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Associate Professor of Spanish Robert Mowry received the John C. Horn Distinguished Service Lectureship. Mowry began teaching at Susquehanna in 1962, having received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's and doctorate degrees from Middlebury College. "He has had a passion from the time he expressed interest in a faculty position here to be a mediator to students, colleagues, and others of the subjects that have been at the heart of his teaching and scholarship for almost 40 years: Spanish language, literature, and culture," said Warren Funk, vice president for academic affairs. Named for the late John C. Horn, a long-time member and chair of the board of directors of the University, the award recognizes a faculty member for outstanding scholarship and conscientious service to the University. The recipient offers a public lecture in the following academic year.

Assistant Professor of Biology Tammy Tobin-Janzen and Professor of English Gary Fincke, director of The Writers' Institute, were recipients of the 2001 Susquehanna University Teaching Award. Fincke joined the faculty in 1980 and holds a bachelor's degree from Thiel College, a master's degree from Miami University, and a doctorate from Kent State University. A prolific writer, he is widely recognized for his poetry, short fiction, and essays. Founder of the Visiting Writers Series at Susquehanna, he was instrumental in the development of a popular new writing major. Since 1984, Fincke has published 11 collections of poetry, three collections of short stories and a novel. His poetry has appeared in more than 50 publications. His work has been recognized with several national awards including a 2001 Pushcart Prize for nonfiction. Tobin-Janzen joined the faculty in 1994 and holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a doctorate from Texas A & M University. The award recognizes her reputation for exciting and imaginative teaching and collaboration with colleagues and with student researchers in her area of genetics and also in immunology and microbiology. Her current research includes studies of the evolution of genetic mechanisms that control antibody production in marsupials. She is also one of six Susquehanna science faculty collaborating on interdisciplinary research exploring the environmental effects of the Centralia, Pa., underground mine fire.

A recent publication by Assistant Professor of Sociology Simona Hill, "All I Can Cook Is Crack on a Spoon: A Sign For A New Generation of Feminists," was released by Routledge in October 2001 in the second edition of This Bridge Called My Back, 20 Years Later, an anthology. She also presented at a roundtable discussion, "Where Do We Go From Here? Entering the New Millennium," the American Studies Association annual conference in Detroit, Mich., in October. Hill, who joined the faculty in 1998, holds the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Task Force for Diversity in the Curriculum and the Core Curriculum Review Committee, she is faculty advisor for both the Sociology Club and The Sisterhood and a faculty master resident living in Seibert Hall.

Two papers co-written by Alan R. Warehime Professor of Business Administration William A. Ward and Associate Professor of Economics Antonin Rusek have been published in recent issues of economics journals. "Information Type of Goods and the New Paradigm Economy" appeared in the December 2000 issue of the Atlantic Economic Journal, the official publication of the Atlantic Economic Society. A second article, "Czech Crown or Euro," was published in the April 2001 issue of Political Economy, a journal published by the University of Economics in Prague, The Czech Republic.
Rusek and Associate Professor of Economics Olugbenga Onafowora both presented papers at the International Atlantic Economic Society conference in Athens, Greece, in March. Onafowora presented "Depreciations and Output Contractions in East Asia: Further Empirical Results" and chaired the session on consumption, saving and investment. Rusek presented the paper "Pros and Cons of 'Official Dollarization' in Eastern Europe."

Assistant Professor of History David Imhoof received the Junior Scholar Award for best paper presented at the Fifth Congress of the History of Sport in Europe in Madrid, Spain. He delivered a paper entitled "Guns of Tradition, Guns of Change: Sharpshooting Clubs in Interwar Germany, The Example of Goettingen." He also delivered a paper entitled "Old and New, Local and International: Interwar German Culture in the City of Goettingen" at the Annual German Studies Association Conference.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Steven Mayer, along with Susquehanna chemistry majors Luke Yosca, Jeremy Gach, Scott Paris, and Phil Tackett had an article, "A highly repeatable technique for introducing solids and liquids into a supercritical fluid solvent" published in a recent edition of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids. A physical chemist who joined the faculty in 1999, Mayer earned his Ph.D. at Oregon State University. He collaborates regularly with students in his research studying the effect of solvation on chemical reaction dynamics using supercritical fluids. Supercritical fluids exist at temperatures and pressures higher than the gas-liquid coexistence line and are extremely compressible, allowing researchers to control the physical environment in which solute molecules exist. By changing the solvent density, the solute behavior exhibits trends as a function of individual parameters such as pressure or temperature.

Assistant Professor of Music Gail Levinsky performed at the 6th annual Festival of Women Composers held at Indiana University in Pennsylvania in March. Levinsky and her pianist, Jackie Edwards-Henry of Mississippi State University, performed "Holy Roller," a composition for saxophone and piano by Libby Larsen, featured composer of the festival. Director of the Susquehanna University Jazz Ensemble, Levinsky is an active recitalist and clinician and national treasurer for the North American Saxophone Alliance and coordinator of the Classical Saxophone and Jazz Improvisation Competition. Her current projects include "Saxsounds," a recording showcasing the versatility of the saxophone featuring compositions that join the saxophone with piano, organ, tenor voice, and computer-generated sounds - the latter composition by Assistant Professor of Music Patrick Long. Long recently performed his work "Sinfonia Impromptu" for electronic percussion and interactive computer music system at the Society of Composers, Inc. national conference in Syracuse, N.Y. His new electronic piece entitled "Ascension," which was commissioned by the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Dance Department, was premiered in Geneva, N.Y., with choreography by Cynthia Williams.

Assistant Professor of English Karen Holmberg has won the 2000 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry for The Perseids, her first book of poetry, published by the University of North Texas Press. Holmberg, who joined the faculty in 2001, holds a doctorate in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri - Columbia, master's degrees from the University of California - Irvine and University of Southern California, and a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College. She is also a two-time winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and has had her work published in The Paris Review, Slate, and The Nation.

Associate Professor of Biology Thomas Peeler has received a $129,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to purchase a confocal microscope system to support student/faculty research in cell and molecular biology at Susquehanna. The advanced laser scanning microscope offers enhanced resolution and the ability to reconstruct 3D images from ultrathin optical sections. The new equipment will enhance and expand the scope of student senior research projects and provide significant training opportunities for students planning for graduate school or employment in the field of biomedical research. The confocal microscope will allow Peeler to view the cytoskeletal network in heart cells for his research focusing on molecular mechanisms of heart disease associated with high blood pressure. Associate Professor David Richard, an insect endocrinologist, will use the instrument in studies of the role of key proteins in the uptake of yolk during egg development in Drosophila, the fruit fly. Such information could provide a possible key to a novel form of insect control. Associate Professor Margaret Peeler will also use the confocal microscope to follow the expression of regulatory proteins believed to be responsible for cell fate determination in her research on the early development of the sea urchin embryo.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Andrea M. Lopez presented a paper, "Intervention and Legitimacy: Military Intervention in Civil Wars," at the November 2000 Joint Conference of the Northeast Political Science Association and International Studies Association-Northeast in Albany, N.Y. Lopez, who joined the faculty in 2000, specializes in international relations and has a particular interest in Russia, Eastern Europe and ethnic conflict. She also works closely with students in the University's International Studies interdisciplinary program.