Professional Activities
Professional Activities
In June, José Lezcano (Music) performed the Carulli double concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional del Ecuador, and duo concerts with viola virtuoso Brett Deubner in Quito and Loja, including José’s own “Sonata for Viola and Guitar.” His “Guitar Concerto” received critical acclaim in Fanfare Magazine, Turok’s Choice, and the American Record Guide after release on the North-South label in 2007 as “Remembrances/Recuerdos.”
Patricia Pedroza (Spanish and Women’s Studies) presented her paper “Exploring (Dis)membered and Re(membered) Chicana Embodiment” in August at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The 21st Annual MALCS Summer Institute (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) brought together 230 Chicana/Latinas scholars. Pedroza is a member of the national Executive Committee, which coordinates this important event each year for Latina women in the United States.
Daniel L. Patterson (Theatre and Dance) attended the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) in Denver from July 29 through August 3. At the conference, Patterson directed a production of the winner of the David Mark Cohen National New Play Award, The Elephant’s Graveyard. The award is given jointly by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for the best new play of the year. The play is then traditionally staged at the ATHE conference using professional actors and conference attendees. The play this year was based on the true story of a small town in 1900s Tennessee, where townspeople executed an elephant that had killed a circus employee during the Main Street parade. Also in the cast of this production was Keene State Theatre adjunct PeggyRae Johnson.
Keene State College was represented at several important events at the 236th American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting in Philadelphia (August 17 to 21). Colin Abernethy (Chemistry) gave an oral presentation at a symposium dedicated to excellence and innovation in teaching inorganic chemistry. He showcased the new laboratory and classroom activities that have been developed for his CHEM 363 Inorganic Chemistry course to a national audience of chemical educators.
In addition, students who have been working with him over the summer [Project SEED students Erica Cornellier and Samantha Gallagher from Keene High School and KSC students Katherine Edesliliz**Elizabeth Neuhardt** (sophomore, Biology] presented a poster, “New Complexes of High-Valent Vanadium Containing Didentate Imine Ligands.”
The 40th anniversary of Project SEED was celebrated by special events during the conference. Erica Cornellier and Colin Abernethy represented the State of New Hampshire at the Presidential Symposium Project SEED: Crossing Generations and Energizing Minds.
Dr. Loren Launen (Biology) also attended the conference. She has been working with two SEED students this summer: Garry Card (Keene High School) and Jessica Phaneuf (Fall Mountain Regional High School). They presented a poster, “A Characterization of the Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Microbes Present in Sediment of a Northeastern U.S. River Impacted by Historical Manufactured Gas Plant Operations.”
Larry Welkowitz (Pysychology) was in the news recently: his weekly blog, Aspergers Conversations, was named one of the top 100 mental health blogs by Online University reviews.
