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Appointments and Elections

Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has begun a two-year term as president of the Board of Trustees of the CAChE Corporation following a two-year term as vice president and chair-elect. CAChE is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote cooperation among universities, industry and government in the development and distribution of computer-related and/or technology-based educational aids for the chemical engineering profession.

Phil Oliver, senior lecturer in philosophy, was elected president of the Tennessee Philosophical Association for 2006-07 at the organization’s annual meeting hosted at Vanderbilt.

Awards and Honors

Dimitri Shvorob, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics, has been named a winner of the 2007 SAS Student Ambassador competition by the SAS Institute, a software maker. Shvorob will present his work, completed during an internship with Wharton Research Data Services, at the SAS Global Forum to be held in Orlando, Fla.

Papers and Presentations

Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, presented a plenary lecture, “Molecular Simulation and Modeling of Water and Aqueous Solutions in Bulk and at Interfaces: From Ambient to Supercritical Conditions,” at the joint Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers/Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information Workshop on Thermodynamics and Molecular Computation held in Korea. He also presented “Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience: Methods and Applications” at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information’s Supercomputing Center in Daejeon, Korea.

Nea Houchins-Juarez, a behavior analyst at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Behavior Analysis Clinic, presented “Assessment and Intervention of Noncompliance in an Outpatient Behavioral Clinic” at the Tennessee Association for Behavior Analysis Conference held in Nashville.

Cathy L. Jrade, professor of Spanish, gave the keynote address, “Dead Lovers and Other Frightening Visions: How Agustini Re-Writes Darío,” at an international symposium celebrating the work and influence of Spanish-American poet Rubén Darío held at Hofstra University. Jrade was designated the Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Scholar for her address. The paper comes from a book-length project, Delmira Agustini:  A Modernista on Her Own Terms, for which she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Jrade also delivered an invited lecture at Yale University. 

Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Behavior Analysis Clinic, delivered “How Pain Influences Problem Behavior” at the Tennessee Association for Behavior Analysis Conference held in Nashville.

Sokrates T. Pantelides, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics, gave an invited presentation at the Workshop on Radiation Effects on Components and Systems held in Athens, Greece. He also delivered “The E-Prime Center and Oxygen Vacancies in Silica” at the XI International Conference on the Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids held in Rhodes, Greece. Ronald Schrimpf, professor of electrical engineering, and Dan Fleetwood, chair of electrical engineering and computer science, were co-authors on the papers.

Caresa Young, coordinator of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Reading Clinic, gave the keynote address, “Response to Intervention,” at the Fall 2006 International Dyslexia Association Conference held at Louisiana Tech University.

Professional Activities

The Blair String Quartet has released Charles Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 on the NAXOS label, which has selected the album as its CD of the month. The Blair String Quartet is Christian Teal, professor of violin; Felix Wang, assistant professor of cello; Cornelia Heard, associate professor of violin; and John Kochanowski, associate professor of viola.

Philip D. Rasico, professor of Spanish and Catalan, has published El Català Antic (Girona, Univertsitat de Girona, 2006), an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the Catalan language from the pre-literary period through the late Middle Ages. The book gives special attention to the formation of the phonological system of the language within the comparative context of other Romance vernaculars, particularly those of the Iberian Peninsula and Southern France.


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