Grain & Chaff

Public speaking

Senior Sasha Senderovich, one of 20 undergraduates in the country named in February to USA Today's 2003 All-USA College Academic Team, was recognized March 28 by Chancellor John V. Lombardi, who presented him with a framed poster portraying this year's winners. Senderovich is majoring in Comparative Literature and Russian and East European Studies. (Stan Sherer photo)

English professor Kirby Farrell, author of "Post-Traumatic Culture," was a guest on Chicago Public Radio's hour-long "Odyssey" program on March 31, discussingtrauma, terrorism and the war. ... Kenneth Kitchell, professor of Classics and president of the American Classical League, was a speaker at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle, West and South, on April 4. He discussed some of the techniques by which Latin teachers may more effectively facilitate the transition from reading elementary, simplified Latin, to reading the Latin of important Roman writers. Kitchell also was an invited speaker at a recent meeting of the Eastern Massachusetts Foreign Language Administrators, where he spoke on "Recruiting and Retaining New Foreign Language Teachers."

Top shelf librarian

Isabel Espinal, Humanities and Anthropology librarian, is one of 50 librarians recognized in Movers & Shakers 2003, a special supplement published by Library Journal in late March. This is the second annual supplement celebrating innovative librarians in the U.S. and Canada, "the people who are shaping the future of libraries." The issue includes both professional and non-degreed workers in all types of libraries, public, academic, school and special libraries. Espinal is one of five librarians honored particularly for their work in recruiting others to the field.

Barbara Osborne, professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, gave the final Distinguished Faculty Lec-ture of the year on April 2. She spoke on "The Short Life and Timely Death of a White Blood Cell." (Stan Sherer photo)