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“Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research” workshops are expected to reach 960,000 students on 160 campuses across the nation. Karukstis is also actively promoting the work of the NSF-ADVANCE-PAID Project (on which she is also a co-principal investigator) that is identifying and creating resources that address career development issues for senior women at liberal arts institutions and disseminate best practices on horizontal mentoring strategies for academic women. She chaired the symposium “Successful Mentoring Strategies to Facilitate the Advancement of Women Faculty” at the recent American Chemical Society meeting.

F a c u l t y N e w s

David Vosburg, assistant professor

of chemistry, and his student co-

authors Terence Wong ’09 and Camille Sultana ’10 created a

new, environmentally friendly instructional and green procedure for use in an undergraduate organic laboratory to make the anticoagulant (blood thinner) and rat poison called warfarin. It has already attracted interest by instructors across the U.S. and in Europe. The abstract states: The procedure “is a rare example of a modern, one-step synthesis of an optically active drug. We have found that this synthesis of warfarin effectively stimulates students to learn about reaction mechanisms, stereoselectivity, and green chemistry in the real- world context of a widely used drug.”

Bill Alves was the Porter College Distinguished Artist at UC Santa Cruz this spring composing for and directing their gamelan as well as composing for other faculty performers.

Arthur Benjamin, HMC’s resident Mathemagician, was a special guest on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” airing on Wednesday, January 27. A dedicated professor of mathematics, Benjamin saw his appearance on the show as a chance to demonstrate the power and beauty of mathematics to a wide audience—potentially over one million viewers. He was the fi rst mathematician to ever be interviewed on the program. Benjamin was recently featured in the “Education Life” section of

the New York Times along

with one of his entertaining math quizzes. The online

video of his talk at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference has been viewed over one million times.

Isabel Balseiro, Alexander and

Adelaide Hixon Professor of Humanities, published “South

Africa: A Travelers Literary Companion”

Press). With the 1993,

contemporary writers makers

her of

research Africa

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areas and

and

since are

fi lm South

America, cultural and race studies, and fi lm and postcolonial literature.

Richard Olson’s book “Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations” was published by Preager. A member of

focuses on the

between the natural other

the faculty since 1976, Olson interrelationships sciences and including

cultural domains,

moral philosophy, the social sciences, political ideology and religion.

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