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and Letters Collin Asmus (art) received grants from the Mississippi Arts Alliance and the Mississippi Arts Commission. The grants will support his work combining traditional painting and sculpture techniques with methods of computer imaging and digital filmmaking. Robert Kahn and Adolfo Cacheiro (mod. lang.) accompanied 17 students on the Millsaps Summer Program in Costa Rica. Claudine Chadeyras and Priscilla Fermon (mod. lang.) accompanied five students on the Summer Program in Nice, France. Morgan Gadd (thea.) taught courses in Interpersonal Communications and Human Relations at the Open Learning Institute in Hong Kong as part of their English as a Second Language program. Anne Hardcastle’s (mod. lang.) paper “Peter Pan y Primera Memoria: La perversion de un mito” has been accepted for publication in Analecta malacitana at the University of Valencia, Spain. Patrick Hopkins (phil.) presented “The Civil Rights Movement of the Future: Rights for Clones, Cyborgs, and Computers” at the Odyssey Project of the California State University at Long Beach. His paper is in a new textbook, Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, due out next summer. Library Journal, the oldest independent national library publication, has included Robert McElvaine’s (hist.) book The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents in its list of the top 20 University Press Best Sellers. Elizabeth Moak (music) attended the 2000 “Focus on Piano” seminar at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, which featured seven leading American composers and the premieres of their piano works commissioned for the event. She also served on the faculty of the Mississippi Keyboard Camp for junior high and high school age piano students. Nash Noble (music) completed the initial phases of Clinical Pastoral Education at Baptist Health Systems. Darby Ray (rel. stud.) presented “Trick and Treat: The Surprising Plasticity of Christian Ethics” at the “Morality and Its Other(s)” national conference in Michigan. PREVIOUS PAGE | PAGE 1 OF 5 | TO SCIENCES |