Faculty and Staff Notes
Ron Cheung is Featured Expert for MoneyGeek.com
January 18, 2022
Professor of Economics Ron Cheung gave expert advice for two articles on credit cards published by MoneyGeek.com: one on credit ratings, and another on credit card rewards points.
Allegra Hyde Discusses Forthcoming Novel with Gwen Filosa
January 12, 2022
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde appeared on "It’s Too Early with Gwen Filosa," a podcast recorded live weekdays in Key West, to talk about her forthcoming novel, ELEUTHERIA (Vintage).
ELEUTHERIA has been named a most anticipated title of 2022 by LGBT Reads, Autostraddle, and other venues.
Peter Slowik and Louise Zeitlin Featured in Journal of the American Viola Society
January 4, 2022
The Journal of the American Viola Society (AVS) celebrates "Fifty Extraordinary Leaders in Fifty Years" with an article that features Oberlin Professor of Viola Peter Slowik, former AVS President and host of International Viola Congress and Associate Professor of Community Engagement and former secretary of AVS Louise Zeitlin.
Regional Science and Urban Economics Publishes Ron Cheung
January 4, 2022
Professor of Economics Ron Cheung published the article, "Homeowner Associations and City Cohesion," in Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship Awarded to Leonard Smith
January 3, 2022
Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith has been awarded a three-month, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. The institute is located in a villa just outside Florence, Italy. He will begin work on a project comparing law, liberalism, and racial exclusion in 19th century Texas and French Algeria.
John Duca Presents Papers
December 30, 2021
Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca remotely presented "What Drives House Prices: Lessons from the Literature," to the Federal Housing Finance Agency on December 1. Duca also remotely presented the paper, "How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Cushioned the Covid-19 Recession," at the World Banking and Finance Symposium on December 17.
Alicia Smith-Tran Coauthors Article
December 20, 2021
Assistant Professor of Sociology Alicia Smith-Tran coauthored an article about worker misclassification with two researchers at Case Western Reserve University. The article was published in Critical Sociology.
Jim Walsh Coauthors Paper
December 20, 2021
Professor of Mathematics Jim Walsh coauthored the paper, "Synchronous Glacial Cycles in a Nonsmooth Conceptual Climate Model with Asymmetric Hemispheres," which appeared in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. The article presents and analyzes a new conceptual model of the Earth's glacial-interglacial cycles in which the dynamics of distinct Northern and Southern Hemisphere ice caps are coupled through an equation representing the annual global mean surface temperature.
Evan Kresch Presents at Conference on Public Finance
December 16, 2021
Assistant Professor Evan Kresch presented (virtually) in the Egg-timer Session at the 6th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries on December 14, 2021.
Lisa Ryno Publishes Article
December 16, 2021
Luke Buck '21, Maddison Paladino '21, Kyogo Nagashima '24, Emma Brezel '17, Josh Holtzman '21, and Sarel J. Urso '16 coauthored a publication with Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lisa Ryno in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology titled "Temperature-dependent influence of FliA overexpression on PHL628 E. coli biofilm growth and composition."