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04/08/03

Appointments and Elections
Dale Cockrell, professor of musicology, professor of American and Southern studies and director of the American and Southern studies program, was recently elected to the executive committee of the American Council of Learned Societies. He will represent the Society for American Music, one of the constituent societies of the ACLS.

Awards and Honors
Laura Leigh Duncan, research coordinator for the Parent-Child Project, and Beth Fortune, associate vice chancellor for public affairs, were recognized in The Tennessean’s “Top 40 Under 40” listing in the March 23 edition.

Michael J. Schoenfeld, vice chancellor for public affairs, received the 2003 “Mic Award” from Nashville Public Radio April 5. He is completing his third year as chairman of the board of the public radio network, which includes WPLN-FM, WPLN-AM, WHRS-FM and WTML-FM.

Kenneth Wong, associate director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy, professor of public policy and education and professor of political science, was awarded a visiting international fellowship for senior scientists by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. As a JSPS fellow, Wong conducted research on educational reform in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya Feb. 22-March 7. He also delivered lectures on American school reform at the National Institute for Research in Educational Policy of the Ministry of Education at the Center for American and British Studies at Nanzan University and at Aichi University.

Papers and Presentations
Rebecca Brown, Allen Chair in Law, recently presented her paper “Liberty, the New Equality” at the University of Texas School of Law. The paper also appears in the current issue of the New York University Law Review.

Sokrates T. Pantelides, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics, presented an invited talk at the ESF PESC Exploratory Workshop in Rüschlikon-Zürich, Switzerland, March 17. The title of his talk was “Lessons from Si-SiO2: The Mother of All Interfaces.”

Helmut F. Pfanner, professor of German, recently attended the International Conference on “The Image of the City” in Colorado Springs, at which he presented a paper on the topic of “New York City as a Background to the Works of German and Austrian Exiles” and also chaired the session on “Images.”

Several Vanderbilt professors chaired or served on panels at the European Union Studies Association Eighth Biennial International Conference March 27-29. Vanderbilt was local host of the conference, which took place at the Hilton Suites in downtown Nashville. Thomas Schwartz, associate professor of history, chaired the panel on “Turning Points in Anglo-American Relations: The ‘Europe Question’ in the 1960s” March 27. Donald Hancock, professor of political science, chaired the panel on “The Baltic Triangle: Regional Dimensions of Democratization and Security,” March 28. Hancock also chaired “Small States and EU Security Policy” and presented “Swedish and German Security Policies: A Comparative Assessment.” At the same session, Karen Petersen, a doctoral candidate in political science, presented “Neutrality, a Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Conflict Resolution: The Future of European (and Global?) Security?” Mario Crucini, associate professor of economics, chaired the panel on “The State of the Union: Economic Perspectives on the EMU,” March 28. In addition, Crucini and David Parsley, associate professor of management, presented “Assessing the Welfare Implications of Price Dispersion and Convergence in the EU.” Diana Weymark, assistant professor of economics, co-presented “The Cost of Heterogeneity in a Monetary Union.” Craig Smith, assistant professor of law, and Vanderbilt law student Thomas Fetzer, co-presented “The ECJ at the Boundary of Its Authority? The Inviolability of Human Dignity under Member State Law vs. Fundamental Economic Freedoms under European Law,” March 29.

Engineering students Elizabeth Canter and Matt Keller were one of 15 teams chosen to present their invention as part of “March Madness of the Mind” sponsored by the Museum of Science and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. The pair traveled to Boston March 22 to display the probe they helped redefine and develop that uses laser light to diagnose ovarian cancer quickly and accurately.

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