About Our People
Bryan Boyd (Theatre) designed the set for the Sound Theatre’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis in July. The Sound Theatre Company is a professional theatre in Seattle. Both the play and the scenic design received positive reviews.
Don Powers (Biology) made a presentation, “Will Climate Change Limit Hovering in Hummingbirds?,†at the North American Ornithological Conference VI in Washington, D.C., last week. His talk was listed as a Day 4 highlight at the conference by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Also presenting at the event was alumna Rosalee Elting, who presented “Can Hummingbirds Increase Compensatory Nectar Consumption during Extreme Energetic Demand?†The NAOC is only held every four to six years and is a combined meeting of all the major ornithological societies in North America. This year’s meeting was the largest ornithology meeting in history anywhere in the world. In addition, Don’s lab published an article, “Three-dimensional simulation for fast forward flight of a calliope hummingbird,†in Royal Society Open Science.
Paul Anderson (Christian studies) presented papers at several conferences this summer: “From Bellers to Bellows – A Friendly Vision of Faith, Work, Industry, and Society†(Friends Association for Higher Education, Woodbrooke, Selly Oak, UK, June); a response to “How Jesus Became Uncreated†(lead paper by Gabrielle Boccaccini) at the Enoch Seminar on “John the Jew: Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as a Form of Jewish Messianism†(Camaldoli, Italy, June); “On ‘Assured Results of Biblical Criticism’ and John’s Non-Authorship – the State of the Johannine Question†(lead paper at the preconference on the Johannine Question; Montreal, Canada, August); and “John 6: The Grand Central Station of Johannine Critical Issues†at the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (Montreal, Canada, August). The book he coedited with Felix Just, S.J. and Tom Thatcher, John, Jesus, and History, Vol. 3; Glimpses of Jesus through the Johannine Lens, ECL 18, was published by SBL Press and announced in the Aug. 19 Chronicle of Higher Education.
Robert Bonner’s (Education) article, “Promoting Justice in the Classroom: Looking Beyond the Label to See the Individual,†was published in the August issue of Journal of Research on Christian Education.