Nov. 16: Roger Bolton, Emeritus Professor of Economics, was honored by an issue of the journal, International Regional Science Review, entitled: “Special Issue in Honor of Roger Bolton on Understanding Place and the Economics of Space,” Vol. 32, No. 3, July 2009, guest edited by Stephen Sheppard, professor of economics at Williams. Bolton has also been elected to the board of directors of the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (he is a member of a committee at Williams to plan programs for emeritus faculty). He was also named chair of the Clearinghouse Review Committee of the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, where he is the Alternate Delegate from Williamstown. He recently published two book reviews, one in the journal Growth and Change and one in PAST, the on-line journal of the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes.
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Nov. 16: Kim Gutschow received Germany’s Humboldt Fellowship, a three year grant to fund research and writing of her forthcoming book “Birth: From Home to Hospital and Back Home Again.” Gutschow’s book contrasts the shift of childbirth from home to hospital in rural India with reverse flow of birth back home again in rural New England. The project also discusses the fragmentary and incomplete nature of the shift from midwifery to obstetric care and its relationship to maternal health outcomes in two very different contexts. Gutschow is lecturer in religion, anthropology/sociology. A new release from the University of Arizona Press under the title “Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea” was co-edited by Markes Johnson (Geosciences Department) and Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez (Univ. Autonoma de Baja California). The pair have collaborated since 1990, taking advantage of the Williams College Winter Study Program to conduct annual research excursions with students to the Baja California peninsula and its associated islands in the Gulf of California. The western part of the gulf and its islands have a composite coastline over 3,000 km in length. The partners organized a team of 14 other US and Mexican scientists to help trace the geological history of ecosystems over the last 5.5 million years that produced major coastal limestone deposits within this zone. Johnson is first author on four out the 12 chapters in the book, covering former rocky shores, fossil rhodolith deposits, fossil clam banks, and former coastal dunes. The volume is richly illustrated by colorful satellite images which were used to survey the region for the different carbonates produced on a massive scale by various kinds of marine organisms, and includes a CD with 26 such images that can be used by specialists for ongoing research. Much of the mapping in preparation for the volume was conducted in the Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory of the Williams College Schow Library with the co-operation of David H. Backus (Williams Research Scientist). The volume represents the first major study of its kind to come out of the lab. Nov. 8, 2009 Reinhard A. Wobus, the Edna McConnell Clark Professor of Geosciences, is editor of the autobiography of T.Nelson Dale who taught geology at Williams from 1893 to 1901 and was a prominent geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey for 40 years (!880-1920). The book was published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and is one of several in their series about well-known New England geologists. Dale had intended his story to be told posthumously, but it was buried for more than 60 years in a box of manuscripts eventually presented to the Williams Archives in the late 1990s. Interspersed with his narrative about geological field work in the local area for more than a decade are his religious and philosophical obervations and his not always complimentary views of the College around the time of its centennial. Oct. 19, 2009 Brad Wells, lecturer in music, will bring Roomful of Teeth, a group of young singers who mix yodeling, belting, Tuvan throat singing and western classical singing technique, to New York. Their debut show there will take place Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Galapagos Art Space (DUMBO/Brooklyn), as part of the New Amsterdam Records’ new series of monthly concerts Archipelago. The New York concert will feature much of the music performed at the summer’s sell-out Mass MoCA concert in June. |
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