People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

RICE NEWS
October 21, 1999

Norman F. Carnahan, adjunct associate professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, with Erich A. Muller and Jorge Pikunic, U. Simon Bolivar, has the following publications: “Shape Factors and Interaction Parameters in Equations of State. I. Repulsion Phenomena in Rigid Particle Systems,” Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 1999, 1, 4259-4266; “Shape Factors and Interaction Parameters in Equations of State. II. Repulsion Phenomena in Multicomponent Rigid Particle Systems,” Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 2000, 20, in press; and, with Muller and Leonid V. Yelash and Thomas Kraska, U. Cologne, “Simplified Equation of State for Nonspherical Hard Particles: An Optimized Shape Factor Approach,” Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 2000, 18, in press. Each publication resulted from an invited lecture Carnahan presented at the first international workshop on Global Phase Diagrams, Walberg, Germany, March 21-24.

Jane Chance, professor, Dept. of English, has presented a lecture titled “‘Mine is Longer’: Gender Difference and Female Authority in the Academy,” with Norman Cantor, in a session on “Autobiographical Criticism in Medieval Studies” organized by Anne Clark Bartlett and Linda MacMillan, 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, Mich., May 6. Chance also served as moderator in a session on “Between East and West: Genders and Nations in the Middle Ages,” organized by Geraldine Heng, 34th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8. In addition, Chance served as introducer and reader, as well as organizer for the other readings, from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” for the performance of Johan de Meij, Symphony No. 1, “The Lord of the Rings,” Rice Symphonic Band, directed by Robert Cesario, Rice U., Houston, Feb. 21. Chance also delivered the “Response to the Reception of Feminist Scholarship in Medieval Literary Study” in a session she also moderated, sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and organized by Regina Psaki, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Dec. 27, 1998. Chance was also interviewed by Charlotte Allen for an article on “Dark Ages?,” Lingua Franca (March 1999), pp. 11-12; and she was asked to serve on the SCMLA 1998 Book Prize Committee, the results of which will be announced this month. Her article, “The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel’s Mother,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 22 (1980), pp. 282-303, has just been reprinted, for the fifth time, in slightly emended form as “Grendel’s Mother and the Women in Beowulf,” in “Readings on Beowulf,” ed. Stephen P. Thomas, pp. 107-111, Greenhaven Literary Companion to British Literature (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998), and for the sixth time in “Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature,” vol. 22, pp. 25-30, ed. Carol T. Gaffke, Anna J. Sheets and Laura A. Wisner-Broyles (Detroit and London: Gale, 1999).

Bruce Etnyre, associate professor, Dept. of Kinesiology, gave two presentations at the World Congress of Physical Therapy in Yokohama, Japan, in May. The titles were “Head and Center of Gravity Motion During Sit-to-Stand Between Back Pain Patients and a Control Group” and “Hip and Knee Displacements During Sit-to-Stand Movements Between Low Back Pain Patients and a Control Group.” The presentations were biomechanics research studies of pain-free individuals compared with low back pain patients for rehabilitation during a sit-to-stand movement. Etnyre also gave a presentation titled “Comparison of Event Timing and Ground Reaction Forces Among Four Methods of Rising from Sitting” at the American College of Sports Medicine, Orlando, Fla., June 4.

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