•Dr. Ciprian Borcea, professor of mathematics, received the Grigore Moisil Award from the Romanian Academy on December 19 for his paper, “The Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs,” co-written by Dr. Ileana Streinu, professor of computer science at Smith College, and published in the journal, “Discrete and Computational Geometry,” Vol. 31, No. 2, pg. 287-303, (February 2004). The Annual Moisil Award is the Academy’s highest honor for theoretical computer science research. The award is named after an important Romanian mathematician and has been presented every year since 2000. The Romanian Academy is a cultural forum, founded in Romania in 1866, that advances scientific research, as well as Romanian language, literature and history. The award was presented at a ceremony recognizing the academy’s 140th anniversary.
• Dr. Robin A. Leaver, professor of sacred music at Westminster Choir College, recently published the following chapters and articles: "Music and the Reformation," in "European Music, 1520-1640," ed. James Haar (Boydell Press); "Background of the Christmas Oratorio: Liturgy, Theology and Unity" (in Dutch) in "Johann Sebastian Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248,” edited by Frans Brouwer (Challenge, Hilversum); "Preface" to "Bach Perspectives 6: J. S. Bach’s Concerted Ensemble Music, The Ouverture,” ed. Gregory G. Butler (University of Illinois Press); "John Wilson: ‘Our Generation’s Most Devoted Encourager of Fine Hymnody’” and various book reviews in "The Hymn" and “Journal of the American Academy of Religion.” The first title of a new series of monographs Dr. Leaver is editing, "Contextual Bach Studies," was also published in the fall in "The Crucifixion in Music: An Analytical Study of the Crucifixus between 1680 and 1800," by Jasmin Melissa Cameron (Scarecrow).

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