Faculty Research Dinners
Trinity University Research Dinners are held approximately once a month during the academic year. Each dinner is an opportunity for a faculty member to present his/her research and discuss it in an informal context with colleagues from all areas of the university. The dinners normally begin at 6:00 p.m. with wine and light snacks, followed by dinner and a brief presentation accompanied by questions and discussion. The events usually end by 8:30 p.m.
Faculty interested in attending should make a reservation by calling Adela Molina-Johnston (x8230). These are very popular events and seats fill quickly.
Next Research Dinner: Tuesday, April 15: Holt Center
Allen Holder (Mathematics) will present Mathematical Improvements in Cancer Therapy
Cancer treatments are tailored to specific patients, with the goal being to optimize the likelihood of success. The field of mathematical programming has recently provided insight into the complex procedure of designing a treatment, and we will discuss the advances supported by modern mathematics and computing.
Past Dinners
Spring 2008
| Carolyn Becker |
Decreasing risk for eating disorders in female athletes: The Female Athlete Body Project |
February 5
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| Christine Drennon |
An Alternative Understanding of the Mortgage Foreclosure Process in San Antonio |
March 13
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Fall 2007
| Bert Chandler |
Designing Nanoparticles & Catalysts for Renewable Energy Applications |
September 24 |
| Jen Matthews |
Gum: The Rise and Fall of Chicle in the Americas |
September 24 |
| Beate Gersch |
A Captive Audience? |
November 8 |
| Nanette LeCoat |
Attacking the French Academy |
November 28 |
Spring 2007
| Arturo Madrid |
Of heretics and interlopers: Part II. |
January 24 |
| Kathy Surpless |
To See a World in a Grain of Sand |
February 21 |
| Julie DeCourcy |
Beyond the Subsidy: Coyotes, Credit, and Fair Trade Coffee |
March 22 |
| Pat Norman & Angela Breidenstein |
Developing Teacher Candidates' Assessment Skills and Dispositions via Protocols |
April 19 |
Fall 2006
| Nicolle Hirschfeld |
After the Gold Rush |
September 28 |
| Andrew Kania |
Pieces of Music: Works, Performances, and Recordings in Classical,
Rock, and Jazz Music |
November 8 |
| Harry Wallace |
Pros and Cons of Narcissism |
November 30 |
Spring 2006
| Dante Suarez |
Complexity, Agency and a New Paradigm for Economics |
January 24 |
| Erwin Cook |
Near Eastern Sources for the Palace of Alkinoos |
February 22 |
| Mark Lewis |
Saturnian Rings, Cassini, and the Role of Simulation |
March 23 |
| Jennifer Henderson |
The Jehovah's Witnesses and Their Plan to Expand First Amendment Freedoms |
April 18 |
Fall 2005
| Michael Fischer |
Stanley Cavell and Criticizing the University from Within |
September 28 |
| Mary Ann Tetreault |
The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib |
October 11 |
| Anene Ejikeme |
Hogan Bassey: Boxing Champion & Nationalist Icon |
November 10 |
| Kelly Lyons |
Securing the Homeland from Invasive Species: What's Diversity Got to do with it? |
December 1 |
Spring 2005
| John McGrath |
Doctor-Patient Communication: The Influence of Electronic Medical Records |
January 26 |
| Ana Forcinito |
Testimony, Memory and Witnessing: Survivors as Cultural Agents in the Argentine Post-dictatorship |
March 9 |
| Aaron Delwich |
Identity Formation in Virtual Worlds: A Case Study from Thailand |
April 7 |
| Dan Walz |
Fate, Fortune, and Retirement |
April 26 |
Fall 2004
| Luis Murillo |
Mexican Catholic: US Citizen |
September 9 |
| Christine Drennon |
Unequal Education on an Uneven Playing Field: Property Tax Redistribution and Equity in Texas Independent School Districts |
October 5 |
| Paula Hertel |
How Cognitive Science Informs our Understanding of Depression |
November 4 |
| Wen Xing |
Graphic Interpretation of Early Chinese Divination |
December 1 |
Spring 2004
| Carl Leafstedt |
Great Art Meets American Indifference?: Two Ways of Looking at Béla Bartók's Final Years in America, 1940-45 |
January 28 |
| David Ribble |
What African Elephant-Shrews Tell Us About the Costs and Benefits of Monogamy |
February 11 |
| Richard Newhauser |
Curiosity and Limits to Inquiry in the Western Tradition |
| Liz Ward |
The Mesquite Line: From Interspiration to Installation |
March 24 |
| Meredith McGuire |
Beyond Syncretism: Rethinking Religious Hybridity |
April 6 |
Fall 2003
| Randall Nadeau |
Is there a Confucian Basis for Human Rights? |
October 7 |
| Claudia Stokes |
Old Boston vs. New York: or, How to Turn Humiliation into a Full Professorship |
October 23 |
| John Heil |
latonic Emotions: a Fair and Balanced Look |
November 4 |
| James Shinkle |
Plants in the Noonday Sun: DNA Damage and Repair in Plants |
November 18 |
Spring 2003
| Jennifer Mathews |
The (Rail) Road Less Traveled: Evidence for an Ancient Maya Causeway and Historic Railway in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico |
February 25 |
| Christopher Pearson |
Synthesis of the Arts or Crisis of Modernism? Discourses of Art, Architecture and Politics in the Building and Reception of UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 1952-58 |
March 27 |
| Sammye Johnson |
Shaping and Reflecting Culture: Magazines for African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American Audiences |
April 10 |
| Kevin Nickels |
Beyond R2D2: State-of-the-Art Robots |
April |
Fall 2002
| Hsiu Chuang Deppman |
Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film: Reading the Cultural Images of Concubines in the Works of Su Tong and Zhang Yimou |
September 25 |
| David Lesch |
Golf in the Middle East: The Socio-Economic Benefits and Repercussions |
October 8 |
| Sussan Siavoshi |
Freedom: Whose Right Is It? A View from the Islamic Republic of Iran |
October 29 |
| Trish Simonite |
Absence and Presence: Landscape as Memory |
November 14 |
Spring 2002
| Alida Metcalf |
Indians, Go-betweens, Europeans: The Struggle to Define the Colony in Sixteenth-Century Brazil |
February 25 |
| David Spener |
A Critical Analysis of the Dominant Discourse about Migrant Smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
March 7 |
| Glenn Meyer |
Perceptions of Lethality |
March 26 |
Mackenzie Brown and
Charlene Moore |
Reanimating the Dead: Violation or Veneration?:Collisions between Science, Art, and Religion |
April 4 |
| Saber Elaydi |
Time Discreteness and Theories of Evolution |
April 18 |