Faculty-Staff Achievements
Jason Breves, assistant professor of biology, has won the New Investigator Award from the Comparative
and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society. The award
recognizes the contributions of early-stage investigators in comparative physiology.
Breves is the first recipient of this award from a liberal arts college and will be
recognized at the 2019 Experimental Biology meeting this spring.
Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history, published "Cultural Representations: Head and Body Hair
in Medieval Art" in 鈥淎 Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages,鈥� edited by Roberta
Milliken. She also participated in a session entitled "Patronage and Piety in 15th-Century
French and Flemish Altarpieces" at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in New
York.
JaeEun Kim, choral conductor in the Music Department, recently participated in the Baltimore
Chamber Orchestra (BCO) Conducting Workshop, a week-long workshop at the Peabody Institute
of The Johns Hopkins University.
A new opera by Evan Mack, teaching professor of music, was announced in Broadway World. 鈥溾�� will premiere at the Opera in the Heights New Works Festival in February 2020.
The comedic chamber opera, with libretto by Josh Maguire, presents the story of Russian
President Boris Yeltsin's visit to a Houston supermarket that challenges his view
of communism.
Emma Newcombe, visiting assistant professor of American studies, published 鈥溾�� In Early American Literature.
Murat Yildiz, assistant professor history, appeared on 鈥淭he Ottoman History Podcast鈥� as part of
an episode on 鈥�.鈥�
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