Notables

Aaron Armstrong, senior exercise science major from Helena, Mo., placed second in the 165 pound weight class at the USAPL Collegiate National Power lifting Championships in Baton Rouge, La., April 16. He squatted 490 pounds, bench pressed 358 pounds and deadlifted 485 pounds.

John Ishiyama, professor of political science, gave an invited talk titled “Globalization, Electoral Laws and Ethnic Conflict” at a symposium sponsored by the department of political science at Texas Tech University April 1, in Lubbock, Texas. He was also invited to speak at a special panel on ethnic political parties at Columbia University in New York in honor of MIT professor Kanchan Chandra April 15.

Antonio Scuderi, associate professor of Italian, presented “Metatheatre and Character Dynamics in the Anomalo bicefalo by Dario Fo” at the American Association for Italian Studies Conference, April 14-17, at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Matthew Tornatore, associate professor of foreign languages and linguistics, had his book review of La Parola by Pasquale Natella accepted for publication by Forum Italicum: Journal of Italian Studies.