Faculty and Staff Notes

Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing Charisse Harris has been awarded a printmaking residency at Zygote Press in Cleveland, Ohio as part of their fall cohort of BIPOC fellows.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor published a paper with Visiting Assistant Professor of Math Steve Balady (now at CSU San Bernardino) in the journal Computer Science Education. The paper looks at how student attitudes in introductory Computer Science and Math courses align with those of experts.

An excerpt from David Forrest's book A Voice but No Power was published in the latest issue of Social Policy, a magazine for community and labor organizers.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Nathan H. Dize has published a translation of Makenzy Orcel's story "The Totality of Absence" in the Southwest Review's "Horror Issue." The issue was edited by 2022 National Book Award nominees, Sarah Booker and Mónica Ojeda.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen recently published an article, "Photochemical Dearomative Cycloadditions of Quinolines and Alkenes: Scope and Mechanism Studies," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Coauthors include Sam Le ’22 as well as collaborators from UCLA, the University of Indiana, and the University of Munster, Germany.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde published a short story titled "The Future is a Click Away" in BOMB. The story imagines a powerful near future algorithm that takes targeted marketing to an extreme. The piece is available in the latest issue of BOMB, and will also be included in Hyde's forthcoming story collection, The Last Catastrophe.

Ana Cristina Perry, assistant professor of art history, had an interview published in The Brooklyn Rail with Raphael Montañez Ortiz, an internationally renowned Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican artist and educator who grew up in New York City and founder of El Museo del Barrio.

Drew Wilburn continued his work with the third grade classes at Oberlin Elementary School, sharing information about archaeology. For the past 5 years, with a small pandemic break, Professor Wilburn has worked with the third grade team as they explore the IB curriculum, "Who we are in Space and Time." Students participated in the analysis of a "Mystery Cemetery," which helps the third graders analyze a series of "graves" from a fictional culture, based in part on teaching tools from the Archaeological Institute of America.

Visiting Assistant Professor Kasia Ozga's solo exhibition OEKOUMENE in L’Angle, Espace d’art contemporain du Pays Rochois in La Roche Sur Foron, France, opens on September 30 and will be on view through November 19.

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lisa Ryno was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, "Sugar-mediated remodeling of the E. coli transcriptome and its impact on biofilm growth and composition." This $534,002 grant will support student-faculty research on how monosaccharides influence both biofilm growth and composition. Because biofilms play a role in antibiotic resistance, better understanding of the biochemical pathways through which they form could have eventual applications in development of antibiotics or antibiofilm coatings.