Category Archives: Conferences and Presentations

Alumnae/i, Conferences and Presentations

Art Historian Catherine Soussloff (AB ’73, PhD ’82) delivers series of lectures at the College de France

Catherine Soussloff (AB ’73, PhD ’82) was invited as a Visiting Lecturer at the College de France where she delivered a series of lectures on the topic “Michel Foucault on Painting.” The lectures relate to her next book project, Michel Foucault and Painting.

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Catherine Soussloff is Professor of Art History at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. Before that, she taught for 24 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Soussloff earned her doctorate from Bryn Mawr in 1982 with a dissertation directed by David Cast, Critical Topoi in the Sources on the Life of Gianlorenzo Bernini.

 

Awards and Publications, Conferences and Presentations, Current Students, Uncategorized

Xiao Wang wins Student Poster Prize from American Physical Society

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Xiao Wang, Ph.D candidate in Physics, has been chosen as one of the two winners of the 2015 Student Poster Prize by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. Xiao’s project was titled: “Magnetic exchange interaction between Fe³+ and Ho³+ ions in hexagonal HoFeO3 thin films.”

Conferences and Presentations, Current Students, Events

9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium; Christiane Hertel Honored

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Graduate students from both the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research convened for the 9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium on April 9th 2015.

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The event, organized by the Graduate Student Association, kicked off the festivities of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, a nation-wide event founded in 1993 by the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students.

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Held in Thomas Great Hall, the Symposium brought together students and faculty from both schools to pour over the exciting research of several students, who presented their work in poster format.

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Students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also took the opportunity to announce this year’s recipient of the Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award, Professor Emerita Christiane Hertel, History of Art. Two of Professor Hertel’s doctoral advisees, Jamie Richardson and Anna Moblard-Meier, presented the award and shared examples of their advisor’s exemplary mentoring and guidance.

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Conferences and Presentations, Outside Awards

Chemistry graduate students make impressive showing at American Chemical Society’s poster competition

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The Philadelphia Younger Chemists Committee (of the American Chemical Society) held its 15th annual student poster session at the University of the Sciences on March 31st. Two graduate students from Dean Burgmayer’s lab, Doug Gisewhite (M.A. 2014) and Ben Williams (PhD candidate), co-presented their work, “Molybdenum Pyranopterin Dithiolene Complexes: Synthetic Models for Pyran Cyclization in the Molybdenum Cofactor,” and tied for first place in the graduate student/post-doc division. Sarah Burke, a recent graduate of the PhD program in chemistry from Professor Bill Malachowski’s lab, was also in attendance and took third prize in the same division for her poster titled “Boronic Acid Analogs of Anti-HIV Therapies.” Burke is currently at the University of the Sciences working under Dr. John Tomsho.

Also participating in the evening’s festivities were Nissa Abidi (2nd-year graduate student) and other undergraduates from Professor Jason Schmink’s lab.

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Congratulations to all!

Conferences and Presentations, Current Students, Report from the Field

Report from the Field: Maggie Beeler co-organizes timely conference on cultural heritage preservation

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The tragic news of the violent destruction of ancient artifacts and cultural heritage sites in the Middle East by Islamic State militants has prompted widespread condemnation and outrage from around the globe. Maggie Beeler (PhD candidate in Archaeology) and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have organized a conference that, in light of recent world events, has taken on added urgency.

The conference, The Future of the Past: From Amphipolis to Mosul – New Approaches to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Eastern Mediterranean, convenes April 10th-11th at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Dr. Morag Kersel (DePaul University) will deliver the imperative keynote address: “Go, Do Good! Responsibility and the Future of Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 21st Century.”

As Beeler explains:

“We organized the conference in order to foster a dialogue among emerging scholars on the topic on cultural heritage preservation. The conference is timely, though, because it serves to underscore the urgency of cultural heritage preservation efforts in light of the recent rash of destruction of ancient artifacts, both the intentional destruction of archaeological sites and antiquities in museums at the hands of militants and unintentional destruction resulting from violent conflict in the region.”

The two-day conference will also host three sessions of papers by young scholars exploring new and better ways to preserve and protect the past while contending with contemporary political considerations.