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Aimee Bahng, associate professor of gender and women’s studies (GWS) and program coordinator of GWS and American Studies (AMST), was nominated for the Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and was awarded an honorable mention at the national conference awards ceremony in Seattle on April 27.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry gave a talk titled “Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)” at Portland State University.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, served on the program committee for the 32nd Annual Conference of the , held April 4–7 at Princeton University and hosted by Princeton University Department of Music, with support from the Center for Human Values, Council of the Humanities, Program in Italian Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, Department of French and Italian and Department of Comparative Literature.

On April 11, Bandy presented a lecture-performance titled “‘Drawing’ the Bow: Process, Passaggi, and Gendered Sociality in Italian and English Viol Music, ca. 1580–1680” at the Benton Museum of Art at ������Ƶ, as part of the event Gender and the Italian Arts. Bandy’s lecture-performance featured members of Artifex Consort and drew connections between 16th-century cartoon tracing, the viola da gamba as a gendered object, and the rhetorical “abundant” style of divisions (variations) practice as instrumental reworkings of Italian Renaissance vocal polyphony. The event also featured a lecture by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer (to which Bandy’s musical portion responded), curator and head of Italian and Spanish paintings at the National Gallery of Art, in honor of the current Benton exhibition 500 Years of Italian Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum.

Gayle Blankenburg, lecturer in music, performed in a at Symphony Space in New York City on April 20. She performed a solo piano work, a work for cello and piano, and a work for violin, piano and two dancers.

Shannon Burns, assistant professor of psychological science and neuroscience, presented a symposium talk titled “Coordinated neural states during joint decision-making” at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society in Toronto on April 11.

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented two papers: “‘El que habla no es el que sufre’: Witnessing Testimony in Juan Carlos Mestre’s ‘Fechado en Auschwitz,’” at the 44th Cincinnati Conference on Romance & Arabic Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Cincinnati from April 4-6 and “Economic Exile and Migratory Identity in the Writings of Azahara Palomeque,” at Cal State Long Beach’s 58th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference (April 17).

On April 20, Cahill hosted the Spring Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese at ������Ƶ.

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg, published an annotated bibliography of sources on the modern Chinese writer “” in in Chinese Studies, edited by Tim Wright and published by Oxford University Press.

Cecilia Conrad, emerita professor of economics, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 in recognition of her nonprofit leadership.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, was recognized by the Queer Resource Center at Lavender Graduation for his support of students and his contributions to the community.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, had an article, “,” published online in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article “” in Behavioural Public Policy.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, attended the from April 6-7 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. On April 6, Goins organized a special session called “GranvilleFest 100: A Celebration of the Legacy of Evelyn Boyd Granville,” celebrating the 100th birthday of the second African American to receive a doctorate in mathematics. On April 7, Goins gave a talk in the special session on Elementary Number Theory and Elliptic Curves titled “{Quasi-Critical Points of Toroidal Belyi Maps.”

Goins has been traveling around the country serving as a section visitor for the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). On April 5, he attended the at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He gave a keynote address titled “Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy.” On April 12-13, Goins attended the at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, Wisconsin. He gave a keynote address titled “Indiana Pols Forced to Eat Humble Pi: The Curious History of an Irrational Number.”

Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, senior director of international and domestic programs, presented a session on case studies and table top scenarios with colleagues Stacey Bolton Tsantir (DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia) and Susan Lochner Atkinson (University of Wisconsin—Madison) at the U.S. Department of State’s Academia Sector Committee (ASC) Spring 2024 Seminar on Health, Safety, and Security held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities on April 26 in St. Paul.

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete ’17, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and cognitive science, presented his research project titled “Occlusive salience among Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from code-switching” in a Blue Room Talk for the series “Return to Pomona” for ������Ƶ faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Gutiérrez Topete participated in an alumni panel hosted virtually on April 7 by the Office of Graduate Diversity at UC Berkeley.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, and biology majors Philip Duchild ’24 and Teodelina Martelli ’24 presented their bird-related research at the April Pomona Valley Audubon Society meeting. Karnovsky presented her work assessing the diets of Antarctic penguins and south polar skuas from the ear bones of fish found in the “puke and poop” of those seabirds. Duchild presented results from his senior thesis in which he quantified and characterized the plastic consumed by Laysan albatross breeding at two colonies on Oahu, Hawaii. Martelli presented a RAISE (Remote Alternative Independent Summer Experience) project she did in which she translated the bird field notes of her late grandfather from Argentina and put his sightings into ebird, a citizen science app for recording birds.

Karnovsky performed in two dances choreographed by Anthony Loa in Village Dance Arts’ recital Steppin’ Out at the Haugh Performing Arts Center in Glendora, California, on April 21.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, co-authored the article “New Developments in ������Ƶ’s Chinese Program: Implementation of Gender-Inclusive Curriculum Practices” with Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, published in .

Lang gave a talk titled “Chinese Language and Gender: Exploring Gender-Inclusive Pedagogy” at the 2nd Annual Gender-Inclusive Language Conference hosted by the Center for Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California.

Lang joined a panel at the 2024 Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, where she presented her recent pedagogical practices titled “Teaching Chinese to Gen Z: Project-based Learning.”

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, published an on the death and impact of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.

Le served as a discussant on a panel concerning social movements in Japan at the Associate of Asian Studies annual conference.

Le gave a talk at Soka University of America on Japan-South Korea reconciliation.

Le served on a panel, “The Future of East Asia,” at the West Coast International Relations of Asia Conference at USC.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy E. Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing, won The New York City Book Award for his 2023 book Brooklyn Crime Novel.

Alexandra Lippman, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, presented “‘Queen of the Favela’: Ludmilla's Queer Funk” at the Brazilian Studies Association in San Diego on April 3 in a panel on queer and trans performance, necropolitics and the Brazilian state.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, led a Playback Theatre workshop at the conference April 4. She also performed playback with as part of Armand Volkas’ plenary speech titled “Healing the Wounds of History Through Psychodrama” on April 6.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, delivered an invited talk titled “from excursion sets to today: a random walk through the history of cosmological simulations” at the on April 4. This presentation was also featured in .

From April 15^-19, Moreno co-organized an international conference called at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Moreno published three peer-reviewed research articles in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: “,” “” and “” The third article was led by Francisco Mercado, postdoctoral fellow working under the supervision of Moreno and lecturer in physics and astronomy.

Zhiru Ng, professor and chair of religious studies and program coordinator of Asian studies, presented “To beg or to cook? Food ethics, cross-cultural borrowing, and the meal rituals of South Forest (Nanlin) Buddhist nuns in Central Taiwan” at the conference on “Buddhism and Food Ethics,” University of Oxford China Center, March 19-20. The conference was hosted by the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.

Kun Nie, visiting instructor of Asian languages and literatures, gave a presentation titled “Strengthening Cultural Roots through Community-Centric Projects for the Heritage Chinese Classes” at the 31st International Conference on Chinese Language Instruction, held at Princeton University on April 27.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, was an invited panelist on “Claiming Belonging and Witnessing Joy: New Directions in Latinx Studies” at the Latinx Studies Association, Arizona State University on April 19.

Ochoa co-facilitated a daylong workshop for Santa Ana Unified School District’s Ethnic Studies Steering Committee on April 24 in Santa Ana, California.

Dan O’Leary, Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, had his six-year effort with the University of Washington to reconcile its role in a decades-old case of child sexual abuse at a Seattle elementary school on NPR affiliate KUOW.org.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, published the article “,” co-authored with Stella Favaro ’23 and Brooke Sparks ’22. The article is part of a 25th anniversary special issue of the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations focused on the role of psychology in addressing global challenges.

Pearson co-authored the article “” in Science Advances with a global team of 250 behavioral scientists.

William Peterson, professor emeritus of music and College organist, performed music from the WWI era in a concert on the Hill Memorial Organ in Bridges Hall of Music. The program included a number of works that were originally published in an anthology, Les Voix de la douleur chrétienne (“The Voices of Christian Sorrow”). The concert program included music composed between 1914 and 1924 by Louis Vierne, Camille Saint-Saëns, Joseph Jongen, Jacques Ibert and others.

Sheila Pinkel, professor emerita of art and art history, has a large cyanotype work currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Alexis Reyes, director of sustainability and energy management, was featured in a with Patch, a carbon credit marketplace, for her work on sourcing and vetting high-quality carbon credits. Reyes worked with a subcommittee of the ������Ƶ Board of Trustees to establish criteria for purchasing high-quality carbon credits. The Sustainability Office launched a pilot program under which departments can purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from College-funded air travel.

Hans Rindisbacher, professor of German and Russian, published a of Kellers Erzählen. Strukturen – Funktionen – Reflexionen. Herausgegeben von Philipp Theisohn (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022); and Kellers Medien. Formen – Genres – Institutionen. Herausgegeben von Frauke Berndt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022) in Monatshefte.

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, gave a presentation, “My Hidden Childhood in WWII in Occupied France,” during Alumni Weekend on April 27.

Bri Sérráno, assistant dean and director of the Queer Resource Center, defended and passed his dissertation defense for a doctor of philosophy in education and human resource studies degree with a specialization in higher education leadership from Colorado State University on April 29. His dissertation is titled “I Love the Work, But the Work Doesn’t Love Me: A Constructivist Study on the Lived Experiences of Transgender Staff of Color Who Report Discrimination in Higher Education.”

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, wrote his first novel Death Along the Silk Road. The novel follows Omar Khayyam through the period 1090-1092, when the Seljuq Empire of Persia fell apart. Most of the events, though fictionalized, occurred. Shay translated Khayyam’s poems anew for the novel.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote five opinion pieces: “” (MindMatters, April 11), “” (MindMatters, April 16), “” (MindMatters, April 23); “” (MindMatters, April 29) and “” (Washington Post, April 23).

Smith signed a contract for a Japanese translation of the book The Power of Modern Value Investing: Beyond Indexing, Algos, and Alpha, co-authored with his wife Margaret Smith.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, signed a contract with Edinburgh University Press for his second book, Feeling Absence: Horror, Memory, and Language in Cinema.

Wynter organized and hosted the Media Studies Department’s 2024 Eckstein Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium was Expressing the Inexpressible. The symposium’s invited speakers were film scholars Aaron Kerner (San Francsico State) and Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont).

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, was appointed chair of the media and publicity committee at Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA) on April 5. He participated in a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of generative AI for Chinese teaching and co-presented a paper titled “Assessing pragmatic routines in L2 Chinese: A focus on rating scale functioning and rater behavior” at the 2024 CLTA Conference on April 6.

Xiao was invited to join the international roundtable discussion on Chinese curriculum design and pedagogical practice held by Princeton University on April 26.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, discussed Professor Ch’en Shouyi, who headed ������Ƶ’s Asian Studies program for nearly three decades, in a short talk titled “Ch’en Shouyi and the Development of Asian Studies at ������Ƶ” that was part of a special program, “Remembering Professor Ch’en Shouyi’s Legacy: A Discussion,” held at The Claremont Colleges Library on April 3.

Ellie Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, was featured in for her research on hermeneutic labor in intimate relationships.

Anderson delivered the annual Edwards Lecture at Emory University on March 21, with a presentation titled “Feeling Myself: Self-Awareness and Objectification.” She also presented “Love and Limerence” at an invited symposium at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, in Portland, Oregon, on March 23 and delivered an invited talk on “The Critical Phenomenological Turn” to the Kant and Post-Kantian Research Group at the University of Toronto on March 28.

Tricia Avant, academic coordinator and gallery manager of art, had one of her videos included in a screening event titled The Formless is What Keeps Bleeding at Heavy Manners Library in Los Angeles on March 8.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, alongside Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, and Adrien Redford ’14, programmed, prepared editions for, co-directed and played tenor viola da gamba in Musick Divine, a concert of 16th- and 17th-century English music for voices and viols, as a joint venture between Artifex Consort and PRISM Choral Ensemble (March 3, Bridges Auditorium).

On March 8, Bandy presented a paper titled “Through All Eternity: Clockwork, Memory, and Temporality in Dieterich Buxtehude’s Jesu dulcis memoria” at the , held at Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). Bandy then presented another paper, “Instruments of ‘Torture’: Viols, Dismemberment, and Transfiguration in German Baroque Passion Meditations,” based on his research as a 2023-24 ������Ƶ Humanities Studio fellow, at the , held March 15–17 at UC Berkeley.

On March 22–24 at venues in Palo Alto, Berkeley and San Francisco, Bandy performed with the early music ensemble Ciaramella on viola da gamba, alto shawm and Renaissance hümmelchen bagpipes, in presented by the .

Alexa Block, associate director of news and strategic content in the Office of Communications, served as a plenary speaker and for The Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Social Media and Community conference in Boston from March 18-20. The plenary sessions were titled “Social Issues, Social Climate and Social Media” and “Crisis Messaging and Protocols Workshop.”

Bana Marine Dahi, visiting assistant professor of French, presented a talk titled “L’intelligence artificielle (IA) au carrefour de la didactique du FLE : L’IA en Support à l’Apprenant et l’Enseignant” in the conference organized by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF-SoCal) at USC on March 2.

Susanne Mahoney Filback, associate director, preprofessional programs & prelaw advisor in the Career Development Office, attended a graduate school advisor workshop hosted by The University of St. Andrews in Scotland from March 18-22. ������Ƶ was one of only 12 U.S. colleges and universities invited to attend.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, published two papers in the March 29 issue of Science Advances. With colleagues from the U.S., Australia and Korea, he published the article “.” With colleagues from the U.S. and China, he published the article “.”

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, delivered the 2024 Mosaic Lecture at Grand Valley State University on March 12. His talk was titled “Prime Time Math: Little Green Men, Locust Hordes, and Cybersecurity.”

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, together with Kira Hamman of Pennsylvania State University and Mon Alto and Lew Ludwig of Denison University, facilitated a virtual discussion session titled “Revisiting Generative AI and Numeracy.” The session was hosted by the National Numeracy Network on March 21.

Karaali facilitated a virtual workshop, together with Ileana Vasu of Holyoke Community College, Geillan Aly of Compassionate Math and Jonas D’Andrea of Westminster University, titled “Equity in the Moment” on March 24. The event was hosted by (New England Community for Mathematics Inquiry in Teaching).

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, co-chaired with Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, in organizing and hosting the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-36), an international scholarly event at ������Ƶ from March 22-24. This event was sponsored by the College, Academic Dean’s Office, Asian Languages and Literatures Department, Asian Studies, Asian Library, Oldenborg Language Center, Pacific Basin Institute, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department. NACCL-36 at ������Ƶ marks the first time this international conference was held at a liberal arts college.

At NACCL-36, Lang collaborated with her students Sydney Tai ’26, Emma Tom ’26, Jenny Wey ’24 and Jessie Zhang ’26 to deliver a panel presentation titled “Incorporating Gender into Chinese Language and Linguistics Courses,” showcasing learning and teaching reflections from the two new courses Lang first offered: Introduction to Pop Culture in China in spring 2023 and Chinese Language and Gender in fall 2023.

Lang was invited to review the newly published book titled Pragmatics of Chinese as a Second Language, edited by Shuai Li. Lang's was published in the journal Contrastive Pragmatics on March 12.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, gave a solo on the series at Colburn School of Music in downtown Los Angeles. Her program featured keyboard works with speaking and singing.

With the support of a Pomona research grant, Lee commissioned and premiered two new works by Chris Castro and Livia Malossi Bottignole. San Francisco Classical Voice gave her a glowing review.

Lee was a judge for the Oakland University (Michigan) 2024 Piano Day Competition for young pianists in two age groups between 11 and 18 years old.

Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, presented “Crisis Management: Conflict and Controversy in Forest Service History” to sessions of the USDA Forest Service Middle Leadership Program in Davis, California, Ogden, Utah, Anchorage, Alaska, and Missoula, Montana.

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Miller was quoted in Washington Post articles on on March 2 and on March 5.

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, spoke at the American Cinemathèque in Los Angeles on the anniversary of the execution of Missak Manouchian, an Armenian man who was active in the French Resistance. Saigal Escudero read a letter Manouchian wrote to his wife before being killed and additionally talked about her own situation during WWII and the women in the French Resistance whom she has interviewed.

Patricia Smiley, professor emerita of psychological science, with co-authors from UCI, published . The paper reports on the team’s efforts to culturally adapt their relational savoring intervention for implementation with minoritized groups.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “” (MarketWatch, March 4); “When it comes to critical thinking, AI flunks the test” (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12) and “” (MindMatters, March 20).

Smith signed a contract with Business Expert Press for a novel, co-authored with Margaret Smith, Reboot: A Business Novel of Money, Finance, and Life.

David M. Tanenbaum, Osler-Loucks Professor in Science and professor of physics, and his collaborators presented a talk, “Slot-die Coated and Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) Integrated Improved Semi-transparent Organic Solar Cells” at the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS) 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages & literatures, gave an invited talk titled “AI and Adaptive Language Learning” for the course AI and Global Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University on March 18. He also gave an invited talk titled “Using ChatGPT API in Language Teaching” at the third lecture series on Chinese curriculum design. The event was organized by Beijing Language and Culture University Press and Phoenix Tree Publishing on March 22. Xiao gave a presentation titled “Facilitative and Inhibitive Factors in Processing L2 Chinese Compounds” at the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics on March 23.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, delivered “Did the War Have to End in the Way It Did?” and “Understanding Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945” at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on March 5 and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on March 7. The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies funded these lectures, the fourth and fifth Yamashita has given as a member of NEAC’s Distinguished Speakers Bureau.

On March 16, Yamashita delivered a paper titled “Kaiseki Cuisine and the New Hyperlocal Cuisines” as part of a panel on “New Directions in Japanese Food Studies” that he organized for the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, which was held in Seattle. On the following afternoon, Yamashita gave his “Chinese Food Along the Pacific Rim” talk to ������Ƶ alumni in Seattle.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, was an organizer, chair and presenter at a panel titled “Transcultural Encounters in the Sin-Tibetan Borderlands” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference. Her scholarly panel examined cross-lingual, cross-ethnic encounters among Western missionaries, indigenous groups and Han Chinese intellectuals in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Zhang’s pedagogical essay “Visualizing Ethnic Minorities” was published in (Modern Language Association). Her essay is probably the first systematic discussion of how to engage with and teach about China’s ethnic minorities in the classroom ever published in the English language.

Zhang was invited to give a special talk as part of the distinguished Tanner Talk Series at Utah State University. Her talk was titled “Understanding China from the Borders: The ‘Qiang’ and Multiethnic Chinese Literature, Cinema, and Visual Culture” and tackled ethnic minority creative expressions and diversity issues in the realm of literary and artistic productions in globalizing China and represents cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in Asian humanities.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, published the research article in the journal Language and Speech, co-authored with Pengbo Hu ’21 and Genevieve Gray ’22 and collaborators Meredith Shafto and Lori James.

Ellie Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, delivered the keynote address for the 2024 Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love seminar series with a presentation titled “Hermeneutic Labor in Sexual Contexts” on Feb. 8. She also presented “On the Possibility of ‘Unrequited Love’: Limerence, Infatuation, and Crushes” at the 2024 Fagothey Conference “Problems with Love” at Santa Clara University.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, presented the paper “Didactics Beyond Depiction: Jesuit Dialectic in Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas (c.1680)” at a , Mullen Professor Emerita of Musicology at Rice University’s (Houston). The conference took place Feb. 17–18 at the and featured invited papers by 15 Shepherd School alumni from across the U.S. and Europe.

On Feb. 21, Bandy presented a lecture on the life and esoteric compositional practices of Dieterich Buxtehude (ca.1637–1707) at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library, at the event , organized by the USC working group and co-sponsored by the for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies and the .

Bandy programmed and led a day-long workshop (Feb. 3, South Pasadena, California) for , the local Viola da Gamba Society of America chapter, on the topic of fauxbourdon and its many symbolic meanings across sacred and secular music from the 15th through 17th centuries in Italy, Flanders and England.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, performed as harpsichordist with his Cornucopian Baroque Ensemble colleagues—violinist Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music; theorbist Jason Yoshida, lecturer in music; and cellist Roger Lebow—in a Friday Noon concert of music by Handel and Telemann on Feb. 16 in Lyman Hall.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, taught an open-level community dance masterclass at Elite Movement Dance Studio in Cape Town, South Africa. During his time there, he worked with four local dancers on a short video project and interviewed studio owner and choreographer Densley “Deezy” Carolissen on the conversations surrounding hip hop dance today.

Champi premiered a new six-minute contemporary modern dance titled Reset with the Malashock Dance Company in San Diego, California. The work included new music by percussionist and composer Jonathan Rodriguez.

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg Center, had a podcast interview on her translation of Lu Xun’s published on Feb. 13 in .

David Divita, professor of Romance languages & literatures, published a book titled with University of Toronto Press.

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, received a research grant from the to design, conduct and analyze a national sample survey on research development and research administration at U.S. colleges and universities. Pomona is the lead institution, and Gerstein is the principal investigator, with colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Seattle University and Research Triangle Institute. This three-year project is titled “,” with an overall project budget of $1,884,361.

Gerstein was appointed to the at the Social Science Research Council. Industries of Ideas is a three-year funded by the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships of the National Science Foundation.

Meg Gotowski, visiting assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and cognitive science, and Galia Bar-Sever, visiting assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, organized and hosted the Pomona Acquisition Workshop (PAW) 2024 on Feb. 23. The one-day event brought together invited speakers from UCSD, UCLA and UCI as well as graduate students from UCLA to present their most recent work on language acquisition research. Pomona faculty and students attended the event and interacted with other scholars in Southern California working on this topic.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, was elected to serve as a member-at-large of the of the Association for Women in Mathematics and began her term in Feb. 2024.

Karaali gave a talk titled “Can Zombies Do Math? OR Humanism as a Philosophy of Mathematics” on Feb. 22 at the Mathematics Department Colloquium at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Karaali gave a talk titled “ChatGPT and New Ethical Considerations for the Mathematics Classroom” on Feb. 24 at the WiMSoCal-14 Conference held at ������Ƶ.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, and biology major Philip Duchild ’24, attended the 50th annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group in Seattle from Feb. 20-23. Karnovsky chaired the session “Community Outreach” and presented the paper “Sowing Seeds of Futures in Seabird Conservation through Participation in Habitat Restoration Work on Anacapa Island.” In this study, Karnovsky found that participating in a field trip in her Advanced Animal Ecology classes had a lasting and large impact on the lives of Pomona students long after graduation. Duchild presented a part of his senior thesis in a poster, “Analysis of Laysan Albatross Diets from Two Colonies on Oahu, Hawaii.” Co-authors were Karnovsky and Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation. As part of the meeting there was an exhibit called “Faces of Conservation.” Kristina McOmber ’12, Jacob Ligorria ’23 and Clare Flynn ’19 were profiled in this exhibit. At the meeting, Kay Garlick-Ott ’18 won the award for best Ph.D. student talk, and Kristina McOmber ’12 won the award for best master’s student poster.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, was selected for the Institute for Global Affairs 2024 nonresident fellowship.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, performed at ChamberFest 2024 held at California State University, Northridge on Feb. 2. With CSUN faculty members, she played Khachaturian’s Trio for clarinet, violin and piano.

Lee was an invited guest on Global Village Thursdays with John Schneider on KPFK 90.7FM. She was asked to speak about her upcoming at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles on March 5.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, performed with Pangea Playback Theatre under the direction of Hannah K. Fox for a presentation by Dailey Innovations, Inc. titled “Speaking Through Colors: Self-Expression Through Art (SETA) and using Playback Theater to Transform the World” on Feb. 22. This virtual event was sponsored by the School of Social Work and the Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education at Howard University.

April Mayes, professor of history and associate dean of the College, was one of three scholars featured in the podcast “Lost Women of Science” in an Fraser was the daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Loguen, ex-slave, abolitionist and clergy member, and became one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree (Syracuse University). She immigrated to the Dominican Republic where she became the first woman certified to practice medicine, allowed to treat women and children.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, spoke to the Metuchen (New Jersey) Democratic Committee on Feb. 7 about the possibilities and probabilities for the 2024 election.

On Feb. 15, McWilliams published an article titled “He Took Children Seriously” as part of a retrospective forum on the historian Christopher Lasch in the journal Current.

McWilliams published an essay titled “” in Political Science Quarterly on Feb. 28.

Wallace M. Meyer III, associate professor of biology and director of the Bernard Field Station, published an article titled “Acmispon glaber shrub canopies facilitate Bromus madritensis establishment after fire in California sage scrub” in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.

Meyer received, as a co-PI, a National Science Foundation BIORETS: REACHES grant for a project titled “Research experiences for advancing curriculum of Hawaiian ecosystem sciences.”

Meyer gave an invited talk at Cal State University San Bernardino titled “Using ecological information to develop a holistic approach to sustainable landscaping in southern California.”

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Moreno and collaborators obtained approval for a research proposal titled “BonFIRE: Modeling Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe” under the Theory Program.

Michael O’Malley, professor of art, has new work in the show “This is not a chair” currently on view at the Claremont Museum of Art until April 20, 2024.

Zvezdana Ostojic, visiting assistant professor of French, chaired the panel “Crime is their Business” and presented the paper “À tout crime son châtiment : une réécriture impossible dans Maudit soit Dostoïevski d’Atiq Rahimi” at the 2024 20th- & 21st-century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Philadelphia.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the largest international scientific organization of psychologists. Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made “sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application.”

Pearson gave an invited address, “Social Psychological Pathways to Climate Justice,” at the Groups Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, California.

Hans J. Rindisbacher, professor of German, was awarded a in support of his edited book on the 20th-century Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt (under contract with Camden House). The volume brings together 12 scholars who (re)read and interpret Dürrenmatt’s multi-perspective work in the context of contemporary social, political and cultural developments.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, published a paper (co-authored with Margaret Smith), “” in the Journal of Financial Planning and wrote three opinion pieces: “” (Retraction Watch, Feb. 21); “” (MindMatters, Feb. 21) and “” (MindMatters, Feb. 23). He was also quoted extensively in Ed Yardeni’s discussion of “AI Isn’t Intelligent” in Morning Briefing (Feb. 22).

Smith gave a presentation, “Generative AI Is Still Fake Intelligence,” to 381 people working with AI in O’Reilly Media’s “GenAI Superstream: Possibilities and Pitfalls” on Feb. 28.

Valorie D. Thomas, emerita Phebe Estelle Spalding professor of English and Africana Studies, published the chapter “Who Do You Worship?: #Memesis #whodoyouworship #BeyoncétheFeminist #AprilBey,” about Los Angeles artist April Bey’s Afrofuturist work on Black femme iconography, in the collection edited by Anne Bray (MIT Press). She also published “Incidents in the Life of a Black Prof.: A Speculative CV” in the book edited by Shardé M. Davis (UNC Press).

Margaret Waller, professor emerita of French, won the New Yorker cartoon caption contest Feb. 5.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, served as moderator for the Evening with Joy-Ann Reid event celebrating the publication of her new book Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America. The event was held in Bridges Auditorium on Feb. 15.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, presented her research project titled “Indigenous Articulations: Understanding the ‘Mother Tongue Movement’ of the Qiang People of China” at the Global Asias conference held at UC Irvine. The conference gathered scholars from Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, English and other fields to explore cross-disciplinary issues and find connections beyond area studies.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, co-authored the introduction to the special issue of American Psychologist “” along with co-editors Leah Light (Pitzer College), Sangeeta Panicker (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) and Jina Huh-Yoo (Drexel University).

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, recorded viola da gamba and tanbur solos for the soundtrack to the television series Masters of the Universe: Revolution. The show, whose score features musical themes by Bear McCreary and music by Sparks & Shadows, premiered on Netflix on January 25.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was awarded a $40,000 to design and implement a simulation on the geopolitical and economic consequences of a supply chain disruption originating with the People’s Republic of China. His co-principal investigator for the project is Ben Radd, visiting assistant professor of politics in 2022-23.

Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis, published an article led by Hanna Kim ’23 in the journal Conservation Science & Practice. This article compared environmental NGOs in terms of their social media strategy across multiple platforms, ranging from TikTok to Facebook, and found several organizations that were influencers, or positive deviates for public reach online. This research was the product of a RAISE award earned by Kim in the summer of 2021.

Chang co-authored two manuscripts related to conservation planning and public outreach. Chang was the lead author in an article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution showing that after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, environmental and climate voices declined markedly. This manuscript received press attention from venues including , , , and . Chang worked with an interdisciplinary team convened as a NIMBioS working group to mathematically model how incorporating information on conservation threats improves landscape planning outcomes; this article was published in .

Chang gave invited seminars to Nanyang Technological University, Asian School of the Environment; Centre for Wildlife Studies, Banglore, India; National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences; and University of Nottingham, Malaysia, Sustainable Environments Research Group.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, delivered the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) invited address “Fast food for thought: what can chicken nuggets tell us about linear algebra?” at the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) in San Francisco on January 4. This honor was recognized at the Prizes and Awards ceremony on January 3. He also gave an hour-long lecture, “A second course in linear algebra: a call for the early introduction of complex numbers,” at the AMS Special Session on Issues, Challenges, and Innovations in Instruction of Linear Algebra on January 5, also at the JMM (a meeting attended by over 5,500). Garcia also co-organized, with Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, the ILAS Special Session on Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory, and its Applications on January 4-5.

On January 11, Garcia gave a talk titled “The quaternionic structure of 2x2 matrix inner functions” at the 2024 Workshop on Schur Analysis and applications to Hypercomplex Analysis, Neural Networks, and Linear Systems held at Chapman University.

Melissa Givens, assistant professor of music, was one of nine musicians who collaborated with Southwestern University Professor of Music John Michael Cooper on a video project in conjunction with the release of three volumes of previously unpublished volumes of music by Florence B. Price on January 1. Givens and Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, gave the world-premiere performance of Price’s “,” a setting of a Langston Hughes text. The three volumes, published by ClarNan Editions and distributed by , are “Twelve Pieces for Piano Solo,” “Seven Songs on Texts of African American Poets (Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Florence Price, and Melvin B. Tolson) (original keys / medium voice)” and “Seven Songs on Texts of African American Poets (transposed for high voice).”

Elizabeth Glater, associate professor of neuroscience, and Charles Taylor, chair and professor of chemistry, with Victor Chai ’23, Tiam Farajzadeh ’23, Yufei Meng ’25, Sokhna Lo ’25 and Tymmaa Asaed ’25, published the paper “” in Scientific Reports in January.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, attended the in San Francisco. The annual conference is the largest meeting of mathematicians in the world. On January 3, Goins organized and moderated a panel titled “What Makes Successful Research Careers.’’ Goins brought several Claremont Colleges students with him as part of his summer program experience: Tesfa Asmara ’24, Louis Burns ’24, Matilda LaFortune SCR ’23, Eli Pregerson HMC ’24 and Melinda Yang ’23.

Goins was featured in a new documentary on African American mathematical scientists. “,” directed by George Csicsery, had its world premiere at the Joint Mathematics Meetings on January 6. The hour-long film “traces the evolution of a culture of Black scholars, scientists and educators in the United States. The film follows the stories of prominent pioneers, showing how the challenges they faced and their triumphs are reflected in the experiences of today’s mid-career Black mathematicians.” Goins is credited in the film as a consulting scholar.

On January 23, Goins gave a virtual colloquium talk at Alabama A&M University on “Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy.”

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, presented the paper “The Legacy of the Institutional Route of the 1990s on the Dominican Feminist Movement Today: NGOization, Beijing, and Collaborating with the State” on January 27 at the 2024 Winter Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) in the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico. Hernández-Medina was also part of the panel “Queering Spaces of Social Action: Integrating Teaching, Research, and Activism for Radical Inclusion” on January 27 at the same SWS conference. She shared her remarks on her trajectory as a scholar-activist who teaches and does research about how marginalized groups are able to influence public policy in Latin America while also being a member of the Dominican feminist movement for 30 years.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, gave a talk on January 3 titled “ChatGPT and New Ethical Considerations for the Mathematics Classroom” at the American Mathematical Society Special Session on Ethics in the Mathematics Classroom that was a part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2024 held in San Francisco. At the same meeting, she gave a second talk on January 6 titled “Oblique Strategies for Classroom Poetry” at the Association for Women in Mathematics Special Session on Mathematics in the Literary Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings. Karaali was also one of two panelists invited to present at the Project NExT Session on Fostering a Growth Mindset in the Classroom (organized by Adam Yassine, visiting assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, and held on January 5) and gave a talk titled “From Growth Mindset to (Re)humanizing Mathematics.”

Karaali participated in the Claremont Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Tune-Up for Spring 2024 and gave a presentation January 11 titled “Using ChatGPT for Fun and for Profit” as part of the Introduction to Generative AI session organized by Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, published the article “” with Zhuo Jing-Schmidt in PLOS One.

Lang participated in the online conference “” organized by the University of Southern California and shared her pedagogical exploration of collaborative grading, focusing on “Peer Evaluation of Student Presentations” on January 26.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, performed as a member of the at three Oregon venues (Port Orford, North Bend and Bandon) and at the Cultural Center of Crescent City, California, in early January. They presented works of Joseph Haydn, Joaquin Turina, Jennifer Higdon and Ludwig van Beethoven. These concerts are part of the of the .

Miriam Merrill, professor of physical education, guest lectured at Hartwick College on January 5. Merrill's session discussed the impact of emotional intelligence on leadership.

Thomas Muzart, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, presented the paper titled “Matrice nature: Repenser la crise d’un point de vue écoféministe et subsaharien avec Léonora Miano” in the panel Représentations francophones de la crise écologique organized by the International Council of Francophone Studies at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia.

Sheila Pinkel, professor emerita of art and art history, has a large mural about the history of the Tongva People exhibited at the Autry Museum beginning in January.

Carolyn Ratteray, associate professor of theatre, performed her one woman show, Both And (A Play ������Ƶ Laughing While Black), at the Wallis Center for Performing Arts from January 13-28.

Monique Saigal Escudero, emerita professor of French, was awarded a proclamation presentation by Pomona Unified School District on January 17.

Prageeta Sharma, Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English, had her Claremont-based photograph and poem “” appear in this most recent Places Journal, a journal focused on public scholarship on architecture, landscape and urbanism.

Sharma’s “Ode to Badminton” appeared on podcast on January 16.

Patricia Smiley, professor emerita of psychological science, published a research paper, “” in Journal of Family Psychology in January. The work is a collaboration with colleagues and students in Claremont and at UC Irvine.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote five opinion pieces: “” (MindMatters, January 2), “” (MindMatters, January 8), “” (MindMatters, January 9), “” (MindMatters, January 15) and “” (MarketWatch, January 22).

�������ٳ�’s latest book , co-authored with Margaret Smith, was published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 13. “Gary and Margaret have hit the ball out of the park. Both amateur and professional investors would be well-rewarded by reading and re-reading The Power of Modern Value Investing” (Brian Nelson, President, Valuentum Securities); “A book about investing that every investor should read” (Ed Yardeni, President & Chief Investment Strategist, Yardeni Research, Inc.).

Sharon Stranford, professor of biology and faculty co-director for the Institute for Inclusive Excellence (IIE), and Malcolm Oliver II, assistant director for academic affairs and interim assistant director for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, presented at the (AAC&U) Annual Conference in Washington, DC (January 17-19). In their presentation they spoke about IIE programming, which emphasizes inclusive teaching, building community and sustained engagement. In particular, they highlighted the New Faculty Cohort (NFC) Program, DEI Faculty Cohorts and the new DEI Faculty Project Pairs Program.

Stef Torralba, visiting assistant professor of English, accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of English and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College to begin fall 2024.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, was elected to the board of directors of Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) USA on January 4. His three-year term will commence this May, during which he will serve as the sole CLTA board member representing a liberal arts college.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, gave a talk January 7 titled “Chinese Food Along the Pacific Rim” to a group of alumni in San Francisco. It was the 21st alumni talk he has given since he arrived at the College in 1983.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, was featured in performances played on the radio show “,” produced by Classical California in partnership with KDFC San Francisco and aired on on December 3. The program excerpted viola da gamba suites by Marin Marais that Bandy self-recorded, edited and produced, as well as live performances of the USC Collegium Musicum in which Bandy played the vielle (medieval fiddle).

The television series , with musical themes by Bear McCreary and musical score by Sparks & Shadows, premiered on Disney+ on December 19 and features Bandy as a yayli tanbur soloist as the theme for the “Lord of the Dead” in episodes 2, 3 and 7. On December 22, 20th Century Studios released the , also featuring Bandy’s solos, on all major streaming platforms.

On December 21, Bandy played baroque double bass in a period-instrument performance of Handel’s Messiah, a joint venture between the and , performed at the Beverly O’Neill Theater in Long Beach and directed by James K. Bass.

Tatiana Basáñez, visiting assistant professor of psychological science, had six research posters accepted for presentation.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, served as moderator at a December 5 closed-door event on the future of U.S. policy toward China sponsored by the and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles.

Boduszyński published an article titled “Can There Ever be Transitional Justice in Iraq” in the winter 2023-2024 edition of the

Boduszyński participated as a lecturer on an on “Diplomacy and Human Rights” in Morocco and Spain. He will partner with ACM/IAU to lead the first ������Ƶ-sponsored Mayterm on Diplomacy and Human Rights in May and June 2024.

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, published two articles: “” in Romance Quarterly and “Los árboles aquellos: Luis Cernuda en Mount Holyoke College” in Muy Verbum.

Pey-Yi Chu, associate professor of history, gave a talk titled “Toward Critical Climate Histories of Eurasia” at the conference “” held at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University from December 8-9.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article “” in The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism on December 27.

Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, assistant professor of environmental analysis, as part of the Latinx Geographies Collective, co-authored a publication with Madelaine Cristina Cahuas, Cristina Faiver-Serna, Yolanda González Mendoza, Diego Martinez-Lugo and Margaret Marietta Ramírez. The paper in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies is titled “.”

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, was invited to give a workshop titled “Conducting Quantitative Analysis of Chinese Construction Grammar Using R” to graduate students at Tianjin Normal University in December.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, gave a talk titled “Political Science” to Japanese students from Wakayama, Japan, through the Stanford/e-Wakayama program.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, performed with Pangea Playback Theatre under the direction of Hannah K. Fox at The International Playback Theatre Network Conference: Roots and Routes of Playback Theatre in Muldersdrift, South Africa. Pangea was sponsored by Dailey Innovations, Inc. and Howard University through their program.

Richard McKirahan, professor of classics and philosophy, was chosen to be a member of the European Society for Ancient Philosophy and to attend its annual meeting.

McKirahan attended the opening ceremony of the “Stage of Ideas” project in the National Conservatory building of Athens. He was a member of the academic committee that discussed and approved the concepts that were implemented for the first installation and will continue to serve when plans are made for future installations. He also taught a three-hour long meeting of a course on Plato at the University of Athens.

McKirahan presented two papers at the University of Venice, one on the Sophists and one on Aristotle. The Sophists paper will be a chapter in a forthcoming book of his in the Ancient Philosophies series published by Routledge, and the Aristotle paper will be published in a collection of works on concepts in ancient philosophy which will be published by Cambridge University Press.

McKirahan participated in a Ph.D. examination at the University of Geneva.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, had an article on “” published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Religion, Culture, and Democracy, as part of a special issue on the work of C.S. Lewis.

McWilliams wrote a book chapter titled “Up in the Air: Flying the Faithless Skies” that appeared in , edited by Micah Watson and Carson Holloway and published by Lexington Books.

McWilliams’ book chapter on “James Ellroy's California” appeared in , edited by Joseph Romance and Darrell A. Hamlin and published by Lexington Books.

Nivia Montenegro, professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, published a detailed article about the exploitation of gay dissident Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, “EXPEDIENTE | Reinaldo Arenas, Emmanuel Carballo y ‘El mundo alucinante’ (documentos y correspondencia) (1968-1981)” in Rialta, the premier digital journal of literary and cultural criticism in Spanish. This article, with accompanying archive of 29 documents, is the result of one year's worth of onsite research at both the Firestone Library of Princeton University and the Nettie Lee Benson Library of University of Texas, Austin. It documents the travails of Arenas with both Cuban government publishing bureaucrats and Mexican editor Carballo of publishing the first edition of El mundo alucinante, one of the most important novels of the so-called Latin American post-boom.

Thomas A. Moore, professor of physics, had a textbook, , published by University Science Books in December. This 591-page textbook introduces upper-level undergraduates to the Standard Model of particle physics, the accepted theoretical description of fundamental physics at the microscopic level (a subject many physicists see first only in graduate school).

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “” in the Astrophysical Journal.

On December 11, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “Cosmological simulations: JWST controversies and future ELT opportunities” at the conference at UCLA. Moreno was one of two theorists invited to make the case to the National Science Foundation and private donors on behalf of the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program.

On December 5, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the in Córdoba, Argentina. Moreno also participated in a panel discussion aimed at seeking funding for astronomers in the Global South.

Thomas Muzart, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, published the article “” in the special issue Queering the City of the academic journal Transatlantica.

Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld, associate professor of English, published “” in Publications of the Modern Language Association.

Larissa Rudova, Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages and professor of German and Russian, participated in the roundtable “Decolonizing Melodrama in Russia: Gender and Ethnicity” at the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) Annual Convention in Philadelphia from November 30-December 2. Rudova also served as a formal discussant on the panel “Russian YouTube is on Fire: Dissent, Dialogue, and Division” at the same convention.

Erin Runions, Nancy J. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature, published “Losing Ground: From Anti-Gang Apocalypticism to Social Dis/Repair” in Lee Edelman and the Study of Religion, edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill and Linn Tonstad and published by Routledge.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “” (MarketWatch, December 12), “” (Fast Company, December 15) and “” (MindMatters, December 15).

Smith was invited to return to the invitation-only Sci Foo Camp, which will be held for the first time in Cambridge, UK, instead of Palo Alto.

Kyle Wilson, assistant professor of economics, published the article in the Review of Network Economics on December 7.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, was invited by the Film and Media Department at UC Berkeley to participate in a colloquium honoring the work of Linda Williams and her pathbreaking book in the field of porn studies, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible." Wynter delivered a talk titled “When the Man Looks,” which examined the emergence of virtual pornography and interactive sex simulators in the 1990s.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, was interviewed about the “Japanese turn” in fine dining in the U.S. and related developments in the contemporary restaurant world for Minxin Pei’s Asian Experts Forum.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, co-authored four poster presentations at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, which was held November 16-19 in San Francisco. Three Pomona cognitive science majors who are research assistants in Abram’s PRIME (Psycholinguistic Research in Memory) laboratory were the primary presenters of their posters: Emma Constable ’26: “A face without a name: How COVID-19 and facial characteristics affect name retrieval”; Aysha Gsibat ’24 and Majo Najas ’24: “Hands in Motion: The Role of Gestures and Self-Adaptors in Emotional Storytelling”; and her two other posters were titled “Laughter is the Best Medicine: The Relationships between Humor, Anxiety, and Working Memory” and “The Communicative Function of Gestures During Emotional Storytelling,” and these were collaborations with colleagues at the University of Florida and Rhodes College, respectively.

Seth Allen, vice president for strategy and dean of admissions and financial aid, served as a panelist for “Admissions Essays in the Age of AI” at the Council of International Schools Global Forum in Dublin on November 17.

Ellie Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, delivered a keynote address titled “In Defense of Sartre’s ‘Woman on a Date’: Erotic Ambivalence and Bad Faith” at the conference on Love and Sexuality at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen on November 13. She also gave a talk at Freie Universität, Berlin, on November 1 as part of the Practical Philosophy Colloquium series.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave a Faculty Lecture to the Pomona community titled “Activating Excellence Through Chemistry.” In this talk, Ball highlighted how his personal and family history has enabled him to facilitate a training ground that leverages students’ strengths and cultivates their identity as scientists.

Ball gave a talk titled “Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)” at Cal Poly Pomona.

Ball received the Downing/Pomona Faculty Exchange Fellowship at Cambridge University, UK. At Cambridge, Ball will work with Matthew Gaunt to understand high-throughput reaction development.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, played Baroque double bass in Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble’s program “,” directed by Preethi de Silva. The performance, held on November 4 at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, California, and co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Consulate General of Germany, marked the 300th anniversary of J. S. Bach’s appointment as Cantor at St. Thomas in Leipzig and featured works by Bach, Telemann and Graupner.

Bandy facilitated, participated in and provided coaching for two Viola de Gamba Society of America events serving the local and national viola da gamba scholarly community: a play-in hosted by musicologists Lindsey Macchiarella (University of Texas at El Paso) and Zoe Weiss (University of Denver) held on November 10 at the (Denver, Colorado) and a day-long workshop with Lisa Terry (Parthenia Consort of Viols, New York) on November 18 (South Pasadena, California) and sponsored by SoCal Viols.

Allan Barr, professor of Chinese, delivered a lecture in Chinese on the topic “Wild Grass or Weeds? Remarks on Matt Turner’s Translation of Lu Xun’s Yecao” at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou on November 8, Hangzhou Normal University on November 10 and Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua on November 13. He also gave a talk at Yulin Normal University in Yulin, Guangxi, on the translation of Chinese literature in the United States on November 25.

Graydon Beeks, professor emeritus of music, presented the paper “Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1749-1789), 4th Bart., as a collector of Handel's music” at the Thirteenth Handel Institute Conference held November 17-19 in London.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was the main guest on the Polish CNN-equivalent news channel Polsat’s on November 2 where he offered context and insights on U.S. foreign policy challenges including the Israel-Gaza and Ukraine wars.

Ralph Bolton ’61, professor emeritus of anthropology, co-authored a publication with Daniel E. Torres, Ines Contreras, Daphne Braden, Leah Dembinski and Maren Vouga. The last three were students at Bates College when they participated in the ������Ƶ Study Abroad Program in Peru in 1973. The paper, in the Revista Peruana de Antropología, is titled “La antropologia aplicada en Puno – El Proyecto Taraco-Chijnaya (1963): Una entrevista con el Ing. Hugo Contreras Quevedo” (“Applied Anthropology in Peru - The Taraco-Chijnaya Project (1963): An Interview with Engineer Hugo Contreras Quevedo”).

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “Tracing Temperature in Ana Merino’s ��ܰ�������ó�� (2010)” at the fall meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), held at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles on November 4.

Gabe Chandler, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, published “” (with Alyssa Burns, Kira Dunham and Ann Marie Carlton) in Environmental Science and Technology. The article was highlighted as the ACS (American Chemical Society) Editors’ Choice on November 30.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a paper titled “Unmaking a mausoleum: Resignification and the material remains of Spain’s authoritarian past” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Toronto on November 18.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, was an invited speaker at the Harvard University Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop on November 28. She and gave a talk on their recently published book (Oxford University Press).

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, and for the 2021 conference of the International Network of Economic Method (INEM).

Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, assistant professor of environmental analysis, served as a panelist for “GIS in Education: A Tool to Increase Social Justice,” as part of the GIS Day Bridges to the Future conference held at Cal Poly Pomona on November 15.

Kouross Esmaeli, visiting assistant professor of media studies, who was a founding board member of , the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, rejoined the association in the past month to help work on the various projects related to the war in Palestine/Israel. These include AMEJA’s and the ongoing work with the to document the killing of (so far 57) journalists in the region.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, with colleagues from Northwest University (Xi’an) published the article “Thermal history of Burgess Shale-type deposits: new insights from the early Cambrian Chengjiang and Qingjiang biotas of South China” in the Journal of Earth Sciences.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, published the book chapter “Model Spaces” in the edited volume .

Garcia gave a talk, “What can chicken nuggets tell us about symmetric functions, positive polynomials, random norms, and AF algebras?” at the CSU Fullerton Mathematics Colloquium on November 17 and at the Claremont Colleges Algebra / Number Theory / Combinatorics Seminar on November 28.

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, delivered three presentations at two virtual national conferences. On November 2, at the fall meeting of the (NORDP), he presented “The Landscape of Research Development at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs): Results from a Pilot Study” with coauthor Jennifer Glass (UMassD), based on a 2021 survey of 87 PUIs. At the 2023 Colleges of Liberal Arts Sponsored Programs () conference on November 8 and 9, he presented the “CLASP 2023 Grants Review” with Krista Campbell (Hamilton), analyzing a new database of 1800 external grants received during FY22-23 by CLASP member institutions; and “Research Development and Sponsored Programs at LACs and other PUIs,” a panel overview of research support contexts and challenges, with Susan Ferrari (Grinnell) and Amy Cuhel-Schuckers (TCNJ).

On November 7, with Pomona staff members Ha Phan and Andy Schuster, Gerstein gave a workshop on post-award grants administration to visiting staff from the , led by Talitha Washington (Clark Atlanta.)

Gerstein was selected to join NORDP Consultants, a collective delivering research infrastructure assistance to minority serving institutions. This initiative is funded by a from the National Science Foundation to Kimberly Eck (Emory). Gerstein also began membership in the CLASP List Advisory Group, where he joins Claremont McKenna College’s Beth Jager.

Elizabeth Glater, associate professor of neuroscience, and her research students presented two posters at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington DC from November 10-13. Sokhna Lo ’25 and Tymmaa Asaed ’25 presented “The AWC neuron is required for attraction to 1-butanol in Caenorhabditis ����𲵲��Բ�.” Jeremy Callaway ’24, Taryn Kaneko ’24 and Catie Kaneshiro ’24 presented “Modeling a rare genetic disease in Caenorhabditis ����𲵲��Բ�.”

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, gave a colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Irvine on November 30. The talk was titled “.”

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, published the chapter “The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement” in the edited volume (Springer, editors Inés M. Pousadela and Simone R. Bohn) in November.

Hernández-Medina chaired the session “La crisis identitaria en República Dominicana y sus consecuencias sociopolíticas en la actualidad” (“Identity Crisis in the Dominican Republic and its Socio-political Consequences Today”) with Ruth Pión, co-founder of Junta de Prietas, the most important decolonial feminist collective in the Dominican Republic. The session took place virtually on November 18 at the conference .

On November 28, Hernández-Medina was one of the keynote speakers at the convened by the Gender Studies Center at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the Dominican Republic. She presented virtually on “El Derecho a una Vida Completa: La Lucha del Movimiento Feminista Dominicano” (“The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement”) based on the book chapter mentioned above.

Jeff Hing, assistant director for communications multimedia, and Eric Melgosa, director of creative content, collaborated on a ������Ƶ Magazine cover that was selected by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for the 2022-23 Best of District VII, which includes Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah. The featured Hing’s photograph of Ron Nemo, Pomona’s longtime manager of grounds and landscaping, holding coast live oak acorns in the wake of the 2022 storm that felled numerous old campus trees. In addition, Melgosa and editor Robyn Norwood led an Office of Communications effort that was recognized among the Best of District VII for alumni/general interest magazines printed twice a year by a four-year college or university (PCM typically publishes three times a year but printed two issues in 2022). The magazine earlier received a 2023 CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Award in the category of writing/profile (less than 1,000 words) for the comic “Our Bird’s Beginnings,” which also earned district honors.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, published a joint book review of Proving It Her Way: Emmy Noether, a Life in Mathematics, by David E. Rowe and Mechthild Koreuber, and Emmy Noether: Mathematician Extraordinaire, by David E. Rowe, in the newsletter of Association for Women in Mathematics.

Karaali gave the 23rd Annual Kenneth C. Schraut Memorial Lecture on November 4 during the at the University of Dayton, in Dayton, Ohio. Her talk was titled “Languages, Alphabets, and Group Theory.”

Karaali ran a session titled “Developing a Social Justice STEM Curriculum: The First Steps” on November 3 at the 2023 American Association of Colleges and Universities in Virginia. She also facilitated a workshop, together with Ileana Vasu of Holyoke Community College, Geillan Aly of Compassionate Math, and Jonas D’Andrea of Westminster University titled “Equity in the Moment” that same day.

Nina J. Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, participated in the California Islands Symposium in Ventura, California. She was moderator of the session on education and presented the paper “Sowing Seeds of Futures in Conservation Through Participation in Restoration Work on Anacapa Island.” In this study Karnovsky evaluated the legacy of a field trip in the lives of students in her advanced animal ecology classes from 2017 and 2021.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, organized a panel presentation titled “A usage-based constructionist approach to CSL acquisition and pedagogy” at the 2023 ACTFL Annual Convention in November. Lang delivered a talk titled “Beyond the textbook: Corpus-informed pedagogy across proficiency levels.” Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, also contributed to the panel by delivering a presentation.

�����Բ�’s co-authored article, titled “Gendered social address in China’s convergence culture: The case of ��ĕ����ǚ (beautiful woman),” was published in the latest in China Information.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, and Aron Kallay, lecturer in music, are featured on the album “” that dropped November 3 on Microfest Records. They present the premiere recording of Kurt Rohde’s Altromondo at one piano and play melodicas, harmonicas, triangle, Chinese paper accordions and antique cymbals.

Alexandra Lippman, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, co-curated and organized a sound works installation and performance, “,” at the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) annual meeting in Toronto from November 15-19. She exhibited her radio documentary “Cumbia on Broadway: Mexican Popular Music Industry in Los Angeles” and deejayed the post-installation reception which also featured performances by Farzaneh Hemmasi, Jay Hammond, Stefan Helmreich, Carmen Jarrín, David Novak, and the Sound Braid Collective. Lippman participated in a roundtable, “Chatting ������Ƶ Chat GPT,” at the AAA’s annual meeting where she spoke about the surprising uses of paper generator software in the 1990s and 2000s and the need to historicize Chat GPT and AI more broadly.

Sara Masland, associate professor of psychological science, published a paper titled “” in Journal of Personality Disorders. Co-authors included Dr. Lois Choi-Kain of Harvard Medical School (first author) and Dr. Ellen Finch of Harvard University.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, delivered the 2023 Vik-Bailey Lecture in American Politics at Harvard University on November 9. The title of her lecture was “A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought.” Earlier in the month, McWilliams delivered this lecture at Mercer University's McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles, where she also led a seminar on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

On November 15, McWilliams gave a talk titled “Party at Kesey's: The Merry Pranksters, The Hells Angels, and the Degeneration of American Politics” as part of the Special Collections Research Fellows Speaker Series at the University of Oregon.

On November 28, McWilliams led a seminar on Chita Banerjee Divakaruni’s “The Word Love” at Claremont McKenna College.

McWilliams chaired a panel at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. The panel was held in celebration of the publication of the 50th anniversary edition of The Idea of Fraternity in America, which was written by her father, Wilson Carey McWilliams. McWilliams wrote the introduction to the book’s new edition.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled ” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Moreno also published an article titled “” in the same journal.

Zvezdana Ostojic, visiting assistant professor of French, presented a paper titled “Passages de l’auteur: Victor Hugo et la (pi)œuvre destructrice” at the 48th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference in Baltimore on November 10.

Mary Paster, professor of linguistics and cognitive science, published an article titled “Akan morphological 'reversal' in historical context” in The Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press,editors Darya Kavitskaya and Alan C.L. Yu).

Lina Patel, lecturer in theatre, received a workshop of her new play Sick Girl or, Don’t Hate Me ’Cuz I’m Pretty at on November 4. Her short play Karma opened at in Atwater Village on November 30.

William Peterson, professor emeritus of music and College organist, is a co-author of a book, Political Dreams and Musical Themes in the 1848-1922 Formation of Czechoslovakia: Interaction of National and Global Forces, by James W. Peterson and William J. Peterson, published by Lexington Books.

Sheila Pinkel, professor emerita of art and art history, currently has large artwork on prominent display at MoMA New York City.

Frances Pohl, professor emerita of art history, published the fifth edition of her textbook . This edition has been thoroughly revised and contains a greater percentage of color plates than earlier editions.

Meranda Roberts (citizen of the Yerington Paiute Tribe), visiting professor of art history and guest curator at the Benton Museum of Art, has been appointed to the inaugural committee of scholars.

Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics, gave three community talks on redistricting and good governance recommendations for the Los Angeles City Council related to her work with the . These include a panel discussion at the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, a presentation at Mt. San Antonio Gardens, and a conversation with City Council President Paul Krekorian for the LA Business Council.

Sadhwani provided commentary to and on the prevalence of Indian American candidates running for president and to and on the impact of the Israel-Gaza conflict on the California Senate race.

Gibb Schreffler, associate professor of music, published the article “” in the Journal of the Society for American Music.

Prageeta Sharma, Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English, was featured on the cover and had five poems in the November/December issue of American Poetry Review.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote four opinion pieces: “” (MindMatters, November 6), “” (MindMatters, November 8), “” (MindMatters, November 10) and “” (Marketwatch, November 28).

�������ٳ�’s book, , was the lead review in “” in Notices of the American Mathematical Society: “Through the lenses of disinformation, data torturing, and data mining, this book leads the reader through a history of instances where the public doubts the facts….Distrust is filled to the brim with examples of those who reject scientific evidence.”

Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology, organized the 2023 Southwestern Organismal Biology conference held at Harvey Mudd College on November 4. Participants represented over 25 colleges and universities from the southwestern region of the United States.

Kyle Wilson, assistant professor of economics, published the article “” in the Review of Industrial Organization on November 17.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, delivered a presentation titled “N-gram for Chinese Teaching” at the 2023 conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The presentation utilized Chinese as an example to illustrate the creation of a systematic, data-driven foreign language pedagogy based on N-gram language models.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, published “Understanding World War II Japan, 1940–1945” in the fall 2023 issue of Education ������Ƶ Asia. Based on his three decades of research on this topic, this article offers what the editors of this journal describe as “an accessible and fascinating article for instructors and students that draws heavily on a wide range of sources including government propaganda efforts and diaries of Japanese civilians.”

Megan Zirnstein, assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, co-authored a poster presentation at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, along with Sarah Wang ’23 and Feiya Suo, a past ������Ƶ language resident. The poster, titled “Brewing bilingualism: Inducing bilingual language regulation changes via sound immersion during reading,” was an extension of Wang’s senior thesis and Suo’s independent study project in the Cognitive Science program, both aimed at understanding the effects of naturalistic language immersion on Mandarin reading in Southern California.

Jack Abecassis, Edwin Sexton & Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Languages Professor, delivered a plenary lecture, “Qu’est-ce que c’est que ‘croire’ pour Montaigne?” (What does belief mean to Montaigne?) at the Colloquium organized by the Atelier Montaigne, La Société des Amis de Montaigne, and Le Centre Montaigne, University of Bordeaux, France, from October 11-12.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, served on the faculty at Viol Sphere 2, the 24th annual workshop sponsored by the Viola da Gamba Society of Southern Arizona (chapter, VdGSA) and held October 12-16 at the Biosphere 2 conference center in Oracle, Arizona. Bandy co-programmed and performed in a faculty recital and taught 11 classes on repertoire by Byrd, Weelkes, Ward, Gibbons, Coprario, Handl (Gallus) and more, in collaboration with faculty from across the U.S., including members of Parthenia Viol Consort, the Newberry Consort, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Quicksilver and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra.

After co-organizing a day-long local workshop for SoCal Viols (South Pasadena, California) on October 21, as a founder and artistic director of the ensemble , Bandy programmed, supplied program notes, and played viola da gamba in a concert of highly specialized French Baroque repertoire by Marin Marais and Louis Couperin, presented on October 22 in ������Ƶ’s Bridges Hall of Music and featuring violists da gamba Eva Lymenstull and Eric Tinkerhess and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was an invited speaker at the October 3-4  where he appeared on a panel to discuss accountability in Ukraine alongside Austrian Federal Minister of Justice .

The Polish news magazine Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (roughly equivalent to the New York Times Magazine in the U.S.) published a  with Boduszyński about current U.S. foreign policy challenges, including Ukraine and Israel/Gaza.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, guest lectured at the University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Visual Arts (IVA) department on the topic of risk and discomfort October 10.

Champi performed in a reconstruction of Speaking Ill of the Dead (2006), choreographed by Robert Moses, and Possession (1994), choreographed by Doug Varone, at Meany Center for the Performing Arts in Seattle from October 12-15.

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations, delivered a paper, “Human, Animal, Cannibal:  Radical Hope in an Age of Destruction,” on the fiction of Lu Xun and Zhang Ailing at the annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association meeting. She participated in workshops on how to make the humanities and the teaching and learning of languages relevant in the age of ChatGPT.

Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, was named the 2023 recipient of ������Ƶ’s Faculty Alumni Service Award. Announced this year at the new faculty dinner hosted by the Office of Alumni and Family Engagement, this award honors faculty “in recognition of their exemplary service to the alumni association over a period of years.”

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a virtual talk titled “Domestic Spanish handbooks: Language and Labor in the American home” at the University of Bern (Switzerland) on October 16.

Virginie A. Duzer, professor and chair of Romance languages and literatures, published “D’une carte postale contant fleurette” in the latest issue of the journal for which a postcard from her collection was chosen as the cover image.

Joanna L. Dyl, visiting assistant professor of environmental analysis, presented a paper titled “Power, Water, Sand: Conflicts and Contradictions at California’s Coastal Power Plants” at the Western History Association Annual Conference on October 26 in Los Angeles.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, published the article “” in the Journal of the Geological Society (London).

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was appointed to the editorial board of the journal Complex Analysis and Operator Theory. He was also re-appointed to the human resources board of the American Institute of Mathematics, which is based at Caltech.

Garcia published the paper “The error term in the truncated Perron formula for the logarithm of an L-function” (with Jeffrey Lagarias and Ethan Simpson Lee) in the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. He also published the editorial “A Word From…” in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, visited the University of South Carolina to give the James L. Solomon Lecture on October 16. This annual series honors James L. Solomon Jr., one of the first three Black students to integrate the university in 1963 and the first African American student in the graduate program in mathematics. Goins gave a public address titled “Growing MADDER: Building the ‘Mathematicians of the African Diaspora Database's Ensemble of Researchers.’” Earlier that day, Goins gave a talk in the USC Mathematics Department Discrete Math and Combinatorics Seminar titled “Monodromy Groups of Belyi Lattes Maps.” The student newspaper covered Goins’ lecture.

On October 21-22, Goins hosted a workshop at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), a research institute at UCLA.  was a two-day intensive program which showcased number theory broadly interpreted at the introductory level. A goal of the program was to expose Southern California students traditionally underrepresented in number theory to the beauty of the subject. There were 20 students and faculty in attendance, including Posse scholar Lawrence Stampino-Strain ’26.

On October 27, Goins visited California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt to give the . The Kieval lecture series includes topics on popular and/or broad aspects of mathematics attractive to undergraduates and the public. Goins gave a public address titled “Distance Makes the Math Grow Deeper: Rational Distance Sets, Nate Dean, and Me.” Earlier that day, Goins gave a colloquium talk at Cal Poly Humboldt on “Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy.”

George L. Gorse, Viola Horton Professor of Art History, gave a paper on “Genoa in Triumph: Transformation of a Medieval to Renaissance City” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Baltimore on October 29.  Baltimore is “sister city” to Genoa, and this paper ended with comparison of these port cities and transformations of their harbor fronts during the 1980s and ’90s.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, gave a virtual keynote address titled “İnsancıl Matematik Eğitimi’ (Teaching Mathematics Humanistically, in Turkish) at the held in Ankara, Turkey, from October 28-30.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing and professor of English, had his 13th novel Brooklyn Crime Novel published by ECCO on October 3, and it was widely reviewed in the national press.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, led a seminar for the political science department at Williams College on October 25. The class focused on her book The American Road Trip and American Political Thought as well as broader issues relating to interpretive and theoretical methods in political science.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Moreno delivered colloquia titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the University of California, San Diego, the Flatiron Institute, the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University.

On October 28, Moreno facilitated a three-hour faculty workshop on collective pedagogy and mentoring at Santa Barbara City College.

Joanne Randa Nucho, associate professor of anthropology, gave a keynote lecture titled “After the Grid: Electricity, Fragmentation, and Renewable Energy in Lebanon in the post 2019 era” (co-authored with Danielle Fheili) at the conference at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, gave a keynote address titled “Bias as a barrier to climate justice: Intersecting challenges and opportunities for psychology” at the annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in Madison, Wisconsin.

Pearson and Corinne Tsai ’20 were named recipients of the 2023 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association), awarded annually for the best paper or article of the year on intercultural or international relations, for their article “Building Diverse Climate Coalitions: The Pitfalls and Promise of Equity and Identity-Based Messaging.”

Pearson and Tsai were invited to present research on how to communicate effectively about climate change inequities to the Sustainable States Network, a network of regional and state government officials representing 65 million U.S. residents and 2,500 municipalities in 14 U.S. states overseeing local and state climate mitigation and resilience programs.

Kathy E. Quispe, assistant director of international student & scholar services, co-presented a session titled “Orientation 101: Creating an Orientation that Caters to Your Community” at the 2023 NAFSA Region XII Conference in Honolulu on October 18. She covered planning, content, activities and support needed to create a positive orientation experience for international students using the model she has developed at ������Ƶ.

Hans J. Rindisbacher, professor of German, published a review of Stéphane Maffli’s Migrationsliteratur aus der Schweiz. Beat Sterchi, Franco Supino, Aglaja Veteranyi, Melinda Nadj Abonji und Ilma Rakusa in Monatshefte.

Rindisbacher gave a paper on the Black American author Vincent O. Carter, who lived in Bern, Switzerland (Rindisbacher’s hometown), for 30 years of his life, titled “Negotiating Whiteness in a Frame Narration: Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book” at the 2023 PAMLA Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, from October 26-29.

Hector Sambolin, Jr., associate dean for academic affairs, academic success and assessment in ������Ƶ’s Institute for Inclusive Excellence (IIE), and Sara Hollar, director of the 7C Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), cohosted and moderated a workshop titled “Inclusive Teaching Faculty Panel: How Do We Know It's Working?” In the panel discussion, faculty members from the Claremont Colleges shared assessment projects they’ve carried out. The event marked the beginning of a series of workshops by the CTL and IIE that will begin in Spring 2024, focusing on the art of authentically assessing one’s own teaching.

Gibb Schreffler, associate professor of music, collaborated with Revell Carr (University of Kentucky) to present a lecture-demonstration titled “Sea Chantey Myths and Misconceptions in the Wake of #ShantyTok” at the  in Ottawa, Canada.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, gave a paper, “Dance in Immigrant and Ethnic Communities in the United States,” on Zoom for the Greek Anthropology Society’s conference on Dance in the Diaspora on October 20 at the University of Ioannina.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote two opinion pieces: “”&�Բ�����;(MindMatters, October 23) and “”&�Բ�����;(MindMatters, October 27).

�������ٳ�’s book  was reviewed by Jonathan Cowie for Concatenation (“It is whole-heartedly recommended for scientists who work analysing large data sets”) and Keith Raymond Harris for  (“vivid, important, and often amusing real-world examples…of several inter-related threats to the credibility of science”).

Luis Edward Tenorio, visiting assistant professor of sociology, organized and hosted two speaker series for Introduction to Sociology and Qualitative Research Methods. The series for Qualitative Research Methods featured Isabel García Valdivia ’14, postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, on the experiences of illegality in late adulthood.

Friederike von Schwerin-High, professor of German, published the review article “” in The European Legacy.

Von Schwerin-High presented a talk at the 120th Annual PAMLA Conference (Portland, Oregon) titled “Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp’s translation of Ijoma Mangold’s literary memoir The German Crocodile” on October 27.

Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology, published the article “” in Behavioural Brain Research.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, was quoted in “,” which appeared on the NBC News website.

Yamashita delivered “The ‘Japanese Turn’ in the Art, Architecture and Cuisine of Europe and the United States, 1860–2020” in the Claremont Discourse Lecture Series to a standing-room-only crowd in the Founders Room in Honnold Library on October 26. The lecture argued that the Japanese culinary influence on fine dining in the United States between 1980 and 2020 was comparable to the Japanese influence in the art and architecture worlds in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, presented her research paper virtually at the conference Affective Intermediality: Cinema between Media, Sensation and Reality held in Europe. Her co-authored paper discusses contemporary Chinese cinema and cross-cultural communication in the 1980s.

Jack Abecassis, Edwin Sexton & Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Languages Professor, delivered a plenary talk, “Dr. Hesiod, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Perses-the-bomb,” at the “’Eclogues of Desire’: Cultural Myths of the Golden Age” conference at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, is the recipient of a two-year for $189,661 to research “Noncommutative Geometry and Topology of Quantum Metrics” and support undergraduate research in mathematics. The start date of the award (number 2316892) was September 1.

Tricia Avant, academic coordinator and gallery manager of art, participated in an exhibition at the University of La Verne’s Harris Gallery. Curated by Martin Durazo, the exhibition is part of the seventh SUR:biennial and will be on view from September 5 until October 12.

Allan Barr, professor of Chinese, presented a paper, “From La Chine en Dix Mots to China in Ten Words: ‘Trextuality’ in a contemporary Chinese classic,” at the conference “Trextuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translated and Multilingual Texts” from September 7-9 at University of Turku, Finland.

Barr gave an invited talk, “Translating from Chinese: Challenges and Rewards,” at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on September 26.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, performed as harpsichordist with his Cornucopian Baroque Ensemble colleagues—violinist Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music; bassoonist Carolyn Beck, lecturer in music; theorbist Jason Yoshida, lecturer in music; Sherrill Herring, music department general manager of music facilities; oboist Aki Nishiguchi; and cellist Roger Lebow—in a concert of music by Boismortier, Geminiani and Telemann on September 24 in Bridges Hall of Music.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, participated in a workshop titled “” at Miami Dade College in Florida.

Boduszyński spoke at the European Union Center of California about his work as an appointee at the Pentagon during 2022-2023 in a lecture titled “”

Ralph Bolton ’61, emeritus professor of anthropology, gave a public lecture on September 20 at the San Agustin National University in Arequipa, Peru, at the invitation of the Professional School of Anthropology. The lecture was titled “Remembranzas de Jorge A. Flores Ochoa: JAFO y yo, vidas paralelas, dos caminos en la etnografia andina” (Memories of Jorge A. Flores Ochoa: JAFO and me, parallel lives, two paths in Andean ethnography). The lecture was based on the lead article by Bolton in a book published by the Municipality of Cuzco, Peru, in 2022.

Bolton attended the 60th anniversary of the Centro Poblado de Chijnaya, the community he co-founded as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1963. On this occasion he received from the mayor of Chijnaya the “Medal of the City.” Bolton joined the six surviving founding pioneers (ranging in age from 90 to 106) to celebrate this important milestone in the life of this Quechua-speaking community on the Altiplano. He also visited the new headquarters in Pucara, Peru, of the applied anthropology organization that he co-founded, the Pro-DIA Association which works on development projects in 41 highland communities.

Anthony Clark, assistant professor of computer science, published an abstract, “Creating Dynamic Simulation Environments With Unreal Engine 5,” at the Southern California Robotics Symposium on September 14. The article included five student authors, Daisy Abbott ’25, Anjali Nuggehalli ’26, Francisco Morales Puente ’26, Chau Vu ’26 and Ella Zhu ’26.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a talk titled “Spain’s Valle de Cuelgamuros: The limits and possibilities of monumental resignification” at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid on September 8.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article ““ in the Journal of Contextual Economics on September 12. The article was co-authored with Elias van Emmerick ’21.

Dold published the article “” in Constitutional Political Economy on September 15.

Joanna L. Dyl, visiting assistant professor of environmental analysis, was a guest on the podcast for an episode on the history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, published a paper (with Visiting Assistant Professor Ángel Chávez and Jackson Hurley ’23), “.”

Garcia participated in a panel discussion on “Applying and Interviewing for Jobs in Academia” at the University of Arizona (virtual) on September 26.

Melissa Givens, assistant professor of music, is a member of the Grammy®-winning choral ensemble Conspirare, whose 15th major label recording was released by Delos Music on September 8. features music by composers old and new, including the recorded premiere of Margaret Bonds’ “Joy” and the premiere of Alex Berko’s Sacred Place and Shara Nova’s “The House of Belonging.” Conspirare is joined on the album by the celebrated Mirò Quartet. It is available on all streaming platforms and everywhere music is sold.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, was part of the Women Union’s faculty panel about the movie “Barbie” on September 21 along with Assistant Professor of Media Studies Ryan Engley and Professor of Politics Amanda Hollis-Brusky. The conversation included dozens of 5C students, faculty and staff in a lively discussion on the cultural phenomenon associated with the movie as analyzed in the consortium’s newspaper.

Malkiat S. Johal, professor of chemistry, published the paper “Ex Vivo Drug Screening Assay with Artificial Membranes: Characterizing Cholesterol Desorbing Competencies of Beta-Cyclodextrins” in Langmuir. The paper was co-authored by Jacob Al-Husseini ’22, Chris Wang ’25, Ethan Fong ’25, Joseph Ha, Meenakshi Upreti and Peter Chiarelli.

Nina J. Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, attended the 11th International Penguin Congress held September 4-9 in Viña del Mar, Chile. She presented the poster “The fish component of Adélie, Gentoo and Chinstrap penguin diets breeding on two islands in the South Shetland Archipelago.”

Jade Star Lackey, professor of geology, presented “Understanding Oxygen Isotopes in Cordilleran Batholiths: A 190 Million Year, Top-to-Bottom Perspective from the Sierra Nevada, USA” at the 10th Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites in Baveno, Italy, from September 10-16.

Lackey was elected to the management board of the Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry and Volcanology division of the Geological Society of America. This is a four-year succession of appointments as second vice chair, first vice chair, chair and past chair of the MPGV board.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, performed in a chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at series in Santa Monica on September 23. The 2023-24 Jacaranda Music season is titled Planet Schoenberg, celebrating the works and influence of Arnold Schoenberg on the musical world.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, moderated a post-show panel for featuring the artist-activist children of Pilipinx nurses, Frances Sedayao, Jo Cruz (aka love/speak) and Joshua Icban, whose stories informed the performance at ODC Theater on Ramaytush/Ohlone land September 24.

Lu received an emerging for Los Angeles County funded by the California Arts Council and administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) for her work with LA Playback Theatre Company.

Richard McKirahan, Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and professor of philosophy, attended a conference in Perugia, Italy, in honor of the 85th birthday of Livio Rossetti (emeritus professor at the University of Perugia). At Rossetti's request, McKirahan gave a half-hour presentation on Rosseti’s new book Ripensare I Presocratici (Re-thinking the Presocratics).

McKirahan attended a conference in Ascea, Italy, the 2023 meeting of the biennial conference “Eleatica” that celebrates the ancient philosophers associated with Elea, a city that is now an archaeological site located next door to the town of Ascea. Four years ago, he was the principal speaker at the conference and gave three lectures in Italian. His lectures were published this year in the volume Aristotle and the Eleatics, edited by M. Pulpito and B. Berruecos Frank, Academia Press. The book is a volume in the series Eleatica, and it contains the lectures plus comments by several scholars who were present at the conference and his replies to their comments.

McKirahan accepted invitations to give lectures in Venice and in Paris in the next few months.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, was a featured Constitution Day panelist at the Claremont McKenna College Athenaeum on September 19; the panel was on the topic of “The Role of Citizens in the U.S. Constitution.”

On September 24, McWilliams was the featured guest on The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast, a biweekly podcast dedicated to American history, historical thinking and the role of history in our everyday lives, hosted by historian John Fea.

McWilliams participated as a reader in the annual Moby Dick read-a-thon held at Herman Melville’s estate Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, spoke to about the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries and controversies.

Moreno delivered a colloquium titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o Latina/o studies, was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator for the University Supervisor Institutes at California State University, Los Angeles on September 29. The Institutes are geared toward increasing the quality and opportunities for enacting social justice pedagogies in teacher education.

Frank Pericolosi, professor of physical education and head baseball coach, was elected as chair of the NCAA Division III National Baseball Committee for 2023-2024. This is his fourth term as the chair of the national committee.

Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics, received the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Civic Engagement Section. She was also the recipient of the Alan Rosenthal Prize from APSA’s Legislative Studies Section for her co-authored study “Social Lobbying,” recognizing work that can be applied to strengthening the practices of representative democracy.

Sadhwani provided commentary in a for her efforts to develop governance reform recommendations for the city of Los Angeles. She also presented on a panel at a Harvard Law School convening of scholars and voting rights experts titled “Race, Reform, and Multiracial Democracy.”

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, gave the presentation “My Hidden Childhood in WWII Occupied France” at Bonjour Books in Kensington, Maryland (September 3), Jackie Abrams Agency in Arlington, Virginia (September 7), Café de Virginie in Arlington, Virginia (September 8), Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C. (September 9 and 10), Women’s Club in Arlington, Virginia (September 11) and Rotary Club in Claremont, California (September 15).

Hector L. Sambolin, Jr., associate dean for academic success and assessment, presented at the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD) 13th Annual Dean’s Institute on “Generative AI and Academic Success: Moving Forward” on September 26. He discussed strategies for leveraging generative AI technology to support student success initiatives and optimize outcomes as well as provided insights into the promises and pitfalls and proposed an ethical framework to guide its implementation on college campuses.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, edited and contributed chapters to Dance in the Persianate World: Aesthetics, Histories, Practices (Mazda Publishers, 2023), the first comprehensive scholarly book on dance of all genres in the Persianate or Iranian world.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “” (Salon, September 1); “” (MarketWatch, September 19); and “” (Mind Matters, September 25).

�������ٳ�’s on NYU Professor Vasant Dhar's Brave New World was posted on September 21. Professor Dhar: “It came out very well. I don’t think I’ve laughed as much on any episode!”

Several of �������ٳ�’s books by IEEE Fellow W. A. Gardner: “I think of Gary as the modern-day equivalent of Darrell Huff, the author of the classic text How to Lie with Statistics.”

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, participated in an invited roundtable discussion on AI and language teaching for the International Symposium on Intermediated and Advanced Level Chinese Education on September 15. The symposium was organized by the U.S. Chinese Language Teachers Association and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, was interviewed for an NBC story on the omakase format common these days not only at sushi bars but also at other types of Japanese restaurants.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, had her book review accepted for publication in the Journal of Asian Studies, the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, which is the biggest professional organization in Asian Studies in North America. Her review discusses the book Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture, authored by Anne E. McLaren.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave two invited research talks at the 2023 American Chemical Society (ACS) national fall meeting in San Francisco. One talk–hosted by Organic Syntheses and the Division of Organic Chemistry–featured a symposium highlighting leaders in organic chemistry research at PUIs. The second talk was at another symposium focused on new organometallic methods using earth-abundant metals. Both talks featured the work of Pomona students, Robbins Postdoctoral scholar Ryan Cammarota, and collaborators.

Ball gave a talk titled “Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)” at Rice University’s Department of Chemistry and the 23rd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) and the 9th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies (ISoFT) in Québec City.

Ball published a paper in Canadian Journal of Chemistry titled “.” The paper is a collaboration with the research group of Jennifer Love at the University of Calgary.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, published the chapter “‘Im Himmel und auf Erden’: Geometry, Alchemy, and Rosicrucian Symbol in Buxtehude’s Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab’ (BuxWV 38)” in an edited volume titled (University of Rochester Press; Eastman Studies in Music), edited by Marjorie Roth and Leonard George. Bandy’s chapter reveals an array of 17th-century Rosicrucian textual and numerical tropes in a setting of Psalm 73 by Dieterich Buxtehude, close examination of which elucidates Buxtehude’s compositional process while challenging modern (assumed) boundaries between 17th-century occult philosophy and Lutheran musical orthodoxy.

From August 6–12, Bandy served on viola da gamba faculty at the Viols West workshop, organized by the Pacifica Chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA) and held at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he taught classes handling viola da gamba articulation techniques, music from the court of Rudolf II, and rhetoric in motets by Cristóbal de Morales.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was a guest on the alongside former ambassador Prudence Bushnell to discuss diplomacy and security on the 25th anniversary of the bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam.

Boduszyński published a peer-reviewed book chapter with former student Calla Li ’22 titled “” in Geopolitical Turmoil in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Hall Gardner (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article ““ in Fiscal Studies on August 29.

Dold appeared on the podcast ePODstemology to discuss the question “” on August 14.

Anne Dwyer, associate professor of German and Russian, presented her work at the “Archaists and Innovators” Symposium at Princeton University from August 24-25. Her paper was titled “Traces, Not Monuments: Mediated Authorship in Shklovsky's Oriental Prose.”

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, and colleagues from Yale and the University of Chicago published the article “” in the journal Geology Today.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics, gave the Hans Schneider ILAS Lecture at the 34th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, which took place July 31-August 4. The talk was titled, “What can chicken nuggets tell us about symmetric functions, positive polynomials, random norms, and AF algebras?”

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, with colleagues from Bryn Mawr College, Seattle University, University of Southern Indiana and UMass Dartmouth, received an 18-month, $100,000 from the Office of the Director/Office of Integrative Activities of the National Science Foundation.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, successfully completed another summer of (Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience). This eight-week summer residential program, running from June 11 through August 5, hosted 20 undergraduate students, five graduate students and five faculty to conduct research in algebraic geometry and number theory. The entire cohort traveled to Tampa, Florida, at the end of the summer to attend the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) , where two of the five research groups won honorable mention for best . Arsh Chhabra ’25, Xuehuai He ’25 and Melinda Yang ’25 received the accolades for their work with Goins on “Adinkras as Origami.”

Goins was elected as chairman of the board of directors for the (AoPSI), a non-profit organization which seeks to help underserved students find a realistic pathway towards becoming scientists, mathematicians, engineers and programmers. The organization oversees (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics), a series of experiences for students in grades 6-12 which includes a sixth-grade summer program in Los Angeles and New York City and a seventh-grade residential summer program on college campuses. Goins will assume responsibilities as board chair on February 1, 2024.

Beth A. Hubbard, assistant director, gift planning, earned the Certified Specialist in Planned Giving (CSPG^CM) designation through the American Institute for Philanthropic Studies at California State University Long Beach Research Foundation.

Hubbard was admitted to the MA in Education program at Claremont Graduate University. Hubbard's concentration is educational evaluation and data analysis, along with two semesters through CGU’s School of Education that will result in an Allies of Dreamers graduate-level certificate. The Allies of Dreamers Certificate Program is the first of its kind nationally and provides the historical context, theoretical framework and specific knowledge to offer mentorship and advocacy for Dreamers and other undocumented students.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, presented the paper “South Polar Skua Reproductive Success Breeding on the Antarctic Peninsula and the Antarctic Silverfish Component of their Diets” at the XIII SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) biology meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. This paper was co-authored by Mimi Starr ’15 and Wayne Trivelpiece.

Mike Kuehlwein, George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of Economics, had an article co-authored with Tahir Andrabi, Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics, titled “Information and Price Convergence: Government Telegraphs in British India” published in the Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Jade Star Lackey, professor of geology, co-authored “Magmatic surge requires two-stage model for the Laramide orogeny” in Nature Communications with colleagues from CSU Northridge and University of Vermont.

Lackey co-convened the session “Crystal to crustal perspectives on mush systems and volcanic-plutonic connections” at the V.M. Goldschmidt Conference from July 9–14 in Lyon, France.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, completed the Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program workshop in Montana on August 21.

Le was interviewed by the for an article about Japan’s response to an aging and dying population.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, continued her work as a faculty member of the at Colgate University through the first week of August where she coached numerous chamber music groups. On August 5, she performed Cécile Chaminade’s piano trio as part of the .

Lee was a guest artist at the Garth Newel Music Center, Virginia, performing on and . These concerts included the music of Schubert, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Gershwin and Gounod for piano four-hands, two pianos, and eight-hand/two piano arrangements.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy E. Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing, published “A Neighborhood, Authored” in the August 21 issue of The New Yorker.

Victoria Sancho Lobis, associate professor of art history and Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director, Benton Museum of Art, was invited to offer a course through the 92nd Street Y in New York on Dutch and Flemish drawings of the early modern period.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, taught workshops on “The Philosophical Origins of the Declaration of Independence” and “The Debate Over the Bill of Rights” during the first week of August at the New York Historical Society as part of the 2023 We The Educators Cohort Program. The program, which is sponsored by Civic Spirit and the Jack Miller Center, brings together middle- and high-school teachers from around the country to discuss and promote civic education in the United States.

McWilliams published “,” an article on the work of political philosopher Danielle Allen, in Polity and “” in the Ford Forum.

On August 31, McWilliams was elected vice president/president-elect of the American political thought section of the American Political Science Association. McWilliams will serve a two-year term as vice-president, followed by a two-year term as president of the group.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

On August 29, Moreno delivered a colloquium titled “” at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dan O’Leary, Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, presented a talk titled “3D-Printed Molecular Orbitals and Transition State Structures for a First-Semester Organic Chemistry Course” at the American Chemical Society Fall 2023 Meeting, which took place August 13-17 in San Francisco. Students from his 3D Orbitals in Chemistry Pedagogy independent research course, including Christabel Akowuah ’25, Tymmaa Asaed ’25, Vaughn Brown ’25, Kendrick Cua ’25, Hiwot Endeshaw ’25, Elizabeth Giwa ’25, Jaylyn Gonzalez ’25, Aysha Gsibat ’24, Sokhna Lo ’25, Santiago Serrano ’25 and Haddi Sise ’25, presented three posters on this topic at the meeting.

Lina Patel, lecturer in theatre, workshopped her new play “Belonging,” centering the non-traditional family and illness, at East West Players. She is in her 17th week of striking as a proud WGA and SAG-AFTRA member.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, published the article “” in the journal Climatic Change.

Pearson and Corinne Tsai ’20 co-presented research on how to communicate effectively about climate change inequities to the , a network of local and state government officials representing over 2500 municipalities and counties in 14 U.S. states. Additionally, Pearson advised officials from the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, on public communications for their climate equity and resilience plans.

On August 4, Pearson gave an invited address at the American Psychological Association's Science Summits series in Washington, D.C., on “,” part of a special session on climate change.

Pearson was named a plenary keynote speaker for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in October.

Associate Professor of Theatre Carolyn Ratteray’s one woman show was picked up for a limited run by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for 2024. Her show, which received a Los Angeles New Play project and premiered at Boston Court Theatre, will run January 13-28, 2024.

Larissa Rudova, Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages and professor of German and Russian, presented her paper “Landscape as/of Memory of Deportation and Violence in Anatoly Pristavkin’s Fiction” at the (IRSCL), Ecologies of Childhood, on August 14. She was also a moderator at the artist/author plenary for the award-winning young adult fiction author Eugene Yelchin on August 16. She was a member of the congress’s . ������Ƶ was one of the Congress’s sponsoring institutions, along with Stanford University, Princeton University, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego. Aiste Abeciunaite ’25 and Asya Lyubavina ’26 served as the Congress’s assistants, from August 12-16, thanks to a generous grant from the Dean’s Office.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, was invited to submit a peer-reviewed article, “Dance in Iran and in the Diaspora: What we can learn from analyzing dance and other Patterned Movements about Iranian Society.” The article appears on the website Iran 1400.

Penny Sinanoglou, associate professor of history, published “Partition as Imperial Inheritance” in The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition, edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan (Manchester University Press).

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote a RealClear Markets opinion piece, “” (August 7); a MarketWatch opinion piece, “” (August 7); and a MindMatters opinion piece, “” (August 10).

Smith was on NPR affiliate WNCU and on the New Books Network about his book, . Distrust was also reviewed by Jeanette Ferrara for Rigaku Review: “�������ٳ�’s delivery is so delicately and effortlessly encrusted with endless dry wit that you might actually find yourself laughing out loud as you read it—surely to be followed by a deep frown as you contemplate the powerful implications of what he is saying.”

Luis Edward Tenorio, visiting assistant professor of sociology, presented “Life After Status: Gendered Relational and Contextual Shifts in Legal Consciousness and Workplace Claims for Formerly Undocumented Immigrants” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on August 19.

Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history and Chicana/o Latina/o studies, co-authored an in Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper August 18 on technologies of hate deployed against immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, and Ceci Wade ’25 published a paper titled “Differences in Code-Switching between Chinese Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners in Computer-Mediated Communication” in Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology.

Xiao published a commentary titled “ChatGPT and Its Challenges for Chinese Learning Assessment” in Chinese Teaching in the World.

Aimee Bahng, associate professor and coordinator of gender and women’s studies, led a pre-conference workshop on “Oceanic Ecologies and Pacific Resurgence” at the of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) in Portland, Oregon, from July 9-12. In addition to being invited to lead the workshop, Bahng also presented her research on abolitionist environmentalism on a panel titled “Ecocriticism and Ethnic Studies.”

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, opened the 2023 Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg, Austria) in as a viola da gamba soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in “Music to Accompany a Departure,” a staged production of Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, conducted by Grant Gershon and directed by Peter Sellars. The performances took place in Salzburg’s Kollegienkirche, with the tour concluding on July 23 in Ingolstadt, Germany, in a final performance closing the series, held in the Festsaal of the Stadttheater Ingolstadt.

Bandy was a featured soloist in Bear McCreary’s score to Season 2 of the , a streaming television series based on Isaac Asimov’s literary series of the same name. Premiering on July 14 with nine subsequent episodes streaming weekly, Bandy can be heard playing the viola da gamba throughout the season as well as its official .

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, published an article, “Repetición, fragmentación y escritura ‘leprosa’ en la poesía de Antonio Méndez Rubio,” in Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, as part of a dossier titled “Experimentación y rupturas en la poesía española del siglo XXI.”

Anthony Clark, assistant professor of computer science, published an article, “Does Kinematic-Based Pretraining Improve Evolution of Quadrupedal Gaits?” at the Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2023) held in Sapporo, Japan, in July. The article includes one student author, Kevin J. Ayala Ahumada ’22.

Karla Cordova, visiting assistant professor of economics, co-organized an undergraduate research session at the Western Economic Association International Conference in San Diego, California, on July 3. On July 2, Cordova also presented ongoing work on “Welfare Transfers to Children in Mixed-Status Households in the U.S.”

Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, and the 25-member ������Ƶ Glee Club traveled to England and Scotland after Commencement, giving benefit concerts at St. James’s Piccadilly in London, St. Michael le Belfrey in York and Durham Cathedral in Durham, raising money for various local philanthropic organizations that support people in need. The ensemble was also invited to sing a Sunday morning service at Trinity College, Cambridge, gave a joint concert with the St. Andrews University Madrigal Group at Holy Trinity Church in St. Andrews (Scotland) and was part of the Sunday at Six concert series at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, published the paper “” with Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, and Elena Kim ’21 in the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, presented the paper “Institutional Catalysts and Citizen Participation: The Case of the Historic Center’s Fiduciary Fund in Mexico City (2001 – 2012)” on July 1 at the of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Melbourne, Australia. The panel she was a part of, titled “Contesting Urban Governance. New Forms of Citizenship and the Power of Protest across Institutional Contexts. Part II,” was convened by ISA’s Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC21).

Malkiat S. Johal, professor of chemistry, published the paper “” in Langmuir. The article was coauthored by Daniel L. Gao ’25.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, led a 75-minute workshop session titled “Equity in the Moment: Responding to Challenging Situations in the Classroom” on July 25 as part of the on Inclusion and Inquiry: Fostering Student Belonging and Ownership.

Nina J. Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, attended the RCN-UBE Summit in Washington D.C., which brought together principal investigators of National Science Foundation grants that are Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education. Karnovsky represented (Research Experiences for Southern California Undergraduate Ecologists network). RESCUE-Net is a network of faculty in Southern California who are dedicated to training undergraduates to be the next generation of ecological leaders.

Phil Keen, lecturer in music, trombone, and Sarah Thornblade, lecturer in music, violin, performed in John Williams’s score in the recent film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, completed the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program conference in Kyoto, Hiroshima and Tokyo. He graduated to fellow after two years as a delegate. He also completed the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network program. Program site visits included Tokyo, Hong Kong, Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Lastly, he completed the Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program. Program site visits included Tokyo, Iwakuni, Shimonoseki and Kitakyushu.

Le’s article titled “” was published by Tokyo Review.

Le, Angelina Chin, associate professor of history, Albert Park (Claremont McKenna College) and Seo Young Park (Scripps College) were awarded a two-year grant by the Japan Foundation for a project titled “Sustainable Futures: Overcoming Disparities.”

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, is a faculty member of the at Colgate University this summer. She is coaching numerous chamber music groups. On July 26, she was the featured performer in Leoš Janáček’s Concertino as part of the .

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, was a discussant on a July 8 Zoom panel titled “Toxic Workspaces, Self-Care, and Asianness: The Basics” with Quade French and Michael Sakamoto for the .

Denise Machin, assistant director of Smith Campus Center and ballroom dance instructor, competed at the North American Same-Sex Partner Dance Championship on July 22 in Monterey Park, California. Dancing with Viola Ni CMC ’25, Machin and Ni became the 2023 woman/woman North American champions in the Latin category and the vice champions in the same-sex Latin category.

Preston McBride, assistant professor of history, published a chapter on Native American boarding schools in the United States and investigations of residential schools for Indigenous peoples in Canada in The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume II: Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern and Imperial Worlds, from c. 1535 to World War One, edited by Ben Kiernan. McBride also presented his chapter “Lessons from Canada: The Question of Genocide in US Boarding Schools for Native Americans” at the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars held at the Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona in Spain from July 10-15.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, moderated a panel titled “Together and Apart: Polarization in American Politics,” held at Amherst College. The panel featured elected officials and campaign staffers in a discussion about the on-the-ground realities of political polarization.

McWilliams Barndt published a piece on “What Is Liberalism?” in .

Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, is author of “‘Mr. Forest Service’: Wilbur R. Mattoon and the Reforestation of the South” in Celebrating 100 Years of Forest Science: An Abridged History of the Southern Research Station, edited by Don C. Bragg.

Miller delivered the keynote address at the 2023 Eastern Sierra Book Festival in Mammoth Lakes, California, on July 16, focusing on his new book Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril. The book was also the subject of his talk to the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.

Miller was featured in the podcast Living Well into the Future in an episode titled “.”

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

On July 5, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “Extreme galactic collisions: opportunities for UV astronomy” at the conference in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Moreno was elected to become a member of the American Astronomical Society’s .

Thomas Muzart, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, published a special issue titled Podcasting Disruptive Voices: New Narratives of Race and Gender for the journal CFC Intersections (Liverpool University Press). Co-edited with Audrey Brunetaux (Colby College), the issue explores the potential of podcasts to carry words and voices of minority subjects and groups that contribute to the fields of critical race theory, feminism and intersectional studies in contemporary France.

Claire Nettleton, academic curator at the Benton Museum of Art at ������Ƶ, submitted the manuscript for her co-edited volume with Louise Mackenzie Viral Culture and Biotechnological Arts: From CRISPR-Cas9 to COVID-19 (working title), under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. The anthology contains chapters by Nettleton, Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish literature, Ira Fleming ’18 and 22 other renowned interdisciplinary artists and scholars. The volume was based on the Viral Culture colloquium in 2018 at ������Ƶ and Harvey Mudd College, co-organized by Nettleton and Rachel Mayeri (Harvey Mudd College), with assistance from Iren Coskun ’21, Fleming, Franco Liu ’20, Rena Hernandez ’20, Scott Pease ’19, Lilly Thomey ’19 and André Cavalcanti, professor of biology.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o Latina/o studies, shared her latest research on “The Chicana/o Movement and Activism in the San Gabriel Valley, the 1950s-1970s” with high school students in the Telluride Association at Cornell University on July 19.

Laura Perini, associate professor of philosophy, presented “The Aesthetic Life of a Life Scientist” at the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology conference in Toronto, Canada, on July 12.

Larissa Rudova, Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor of Modern Languages and professor of German and Russian, gave an invited lecture, “Landscapes of Trauma: Narratives of Deportation and Evacuation in Soviet Youth Literature ������Ƶ WWII,” at the Institute of German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, on July 4.

Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics, was named the recipient of the Emerging Scholars award from the American Political Science Association’s Civic Engagement Section. She and co-authors were also awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize for their paper “Social Lobbying.” The prize recognizes work that examines issues of importance to legislators and legislative staff and can be applied to strengthening the practice of representative democracy.

John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics, played baritone saxophone in the City of Pomona Concert Band’s concerts on July 13 and July 20.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote two MindMatters opinion pieces: “” (July 21) and “” (July 28). His book, Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science, was : “The stories of Gary Smith, an economics professor in California and author of The AI Delusion, … are compelling illustrations of a problem for science.”

Laura Wensley, director of leadership annual and reunion giving, was a workshop panelist at the Sharing the Annual Fund Fundamentals (S.T.A.F.F.) 2023 Annual Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts. The conference took place July 17-19 and was hosted by College of the Holy Cross. S.T.A.F.F. is a representative group of 46 small, selective colleges, which joined together over 30 years ago to implement successful and innovative annual giving programs through the sharing of information and networking. Membership institutions have 1,000-3,500 undergraduate students, an endowment of $100 million or more and at least $2 million in annual gifts.

Ken Wolf, the John Sutton Miner Professor of History in Classics, gave a paper at the Veneration in Motion in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia Conference in Ravenstein, Netherlands, from July 11-12, hosted by Radboud University and the Roman Islam Center of the University of Hamburg. The paper, titled “Martyrdom and Its Discontents in Ninth-Century Córdoba,” represented a culling of his recent translations of the works of Eulogius (d. 859) and one by Paul Alvarus (d. c. 861).

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, gave a presentation titled “Chinese Ex Libris Seals from the Late 19th Century to the early 20th Century” at the 13th International Symposium on Chinese Calligraphy Education on July 29.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave two invited research seminars at the 2023 Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC) in Vancouver. The talks featured research in the Ball Lab centered on developing new reactions that add sulfur into organic molecules. One talk specifically showcased work from international principal investiagators who represent those who have been historically excluded from the sciences.

Ball presented his research at the 20th anniversary celebration of Melanie Sanford at the University of Michigan. Sanford was Ball’s Ph.D. advisor and the Pomona Chemistry Department’s 2023 Robbins lecturer.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, was a featured soloist in Bear McCreary’s score to Season 7 of the Starz historical drama Outlander, a television series based on Diana Gabaldon’s novel series of the same name. This season, with a plot derived from An Echo in the Bone, premiered on June 16 on Starz (future episodes airing weekly), and Bandy can be heard playing historical string instruments, including viola da gamba and yayli tanbur, throughout.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, published an article on “The Pre-Publication Circulation and Scoring of Handel's Op.2 Trio Sonatas” in the 2023 issue of the Handel-Jahrbuch.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, participated in a one-week professional development program organized and led by the School for International Training (SIT) titled in Accra, Ghana. The objective of his participation was to inform the approach to a proposed faculty-led traveling seminar next year.

Boduszyński was interviewed about his experience working in national security by a former student, Danica Harootian SCR ’17, as part of a podcast series produced by the .

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures, was interviewed by BBC Asia for an article, “,” published on June 10.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the co-authored article ““ in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Dold co-organized the workshop “,” which took place at University College Dublin on June 5-6.

Virginie A. Duzer, professor and chair of Romance languages and literatures, presented the paper “De la ‘femme’ invisible du Chef-d’œuvre inconnu” during the colloquium “,” which took place at the Maison Balzac in Paris on June 15-16. The paper is the result of many ������Ƶ interactions: The idea came to her while teaching a Balzac session during her French 178 class on 19th-century writing and painting in the fall of 2022. During the writing process, Ken Wolf, professor of classics and John Sutton Miner Professor of History, helped her with the question of Onuphrius-Onophria, while José R. Cartagena-Calderón, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures, suggested a Don Quijote reference.

Pierre Englebert, associate dean of the college and H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations, and Lina Kallel ’24 presented their paper “Understanding Variations in State Responses to Security Crises in the Sahel” at the meeting of the European Conference on African Studies in Cologne, Germany, on June 2.

Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, visiting assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, presented a paper titled « À la recherche de la mémoire impossible : traces des Disparus dans l'art contemporain » at the symposium “Présence des Disparus de Daniel Mendelsohn dans la création contemporaine,” held at CY Cergy Paris Université and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Paris Saclay on June 15-16. She also chaired the panel “Penser avec les Disparus.”

On June 22, Garrigou-Kempton chaired the panel “Challenging Violence” at the American University of Paris George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention’s Conference “Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses.”

Elizabeth Glater, associate professor of neuroscience, and Chuck Taylor, professor and chair of chemistry, along with Victor Chai ’23, Tiam Farajzadeh ’23 and Yufei Meng ’25, presented “How does C. elegans recognize the bacterial odors of its microbiome?” at the 24th International C. elegans Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, and online June 24-28.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, presented the paper “The Dominican Feminist Movement’s Fight for Abortion Rights through Las Causales” on June 28 at the of the International Sociological Association in Melbourne, Australia. The panel titled “Global Perspectives on the Struggle for Reproductive Justice” was organized by the Research Committee on Women, Gender and Society.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, led an hour-long workshop session titled “Developing A Social Justice Curriculum: First Steps” on June 1 as part of the City University of New York’s Innovative Teaching Academy (CITA) Institute on Promoting Equitable and Inclusive STEM Teaching and Learning.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, produced and directed a Playback Theatre performance titled Sustenance with LA Playback Theatre Company at El Sereno Community Garden as the culminating event of her Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Artist Residency Grant. This production was also supported by funding from JKW Foundation.

Lu led a Playback Theatre workshop as an invited guest artist at at Pasadena Playhouse.

Eric Melgosa, art director of ������Ƶ Magazine, editor Robyn Norwood and other collaborators in the Office of Communications received a from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for “,” a graphic story about the origins of Cecil Sagehen that appeared in �ʰ��’s spring 2022 issue. Judges selected the comic for a gold award in the category of writing/profile (less than 1,000 words), praising the entry for its creativity and ingenuity.

Miriam Merrill, chair of physical education and director of athletics, served as the emcee for the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association Awards Luncheon in Orlando, Florida, on June 11.

On June 13, Merrill moderated a panel titled “The Transition: Preparation and Reflection of Change” at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Convention.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

On June 13, Moreno participated on the “Diversity Equity Inclusion and Accessibility/Career Balance” panel for the .

On June 15, Moreno delivered a plenary talk at annual general meeting held in Penticton, British Columbia. On June 30, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “the intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the “” in Sesto, Italy.

Robyn Norwood, assistant director of news and strategic content in the Office of Communications, appears in the ESPN E60 documentary about the Walt Disney Co.’s foray into professional sports with the National Hockey League team originally named the Mighty Ducks, after the 1992 Disney children’s movie. Norwood, a Los Angeles Times sportswriter for more than two decades, covered the team’s early years.

Lynn Rapaport, Henry Snyder Professor of Sociology, organized and co-chaired two panels for the XX World Congress of Sociology conference held in Melbourne, Australia, in June. The first panel was on “The Consequences of Violence,” and the second was on “Violence, Culture and Traumatic Memory.” Rapaport was also elected treasurer for a four-year term of the newly established “Violence and Society” thematic group of the International Sociological Association, making her a member of its first official board.

Nikia Robert, 2021 Fred and Dorothy Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Studies, accepted a tenure track position as the assistant professor of ethics and social justice at the University of Kansas. To remain in touch, please contact Robert at Nikia.robert@gmail.com.

Robert was recruited by Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) to work as the director of racial and social justice at Ebenezer Baptist Church (Martin Luther King’s spiritual home). Robert will advise Warnock’s team on organizing strategies to mobilize faith communities to end mass incarceration, voter suppression and other policy areas.

Robert launched the first-ever social media platform for activists and abolitionists at abolitionistsanctuary.org. This social media and learning platform innovates a digital revolution to create a centralized online space to socialize, organize, mobilize and learn within a shared community of people committed to justice, liberation and abolition.

Robert was invited by the Fetzer Institute to consult with the Sharing Spiritual Heritage wisdom circle. This project weaves networks and helps cultivate a nascent ecosystem for BIPOC-led spiritual and intellectual innovation.

Teddy A. Rodriguez-Velez, visiting instructor of physics and astronomy, co-hosted the award-winning TAGS podcast.

Rodriguez-Velez performed in the short film “Marque Dos,” which was screened at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as part of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.

Rodriguez-Velez’s script “Chosen Family” achieved semifinalist status at the Spotlight Dorado short film competition.

Rodriguez-Velez’s play “How Did Edward Lose His Accent?” has been selected as a finalist at the .

Erin Runions, Nancy J. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature, was a participant on a keynote panel for the first conference of the Political Theology Network on Biblical Studies, on Biblical Violence.

Runions was invited to present a paper, “Biblical Reception Criticism as Transformative Justice,” at the Biblical Reception Workshop at Lund University, Sweden.

Runions presented “Mutual Engagement and Community Building as Abolitionist Practice: Writing Inside Out” at the invited Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) Faculty Workshop: Carceral States: Prison Writing and Liberal Arts Education, Bryn Mawr College.

Runions was nominated and elected to be vice president for 2023-24 and president for 2024-25 of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

Adam Sapp, assistant vice president and director of admissions, and Brandon Lau ’24 attended the Service to School Military Veterans Leadership Summit at the University of Chicago. Sapp spoke on a panel about recruiting veterans at community colleges. Lau co-presented with fellow veterans from Williams College and the University of Chicago about the academic experience and transitioning to a highly residential college.

Associate Professor of Music Gibb Schreffler’s documentary film premiered June 9 at the Connecticut Sea Music Festival in Essex, Connecticut. The film—produced, directed and written by Schreffler—aims to provide an accessible entry into his scholarly work on the subject of historical sailors’ work songs and shipboard technology. It features Schreffler’s performances of chanties while working on the 1901 barkentine Gazela of Philadelphia and other vessels.

Jennifer Schulz, lecturer in dance, facilitated a two-hour workshop titled “Fostering Risk and Resilience in Actor Training,” based on her recent peer-reviewed article, at the Annual Congress for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, New York City, June 16-19.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote the lead article in the June 7 Chronicle of Higher Education “,” a June 7 MarketWatch opinion piece, “” and a June 12 MindMatters opinion piece, “.”

�������ٳ�’s book was reviewed by Brian Clegg in and by Krishnendu Sarkar in . He also did podcast interviews on unSILOed and with Ed Fulbright on NPR affiliate WNCU.

Smith signed a contract with Springer Nature for the book, The Power of Modern Value Investing - Beyond Indexing, Algos, and Alpha, co-authored with his wife Margaret Smith. The core argument is that most of what is taught in finance courses is wrong.

David M. Tanenbaum, Osler-Loucks Professor in Science and professor of physics, presented the research poster Degradation of Mesoporous Carbon Perovskite Solar Cells on research done with his students Kylie Thompson ’22, Dan Tan ’23, Bryan Hong ’20 and Adam Dvorak ’21 at the in London on June 13. Tanenbaum also served as chair of Session 3C1 - Perovskite PV Characterisation and Optimisation and judged the best posters competition.

Heather Williams, professor of politics, was a recipient of a Huntington Library fellowship for work on the project “Stumbling Giant: Southern California Edison’s Nuclear Nadir at San Onofre.”

Williams presented a conference paper, “Indebtedness and Political Stress: Toward a Theory of Property and Its Discontents,” at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Vancouver, Canada.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, gave a presentation titled “Teaching Chinese Pragmatics: A Review” at the 8th International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, held at Swarthmore College.

Xiao and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University published an editorial titled “ChatGPT and Chinese Teaching” in Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching.

Xiao and Ava Tiller ’24 published a paper titled “U.S. College Students’ Decision Making on Study Abroad after the COVID-19 Pandemic” in Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, published an invited book chapter, “Healthy aging and communication: The complexities of, um, fluent speech production,” co-authored with Katherine White of Rhodes College, in the second edition of .

Chelsea Ahn, assistant director of experiential learning and career advising, was invited by her alma mater, University of California, Irvine, to serve as a judge for the 30th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The symposium featured over 500 posters ranging in topics from art and education to government and STEM. Posters were judged on articulation of research, scholarly comprehension, organization and synergy, quality of delivery, and visual presentation.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, hosted and coached a day-long workshop for held at ������Ƶ on May 6 and informally honoring Carol Herman ’51 for her significant contributions to viola da gamba pedagogy in Southern California. On May 20, Bandy taught another day-long workshop for in Portland, Oregon, on the topic of musical-rhetorical figure and meaning-making in 16th- and 17th-century polyphonic compositions by Arcadelt, Lassus, Marenzio, Hassler and Morales.

On May 21, Bandy performed on , and with Los Angeles-based early music ensemble Ciaramella and guest soprano Jennifer Kampani in a program of English and Italian ground-bass divisions and airs. The concert was livestreamed as part of the Classical Sundays at Six series, presented by at St. James’ in-the-City Episcopal Church in Los Angeles.

On May 28, Bandy programmed, lectured and played bass viola da gamba with of works by Ruffo, Morley, Byrd and Lupo, for part two of a project initiated in October 2022 at in Pasadena, California. The event was sponsored by The Da Camera Society, with the aim of drawing connections between the Arts and Crafts movement and the Dolmetsch family’s early music revival, scholarship and musical instrument design.

Graydon Beeks, professor emeritus of music, presented the paper “Coriolano Transformed: The Early History of Ariosti's First Royal Academy Opera” at the conference The Politics of Opera—Handel’s Opera Academies 1719-1737 held May 30-31 in conjunction with the annual Handel Festival in Halle (Saale), Germany. On May 27 he was elected one of the three vice presidents of the International Georg-Friedrich-Haendel Gesellschaft, based in Halle.

Gayle Blankenburg, lecturer in music, performed recording sessions in New York City with cellist Caleb van der Swaagh. Their recording will appear on the New Focus CD label.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, published a review of Hicham Alaoui’s in the Journal of North African Studies.

Boduszyński was recognized by for his work on Russian accountability over the past year. In August, he will wrap up a one-year detail to the Pentagon and return to teaching at Pomona.

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “(Un)known Quantities: Poetic (Il)legitimacy in Vicente Aleixandre’s ‘Número’ (1926)” at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from May 19-21.

Clarissa Cheney, associate professor of biology, and Cristina Negritto, associate professor of molecular biology, attended the 46th West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (WCBSURC) at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with six molecular biology students. Essi Logan ’24, Melissa Seecharan ’24, Schuyler DiBacco ’24 and Ayame Bluebell ’24, who did original research in the molecular biology lab class Spring 2023, presented the poster “Cloning the Drosophila Naa20 gene into pUASTattB.” Alex Morse ’23 presented a poster of her senior experimental thesis project “Translocation Formation in Yeast. Role of Rad3 Protein.”

Kevin Dettmar, W. M. Keck Professor of English and director of the Humanities Studio, published and television’s recent infatuation with department chairs in The Atlantic on May 1.

Virginie A. Duzer, professor and chair of Romance languages and literatures, remotely presented the paper “D’une esthétique goncourtienne: à partir d’un portrait de Mme De Nittis” during the dedicated to the portraits in Goncourt’s writings May 12.

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, presented “The landscape of research development at primary undergraduate institutions (PUIs), Part 2” on May 9 at the annual conference of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals in Arlington, Virginia. He also cohosted conference events of the membership services committee and the affinity groups for PUIs and for creative arts, social sciences and humanities.

George Gorse, Viola Horton Professor of Art History, published an overview of his scholarship on ceremonies and the transformation of a Medieval to Renaissance city in honor of a dear friend on his retirement from the University of Genoa: “Genoa in Triumph” in Il Tempio delle Arti: Scritti per Lauro Magnani, edited by Lauro Stagno and Daniele Sanguinetti (Sagep Editrice, 2023).

Gorse published book reviews of Jacopo Da Varagine’s Chronicle of the City of Genoa, translated and annotated by Carrie E. Benes, and A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa 1600-1750, edited by Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo and Franco Boggero for Speculum and Renaissance Quarterly, journals of the American Medieval Academy and Renaissance Society of America.

Heidi Nichols Haddad, associate professor of politics, presented the paper “Cities as Human Rights Advocates and Implementers” at the invited workshop “Challenges and Opportunities in Global Transnational Advocacy,” hosted by Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and The Graduate Institute Geneva in Bologna, Italy.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, presented at the roundtable “Unpacking far right politics and the anti-feminist backlash” May 26 at the in Vancouver, Canada. The roundtable was organized by the Culture, Power and Politics section at LASA where Hernández-Medina shared her remarks on the case of the Dominican Republic and the trajectory of the current far right backlash that started with the Vatican’s reaction to the 1995 IV Conference on Women in Beijing.

On May 31, Hernández-Medina co-organized and co-moderated the seventh anniversary celebration of , the feminist group she co-founded and now coordinates along with Rossy Matos and Angélica Rodríguez Bencosme in the Dominican Republic. The event included a roundtable on women’s sexual and reproductive rights with oncological obstetrician Natalia Frías, birth doula and educator Leiko Hidaka and public health expert Mirna Jiménez de la Rosa.

Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, associate professor of economics, was invited to be a research fellow in , the leading international network of labor economists.

Huet-Vaughn received a research grant from the and appeared on .

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, published an article titled “Whose Math and For What Purpose? A Community Seminar on Identity, Culture, and Mathematics” in PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies.

Karaali published an extended book review of the book The Meaning of Proofs: Mathematics as Storytelling by Italian logician Gabriele Lolli in The American Mathematical Monthly.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor, Zora Beaty ’25 and Philip Duchild ’24 attended the Southern California Academy of Sciences meeting in Santa Barbara on May 5. Beaty presented a poster on the results of a study of Western pond turtles in a poster co-authored by Duchild, Hanna Kim ’23 and Karnovsky. Duchild presented a poster on changes in the distribution of woodrat huts at the Bernard Field Station since 2005. His poster was coauthored by Beaty, Kim and Karnovsky.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, gave an for The Economist on South Korea-Japan relations and its impact on United States alliances May 4.

On May 23, Le was interviewed for the Eurasia Group’s podcast on Japan hosting the G7 Summit.

Le gave a book talk at the University of California, Irvine on May 18. On May 30, he gave a talk on the future of Northeast Asia at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy E. Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing, had his 2007 essay “The Ecstasy of Influence” cited in Supreme Court Justice Elana Kagan’s dissenting opinion in the May 18 Andy Warhol Foundation vs. Goldsmith decision.

Sara Masland, assistant professor of psychological science, published “” in the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. Co-authors included Ellen Finch (Harvard University graduate student) and Sophie Schnell ’22.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, published an article titled “” as part of a symposium on the 65th anniversary of the publication of Harry Jaffa's Crisis of the House Divided. The article appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of American Political Thought.

Wallace Meyer, director of the Bernard Field Station, presented a talk and had five students from various institutions across southern California present posters at the Southern California Academy of Sciences Meeting. Presentations included “Effects of common disturbances on soil microbial assemblages in southern California,” “Restoration facilitator or obstacle: role of Acmispon glaber as a nurse shrub” and “Mulch matters: Quantifying decomposition rates and identifying primary drivers of mulch decomposition in southern California urban areas.”

Jorge Moreno, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “” in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Moreno delivered two colloquia titled “Galaxies lacking dark matter” at Cal State Northridge and University of California, Riverside, plus two seminars on the same topic at the Flatiron Institute and Princeton University.

Moreno delivered a talk titled “The extreme lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” as part of in Katerina, Greece.

Sarah E. Noll, visiting assistant professor of chemistry, co-authored a paper in Nature Communications, “.” The findings of this research work were also the subject of a recent University of California, San Diego news article, “.”

Dan O’Leary, Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, Michelle Garcia ’22 and Frances O’Leary (Purdue University ’23) published the article “” in The Journal of Chemical Education. The work is featured on the of the April 11 issue.

Adam Pearson, associate professor of psychological science, was lead author of a new article in American Psychologist featuring a transdisciplinary team of social and clinical psychologists, health clinicians, and researchers in communication and behavioral medicine that explores what psychology can contribute to understanding and addressing climate-related health inequities. Their article “” provides a new cross-disciplinary framework for understanding climate change inequities and highlights what the behavioral sciences can contribute to advancing actionable research in this area.

Pearson was named a keynote speaker for the upcoming annual Society for Experimental Social Psychology conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in October, and will be a featured speaker at the American Psychological Association convention in Washington, D.C., on August 4 for the Science Summits series “.”

William Peterson, professor emeritus of music and College organist, and Carey Robertson, principal organist at the Claremont United Church of Christ, presented a concert, “A Celebration of Organ Traditions in Claremont,” on the Hill Memorial Organ, built by C.B. Fisk, in Bridges Hall of Music. The program included works composed between 1923 and 2023 by Joseph W. Clokey, Carl Parrish, William G. Blanchard, Wilbur Held, Orpha Ochse, Karl Kohn and Tom Flaherty.

Hans Rindisbacher, professor of German, published a of David E. Nye’s Seven Sublimes (MIT Press) in The European Legacy online.

Alex Rodriguez, head coach of women’s water polo, and his staff were announced as the 2023 Women’s Water Polo SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year. Rodriguez earned his third Coach of the Year Award and second straight award after also earning the distinction in 2022. His coaches are Associate Head Coach Alex La and Assistant Coaches Chris Lee and Elyssa Hawkins. The Sagehens finished the regular season unbeaten for the second consecutive season with a 12-0 record while earning a 22-10 overall record.

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, gave a presentation, “My Hidden Childhood in WWII Occupied France,” at Pomona’s alumni weekend. On May 17, she gave the same presentation twice at Downey High School.

John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics, played baritone saxophone in the City of Pomona Concert Band for the band’s spring concert May 12 and Memorial Day concert May 29.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, gave a Zoom lecture to the ethnochoreology section of the International Committee on Traditional Music on Igor Moiseyev and the Igor Moiseyev Dance Company of the Russian Federation, sponsored and hosted by Christos Papakostas of the University of Ionnina in Greece on May 26.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, had podcast interviews about his latest book, , on May 1 with Keith Koo, Silicon Valley Insider; on May 2 on the NPR show Tech Nation; on May 17 with Gregory La Blanc (Stanford) on unSILOed; and on May 22 with Vasant Dhar (NYU) on Brave New World. Distrust was also reviewed by : “Distrust is a veritable page-turner, and I finished it in a few sittings. On a higher level, it is a call for common sense, for scepticism, for methodological rigour and for epistemic modesty. I suspect most scientists will love it.”

�������ٳ�’s book, , was reviewed by the : “What the Luck? is a valuable arrow of sobering knowledge to keep in your quiver at all times.”

Smith was interviewed for a Mashable article, “,” and published an opinion piece: “” (MindMatters, May 15).

Kyle Wilson, assistant professor of economics, published the article in Economic Inquiry on May 19.

Ken Wolf, John Sutton Miner Professor of History in Classics, is author of The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus (Liverpool University Press), an extended study and translation of the earliest Latin Christian effort to interpret Muhammad in terms of biblical prophecies pertaining to Antichrist. The book is essentially a follow-up volume to his The Eulogius, which appeared in 2019. Together these books provide translations and studies of all the extant texts pertaining to the so-called “Córdoban Martyrs’ Movement” (850-859), during which a number of Iberian Christians living under Islamic rule publicly denounced Muhammad in an effort to become martyrs.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, gave a talk titled “Sorry Not Sorry: Melodrama, Cancel-culture, and Spectacles of Forced Apology” at the Film Studies Association of Canada conference in Toronto on May 29.

“Second Thoughts ������Ƶ Confucianism in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945” by Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, will appear in a Festschrift for Confucian philosopher Tu Weiming, the chair of humanities and founding director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University. Yamashita has known Tu since 1979 and collaborated with him and four other scholars on The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought (SUNY, 1994).

Megan Zirnstein, assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, gave an invited talk to the department of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz titled “Bilingualism, cognitive control, and humor: A holistic individual differences approach to understanding prediction in comprehension” May 26.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave a series of talks sharing the latest research from his group at University of California San Diego, Scripps Research and the University of Manchester (UK).

Ball published a paper with Natalie Schur ’24 titled “” in the journal Chem. The paper is a collaboration with the Sammis (U. British Columbia) and Melvin (Bryn Mawr) labs. It is a perspective highlighting the historical challenges of these compounds as chemical weapons, their safety profile and the potential for innovation toward addressing challenges in chemical and biomolecular sciences.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, played the viola da gamba on , a rock concept album released May 3 by composer Bear McCreary and featuring artists such as Slash and Rufus Wainwright. Bandy can be heard on the track “.”

Bandy contracted, organized and played violone for the ensemble Harmonologia Pomona, a group of professional instrumentalists specializing in Baroque performance practice, which collaborated with the ������Ƶ Glee Club in performances of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, directed by Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music. Performances took place in Bridges Hall of Music on April 25 and 27 and May 11, followed by a West Coast tour (May 14-22), with concerts in Berkeley, Palo Alto, Portland and Seattle.

On May 10 in Orange, California, Bandy programmed and led a workshop handling musical rhetoric in works by Lassus, Morales and Marenzio for the , and on May 26, Bandy played violone with in their in Beverly Hills, California, a complete performance of Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio Cain, overo Il primo omicidio (1707).

Tatiana Basáñez, visiting assistant professor of psychological science, had a symposium titled The World of Three Cultures Model: Honor, Achievement, and Joy/Easygoingness accepted for presentation at The XXVII International Congress of International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2024 where she is scheduled to present a paper titled Psychometric Properties of Values and Behavior Measures Using the World of Three Cultures Model: Honor, Achievement, and Joy. Also, along with students from her Social Psychology and Health (SOPAH) research lab, she was awarded a grant to present two scientific posters at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in San Francisco, May 23-26.

Colin J. Beck, professor of international relations, gave two invited talks. First, he spoke to master’s students in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University on revolutionary waves in modern history. On May 3, he presented a paper on the role of corruption grievances in 21st century revolutions at the Wisconsin Historical Analysis Table at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, performed as harpsichordist with his Cornucopian Baroque Ensemble colleagues—violinist Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music; theorbist Jason Yoshida, lecturer in music; and cellist Roger Lebow—in a Friday Noon Concert of music by Handel and Telemann in Lyman Hall.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, taught a masterclass on Cunningham Technique at the University of Washington, Seattle, on May 24.

Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis, co-authored a publication titled “Communication and Deliberation for Environmental Governance” in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Chang also co-authored a preprint titled “” on the arXiv preprint server with two non-profits, Conservation Science Partners and On The Edge Conservation.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a talk titled “Memoria de la migración de las mujeres españolas en Francia” at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid on May 10. The talk, which was based on his recently published book Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life (Toronto, 2024), was sponsored jointly by the museum and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, was an invited speaker at a co-hosted by the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration on May 17. She and gave a talk based on their recently published book (Oxford University Press).

Virginie A. Duzer, professor and chair of Romance languages and literatures, remotely presented the paper “Calques et Copies des amitiés tardives” during the dedicated to copy and double May 16.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, with colleagues from Harvard University and Freie Universitat Berlin, published the article “Benthic pterobranchs from the Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Konservat-Lagerstätte of Utah” in Papers in Palaeontology.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of mathematics and statistics, gave a talk titled “Fast food for thought: what can chicken nuggets tell us about linear algebra?” at the Cal State Long Beach Mathematics Colloquium on May 3.

Garcia published an article, “,” with former Visiting Assistant Professor Ángel Chávez and Jackson Hurley ’23 in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin.

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete ’17, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and cognitive science, presented his research project titled “Production Leads Perception: Linguistic Variation Effects on Speech Perception” at the Colloquium Seminar for the Linguistics Department at UCLA.

Heidi Nichols Haddad, associate professor of politics, participated in the invited workshop “Surfacing Social Justice Solutions in Voluntary Local Reviews” sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University/Heinz College and the Brookings Institution Center for Sustainable Development in Washington D.C. on May 1-2.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, co-organized and moderated a on May 31 evaluating the results of female candidacies in the Dominican presidential and congressional elections. Hernández-Medina also gave an interview on the feminist radio program Libertarias the same day to publicize the event.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, together with Kira Hamman of Pennsylvania State University Mon Alto and Lew Ludwig of Denison University, led a virtual four-day workshop (May 13-16) titled “Who’s Afraid of Generative AI? Promises and Challenges for the Mathematics Classroom” hosted by the of the Mathematical Association of America.

Karaali gave a talk titled “A New Elephant Enters the (Chat)Room: Why Teach Math Now?” at the 2024 FYMSiC (First-Year Mathematics and Statistics in Canada) one-day online conference Why Are We Teaching Mathematics Today? on May 9. A is available.

Karaali published an article titled “” in the April/May 2024 issue of FOCUS, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America.

Jade Star Lackey, professor of geology, co-authored the study “,” published in Geosphere.

Lackey presented the talk “Subduction to Sequoias: How Cretaceous Magmatism Set the Vitality and Vulnerability of Sierran Forest Ecosystems” at the 2024 Sierra Nevada Science Symposium convened by the National Park Service, USGS and University of California System.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, and fellow members of the Mojave Trio were artists-in-residence at University of California, Davis, from May 15-17. They recorded and presented the premiere of graduate composer works in concert. Mojave Trio also performed a live-streamed of works by Nico Muhly, James Diáz, Gao Ping and Rebecca Clarke. Each member of the group coached undergraduate individuals and chamber ensembles.

Lee was invited to give a solo recital for the May meeting of the local Foothill Philharmonic Committee, a support group for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, led a qigong workshop at a Hike for Wellness in Lincoln Heights offered by on May 11.

Lu led an online exploration in contracting and expanding for the on May 20.

Sara Masland, associate professor of psychological science, presented an invited talk, “Knowledge is Power(ful): Harnessing Education to Destigmatize Borderline Personality Disorder,” at the annual Yale-National Education Alliance for BPD conference.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “HI discs of Lstar galaxies as probes of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution” in the .

Moreno delivered a colloquium titled The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter at (May 8) and (May 14).

Carolyn Ratteray, associate professor of theatre, received the Integrity Award from the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival for her outstanding work in Los Angeles theatre.

Ratteray’s one-woman show Both And (A Play ������Ƶ Laughing While Black) was invited to be a part of the International Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this summer along with her episodic film (Un)Claimed. (Un)Claimed also screened at the Diva Film Festival in London this past month.

Hans J. Rindisbacher, professor of German, published a by David Crystal (Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2023) in The European Legacy.

Joti Rockwell, associate professor of music, performed in a pair of concerts at Claremont’s Folk Music Center as a member of Peter Harper’s band, playing a variety of instruments including pedal steel, banjo and theremin. On vihuela, he joined Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music, and Ursula Kleinecke, lecturer in music, in a performance as part of Claremont Colleges Faculty Mariachi, led by Cándida Jáquez. On a custom-made Balinese bamboo slide guitar, he was a guest musician with gamelan Burat Wangi at the CalArts 2024 World Music and Dance Festival, performing the new composition Fantasy by I Nyoman Wenten, lecturer in music.

Rockwell published a review of Nicholas Stoia’s book Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular in the Journal of Music Theory.

On May 18, Rockwell delivered the keynote lecture titled “Music in Motion, Music as Motion” at the joint meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis and the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, held at UC Irvine.

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and chair of English, published her edited collection on May 16. The Companion assembles a coalition of expert scholars, both emergent and established, to ensure comprehensive and incisive coverage of literary texts featuring the Black body over a wide historical range and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This book provides an invaluable guide for teachers, students and general readers interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The cover design features Wardell Milan’s The Black Male Body, one of five billboards commissioned by Pomona’s Benton Museum during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, published two peer-reviewed papers: “” in Journal of Financial Planning and “” in Journal of Investing. He also wrote two opinion pieces: “” (MindMatters, May 15) and “” (MarketWatch, May 29).

Gary was interviewed by Derek Thompson for “” in The Atlantic (May 8) and signed a contract for a traditional Chinese translation of which has also been translated into Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish.

Andrew Wilson, director of research computing, ITS, published an article, “,” in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology, published the article “” in the journal American Naturalist.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, organized a panel on AI-generated content and second language teaching at the 2024 Conference of Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) held by Carnegie Mellon University on May 23. Xiao and Jonathan Becker ’24 showcased an AI-based adaptive learning platform, “Luduan.ai,” at CALICO 2024 on May 23.

Xiao co-authored a paper titled “” in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research on May 24.