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R. Lijek with Mount Holyoke student co-authors M. Dresler, E. Webster, L. Berclaz, S. Breen, D. Hardrick, A. Taylor, J. Graham, and K. Seiger, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity.
Rebeccah Lijek, with Mount Holyoke student co-authors C. Wang, H. Knapp-Broas, J. Graham, K. W. Seiger, E. Webster, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2021 World Microbe Forum and 2021 Boston Bacterial Meeting, where Lijek chaired a session on Host-Microbe Interactions.
Markovits, E. (2023) “The Sovereign and the Tyrant: Boundaries and Violation in Oedipus,” in E. Atanassow, T. Bartscherer, and D. Bateman (Eds). When the People Rule: Popular sovereignty in theory and practice (56-81). Cambridge University Press.
McMenamin, M. (2023) New book Chiral Paleeontology (MedTech Science Press, 2023)
Paleontology lab has discovered the first direct evidence for coloration in a Permian vertebrate (approximately 280 million years old). Students from the Spring 2022 Geol 116 Art in Paleontology class contributed to this study.
Whitmore, M., Coughlan, M., Kahlson, M. A., Alvarez, J., Zebrowski, L., Colodner, K. J., & McMenimen, K. A. (2025). Impact of Sex and Glial Tau Expression on Heat Shock Protein Induction in a Drosophila Model of Tauopathy. ACS Omega. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.5c06686
Wang C., Teng L., Liu Z.S., Kamalova A., McMenimen KA., HspB5 Chaperone Structure and Activity Are Modulated by Chemical-Scale Interactions in the ACD Dimer Interface. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024; 25(1):471. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010471
Adeline Mueller (Music) co-organized and hosted a bicentenary symposium on the blind Viennese pianist, composer and educator Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824), entitled "Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before and After Braille" (November 22-23, 2024 - see ). The hybrid symposium included two keynote speakers and thirteen panelists from across North America and Europe, as well as three music concerts, featuring faculty performers Sherezade Panthaki (voice), Allison Monroe (violin), Sandra Dennis (piano), Adrianne Greenbaum (flute), Larry Schipull (Emeritus, piano), Jiayan Sun (Smith, piano), several student soloists, and the 챬 Chamber Singers and Symphony Orchestra, culminating in the modern-day world premiere of a recently rediscovered cantata by Paradis. The symposium was accompanied by a hands-on, accessible exhibition of archival texts, images and tools related to blind musicians and music education of the blind -- including a modern-day replica of a composing board invented for Paradis, designed and built by Luke Jaeger and colleagues in the Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab. Student research assistant Siggy Ehrlich '26 prepared object labels for the exhibition, a timeline of significant events in Paradis's life, and a map of her European tour.
Adeline Mueller (Music) co-organized and hosted a bicentenary symposium on the blind Viennese pianist, composer and educator Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824), entitled "Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before and After Braille" (November 22-23, 2024 - see ). The hybrid symposium included two keynote speakers and thirteen panelists from across North America and Europe, as well as three music concerts, featuring faculty performers Sherezade Panthaki (voice), Allison Monroe (violin), Sandra Dennis (piano), Adrianne Greenbaum (flute), Larry Schipull (Emeritus, piano), Jiayan Sun (Smith, piano), several student soloists, and the 챬 Chamber Singers and Symphony Orchestra, culminating in the modern-day world premiere of a recently rediscovered cantata by Paradis. The symposium was accompanied by a hands-on, accessible exhibition of archival texts, images and tools related to blind musicians and music education of the blind -- including a modern-day replica of a composing board invented for Paradis, designed and built by Luke Jaeger and colleagues in the Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab. Student research assistant Siggy Ehrlich '26 prepared object labels for the exhibition, a timeline of significant events in Paradis's life, and a map of her European tour.
Zhang, L., Swirtz, M. & Nordstrom, K. (2025). Physics identity of Asian identified US college students, Physical Review Physics Education Research, 21, 010110.