Grain & Chaff

Bateman Alumni Scholar in Residence Jeff Corwin, host of his own program on the Animal Planet net-work, signs copies of his photo in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center on March 25. Corwin, who is pursuing a master's degree through the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, also spoke to classes and gave a public lecture during his three-day resi-dency. (Thom Kendall photo)

Major promotion

After nearly 17 years of active duty service, professor of Military Science Bernd Schliemann was promoted to lieutenant colonel in a campus ceremony April 1. Colonel J.C. Allard, commander of the 1st Region for Army ROTC and 1st Brigade, presided over the ceremony, which was attended by Schliemann's wife, children and father, interim Chancellor Marcellette G. Williams, interim Provost Charlena Seymour, and other members of the University and Amherst communities. Schliemann has served in Germany, Korea, Desert Storm, Colorado, West Point, and North Carolina; he has a master's de-gree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Insitute of Technology and is a registered professional engineer in Virginia.

Stratford-on-Avon calling

The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley is hosting a reading and booksigning with English professor

Richard Burt, editor of the newly published "Shake-speare After Mass Media," on April 17 at 7 p.m. The book examines the Bard's plays in a wide range of media, including comics, romance novels, "Star Trek," movies, radio ads and popular music. The book is published by St. Martin's Press and is available in hardcover and paperback editions.

Appointment book

Stella Lucia Volpe, associate professor of Nutrition, has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Dietary Reference Intake Panel for Electrolytes and Water. The committee will determine the intakes needed for electrolytes and water for the United States. Volpe's appointment runs through March 2003. Volpe, incidentally, is on sabbatical this semester. She's spending her leave working in labs in Philadelphia, England and Italy.

Beetle-mania

Jian-Rong Gao, a postdoctoral researcher in the Entomology Department,and Kansas State University professor Kun Yan Zhu present their research on the resistance to pesticides of certain insects at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society held April 7-11 in Orlando, Fla. Zhu and Entomology professor J. Marshall Clark have co-authored several papers on pesticide resistance among insects.