CAS Department Updates for February 2011

News from the Department of Anthropology

Cameron Wesson The Center for a Public Anthropology has announced that Professor Cameron Wesson has won Public Anthropology’s Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award. Named to honor the 20th century's "First Lady of the World," this award recognizes Dr. Wesson's exceptionally effective participation in Public Anthropology’s Community Action Online Project as wel asl his wider activities in the public sphere. Only a select few – less than 1 percent of the faculty teaching introductory anthropology courses across North America – receive this award.

According to Dr. Rob Borofsky, Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University, "Prof. Wesson is to be commended for how he takes classroom knowledge and applies it to real world challenges, thereby encouraging students to be responsible global citizens. In actively addressing important ethical concerns within anthropology, Prof. Wesson is providing students with the thinking and writing skills needed for active citizenship."

News from the Department of Biology

News from Global and Regional Studies

The UVM Latin American Studies Program Gets a New Name

The Latin American Studies Program has changed its name to the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. While the Latin American Studies Program had long considered the Caribbean part of Latin America, there were some misunderstandings about the relationship of non Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries to the program. Over the past few years, the university has hired a number of Caribbean specialists and the Latin American Studies Program wanted to clarify its commitment to including all of the Caribbean within its program. As a result, we decided to change the name to the “Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.”

In other program news, Caroline Beer has temporarily stepped down as the Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies to take a fellowship at the U.S.-Mexican Studies Center at the University of California, San Diego. Prof. Alex Stewart from the Music Department has taken over as Interim Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. Prof. Stewart can be reached at Alexander.Stewart@uvm.edu.

News from the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies

The Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at UVM has established a mailing list (listserv) for members of the community who would like to receive notices about the many guest lectures and other public programs sponsored by the Center. If you would like to join the mailing list, please refer to the following directions:

To join the list, send an email message to listserv@list.uvm.edu and place a subscribe command, sub chs your_name_here, in the body of the message. Replace "your_name_here" with your first and last name, for example:

sub chs Mary Smith

(You may receive a confirmation message from LISTSERV, just follow the instructions in the message.)

News from the Department of Music

Sam Sherwood 2010 Music and Sociology graduate Sam Sherwood participated in a tribute to American composer Leonard Bernstein at New York City's Symphony Space this past November. Sam, third from the left, is singing the role of Maximilian in the rousing closing number, "Make Our Garden Grow," from Bernstein's Candide. Joining Sam on stage are internationally known soprano Harolyn Blackwell and baritone Jubilant Sykes. In December Sam and his chorus sang in a holiday concert at Carnegie Hall with Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell. To learn more about Sam, visit his website: www.sherwoodsounds.com.

 

 

News from the Department of Physics

Physics Fun at ECHO Congratulations to Dave Hammond and the UVM Society of Physics Students for their highly successful program "Physics Fun@ECHO" held Saturday, January 29 at ECHO Science Center.  Over 400 people learned about lake-related physics topics such as buoyancy, waves, solitons and seiches. UVM physics students performed demonstrations and engaged the public in discussion of the science.  Many of these demonstrations were designed and built by Dave Hammond.  Physics Department Chair Dennis Clougherty says, "I am very grateful to Dave and the students for their efforts."  The photo of the UVM Physics/ECHO team is courtesy of Professor Madalina Furis. Back row, left to right: Jacob Wahlen-Strothman, Lane Manning, Anand Sharma, Colin Riggs. Middle row: Dennis Clougherty, Owen Myers, Mateus Teixeira, Dan Khalaf, Ian Goyette. Front row: David Hammond, Lisa Carpenter, Isabel Kloumann, Megan Force, Stephanie Young, and Naveen Rawat.

 

News from the Department of Political Science