Roger Fechner, history professor, read his paper "The Scottish Context of John Witherspoon's 'Essay on Money'" at the joint conference Political Economy and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Culture at George Mason University, Arlington, Va., in June.

Todd Hamilton, chemistry professor, and wife Lisa welcomed a daughter, Olivia Gail, on June 10.

D. Colleen Johnson, admissions data entry specialist in Mahan Hall, retired after 23 years at Adrian College.

Kathy Pence, history professor, has been selected for the James Bryant Conant Fellowship at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. She will spend one year in Boston preparing a book from her doctoral dissertation, "From Rations to Fashions: The Gendered Politics of East and West German Consumption 1945-1961."

A two-year study on fox snakes by Craig Weatherby, biology professor, drew media attention from across Michigan as well as in Ohio this past spring. Weatherby is teaming up with an environmental organization and a hunting club on the project.

Donald Cellini, languages professor, and Keith McCleary, chemistry professor, recently served as readers for the College Board's Advanced Placement examinations.

While on a semester-long sabbatical, Janet Salzwedel, biology professor, is conducting research with Michigan State University on rice and wheat from Egypt. Her work, which will be conducted from the U.S., will target bacteria that promotes plant growth.