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- Dr. Ronald A. Hemmel, A.A.G.O., associate
professor of music theory and composition and artistic director
of the Music Computing Center at Westminster, presented his paper,
“See Lola Run: The Compositional Devices of Film Director
Tom Tykwer” at the annual conference of the College Music
Society in November. The paper presents an analysis of Tykwer's
subtle uses of tempo, timbre, modulation, density, variation and
lyrics in the context of the action seen on screen. The College
Music Society is a consortium of college, conservatory, university,
and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines
of music. Its mission is to promote music teaching and learning,
musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and
diversity and interdisciplinary interaction. The annual conference
attracts scholars from across the United States and Canada, as
well as Europe and the Pacific Rim.
- Dr. Robin A. Leaver, professor of sacred music
at Westminster Choir College, presented two lectures at St. Bartholomew’s
Church in New York on two Sundays at the end of August, on Bach’s
short Masses, BWV 234 and 235, before the services in which they
were presented. Hallmark cable channel screened a documentary
on the life and music of Bach in which Dr. Leaver was one of the
primary Bach scholars interviewed. In September, he was the leading
consultant to the Dublin [Ireland] Institute of Technology Conservatory
of Music and Drama for preliminary discussions with regard to
setting up an international, interdisciplinary research center
for the study of the German Baroque, focusing on music and especially
the music of J. S. Bach. In November, he gave a paper on the theological
and liturgical context of Luther’s hymns at the annual conference
of the Good Shepherd Institute for Pastoral Theology and Music
for the Church at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne,
Indiana. He published the essay, “Figs and Thistles: Luther’s
Hymns in English,” in Thine the Amen: Essays on Lutheran
Church Music in Honor of Carl Schalk, ed. Carlos R. Messerli (Lutheran
University Press). Several books were published in which Dr. Leaver’s
scholarly assistance was recorded, including Robert Blocker’s
The Robert Shaw Reader (Yale University Press), Jeffrey S. Sposato’s
The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-century
Anti-Semitic Tradition (Oxford University Press), and Anna Marlis
Burgard’s Hallelujah: the Poetry of Classic Hymns (Celestial
Arts).
- Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, Dr.
Herbert Gishlick, professor of economics, and Dr.
Leonore Taga, associate professor of economics, have
a paper on the financial and economic integration of the EU countries
accepted for presentation at the 2006 conference of the Academy
of Economics and Finance. The paper is co-authored with Dr. Gulser
Meric of Rowan University. With three co-authors from Rowan University,
Ilhan Meric has also recently presented a paper on the 2003 dividend
tax law change at the 2005 conference of the Financial Management
Association.
- Dr. Jacqueline Simon, director of the Education
Enhancement Program, and Dr. Barbara Blandford, director of Services
for Students with Disabilities and associate director of the Education
Enhancement Program gave a presentation on "Navigating Through
an Expanding Integrated Support Program: What's the Impact?" at
the 2005 College Reading and Learning Association Conference held
on November 2-5, 2005 in Long Beach, CA. The presentation focused
on 15 years of research in a comprehensive and successful academic
support program at a four-year institution.
- Dr. Minmin Wang, professor of communication,
and special assistant in the President’s Office, chaired
one panel, "A Chinese Perspective of Group and Organizational
Communication," and was the invited respondent for another
panel, "Political Discourses in the Global Context: Looking
in and Looking out of China," at the National Communication
Annual Convention, November 16-20, in Boston.
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