Faculty news

Israeli scholars meet The founding conference of a new organization, the Association for Israeli Studies, was held at Dartmouth in June. Some 35 scholars from Israel and the U.S. met to discuss Israeli society, its security and foreign policy problems, and trends in Israeli politics. Dartmouth government professor lan Lustick was an organizer of the association, which also intends to publish a scholarly journal. He said professional associations have existed for many other Mideast countries, but not for Israel.

Computing head logs on Donald Z. Spicer, associate professor of mathematics and former associate dean at Vassar College, has been named director of academic computing at Dartmouth. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he also earned a doctorate, and he holds a master's degree from Columbia. He has been at Vassar since 1970. At Dartmouth, he will be a liaison between academic departments and computing services, helping faculty identify ways to use new technologies in their work.

Prof is Stanford trustee

Theodore Mitchell, assistant professor of education, has been elected by the alumni of Stanford University to the school's board of trustees. At age 28, he is the youngest trustee in Stanford history and also the only current trustee who is an academic. Eight of Stanford's 32 board members are elected by alumni. Mitchell himself is a Stanford alumnus, having earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees there. He has been at Dartmouth since 1981.

Grantsmanship

Several faculty members have recently received word of major research grants. Among them: ■ Michael Dorris (Native American studies and anthropology) will receive support next year from the Rockefeller Foundation for a research project on the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on American Indian communities.

■ Suzanne Brown (English) and Bernard Gert (philosophy) have been named 1985- 86 Fulbright Scholars. Brown will spend the year teaching a seminar in American fiction of the eighties at the University of Mannheim in Germany. Gert will teach graduate courses on Thomas Hobbes and the philosophy of human nature at Hebrew University in Israel.

■ John Lyons (French and Italian) has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to study "an important but often overlooked device of language - the example- in Renaissance French and Italian literature."

a Patricia Palmieri (education) has been awarded an American Association of University Women fellowship for 1985-86 to begin a biography of American pacifist Emily Greene Balch, one of only three women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Music profs' praises sung Two music faculty members - musicologist Charles Hamm and composer David Evan Jones - have recentlyreceived national awards for their work. Hamm's Music inthe Nezv World has been named the first recipient of the Sonneck Society's Lowens Award for the"most exemplary work of scholarship concerned with American music." Jones, has been awarded first prize in a national composition contest sponsored by the American New Music Consortium.

Hill's book chosen

Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors by Errol Hill, Willard Professor of Drama and Oratory, has been selected for the annual list of "Outstanding Academic Books" in Choice, the journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

A late spring snowfall didn't hamper this crew of ground-breakers for a new dormitory complex.The $7 4-million project, which will house 240 students, will be across East Wheelock Street fromAlumni Gym. From left to right are Judy McLaughlin; Robert Godshall 72 project manager forthe architect; Paul Paganucci '53, the college's vice president for finance; Cnstia Lesher dean ofresidential life; President David McLaughlin '54; Gordon De Witt'60, dnector of facilities planning;and Phillip Jackson '43, president of the construction firm handling the project.