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• Charles R. (Kip) Ault Jr., professor of education, lectured at the Primer Congreso Internacional de Educación Primaria on "Integrando los conceptos de ciencias (ICC): El estudio de cuatro casos en las lecciónes de ciencias" (Integrating Science Concepts (ISC): Four Case Studies). He also presented Jugamos a física: Taller para maestros (Let's Play With Physics: Teacher Workshop)" at the same conference. Ault was one of two professors from the United States invited to attend the conference hosted by the University of Costa Rica. • Kellar Autumn, assistant professor of biology, published two articles in American Zoology: "How Gecko Feet Work," with T. Hsieh, W. Zesch, W.P. Chan, R. Fearing and R.J. Full, and "Differential Leg Function in Sprawled-Posture Quadrupedal Trotters," with J.J. Chen, Lewis & Clark student A.M. Peattie '01 and R.J. Full. Autumn gave two presentations on his recent work at the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology in Atlanta. • Donald Balmer, U.G. Dubach Professor of Political Science, was nominated for appointment to the Gihon Foundation's 2000 Council on Ideas, a program that gathers distinguished thought leaders from different disciplines to discuss the most important issue of the time. At the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association's annual conference, Balmer spoke on "The Center Holds," reflections on political science and political scientists in the Pacific Northwest. He also coconvened an informal discussion on the 2000 presidential election primaries and candidates. Balmer is past president of the association. • Nora Beck, associate professor of music, "provides priceless information relating to the obvious interrelationship between music and the arts," according to a review of her book, Singing in the Garden: Music and Culture in the Tuscan Trecento (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1998), in Goldberg: Early Music Magazine. • David Becker, senior lecturer in music and director of bands, adjudicated the 1999 Central States Band Festival at Kansas State University. • Stephen Beckham, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Professor of History, wrote a 33,000-word essay on the "History of Oregon" for the forthcoming Oregon Blue Book. The essay, which will also appear on the Internet, includes geography and events of Oregon history. Due to that work, he was featured on "Oregon's Memorable Century," televised by Oregon Public Broadcasting. • Gernot Blume, assistant professor of music, performed his compositions and those of his wife, percussionist Julie Spencer, at Berklee College of Music, Lawrence University, University of North Texas, Boston Mallet Festival, Indianapolis Children's Museum, Indianapolis Jazz Kitchen, Portland's Jazz De Opus and, most recently, with the Peter Epstein Quartet. Blume taught at the annual U.S. Percussion Camp at Eastern Illinois University. He contributed to a recently released recording of New York singer Ellie Sarty, titled "Top of the Food Chain" (Sweetthing Records), and recorded "The Populist Manifesto," by Joe Waters, visiting assistant professor of music. • Michael Blumm, professor of law, and Greg Corbin J.D. '99 wrote "Salmon and the Endangered Species Act: Lessons From the Columbia Basin" (Washington Law Review). Blumm also wrote a chapter on the development of the Northwest's hydroelectric system in Northwest Lands, Northwest People: Readings in Environmental History (University of Washington Press, 1999). • H. William Brelje, department chair and professor of special education: deaf and hard-of-hearing, was a panelist and grant reader for the U.S. Department of Education. He has been asked nine times to review and evaluate grant proposals submitted by institutions of higher education for funding. • Celeste Brody, associate professor of education, wrote a book, Gender Consciousness and Privilege (Falmer Press, 2000), with six others, including Lewis & Clark College faculty members Nancy Nagel, associate professor of education; Glennellen Pace, associate professor of education; and Patricia Schmuck, former professor of educational administration. Brody and Schmuck also presented a paper and facilitated a panel at the Research on Women in Education Conference at Hofstra University. • Helena Carlson, professor of psychology, has been nominated to be a fellow of the American Psychological Association. She also serves on the National Science Foundation panel to review psychology grant applications. • Ken Clifton, assistant professor of biology, presented a talk, coauthored by students Carolyn Christel '00 and Jesse Ellis '01, titled "Investigating the Foraging Ecology of Shorebirds Within Coastal Wetlands," at the annual meeting of the Western Society of Naturalists in Monterey, Calif. In February, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution will publish "Molecular Sytematics, Zoogeography and Evolutionary Ecology of the Atlantic Parrotfish Genus Sparisoma," by Clifton and others. In December, the cover of Nature magazine featured Clifton's photograph of a coral reef fish. • Annie Dawid, associate professor of English, won first prize in the Phoebe Literary Awards contest for a short story, "The Teacher's Apology Poem." She also won the Julia Peterkin Award for Fiction from Converse College, where she read her winning story, "The Settlement," at the Fall Writer's Series Readings. In addition, The Hungry Mind Review will publish her book review of short stories by Peace Corps writers; Toyon 1999 published a short story, "Faith"; and Arts & Letters published "Snow Blossoms." Dawid presented readings in Portland from American Fiction No. 10 (New River Press), which published her story "Boy at the Piano." • James Duncan, professor of chemistry, published a paper, "Ab Initio Computational Study of the Allenyl Cope Rearrangement of syn-7-Allenylnorbornene," with students Joseph Azar '99, J. Callan Beathe '99, Scott Kennedy '00 and Carolyn Wulf '00, in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Duncan also published two articles: "Direct demonstration in synthetic oligonucleotides that N, N'-bis (2-chloroethyl) -nitrosourea cross links N1 of deoxyguanosine to N3 of deoxycytidine on opposite strands of duplex DNA" in Cancer Research, with Paula Fischhaber, Anna Gall and Paul Hopkins, and "Ab Initio and DFT Calculations on the Cope Rearrangement of 1, 2, 6-Heptatriene" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, with David Hrovat and Weston Thatcher Borden. • Robert Eisinger, assistant professor of political science, spoke on "Partisan Absolution: Exploring Clinton, Democrats and Forgiveness" at the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association annual conference. Eisinger is secretary-treasurer of the association. • Sherry Fowler, assistant professor of art history, presented a paper, "Reorienting History at the Muroji Mirokudo," at a symposium on Recent Research in East Asian Buddhist Art History at the University of California at Los Angeles. • Eban Goodstein, associate professor of economics, published "The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the Environment" (Island Press). Goodstein spoke about his book at an Environmental Studies Board seminar at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He also gave a lecture at Stanford University; the lecture was titled "Can We Afford to Stop Global Warming?" • John Grant, visiting professor of law, has produced the second edition of the Lockerbie Trial Briefing Handbook in conjunction with the Office for Victims of Crime at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Law Society of Scotland. The handbook explains the background to, and the legal issues involved in, the trial of the two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988, killing a total of 270 people. The trial will begin in May and last for at least a year. Grant is director of the Lockerbie Trial Briefing Unit at the University of Glasgow Law School, Scotland, and will attend parts of the trial. • Michael Hitchman, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, presented his paper, "Adding 2-cells to a 2-complex with an eye to ¹2," at the national joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. • Stuart Kaplan, associate professor of communication, presented "Consumer Protection and Privacy Issues on the Internet: The View of the ACLU" at the Oregon State Bar's Continuing Legal Education seminar, "Computer Law Update," in November. • William Kinsella, assistant professor of communication, published "Discourse, Power, and Knowledge in the Management of 'Big Science': The Production of Consensus in a Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory" in the Management Communication Quarterly. Kinsella also presented "Demarcation, Translation, and Boundary Work in the Rhetorical Reconstruction of Nuclear Fusion Research" at the 1999 national conference of the Communication Association in Chicago.

• Lydia Loren, associate professor of law, presented a paper on "The Changing Nature of Derivative Works in the Face of New Technologies" at the fifth annual Business Law Forum at the Lewis & Clark Law School. Her paper will be published in the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law. Loren spoke on "Congressional Responses to Technological Challenges in Copyright Law" at the Oregon State Bar's annual Computer Law Conference. Her article, "Paying the Piper," appeared in the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law. That article discusses the recent Fairness in Music Licensing Act, which modified the portion of the Copyright Act concerning when it is permissible for business to play the radio without needing a license from performance rights organizations such as ASCAP and BMI. The article also discusses the pending dispute before the World Trade Organization brought by the European Union asserting that the new law violates international law. In December, Jurist, the Law Professors Network, named Loren's Web site, "Learning Cyberlaw in Cyberspace," site of the week. The Web site is at www.cyberspacelaw.org. • Jens Mache, assistant professor of computer science, and his students recently presented five papers, two at international conferences. The papers were published in the conference proceedings. Mache presented "How to Schedule Parallel I/O Intensive Jobs" at the Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems and "An Assessment of Gigabit Ethernet as Cluster Interconnect" at the first IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing; both conferences were held in Melbourne, Australia. He and student Erich Hannan '99 wrote "Web Programming: The Lewis and Clark Commuter Computer," presented at the Northwest Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges. Mache and students Jonathan Ben-Hamou '99, Robert Broadhurst '00, David Gekiere '00 and Clark Kirkman IV '01 wrote "Building and Optimizing a Cluster of Computers," which was presented at the Conference on Undergraduate Research of the M.J. Murdock College Science Research Program. He also wrote an abstract, "Parallel I/O Traffic Calls for New Job Scheduling Strategies," presented at SC99&endash;12th ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing. • Andra Makler, department chair and associate professor of education, wrote the final chapter for Bending the Future to Their Will: Civic Women, Social Education and Democracy, edited by Margaret Crocco and O.L. Davis (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). The chapter proposes a new model for civic education based on the work of Mary Sheldon Barnes, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Jane Addams, Mary Beard, Hilda Taba, Marion Thompson Wright and others. • Robert J. Miller, assistant professor of law, was a featured speaker at the third annual American Indian Economic Development Summit in Park City, Utah. He spoke on "Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Partnerships." Miller also spoke about the Makah Tribe and whaling at Lewis & Clark Law School's seventh annual Animal Law Conference, and appeared on a panel presentation regarding salmon and Indian treaty rights at Portland State University. • Nancy Nagel, associate professor of education, published "Real World Problem Solving and Real Learning" in the Australian journal, Schools Today. The article also was the focus of Classroom Leadership Online. • Diane Nelson, assistant professor of anthropology, organized and chaired a panel, "Time and the Highland Ethnographer: The Commitment to Community and the Harvest of Violence, Essays in Honor of Ben and Lois Paul," at the American Anthropological Association national meeting. Nelson also presented a paper, "Producing the Future from the Passionate Attachments of War: Failure and the Foucault Affect in Guatemala." She spoke on "The More You Kill The More You Will Live: The Maya, 'Race,' and the Biopolitical Economy of Peace in Guatemala" in the distinguished lecture series at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the University of California at San Diego. • Roger Nelsen, professor of mathematics, presented a paper, "Distribution functions of copulas: A class of bivariate probability integral transforms," at the national joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. • Richard Peck, professor of international affairs, was a visiting scholar during fall semester with the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. • Richard Rohrbaugh, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies, published an article, "Die Frage nach dem messian-ische Bewusstsein Jesu; Ethnozentrismus und historiche Fragen," in the German volume, Jesus in Neuen Kontexten: Sozialwissenshaftliche Perspektiven der Jesusforschung (Kohlhammer, 2000). Rohrbaugh also has a new book chapter, "Locating Jesus: Gospel Writers' Rhetorical Strategy," in The New Testament World (Routledge, 2000). His book, Social Science Commentary on the Gospel of John, co-authored with Bruce Malina, was reviewed by a panel at the national meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Boston. • William Rottschaefer, professor of philosophy, published two articles: "Moral Learning and Moral Realism: How Empirical Psychology Illuminates Issues in Moral Ontology" in Behavior and Philosophy and "The Transformation of Human Identity and Values: Some Reflections on E.O. Wilson's Consilient Enlightenment Cathechism" in Explorations. Rottschaefer's book, The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency (Cambridge, 1998), has been nominated for the prize for outstanding books in theology and the natural sciences, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. • Vern Rutsala, professor of English, published poems in Willow Springs and The Prose Poem. His poems were reprinted in various anthologies: What Have You Lost? (Green Willow Press, 1999), Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades (Milkweed Editions, 1999), and Living in Storms (Purdue University Press, 1999). He read his poems at Lane Literacy Guild, Eugene Public Library, Nye Beach Arts Council and on "Talking Earth" on radio station KBOO-FM. • Myra Seaman, visiting assistant professor of English, presented a paper, "Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal and the Englishing of Medieval Romance," at the Southeastern Medieval Association's annual conference in Knoxville, Tenn. • Donna Seifer, visiting instructor in Russian, will speak on "Eternal Russia: Land of the Fire Bird" in an Oregon Council for the Humanities lecture series related to the Portland Art Museum's Stroganoff Exhibit of the Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family. The University of Oregon used Seifer's master's thesis, "Quiet Sound: Art and Ideology in Nikita Mikhalkov's 'Without Witnesses'" (University Microfilms), as the primary text in a Russian film culture course. The new course, The Films of Nikita Mikhalkov, drew record enrollment. Seifer serves as president of the board of directors of the Portland-Khabarovsk Sister City Association. • Michael Sexton, dean of admissions, was on the faculty of the Advanced School Counselors Institute for experienced college counselors, preceding the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) conference. He began a three-year term on the NACAC Professional Development Committee. • Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, coauthored a book, The Philosophy of Socrates (Westview Press, 1999), with Thomas Brickhouse. Smith also delivered the following papers: "Cognitive Self-Evaluation, Animal Knowledge, and the KK-Regress" at the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge, and "Incurable Souls and Socratic Psychology" at the University of Alberta and the University of California at Santa Barbara. • Elaine Sutherland, visiting professor of law, gave a paper, "Child Protection in Scotland: Lessons from Orkney," at the fourth International Conference on the Child, Organization for the Protection of Children's Rights, in Montreal. • Marisa Tabizon, coordinator of student activities, is treasurer of the National Association of Campus Activities for the Pacific Northwest region. • Zaher Wahab, professor of education, received a Fulbright fellowship to teach, conduct research and advise at Kazakhstan National University in Alamaty, Kazakhstan, during spring semester. Wahab also presented a paper, "Indian College Students' Survey Regarding National Problems," at the South Asia Studies Conference at the University of British Columbia. • Bruce West, senior lecturer in art and program head of sculpture, has a sculpture, "Water, Water, Water," on permanent display at Lake Oswego's main fire station. The piece is pressed onto a 10-foot-by-11-foot solid sheet of stainless steel and weighs 350 pounds. The sculpture was created with the help of Lewis & Clark students Ian McNicol '99 and Jon Byler '99. • Carol Witherell, professor of education, served as a consultant with educators, artists and scientists from around the country at a workshop to design exhibits for Portland's new Children's Museum, opening in 2001. The Journal of Moral Education published Witherell's review of Mary Pipher's In the Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families.

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