July 2026
Yuki Arita, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, published a paper titled “Japanese Multiple Saying iya iya iya as a Practice of Managing Persistence in Interaction” in Research of Language and Social Interaction.
Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, presented the paper “Buxtehude’s Symbolic use of Fauxbourdon” on July 7 at the Twelfth Bach Network Dialogue Meeting held at Madingley Hall in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Bandy was recently elected to the Council of the American Musicological Society and will begin his service in November 2026.
Bandy served on faculty at the San Francisco Early Music Society’s Medieval Renaissance Workshop in Berkeley, California, July 12-18, where he taught classes on Renaissance string articulation, Joachim Burmeister’s 1606 treatise Musica poetica and sixteenth-century settings of texts from the Song of Songs by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Andrea Gabrieli and others. He performed on viola da gamba and Renaissance bagpipes in the faculty concert on July 16. Bandy also served on faculty at the Annual Conclave of the Viola da gamba Society of America (VdGSA), held at Radford University (Radford, Virginia) July 26-August 2, where he taught classes on musical symbolism and the compositional technique fauxbourdon and performed various sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works in concert with 20 faculty colleagues July 30.
Allan Barr, professor emeritus of Chinese, presented a paper, “Chair Carriers in Late Ming China,” at the UTMOST (Uncovering Traces of Ming Occupations with Sociological Theory) Workshop held at University of Warwick, July 20-24.
Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper, “Gesto, contexto y afecto en la poesía de Concha García,” at the III Congreso Internacional de Teoría de la Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas, held at the Universidad de Salamanca, July 1-3.
Alongside José Ángel Baños Saldaña (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) and Manus O’Dwyer (University of Oxford), Cahill co-edited a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies dedicated to “Writing Now: The First Book in Spanish Twentieth-Century Poetry.”
Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, performed his duet, Are We Still Dancing?, at the Florence Dance Festival on July 11 with Natalia Duong, assistant professor of Asian American studies and science and technology studies at UC Davis. He also created a new work titled Fall Out for students at Accademia Dell’Arte that was presented as part of the festival July 18. At the Fini Dance Festival in Calabria, Italy, he presented an excerpt of Fall Out with festival students July 25. That evening, Gary performed as a guest artist in choreographer Michael Mao’s reconstruction of Black Madrigal.
Karla Cordova, assistant professor of economics, presented “Immigration Enforcement and Child Maltreatment,” co-authored with Mary Evans, Katherine Rittenhouse and Antonia Vazquez, all of the University of Texas at Austin, at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) conference in Denver, as part of a session sponsored by the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE). Cordova also moderated two sessions at the 2026 American Economic Association (AEA) Summer Mentoring Pipeline Conference in Washington, D.C.
Alfred Cramer, professor of music, presented a poster, “Theorizing Reorganized Prosody in the Speech-to-Song Transformation through the Implication-Realization Model,” at SMPC 2026, the annual meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, in Evanston, Illinois, on July 24.
Cramer (baroque violin), Luc Kleiner (baritone), lecturer in music, Jason Yoshida (theorbo), lecturer in music, and Stephan Moss (harpsichord), senior systems administrator, were among the performers in Bach Encounters Vivaldi, a concert given by the Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, California.
David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a talk titled “Remaking a monument: The troubled meaning of fascist remains in contemporary Spain” at the Memory Studies Association conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
KJ Fagan, assistant vice president for strategic innovation, was invited to speak on a panel titled “Finding the Goldilocks Zone When Assessing Mergers and Acquisitions” at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), July 18-21, where she discussed institutional strategies for evaluating partnership opportunities in higher education.
Fagan was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed about the results of the Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research 2026 Survey of College and University Business Officers and how colleges and universities can adapt to challenging financial landscapes.
Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and professor of mathematics, gave a talk titled “Numerical semigroups and Lucas sequences” at the 22nd International Fibonacci Conference held at Galatasaray University in Istanbul on July 6.
Roberto A. Garza-López, professor of chemistry, and his research group had three abstracts accepted for presentation at the LMCE 2026 (Laboratory Medicine Congress & Exhibition) & KSLM 6th Annual Meeting in Seoul, Korea (October 21-23): a) Liam Kwak ’26: “Molecular Basis Of Small Molecule Binding To The Intrinsically Disordered Protein NUPr1 In Pancreatic Cancer” (“췌장암에서 본질적으로 무질서한 단백질 NUPr1에 대한 소분자 결합의 분자적 기반”); b) Benjamin Roh ’29: “In-Silico Identification of Novel Antifungal Candidates Targeting Coccidioides immitis: Chitinase-1 (Ctchi) in Coccidioidomycosis [San Joaquin Valley Fever]” (“Coccidioides immitis의 Chitinase-1 (Ctchi)을 겨냥한 새로운 콕시디오이데스마이코시스 [산호아킨 밸리열] 항진균제 후보 물질의 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 기반 발굴”); and c) Andrew Chung ’28: “Structural And Thermodynamic Basis Of Enhanced FimH-CECAM6 Binding In Adherent-Invasive E. coli Associated With Inflammatory Bowel Disease” (“염증성 장질환 관련 부착-침습성 대장균에서 FimH-CECAM6 결합 증대의 구조적 및 열역학적 기반”).
Elizabeth Glater, associate professor and co-chair of neuroscience, presented “Do C. elegans choose their gut-microbiome?” at the European C. elegans and CeNeuro meetings in Bordeaux, France, June 29-July 3. The co-authors on the poster were Dylan Blackett ’24, Emily Church ’23, Victor Chai ’23, Tiam Farajzadeh ’23 and Charles Taylor, professor and chair of chemistry. In addition, she gave a talk titled “Identification of Volatile Cues that C. elegans Uses to Recognize Bacterial Food”at the Bargmann Lab 35th Reunion Symposium at The Rockefeller University in New York City, July 29-August 1. Glater was a postdoctoral fellow in Cori Bargmann’s lab.
Peter Haproff, associate professor of geology, and a colleague at the University of Texas at Austin were awarded a $351,604 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Earth Sciences for a project titled “Collaborative Research: Fault or Not? Unraveling the Role of Himalayan Lineaments in Controlling Geohazards and Orogenic Segmentation in Nepal.”
Haproff and an international team of collaborators published the paper “Cenozoic exhumation history and deformation mechanisms in eastern Tibet: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronology” in the journal Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, started a feminist podcast called Cacica Podcast along with journalist Tatiana Rosario. Hernández-Medina was interviewed on Política Pal Pueblo (Politics for the People), the most well-known progressive podcast in the Dominican Republic on July 15. Hernández-Medina spoke about feminist economics, explaining the content of its main themes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Additionally, Hernández-Medina was interviewed on several radio and TV shows including Libertarias (July 17) about the challenges the new Dominican Penal Code represents for women and other discriminated populations; Amé Informativo and Filo con Filo (both July 20) about the petition many civil society organizations and people presented to the Dominican government to take Immigration officers out of hospitals and stop deporting Haitian pregnant women and their babies; and, Mujer a Tres Tiempos (July 29) about the reasons why the Dominican Republic is among the countries with the highest levels of feminicides in the region.
Hernández-Medina gave a talk about public policy formation to more than 40 members of the Dominican Association of Social Work Professionals at the Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in the Dominican Republic on July 17.
Malkiat S. Johal, professor of chemistry, and Peter Chiarelli ’03, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, published the paper “Tunable Nanoparticle Thin-Film Reveals Distance Dependence of Auger-Mediated Radiation Enhancement in Diffuse Midline Glioma” in ACS Nano. The paper was co-authored by Jacob K Al-Husseini ’22, Joseph Ha ’19, Ethan Fong ’25, Archie Spindler ’22 and Clark Baker ’22.
Andrew Law, assistant professor of philosophy, presented a paper titled “Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes: A Defense” at the 11th annual International Association for Philosophy of Time at Yamaguchi University, Japan.
Tom Le, associate professor of politics, joined the new editorial team of Political Research Quarterly as an associate editor July 1. Le, along with Annalise Chang ’27, Carlineissa Francois ’27, Masaharu Kai ’27 and Ellie Sun ’28 published the article titled “China’s Liabilities and Revising the Rising Power Narrative” with Critical Asian Studies July 15.
Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, was a faculty member at the Chamber Music Conference, held on the campus of Colgate University every summer. She coached amateur musicians in chamber music groups and performed in the faculty concerts. Repertoire included Francis Poulenc's Trio with oboe and bassoon, Jennifer Higdon’s Yellow for piano trio, and a premiere of three movements of Brad Balliett’s Artisanal Shanties for violin, bassoon and piano. During the 2026 Redfish Music Festival, Lee played three faculty concerts and worked with young artist participants in four concert events along the coast of southern Oregon (North Bend, Bandon, Port Orford and Brookings) and in Crescent City, California. As part of the Redfish Piano Trio, Lee performed trios by Mozart and Dvořák. She also worked with the Astrodon Quartet in presenting Schumann’s Piano Quintet.
Joyce Lu, professor of theatre and Asian American studies, participated in a three-hour Artistic Research Working Group session, presenting a performance response to the work of Zihan Loo at the Performance Studies International x Critical Island Studies Conference at the Universitas Kristen in Jakarta, Indonesia. Lu presented “Standing Up Against Fascism: Asian Diasporic Comedic Strategies” on a panel titled “Voices of Care(ful) Resistance” alongside Ameena Aljerman Alali and Varun Aiyer at the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) x Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange (ADPRex) 2026: Who Speaks? Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity Conference at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore.
Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, had his essay, “The Case Against Fireworks,” appear in Time Magazine.
On July 28, Miller was twice interviewed about the European fires, first on “Air Talk with Larry Mantle” and then on “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” on KCRW.
Thomas Moore, Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professor of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk titled “Fun with Gravitomagnetism” on July 21 at the national Association of American Physics Teachers Summer 2026 Conference in Pasadena, California.
Hans Rindisbacher, professor of German, published a review of The Geography of Taste, by Dominic McIver Lopes, Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen and Bence Nanay (Oxford University Press) in The European Legacy online August 5. He also published an article, “The Woman in the Garden: Scent, Power, Beauty, Inspiration” (“Женщина всаду: aромат, власть, красота, вдохновение”), in a special issue on “Fashion’s Botanical Imagination” in Теория Моды / Fashion Theory 79 (in Russian).
Larissa Rudova, Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages and professor of Russian, published a chapter titled “The Queering of Childhood in Mikita Franko’s Fiction” in Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture, edited by Svetlana Efimova and Marina Balina (Routledge).
Anthony Shay, professor emeritus of dance, had the article “What is Popular Music? What is Iranian Popular Music?” published in the seminal anthology Iran Amplified: A Hundred Years of Music and Society, edited by Nahid Siamdoust and H. E. Chehabi (Harvard University Press). Containing more than 60 chapters, this anthology will be a major resource on Iranian music for decades to come.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and chair of English, had an essay titled “The Weight of Paradise” reprinted in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 13.
Jessica Stern, assistant professor of psychological science, co-authored a paper, “Maternal emotion socialization and emotional functioning among Black adolescents,” published in Attachment and Human Development. The paper challenges a “one-size-fits-all” approach to parenting and suggests that Black mothers use nuanced adaptive strategies to help teens cope with emotions in the context of racism. As part of a multi-site research collaboration, Stern also co-authored a paper tracking the effects of family conflict across generations, “The intergenerational sequelae of dysfunctional conflict in the family of origin: Evidence from two samples,” published in Development and Psychopathology.
Maria Watson, vice president for advancement, was invited to speak on the “Beyond Campaigns—Organizing for Impact” panel at the 2026 CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement. Alongside advancement leaders from Indiana University Foundation and Huron | GG+A, Watson presented a case study on Pomona’s advancement program and shared frameworks for exploring evolving campaign models, impact-driven initiatives, and strategies for sustaining institutional momentum.
Barry Werger-Gottesman, music technologist, produced Keys to the Beautiful Game, an album of new classical compositions inspired by soccer, which features pianist Nadia Shpachenko and includes new compositions “Goal Mining” by Tom Flaherty, emeritus professor of music, and “The Hand of God” by Oliver Dubon ’20. It was released July 17 by Reference Recordings.
Feng Xiao, associated professor of Chinese, led a half-day workshop on “Using AI for Second Language Research” at the 2026 annual conference of Computer Assisted Language Learning Consortium (CALICO) on July 8. On July 11, he gave a presentation titled “Data Quality in Model Training for Oral Assessment” at CALICO.
Xiao served as a judge for the 2026 LaunchPad Language Education Technology Competition on July 10.
Yuqing Zhu, assistant professor of neuroscience, presented her research with Ivyer Qu ’26 at the 35th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were granted the Outstanding Poster award, and their manuscript is available as a preprint on bioRxiv titled “The Role of Training Paradigms in Shaping Connectivity and Dynamics: A Comparison of Gradient-Based and Evolutionary Methods in Recurrent Neural Network Models.” Their work demonstrates that four different methods of training neural network models lead to distinct biases in what the models learn.