Faculty News

Computer music award

David Evan Jones, assistant professor of music, has won recognition for his composition Scritto. It received an honorable mention in the 1986 Bourges International Competition for Electro-Acoustic Music in Bourges, France, and will be one of the 11 works included in a listening session at the 1986 International Computer Music Conference.

English professor's writing recognized

A story by Suzanne Hunter Brown, assistant professor of English and codirector of Dartmouth's creative writing program, has been selected for inclusion in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1986, an annual collection of the year's outstanding Southern short fiction, published in September by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Brown is the recipient of a 1985-86 Fulbright Award.

Research grants awarded

Byzantine art historian Kathleen Corrigan, assistant professor of art history, has been awarded a Dunbarton Oaks Fellowship to prepare a monograph on the ninthcentury Byzantine marginal psalters. Her research will pursue the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation, which concerned the earliest preserved Byzantine illustrated psalters, containing hundreds of marginal images associated with the text of the psalms. Corrigan earned her Ph.D. at UCLA and came to Dartmouth in 1983.

Virginia Woolf's 1938 feminist/pacifist pamphlet on how to end war, Three Guineas, is the starting point for a major research project by Associate Professor of English Brenda R. Silver, who has been named a Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College for 1986-87. Her year's residence at the Cambridge, Mass., institute will be preceded by a summer of research in England, funded by a separate grant from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation. Silver's project is entitled "The Fourth Guinea: Virginia Woolf and Feminist Cultural Criticism." Silver, who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and joined the Dartouth faculty in 1972, is the author of Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks. She has served as chair on cochair of the Women's Studies Program and is a member of its steering committee.

The Leukemia Society of America has awarded a five-year $200,000 grant to Dr. Edward D. Ball of the Dartmouth Medical School to support his research on a study of the body's immune defenses system. Dr. Ball, who received his M.D. at Case Western Reserve University, joined the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 1981.

Dr. Gordon W. Gribble, professor of chemistry, has received a $93,500 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Science to continue his work on the synthesis and study of new anticancer agents.