Fall War Teach-In 2010 September 9

Hiram’s Center for Engaged Ethics presents War Teach-In 2010. Join us on the East Hall Lawn Thursday, September 9, 12 to 1:30 p.m., for the following program:

“War as Philosophy-in-Action: Considering Clausewitz’s Dictum That “War is Politics by Other Means,” and Hence a ‘Natural’ Outgrowth of Human Striving” with James Thompson

“Can Sports Stop a War?  Looking into Sports Influence on Social Conflict” with Carl Capellas

“Cowardice and Bravery in War Literature” with Jeff Swenson

“Public Opposition to War: Its History, Consequences, and Morality” with Vivien Sandlund and Audrey Cunningham

“Biological Warfare” with Cara Constance “Pacific Disengagement: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Japan-US. Propaganda in World War II” with Christopher Dewell

“Can Education Prevent War?” with Dawn Sonntag

“Alfred Nobel: The Story of Explosives from Dynamite to Erectile Dysfunction” with Thomas Koehnle

“Metaphorical War: What Does It Mean to Declare War on a Social Problem?” with Jessica Olin and Cynthia Willis-Chun

“War: Saving Lives, Creating Disability” with Michael Blackie and Michelle Nario-Redmond

“Children Soldiers: The Despicable and Unpardonable Way of Fighting a War” with Roger Cram

“Conflicts Between Military and Professional Ethics: Discussion of Recent Cases in Medicine, Psychology, and Sociology” with the Ethics Bowl Club (Caroline Christoff ’12, Corey Trusso ’12, Colin Anderson)

“They Hate our Freedom: Invoking External and Internal Threats” with Paul Gaffney

Fall 2010 Opening Convocation

Join us for Hiram College’s opening convocation on Thursday, September 16, at 12 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium, presented by the Center for Engaged Ethics. The presentation, “Going to War,” features keynote speaker Dr. Louis Fisher.

Panel discussion with Shannon French, director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University and Hiram College Professor of Political Science John Koritansky will follow.

Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages Summer Research Symposium

Hiram College’s Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages presents the Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium. Come on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, from 12 – 1:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Formal Lounge to listen to these presentations:

Shishir Adhikari ’11, “Conformation of a Lennard-Jones chain in explicit solvent: A solvation potential approach”

Sarah Ahmed ’11, “Epoc Scorpion Interfaces”

Chelsea Barattini ’11, “Newcastle’s Disease Virus and Avian Influenza Prevalence in Double-crested Cormorant Breeding Colonies in Southern Ontario”

Ian Barton ’11, Andrew Whims ’12, Nitisha Shrestha ’12, Francesca Luppino ’12, “Biology as a Business: The Hiram Genomics Store”

Shanti Bramhacharya ’11, “Computational Clustering approaches to studying metagenomics”

Liz Ellis ’11, “Distance Metrics and Clustering Approaches with Large Data Sets”

Dobromir Gospodinov ’12, “Is it ok to be a ‘crip’ for a day?”

Cathrine Hamilton ’11, “Investigating Potential Eggshell Targets of Pipe-ST2 in the Drosophila melanogaster eggshell”

Sarirose Hyldahl ’11, “Definitional Discontinuities: A two-Study Cross Impairment Investigation of How Insiders’ Define Disability as a Function of Cultural Identities, Impairment Subjectivities, and Socially Disadvantaged Status”

Matt Jenior ’11, Cody Depew ’121, “Public HIV-1 Database with Molecular Evolutionary Features”

Aung, Pyie Phyo (Kauk Kauk) ’12 “Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of Glassy Systems”

Subrat Khanal, ’12, Sambid Wasti ’12, “Chain conformation in a hard sphere chain model”

Timothy J. Benedict Luttermoser ’12, “Influence of Initial Availability of Carrion on Associated Insect Communities”

Nicole Marotta ’11, “Correlated Mutations Associated with Oseltamivir and Amantadine Drug Resistance in Seasonal Influenza A H1N1 and H3N2 Viruses”

M. Cynthia Martin ’12, “Design and Synthesis of an Arborol-Appended Terpyridine”

Mike Mastromatteo, (WEC) “Temperature controlled TPEPICO study of C2D5Cl”

Claire McCarthy ’11, “Developmental Exposure to Bisphenol-A Affects the Innate Immune Response to Influenza-A Virus Infection Later in Life”

Samuel McCarthy ’11, “Development of Mutator Strains and Analysis of Endoglucanase Knock-out Mutants of Sulfolobus solfataricus”

Jennifer Pekar ’12, “The Identification of Antimicrobial Substances and Other Components of Uropygial Oil”

Jon Rice ’11, “Synthesis and Characterization of a Sterically Hindered tris-Enone”

Eileen Russell ’12, “TPEPICO study of GeCl(CH3)3”

Adrianna Stephens ’11, “Factors that Affect Length of Stay in the Cleveland Clinic Emergency Department”

Calvin Yong ’13, “Cervical lordosis and atlas-axis (C1-C2) 3-D positioning in relation to headaches and migraines in a chiropractic setting”

‘Point of Departure: Five Contemporary Realists’ Art Exhibit

Please join us for “Point of Departure: Five Contemporary Realists,” an art exhibit at the Gelbke Fine Arts Gallery from August 30 through October 1, 2010.

The exhibit features the work of:

Philip Jackson

Paul LaJeunesse

Jason Lewis

Christopher Ryan

Dennis Wojtkiewicz

There will be a reception Friday, September 10, from 5 – 7:30 p.m., with an artist talk at 6 p.m.

The Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Hiram Ranks in Top Colleges in “Washington Monthly”

Hiram ranked in the top 142 colleges in the “Washington Monthly’s” 2010 liberal arts college rankings. “Washington Monthly” rate schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).

For the full listing, go here.

Doug Grimm ’84 Leads Major Merger

Doug Grimm ’84 led the acquisition of Grede Foundries Inc. by Citation Corp., of which he was CEO. The merger, completed in January, resulted in Grede Holdings LLC, a metal component supplier with 3,000 worldwide employees. Grimm is the chairman, president and CEO of the new company. In this role, he is in charge of facilitating communication, combining cultures, setting standards and making sure that the process of merging two companies into one goes as smoothly as possible.

Grimm is also a member of Hiram’s board of visitors and has been very generous to the College with his gifts, including gifts of time and hospitality. He hosted President Chema’s dinner party at the Detroit Athletic Club in December 2009.

For the full story of Grimm’s business merger as reported in SmartBusiness, go here.

McMurray ’04 Swimming with the Fishes

Steven McMurray ’04, a native of Conneaut, Ohio, is currently living 50 feet below the surface of the sea on a coral reef off the Florida Keys as he works toward hisr Ph.D. in marine biology from University of North Carolina Wilmington. You can learn more about him, as well as see him on live webcams at this site here.

Join the “Swarm” to send our Entrepreneur-in-Residence to South By Southwest

BeeDance, a start-up company created by Michael Dungan, Hiram’s entrepreneur-in-residence, is currently in the running to present a panel at the South By Southwest Tech Conference in Austin, Texas, next March. Dungan is looking for more people to join his “swarm” of friends to vote the company onto the conference schedule.

South By Southwest (SXSW) is the largest annual gathering of journalists and film, technology and music professionals in the U.S. Recent high growth tech start-ups Twitter and Foursquare have used SXSW as their launch pad. BeeDance is aiming for similar success at this high profile venue.

The company has proposed a joint panel presentation titled “It’s Nature’s Way – Tech Innovation Through Biomimicry” that would be given by Dungan and Chris Allen of The Biomimicry Institute. The presentation would allow participants to learn how a systems approach that mimics nature’s lessons and resiliency can be adapted to technology design. Biomimicry is a proven design process that asks nature for advice. The application of biomimicry is responsible for the development of successful products ranging from Velcro™ and photovoltaic solar panels to advanced seawater desalination methods and more efficient Japanese bullet trains.

The company is currently in the top 10 for total votes cast out of 2,500 ideas submitted.

You can vote for BeeDance here. You can only vote once and registration is required. Polls close tomorrow, Friday, August 27.

For more information on South By Southwest, check out the conference website.

Corr Helps Train Leaders of Garfield High School Marching Band

Senior Associate Dean of Students/Director of Residential Education Mike Corr helped 20 Garfield High School Marching Band members develop better leadership skills last month.

Corr was asked by Joe Gaither ’07, assistant band director at James A. Garfield School District, to do a Leadership Training workshop for the Section Leaders of the band. The workshop took place on Wednesday, July 21, at the high school. The students and Corr shared over two and a half hours of leadership activities and experiences designed to help them better understand themselves, how to be good teammates and what it means to be a positive team leader.

“I believe that it was a very successful program judging by the feedback I have received from the band directors and the students who participated,” Corr said. “I also think it’s a good example of how Hiram College can partner with the local school systems to promote the kinds of programs we want students to be participating in.”

Smerek Wins Award for Dissertation

Ryan Smerek, assistant professor of management, was recently given an award from the American Association of University Administrators (AAUA) for his dissertation, “Sensemaking and Sensegiving: Leadership Processes of New College Presidents.”

The Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Dissertation Award is named for Leo Goodman-Malamuth, an early member of the AAUA who gave a small gift to endow the award. The award itself is an engraved plaque with Smerek’s name and the title and year of his work.

Smerek will receive the award at the AAUA’s next conference, which will take place November 4 through 6 in Washington, D.C. He will also have the opportunity to give a presentation about his work at a conference session dedicated specifically to the dissertation awards.

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