People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

RICE NEWS OFFICE
August 27, 1998

Jane Chance, professor, Dept. of English, organized two sessions, "Teaching
Medieval Women in Introductory Courses" and "Staging Hrotsvit in the
Classroom," with participants from the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on "The
Literary Traditions of Medieval Women," at the International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, Mich.,
May 7 and 8. She also served as moderator for a session on "Language and
the Body in the Medieval Women Mystics," sponsored by Mystics Quarterly
and co-organized with Alexandra Barratt, with participants from the 1997 NEH
Summer Institute held at Rice U., at the International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, Mich., on May 9.
In addition, Chance organized and moderated a session on "Gender, National
Identity, and Cultural Diversity: Medieval and Early Modern European Women and
the Feminized Other" with the 1997 NEH Summer Institute participants at
the Second International Conference, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Dept. of
Sociology and Social Psychology/Network Cultural Studies, U. of Tampere, Tampere,
Finland, June 30. In this session she delivered a paper on "The Translator’s
Return to the Mother (Tongue): Linguistic Castration of the Feminine in Fifteenth-Century
Translations of Christine de Pizan." She was the organizer of two additional
sessions on "Chaucer and Christine de Pizan," which she also moderated;
and "Staging, Performance, Spectacle: Roundtable on Medieval Women in the
Classroom," again with the participants from the 1997 NEH Summer Institute
at the International Medieval Congress, International Medieval Institute, U.
of Leeds, England, on July 15, 1997. She moderated a session on "Women’s
Lyric Voices in Chaucer," at the Biennial Conference of the New Chaucer
Society, held at the U. of Paris-Sorbonne, France, on July 20, and on "English
Literature" at the Fourth Meeting of the International Society for Classical
Studies, U. of Türbingen, Germany, July 29. Finally, she was invited as
semi-plenary speaker, on "Fabulizing Subjectivity in the Literature of
Dissent: The Classical Gods in Late Medieval France and England," at the
Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Classical Studies, U.
of Türbingen, Germany, Aug. 2. Chance has published an entry on "Literary
Influences on Middle English Literature (Medieval Latin)," in "Medieval
England: An Encyclopedia," ed. Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, and
Joel T. Rosenthal, vol. 3, Garland Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (New York:
Garland Press, 1998; "Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century
English Translations of Christine de Pizan," in "Violence Against
Women in Medieval Texts," ed. Anna Walecka Roberts, 161-94, Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 1998; and "The Literary Traditions of Medieval
Women" (The 1997 NEH Summer Institute): Introduction, Description, and
Reading List," for Special Section on "Feminist Pedagogy from Participants
in the 1997 NEH Summer Institute at Rice University," Special Issue on
Teaching Medieval Women, Medieval Feminist Newsletter No. 25 (Spring, 1998):
9-24. She also served as editor for the section, pp. 9-47.

Cheryl J. Craig, senior researcher, Center for Education, recently had her
article, "The Influence of Context on One Teacher’s Interpretive Knowledge
of Team Teaching" published in Teaching and Teaching Education (14:4).
Craig also gave a presentation titled "Author(ity) and School Reform"
for the Principals’ Academy, Houston Independent School District on June 17.

Dr. John L. Margrave, the E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemistry, served as chairman
of a session at the Gordon Research Conference on "High Temperature Materials
Diagnostics and Processing" in Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 19-24, and
presented recent work on "Fluorination of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes."
His co-authors were Edward T. Mickelson, W.T. Chiang, graduate students, Dept.
of Chemistry; Robert H. Hauge, distinguished faculty fellow, Dept. of Chemistry;
and Richard E. Smalley, the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry
and professor of physics. Also, a paper titled "Methylated and Phenylated
C60 from Fluorinated Fullerene Precursors" is to be published in the Journal
of Fluorine Chemistry. Margrave serves on a National Academy of Sciences-National
Research Council Committee Advisory to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory on
"Armor and Armaments" which met at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland,
and on another committee advisory to the Department of Defense on "Demilitarization
of Assembled Chemical Weapons which has met in Pueblo, Colo., (July 12-13) and
in Irvine, Calif. (August 20-21).

Deborah H. Nelson, professor, Dept. of French Studies, gave a presentation
titled "Coping with Isolation: Strategies of Some Medieval French Noblewomen"
at the Ninth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society
at the U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., Canada, on July 31.

Joan E. Strassmann, professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
gave a presentation titled "Queen Control or Convention in Polistes Wasps"
at the Instituto di Zoologia, U. of Florence, Florence, Italy, on June 12. She
also gave a presentation, "Levels of Society Affect the Resolution of Worker-queen
Conflict Over Male Production in Wasps," at the International Society for
Behavioral Ecology Congress in Asilomar, Calif., on June 28.

Marie O. Wehrung, assistant director of Human Resources, has earned the American
Compensation Association’s Certified Compensation Professional designation by
successfully passing a series of nine comprehensive examinations that are designed
to measure an individual’s level of knowledge about compensation and total compensation
management theory and practice.

Duane Windsor, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management in the Jesse H.
Jones Graduate School of Management, presented a paper on "Measuring Corporate
Social Performance" at Cambridge U. in a conference on Performance Measurement:
Theory and Practice (July 14-17) organized by the Judge Institute of Management
Studies and the Institute of Manufacturing. The paper appears in the published
proceedings of the conference. Windsor also made a presentation concerning "Teaching
Business Ethics in an International Management Context" at the Western
Academy of Management meetings in Istanbul, Turkey (June 29-July 2).

James F. Young, professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Applications of Photonic
Technology, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on July 29. His paper was titled "Wavelength
Encoding for Optical Networks," and was co-authored by Tasshi Dennis, graduate
student, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Stephen A. Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting and professor
of managerial studies, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, gave seminars
at 11 universities and conferences in Australia, Northern Ireland, Scotland
and the Netherlands on "The Coming Confrontation on International Accounting
Standards." The confrontation refers to the pressure on the Securities
and Exchange Commission to accept international standards in the financial statements
of foreign companies trading their securities in U.S. capital markets. Zeff
also spoke at several Australian universities on "The Politics of Accounting
Standards" and "Trends in Accounting Research."