Faculty-Staff Achievements, Feb. 26, 2009

Activity

Roy H. Ginsberg, Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Professor of Government, volunteered to lead an adult education program in Newcomb, N.Y., this winter.  The program, called the Newcomb Winter Foreign Affairs Roundtable, met monthly for the following discussions: foreign affairs during the U.S. presidential race, October; Iraq and Afghanistan, January; Somali piracy, February.  Approximately 30-40 Newcomb residents–nearly 10 percent of the town’s winter population–attended each session. Another series is scheduled for the winter of 2009-10.

Publication

Robert Boyers, professor of English and editor of Salmagundi, edited and wrote the introduction to George Steiner at The New Yorker (2009, New Directions).

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for the following two stories:  “Annual tuition at CMU to hit $40K,” published Feb. 24 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; and “Students weigh in on Davenport Promise,” published Feb. 23 in The Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa.

Paul Calhoun, F. William Harder Professor of Management and Business, was quoted in a story titled “Art of home deal in details,” published Feb. 20 in the Albany Times Union.

Regina Janes, professor of English, was credited, among others, by Nina Shen Rastogi at Slate.com in Rastogi’s Feb. 20, 2009 “Explainer” column titled “Decapitation and the Muslim World: Is there any special significance to beheading in Islam?”

Bob Turner, associate professor of government, was a source for “National GOP accuses Murphy of missing elections in 2000-03,” published Feb. 19 in The Daily Gazette.