Jiang Ji-ling, were published in Beacham’s Guide to Young Adult Fiction, Vol. 16, Gale, 2003. Bogstad's review of "Futures: Four Novellas," Baxter, Hamilton, McAuley and McDonald, New York, Warner, 2001, was published in the SFRA Review, No. 262, January/February 2003.

Music and Theatre Arts
Alexandre Dossin's first CD, recorded in New York in March 2002, recently was released. Details about the CD, including purchasing information, can be found online.

Physics and Astronomy
Nathan Miller, as part of a collaboration led by David Cohen (Swarthmore College), has had a paper titled "High-Resolution Chandra Spectroscopy of Tau Scorpii: A Narrow Line X-ray Spectrum from a Hot Star" published in the Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 586. The observations in the paper, taken with NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, challenge current ideas of X-ray generation in hot stars. The X-rays from Tau Scorpii are both brighter and higher in energy than expected.

Faculty/Academic Staff Workshops and Programs
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following workshop:
    • A Faculty Development Workshop to discuss the Faculty Sabbatical Leave Program will be held May 5 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. as a brown bag lunch session in the Badger Room of Davies Center.