Faculty File

In the wake of Taiwan's first direct presidential elections, Colby's East Asian political science expert, Assistant Professor Suisheng Zhao, heard the sweetest words a political analyst can hear: "You predicted everything."

Eight Earn Tenure

The Board of Trustees has approved the recommendations of the Promotion and Tenure Committee and granted tenure to eight faculty members.

Making Cents of the Deficit
Throughout the budget battle of 1995-96, as President Clinton wrangled with a stubborn Congressional freshman class and federal workers were repeatedly sent on furlough, Assistant Professor of Economics Saranna Robinson Thornton '81 maintained that almost no one was getting the point.

Pundits & Plaudits

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. MacArthur Associate Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, was quoted in a Baltimore Sun article.

Political debate about the budget deficit in the United States has gathered momentum as public concern over the problem intensified, and President Bill Clinton was among the most strident, said G. Calvin Mackenzie, Distinguished Presidential Professor of American Government, in an article in the Boston Sunday Globe.

In an opinion article in the Chicago Tribune, Professor of History and East Asian Studies Lee Feigon analyzed the recent decision by the Chinese government to select the next Panchen Lama, the most powerful figure in Tibet after the Dalai Lama.

Faculty Notes

Larissa Taylor, assistant professor of history, was chosen as one of two recipients of the John Nicholas Brown Prize for 1996 for her book Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France. . . . Ira Sadoff, Dana Professor of Poetry, received the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. The prize, which "recognizes freshness and originality" and "a stand against oppression in all its forms," was given to Sadoff for poems from his forthcoming collection, Delirious, to be published by David Godine in May 1997. . . . Herbert Wilson, associate professor of biology, presented a paper and chaired a session for the Cooper Ornithological Society in San Diego. . . . Deborah Norden, assistant professor of government, chaired a panel for the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago. . . . Adrianna Paliyenko, assistant professor of French, chaired a session for the Northeast Modern Language Association in Montreal. . . . Batya Friedman, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, was a workshop leader for a conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Vancouver. . . . Harriett Matthews, professor of art, exhibited her recent sculpture and drawings in the Colby Museum of Art.