February 23, 2005

Liberal Arts faculty to highlight research in social sciences, humanities

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Four fellows from Purdue University's College of Liberal Arts' faculty development centers will discuss their work during a March 2 symposium.

The presentations, which are free and open to the public, begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union's Lafayette Room.

The presentations feature representatives from the Humanistic Studies Center and the Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences. The presenters and their topics are:

• John Duvall, professor of English and fellow in the Humanistic Studies Center, "Southern Fiction, Blackness, and the Contingency of White Identity."

• Jacqueline Marina, associate professor of philosophy, director of religious studies and fellow in the Humanistic Studies Center, "Plato: Psychic Harmony and Justice as a Social Virtue."

• Timothy Owens, associate professor of sociology and fellow in the Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences, "From Adolescence to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era."

• Theodore Wachs, professor of psychological sciences and fellow in the Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences, "Linking Nutrition, Brain and Environment: The Functional Isolation Hypothesis and Children's Development."

The Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences supports work in social and behavioral sciences in human or animal populations. Fellows in the Humanistic Studies Center pursue scholarly projects in areas such as language, literature, history, philosophy, religion, ethics and rhetoric. Two other centers, the Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence and the Center for Artistic Endeavors, support undergraduate teaching by allowing faculty to pursue research that is focused on teaching and creative projects of an artistic nature, respectively. The centers fund fellows for one semester so they can focus on research specific to their area.

Writer: Amy Patterson-Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Source: Joan Marshall, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts, (765) 494-3666, jmarshall@cla.purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu

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