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WORCESTER, Mass. – From the history of Charleston to the philosophy of viewing art to the practice of Catholicism, faculty members at the College of the Holy Cross have authored numerous books in a range of subjects recently. Many of the books have received praise from experts in their respective fields.

Among them:

Avery-Peck, Alan J. (ed.). The Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Vol. 9. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006.

This journal presents research on fundamental problems in the study of the authoritative texts, beliefs and practices, events and ideas, of the Judaic religious world from the Hellenistic period to the present. Pseudepigrapha, the editing of the Babylonian Talmud, life in Late Roman Palestine, Pharisaic law, vegetarian ideology in Judaism, and the Church Fathers’ use of Rabbinic Midrashic techniques. Avery-Peck is professor and chair of the religious studies department.

Avery-Peck, Alan J. & Jacob Neusner (eds.). The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective. Part Two. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006.

This second of a two-part project on the Mishnah in contemporary study, displays a broad selection of approaches to the study of the Mishnah in the contemporary academy. Topics in this volume include the problem of Mishnaic historiography, the construction of households in the Mishnah, archaeology and the Mishnah’s legal tradition, and the Poetics of the Mishnaic literature. Avery-Peck is professor and chair of the religious studies department.

Avery-Peck, Alan J., Jacob Neusner and William Green (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Judaism Second Edition, enlarged and expanded. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005.

In four volumes and 2948 pages, this encyclopedia covers the religion of Judaism beginning in ancient Israelite times and extending to our own day. Containing 150 major articles written by scholars in North America, Europe, and Israel, it treats Jewish religion, history, literature, beliefs, observances, practices, and the place of Jews and Judaism in diverse societies and cultures. This second edition doubles the size of the original publication, so as to cover all aspects of Jewish history and practice as well as to provide accounts of the character of contemporary Jewish communities around the world. Avery-Peck is professor and chair of the religious studies department.

Bizzell, Patricia L. (ed.). Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers Inc., 2006.

Rhetorical Agendas comprises the proceedings of the 2004 biennial international conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. In addition to keynote addresses by Lester Faigley, Gerard Hauser, Peter Mack, and Jacqueline Jones Royster, 36 additional papers from the conference are grouped under these headings: History, Theory, Pedagogy, Publics, and Gender. Bizzell is a professor in the English department.

Cass, Loren R. The Failures of American and European Climate Policy: International Norms, Domestic Politics, and Unachievable Commitments. State University of New York Press, 2006.

Cass, associate professor of political science, argues that international norms and normative debates provide the key to understanding the evolution of both domestic and international responses to the threat of global climate change. The focus of analysis is German, British, European Union, and American climate policy between 1985 and 2005. He examines why some nations, but not others, have made climate commitments and succeeded or failed to meet these commitments.

Clark, S.J., William A. A Voice of Their Own: The Authority of the Local Parish. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005.

In light of three parish studies, Fr. Clark, assistant professor of religious studies, examines community, intimacy, and authority, and claims that a fundamental aspect of ecclesial authority resides in the local community.

Clooney, S.J., Francis (ed.). Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century. Lexington Books, 2006.

Nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at colleges and universities — including Holy Cross alumnus Fr. Bruce T. Morrill, S.J., ’81 and professor Rev. William E. Stempsey, S.J., M.D., professor and chair of the College’s philosophy department — reflect on their academic work, explaining why they engage in this endeavor and how it coheres with their self-understanding as Jesuits. In accounts that weave together scholarly lives and personal stories, the contributors explore the irreducible diversity of their experiences and criticize the dominant modern synthesis that shaped Jesuit institutions of higher education from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through unconventional ways of discussing Jesuits, scholarship and religious intellectual inquiry, this book challenges scholars to speak more critically and imaginatively on these subjects.

Cording, Robert K. Common Life. Cavankerry Press, 2006.

Cording, professor of English, looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary and vulgar and profane. The book’s perspective is religious, and is grounded in the epigraph from the Psalms: “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” The “waiting” that is required has to do with three things: first, our desire, as Charles Wright puts it, “to believe in belief” rather than believe; secondly, the need for a setting aside of the self, an abandonment of “every attempt to make something of oneself, even … a righteous person” in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and thirdly, the “waiting” must be as Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets a waiting “without hope for hope would be hope of the wrong thing.” If we learn to wait in these ways, the final section of the book suggests that we have the chance of opening ourselves to all that is graceful within life’s common bounds.

Dustin, Christopher A., and Joanna E. Ziegler. Practicing Mortality: Art Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005.

Dustin, associate professor and chair of the philosophy department, and Ziegler, professor of visual arts, are authors of Practicing Mortality, a collaborative endeavor to deepen readers’ understanding of “contemplative seeing” through the works of Plato, Thoreau, Heidegger and more. The authors explore what it means to “see” reality and contemplate how viewing reality philosophically and artfully is a form of spirituality. In this way, the authors propose a way of seeing that unites both critical scrutiny and spiritual involvement, as opposed to simple passive reception.

Kom, Ambroise. Jalons pour un dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue française des pays du Maghreb. L’Harmattan, 2006.

Last volume of a trilogy that includes the Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires de langue francaise en Afrique au Sud du Sahara, Volume 1 (1983) and Volume 2 (1996). The goal of this project is to develop a useful instrument to appreciate francophone literary production of the African continent as a whole. Kom is a professor in the modern languages and literatures department.

Kom, Ambroise. Mongo Beti Parle. Homispheres, 2006. (Originally published in 2002, this is an enlarged edition.)

Mongo Beti (1932-2001) is one of the most original francophone African writers. Novelist, essayist, human rights and political activist, he spent more than 40 years of his life in exile. Mongo Beti parle is his last words, the result of interviews recorded two years before his death. Kom is a professor in the modern languages and literatures department. Kom is a professor in the modern languages and literatures department.

Lapomarda, S.J., Vincent A. The Jesuits and the Third Reich. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.

In The Jesuits and the Third Reich, Second Edition, Fr. Lapomarda, associate professor in the history department, describes Nazi persecutions of the Jesuit order during the Third Reich and the fates of many Jesuits in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States, Russia, Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, the Low Countries and France. He also focuses on Jesuit efforts in defense of human rights — particularly those of Jews — and provides a corrective to such views of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nazi period as that popularized by Rolf Hochhuth in The Deputy. According to America magazine, “Readers of Father Lapomarda’s excellent book, rich in notes and bibliography, can understand better the dimensions of a drama that struck one small, if representative, group of servants of the church before and during World War II.”

Luria, Sarah. Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. Lebanon, N.H.: University of New England Press, 2006.

Luria, associate professor of English, pursues the vital political connection between architecture and literature in the formation in 1791 of America’s grand new capital city. City planners believed that designing Washington, D.C. as a physical model of the Constitution and its balance of powers would help citizens bond with the newly created nation. Once established, Luria argues, the capital became a stage for the visions of subsequent reformers. Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and Henry Adams, all lived in the capital, and, as Luria shows, shaped its space in significant ways in an attempt to realize their written visions of how the nation should change. Clarifying the dynamic relations among discourse, economics, politics, and the built environment, Luria demonstrates how keenly architectural history is interwoven into American literary and political life.

Morrill, S.J., Bruce T., Susan Rodgers, and Joanna E. Ziegler (eds.). Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

This collected papers volume, based on a 2002 national conference held at Holy Cross’ Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, interprets world Catholicism as a deeply embodied and performed faith. Chapters range in subject from medieval rituals to contemporary faith practices in Massachusetts; scholars include art historians, liturgical theologians, performance artists, historians, and anthropologists. Rodgers is professor of anthropology, and Ziegler, an art historian and medievalist, is professor of visual arts.

Murphy, Frederick J. An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.

Murphy, professor of religious studies, introduces readers to the four Gospels by discussing the variety of ways in which the Gospels are studied, describing their historical, cultural, and literary contexts, and analyzing each biblical gospel in depth. In addition, the book goes beyond biblical sources by surveying gospels outside the Bible. All gospels were written a generation or more after the death of Jesus, so this book also explains how historians attempt to study the historical Jesus. Finally, there is a chapter on why Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were chosen for inclusion in the Bible, to the exclusion of others.

Raguin, Virginia C. (ed.). Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538-1850. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006.

In 224 profusely illustrated pages this book reflects an exhibition in Holy Cross’ Cantor Art Gallery of religious art borrowed from Jesuit institutions in England and the United States. These objects include chalices, vestments, sculpture, manuscripts, and stained glass preserved by Catholics after England became Protestant. Raguin, professor of visual arts, and seven other scholars profile aspects of piety, politics, and art, including the early missionary work of the Society of Jesus in England and the Maryland Colony. The collected essays also treat the 19th-century rehabilitation of the art of the Middle Ages and the restoration of legal rights for Catholics who were pioneers in the collecting of medieval art and early patrons of the Gothic Revival.

Raguin, Virginia C., and Sarah Stanbury (eds.). Women’s’ Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.

Raguin, professor of visual arts, and Stanbury, associate professor of English, have collaborated with six other scholars to produce a cross-disciplinary study of gendered spaces in the Middle Ages. Raguin and Stanbury both give different perceptions on architectural space and donor representations for the widely-read text The Book of Margery Kempe. Other essays explore theater, burial customs, the power of donations, clerical exclusion of women from sacred spaces and women’s strategies for inclusion, and gendered representation in binary coding of right for male and left for female.

Reynolds, Paige. Pearson Introduction to Literature. Boston: Pearson Editorial Board, 2005.

Reynolds, associate professor of English, is a member of the editorial board for The Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature. The Custom Library combines the flexibility of a customizable database anthology with the breadth of an Introduction to Literature anthology. It offers more than 700 literature selections by more than 375 authors, with a wide range of supporting apparatus, such as glossaries, MLA guidelines, and introductions to literary genres and theory. Instructors simply select the materials they want for their own literary anthology, and obtain for their classes a hardcopy anthology of their own design. Other members of the editorial board include: Kathleen Shine Cain, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Janice Neuleib Stanley Orr, and Stephen Ruffuss.

Rodgers, Susan. Print, Poetics and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia. Leinden the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005.

Rodgers, professor of anthropology, offers the first English translation of a major Sumatran chanted epic, the story of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim Leman. The epic was written down by a politically savvy newspaper freelancer from the Angkola Batak society, a mostly Muslim group. He published his folkloric epic in 1941, on the eve of the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Rodgers’ book, based on research supported by a 2000-2001 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, presents a political anthropology reading of this remarkable printed epic.

Roorbach, Bill. Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey. The Dial Press, 2006.

Roorbach, Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters in the English department, chronicles his determination to follow a stream that runs by his home in Maine to its elusive source. While on his many walks, Roorbach discovers a world of nature along the stream, and he records the incidents, thoughts and memories that he encounters there in this collection of essays. At times, his wife or their newborn baby accompanies him on these humorous and poignant outings, but more often just his two dogs are at his side as he experiences the flowers, trees, wildlife — and even the garbage — along Temple Stream. The Hartford Courant raves: “ Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world.”

Ross, Claudia N., and Jing-heng Sheng Ma. Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar. Routledge Press, 2006.

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as phrase order, nouns, verbs and specifiers. Part B is organized around language functions and situations. The two parts of the Grammar are closely linked by extensive cross-references, providing a grammatical and functional perspective on many patterns. Ross is a professor in the modern languages and literatures department.

Ross, Claudia N., Baozhang He & Jing-heng Sheng Ma, Workbook for Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar. Routledge Press, 2006.

The Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Mandarin Chinese. Divided into two sections, the workbook initially provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures, and moves on to practice everyday functions such as making introductions, apologizing and expressing needs. Ross is a professor in the modern languages and literatures department. He is visiting assistant professor in the modern languages and literatures department.

Stempsey, S.J., William E. Elisha Bartlett’s Philosophy of Medicine. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2005.

This volume by Fr. Stempsey, associate professor of philosophy, is the first systematic American work on the philosophy of medicine, An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science (Philadelphia, 1844), by Elisha Bartlett (1804-1855). The book is divided into two parts: Part I consists of a critical introduction that gives a biographical sketch of Elisha Bartlett and situates his empiricist philosophy of medicine within the philosophical debates of the various theoretical schools of medical practice of early 19th-century America. Short summaries of Bartlett’s other writings and important addresses are presented, and many of the reviews of Bartlett’s work that appeared in the medical journals of his time are discussed. Also, the influence of the Paris clinical school on Bartlett’s philosophy is shown. Part II contains the Essay, and includes a previously unpublished manuscript of Bartlett’s philosophy of therapeutics, which develops some of the ideas of the Essay and adds another facet to Bartlett’s philosophy of medicine. In conclusion, some critical notes on Bartlett’s works are incorporated. A bibliography includes Bartlett’s published work, published reviews of his work, unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and secondary literature on Bartlett and the philosophy of 19th-century medicine, and the book’s index provides scholars access to the major ideas in Bartlett’s work.

Stueber, Karsten R. Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences. MIT Press, 2006.

In this timely and wide-ranging study, Stueber, associate professor of philosophy, argues that empathy is epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other agents — that it is something we cannot do without in order to gain understanding of other minds. Empathy, regarded at the beginning of the 20th century as the fundamental method of gaining knowledge of other minds, has suffered a century of philosophical neglect. Stueber addresses the “plausible” philosophical misgivings about empathy that have been responsible for its failure to gain widespread philosophical acceptance. Setting his argument in the context of contemporary philosophy of mind and the interdisciplinary debate about the nature of our everyday mindreading abilities, Stueber counters objections raised by some in the philosophy of social science and argues that it is time to rehabilitate the empathy thesis. He argues persuasively that empathy should be regarded as the central default mode for understanding other agents, even if empathy’s scope is limited.

Waldoff, Jessica P. Recognition in Mozart’s Operas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Recognition in Mozart’s Operas, by Waldoff, associate professor and chair of the music department, is a thoughtful and insightful discourse that uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of the composer’s best-loved operas. Through close readings of Mozart’s operas, including Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutte, Waldoff taps the unexplored themes of knowledge and discovery that figure prominently in many of these works. She argues that rather than offering the happy endings or tragic climaxes of traditional operas, many of Mozart’s works feature scenes of recognition — moments in which a protagonist has an important revelation that changes the course of the drama. Drawing on Aristotle’s Poetics, the works of contemporary critics such as Terence Cave, and her own reflections, the author provides a critical account of Mozart’s recognition scenes.

West, Michael R. The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

West, associate professor of history, offers a major reinterpretation of one of the most complex and controversial figures in American history. Lauded by some as a black George Washington, derided by others as a Benedict Arnold, Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. In this biography, West reveals the personal and political dimensions of his subject’s journey “up from slavery.” He explains why Washington’s ideas resonated so strongly in the post-Reconstruction era and considers their often negative influence in the continuing struggle for equality in the United States. His work also establishes a foundation for understanding the ideological origins of the civil rights movement.

Yuhl, Stephanie E. A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston. The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

In A Golden Haze of Memory, Yuhl, associate professor of history, critically examines the city of Charleston, S.C., between 1920 and 1940. It was during this time that city leaders worked to promote Charleston’s cultural heritage and national value. Through a network of elite white artists, literary figures and cultural groups, the city marketed its architecture, art, literature and African American folk culture — and downplayed its Confederate associations. Yuhl believes that this “sanitized” version of southern history was a translation of the memories of privileged whites into a collective identity for the city that ultimately protected social hierarchies and preserved their power. Yuhl’s book has received two national awards this past year: the 2006 Historic Preservation Book Prize (sponsored by Mary Washington University) and the 2006 Willie Lee Rose Prize for best book in Southern history written by a woman from the Southern Association of Women’s Historians.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross basketball fans across the country will be able to catch the Crusaders in action online this year. A total of 24 men’s and women’s basketball games this season will be available through live Web streaming on www.PatriotLeague.com.

In partnership with College Sports Television Online, the Partiot League is offering more than 100 men’s and women’s basketball games as part of the new Patriot League All-Access package. The first games will be streamed on Jan. 6, when the Crusader men’s and women’s basketball teams take on Lafayette.

Holy Cross is a founding member of the Patriot League, an NCAA Division I league that stresses academics as well as athletic achievement. CSTV Networks, Inc., part of CBS Corporation, is the leading digital and cable programming company dedicated to college sports.

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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross presents Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art from Jan. 11 to Feb. 13, 2007. The exhibition, co-sponsored by the Holy Cross Latin American and Latino Studies Concentration, illustrates how Cuban American artists have negotiated their identities.

Layers: Collecting Cuban American Art is comprised of selections from three contemporary art collections, two private and one university collection. More than 40 works in painting, sculpture, photography and video by well-known and emerging artists will be featured in the exhibition, including works by María Brito, Emilio Falero, Alberto Rey, Paul Sierra, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Ana Mendieta and others.

A series of events in conjunction with the exhibit will be held at the Cantor Art Gallery on Jan. 24:

• 4-5 p.m. Gallery talk, “Identity in Art,” by Jorge J.E. Gracia, Samual P. Capen Chair and distinguished professor in the department of philosophy at State University of New York at Buffalo.
• 5:30-6p.m. Curator’s overview with Lynette Bosch, professor of art history at SUNY, Genesco.
• 6 p.m. Exhibition reception.

Exhibition organizer Bosch says in her introduction to the catalog, “This exhibition brings attention to the practice of collecting art as a means of discovering identity. The paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and video included in it indicate some of the range of style and visual presentation found in Cuban-American art.”

The exhibition not only brings together important examples of work by a group of leading contemporary artists but it also examines how both individuals and institutions can develop collections that provide both personal pleasure and scholarly benefit. The lenders to the exhibition include: Bosch, who has been actively supporting research and exhibitions on contemporary Cuban-American artists since the early 1990s; and Gracia, who like Bosch, has collected work by a large number of Cuban-American artists both for personal pleasure and as a adjunct to his philosophical and scholarly interests.

The third collection represents selections from the Lehigh University Art Galleries collection of Latin American photography and video. Ricardo Viera, director of the Lehigh Art Galleries, began actively collecting Cuban-American photography-based art in the mid-1970s. Since that time, under Viera’s leadership, the Lehigh University Art Galleries has become one of the leading collections of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino art.

Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art was organized in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities and presented as part of the seminar, “Negotiating Identities in Art, Literature and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture,” held this past summer at SUNY Buffalo, and co-directed by Bosch, Gracia and Isabel Alvarez-Borland, professor of modern languages and literatures at Holy Cross. The seminar focused on cultural identity in art, literature and philosophy for Cuban-Americans. The exhibition was sponsored by the University of Buffalo at SUNY Art Gallery.

In his forward to the catalog, Gracia explains that the idea to gather together a group of scholars to explore the questions of personal and ethnic identity was the rationale behind the NEH seminar. The seminar assembled 15 faculty members from colleges and universities across the nation who came together to explore the ways in which social groups, and in particular Cuban-Americans, have worked out their various identities. The exhibition also illustrates how Cuban-American collectors of art have negotiated their own identities as collectors.

Gallery Information

The hours for the Cantor Art Gallery are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturdays, 2 – 5 p.m. Located in O’Kane Hall, First Floor, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, Mass, 01610. Admission to the gallery is free. Public parking is located on Linden Lane, gate 2, off College Street.

As announced last month, the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation made an unprecedented $1 million commitment to the art gallery at Holy Cross. The College will raise an additional $600,000 in matching funds in connection with this gift. The Cantor Foundation gift will be the largest ever received by the College’s art gallery which was established by and named for the Cantors in 1983.

For more information, call the Cantor Art Gallery at 508-793-3356 or visit the Gallery’s Web site.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Quartet San Francisco received two Grammy nominations for Látigo, their recording of tango and Latin arrangements, in the categories of Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Engineered Classical Album. Joel Cohen (cello), a founding member of the quartet, teaches in the music department at the College of the Holy Cross.

Released earlier this year, Látigo is the quartet’s second full-length album, following their 2002 self-titled debut recording. Látigo, Spanish for “whip,” refers to a performance technique used in tango — a quick slide or glissando of a left-hand finger on a stringed instrument for the purpose of simulating the sound of a whip.

Other quartet members include Jeremy Cohen (violin), Emily Onderdonk (viola), and Kayo Miki (violinist). Percussionist John Santos made contributions of rhythm and color to the Látigo sessions.

Founded in 2001, Quartet San Francisco focuses mainly on tango, but has regularly performed a wide range of material, including Beethoven, Brubeck, Mozart and Mingus.

Cohen received his bachelor’s of music from the University of Western Ontario. He has performed as co-principal cellist in the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, and as principal cellist in the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as well as with the Vienna Radio Symphony (ORF/RSO) and as principal cellist with the Wiener Kammeroper (Vienna Chamber Opera). While living in Vienna he performed extensively throughout Europe and Asia, and regularly toured with the Johann Strauss Festival Orchestra of Vienna.

He has also performed in the Boston area with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Virtuosi and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

Cohen has been a member of the Holy Cross music department since 1997. He is also on the faculty at the Lexington Music School, in addition to maintaining a private studio. Since 2001 he has been involved with the New Directions Cello Festival, an annual event exploring non-classical cello styles through concerts and workshops. He also performs in the Boston area with Improvelocity, a group which explores musical collaboration through spontaneous chamber music, creating works in various styles including jazz, fusion, soundscapes and world music.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Osvaldo Golijov, associate professor of music at the College of the Holy Cross has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his opera Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears).

The Argentine-born Golijov was nominated in the categories of Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Contemporary Composition. “Ainadamar” means “fountain of tears” in Arabic, and is the place where, in 1936, Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was murdered by Fascist soldiers during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War. The opera is centered around Lorca’s death, and the mourning of Margarita Xirgu, interpreted by acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw.

The two nominations add to Golijov’s three previous Grammy award nominations. In 2003, he received nominations in the categories of Best Chamber Music Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his chamber music release Yiddishbuk. Last year, he was nominated in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for a song cycle titled Ayre.

The 49th Grammy Awards are to be handed out Feb. 11. The nominations were announced yesterday.

Golijov is working on the score of director Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Youth Without Youth.

In January and February, Lincoln Center presented a Festival called “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov,” featuring multiple performances of his major works, chamber music, late nights of Tango and Klezmer, and a night at the Film Society.

Golijov earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the Holy Cross music department since 1991.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Faculty, staff, and students at Holy Cross are getting into the spirit of Christmas with generous donations of time and other resources to many charities and other causes.

Among these efforts:

• Organized by the Office of Human Resources, the annual United Way fund drive, supported by faculty and staff, exceeded its goal of raising $46,000. The money will be used to support programs in the greater Worcester area that encourage positive youth development, help people most in need and ensure children’s readiness for school.

• A fundraiser sponsored by Women in Wine, titled “Share Your Strength for Abby’s House,” last month raised more than $17,000 for the local shelter for low-income women and children. The event, which included food, wine, music, a live auction and a performance by the Holy Cross Ballroom Dance Team, was held pro bono in the Hogan Ballroom. Earlier this year, Holy Cross raised $1,000 by holding a benefit concert in support of Abby’s House.

• Donations accepted at a concert by folk artist Dar Williams in the Hogan Ballroom last month raised $260 for Abby’s House. The concert was sponsored by Women’s Forum, Allies, Abigail, Pax Christie, Women and Gender Studies and the Campus Activities Board.

• Organized by Human Resources, the Thanksgiving food drive, which benefits members of the Holy Cross community on medical or family leave, faculty and staff were able to send fruit baskets, food baskets, or floral arrangements to 11 families.

• Money raised in the annual AIDS Compassion & Awareness Charity Banquet earlier this month, sponsored by the Bishop Healy Multicultural Society, will go to AIDS Project Worcester and the Pendulum Project, a non-profit humanitarian organization that helps families and communities care for, support, and protect orphans and vulnerable children in parts of the world that are severely impacted by AIDS.

• As this year’s Class Holiday Charity project, the Class of 2010 Class Council participated in Operation Christmas Child through Samaritan’s Purse, where gift-filled shoeboxes are shipped to needy children across the world. Approximately 200 students, faculty and staff helped and the officers sent 110 shoeboxes filled with stationary, shoes, toys, toiletries, sweets, and games, among other items.

“As the most diverse class ever on Mt. St. James, we wanted to extend the mission of ‘men and women for others’ across the world,” says Gbenimah Slopadoe, vice president, Class of 2010. “What better way to do it than packing a lot of love in a box for a child at Christmas?”

• Toys for Tots donations were collected at the annual Holy Cross Dining Holiday Luncheon on Dec. 7.

• Sponsored by Human Resources, the Candy Cane tree allows participants in early December to select candy canes from a Christmas tree and buy a gift for a patient at St. Mary’s Health Care Center, or for a needy child in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, through the Worcester Coalition.

• The Chaplains’ Office and Alpha Sigma Nu (the Jesuit Honor Society) collaborated in collecting toys at worship services on campus in Advent. The toys will be donated to churches in Worcester for distribution to children at Christmas.

• Since 1987, the Physical Plant/Building Services department donates used furniture from office and residence hall upgrades, and conducts a winter clothing drive among staff, faculty and students to benefit the following Worcester organizations: Henry Lee Willis Community Center, PIP Shelter in Worcester; Central Mass. Housing Alliance; Abby’s House; and Central Mass Shelter for Homeless Veterans, among others. “It’s grown to be unbelievably huge,” says Jack McCann, assistant director of Physical Plant/Building Services, who estimates that more than 100 coats alone were donated this year. “It’s amazing how much is dropped off.”

• The Loyola House Council and Resident Assistant Staff teamed up for their own clothing drive benefiting charity. The clothing will be delivered to various organizations, including Catholic Charities and PIP shelter.

• The Information Technology Services department recently offered volunteer staff assistance to the computer lab at the Nativity School, founded and sponsored by Holy Cross and the New England Province of the Society of Jesus. ITS staff assisted in cleaning up viruses and troubleshooting other technical problems.

• Year-round, Dining Services donates surplus food to the Central Mass Shelter for Homeless Veterans, in Worcester.

• Money raised in a benefit concert held earlier this semester in the memory of Sheila Lynch ’05 was donated to Student Programs for Urban Development and the Appalachia Service Project, organizations that held special meaning for Lynch. The event was sponsored by Alumni Relations staff, the Chaplains’ Office and Campus Activities Board.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Recognizing that students stay up late studying during finals period, administrators at the College of the Holy Cross — including President Michael C. McFarland, S.J. — volunteer each semester to serve the scholars breakfast late into the night.

The menu includes scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage links, assorted bagels, Belgian waffles and topping bar, assorted juices and nightly specials.

The events will kick off Dec. 10. Kimball Dining Hall will open at 11 p.m. and administrators, donning aprons, will serve until 1 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 10
Michael Lochhead, Vice President for Administration and Finance
Michael C. McFarland, S.J., President
Jacqueline Peterson, Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Paul Sheff, Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations

Midnight breakfast for the remaining nights will take place in Crossroads in the Hogan Campus Center from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Monday, Dec. 11
Edwin Coolbaugh, Director of Residence Life
Curran Ford, Community Development Coordinator
Kristine Goodwin, Associate Dean for Student Life
Melissa Kneeland, Patrol Person, Public Safety
Becky Riopel, Director of Student Programs and Involvement
Devon Skerritt, Community Development Coordinator
Amy Weit-Lane, Associate Director of Residence Life

Tuesday, Dec. 12
Mark Freeman, Assistant Dean, Class of 2007
Esther Levine, Assistant Dean, Class of 2006
Earl Peace, Assistant Dean, Class of 2009
Vickie Swigert, Assistant Dean, Class of 2008

Wednesday, Dec. 13
Margaret Bramley, Associate Director of the Holy Cross Fund
Eric Butler, Research Analyst, Development
Tom Cadigan, Associate Director of the Fund for Athletic Fundraising
Margaret Devine, Development Writer
Kristin McCue, Assistant Director of Donor Relations
Erin Mooney, Assistant Director of the Holy Cross Fund
Frank Vellaccio, Senior Vice President

WORCESTER, Mass. – Organist James David Christie will perform the fourth of eight concerts commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of the great 17th-century North German organist-composer Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707). As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, “The Buxtehude Tercentenary at Holy Cross” is being performed on the late 17th-century North German inspired Taylor & Boody organ throughout the 2006-2007 concert season.

The concert, free and open to the public, will be on Dec. 10 at 3 p.m. in the College’s Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel. The chapel is handicapped accessible.

Christie is the distinguished artist in residence and College organist at Holy Cross. In addition, he serves as organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first American to ever win a first prize at the Bruges (Belgium) International Organ Competition and was the first person in the history of the competition to ever win both the Prize of the Jury and the Prize of the Audience. Professor Christie has served on more international organ competition juries than any American organist. He has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia giving concerts, master classes and seminars at major music festivals. He has recorded for 12 different labels and is heard regularly on radio broadcasts in the United States, Canada and Europe.

The program follows:

Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203

Magnificat noni toni, BuxWV 205
[versus 1]
[versus 2] alla duodecima

Puer natus in Bethlehem, BuxWV 217
Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich, BuxWV 182
In dulci jubilo, BWV 197

Fuga in C, BuxWV 174

Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV 189
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV 188

Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 204

Praeludium in C, BuxWV 137

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Camille and Henry Drefyus Foundation has awarded Kimberley Frederick, associate professor of chemistry at the College of the Holy Cross, a $60,000 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for her proposal titled “Studies of flow processes in microfluidic systems involving polyelectrolyte multilayers, thermoresponsive polymers and guanosine gels.”

Frederick will use the money to buy components to conduct research in microfluidics or “lab on a chip,” a relatively new technology that aims to do chemical reactions and analyses on single drops of solutions. By decreasing the size of the samples, it is possible to do multiple analyses more quickly and with less chemical waste. This has important applications in biomedical tests which can often take hours or days. Microfluidics is also being studied in environmental testing, pharmaceutical analysis and industrial quality control.

The goal of the project is to develop new technologies or methodologies which would be helpful to other researchers or companies as they work toward implementing “lab on a chip” chemical analysis methods. The money will also allow Frederick and her students to present their research at national scientific meetings.

The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is “intended to support and encourage young scholars who demonstrate excellence in both research and teaching” and emphasizes the nominee’s accomplishments in teaching and scholarly research with undergraduate students. The award was given to seven individuals this year.

Frederick, of Worcester, has been at Holy Cross since fall 2003. She has previously conducted research on electrosomotic flow and the development of new methods of detection using Raman spectroscopy in the field of forensics. She earned her bachelor’s in chemistry from Lawrence University and her Ph.D. from Purdue University.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, hosted by Rev. William O’Halloran, S.J., special assistant to the president, and the Purple Key Society, will be held Dec. 5 at 5 p.m. on O’Kane Porch at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public.

The evening will feature Christmas performances by the Holy Cross Chamber Singers, Marching Band and the Nativity School Boys Choir.

The event is sponsored by the Purple Key Society and the Office of Student Life.