Faculty/Staff

Brown, Jonathan

Publications:

Brown, J.M, 2002. Home and away. Tillers 3:33-38.

McGranahan, D.A.*, S. Kuiper, and J.M. Brown. In press. Temporal patterns in use of an Iowa woodlot during the autumn bird migration.  American Midland Naturalist.

Cooper*, I., E. Roeder*, and J.M. Brown. 2003. Arthropod response to burning and mowing in a reconstructed prairie. Ecological Restoration 21:204-5.

Presentations:

August 2002.    Invited lecture: Promoting an understanding of biological inquiry: curricular reform and Grinnell College's Center for Prairie Studies. (J. Brown, C. Caruso, L. Mottl and V. Eckhart). Restoration Educaction Symposium at the Annual Meeting for the Ecological Society of America/Society for Ecological Restoration. Tucson, AZ.

August 2002.    Poster: Effects of burning and mowing on arthropods in a reconstructed tallgrass prairie. (I. Cooper*, E. Roeder* and J. Brown). Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America. Tucson, AZ.

July 2001.    Prairie Restoration: An introduction to Biological Inquiry (J. Brown and C. Caruso) Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology. University of Hawaii at Hilo, HI.

*indicates student co-author

Caulkins, Doug

August 7, 2003. Presentation. “Forging the Cultural Connections with the Old Country: The Welsh Diaspora in Mid-Western US.” Douglas Caulkins and Jennifer Robinson ‘04, 17th International Seminar on Marginal Regions: Government and Governance: Nations, Regions, and Communities on the Margins. Harlech and Aberystwyth, Wales.    

January 30, 2004. Invited Presentation. “Murphy’s Law Meets the Buffer Initiative: How things can (and will) go wrong in creating a riparian buffer.” Trees Forever Board of Directors’ meeting, Krumm Arboretum, Newton, IA.

March 4 2004. Invited Presentation. “Welsh Diasporas: A Preliminary Report” St. David’s Day meeting of the Iowa Welsh Society, Indianola, IA.

April 4, 2004. Presentation. “Crafting a Holistic Web-Based Health Tracker for Lakota Reservation Diabetics.” Douglas Caulkins and Kristi Welch. Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings, March 31- April 4, 2004, Dallas, TX.

Chenette, Jonathan

2007            Posthumous Orpheus for mezzo-soprano and lute; text by Edward Hirsch; 8 minutes. Recording by King/Heringman Duo released on Capstone Records SCI CD series

2004           Spillville Variation for flute, viola, and guitar, based on the Scherzo theme from Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet; 1:30 (commissioned by Red Cedar Chamber Music with funding from the Iowa Arts Council as part of a collaborative composition project involving 14 composers)
1st perf: series of concerts in Cedar Rapids, IA, Spillville, IA, Washington, D.C., and Prague, Czech Republic, Sept/Oct 2004)

Dvorak Variations for woodwind quintet, based on the Scherzo theme from Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet composed during his residency in Spillville, Iowa; 12 minutes
1st perf: Cedar Rapids Beethoven Club Iowa Composers Concert, Daehler-Kitchin Auditorium, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 4/24/04

2003            Posthumous Orpheus published in Society of Composers, Inc. Journal of Music Scores Vol. 34 (fall, 2003: 33-44)
 
Compositions Prairie Autumn and “Places” from Oh Millersville! published in the special “Music in the Midwest” issue of the Platte Valley Review 30.1 (Spring, 2002): 51-52, 93-98, 116, and front/back covers

Recordings of compositions Prairie Autumn, “Places” from Oh Millersville!, and “The Ice-Glazed Landscape” from Broken Ground released on CD included with the special “Music in the Midwest” issue of the Platte Valley Review  30.1 (Spring, 2002): CD tracks 2, 3, and 9; listings on pp. 3, 7-8, 10-11, and 117.   Performed by the American Celebration Duo, soprano Melanie Ohm with pianist Gail Novak, and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and Grinnell Singers

2001            Recording of composition Rural Symphony released on CD “Images of Rural America: Music by Chenette and Copland” issued by the Office of the President, Grinnell College

Skipped Stones, electronic music with video projections, based on haiku texts about Iowa by Harvey Hess; my portion 13 minutes, composed in collaboration with two students, Molly Gardner and Matthew Warne, total duration 40 minutes
1st perf: Haiku North America Conference, Boston, MA, 6/29/01

Rural Symphony for orchestra; 15 minutes (commissioned by the Blanden Memorial Art Museum for the Fort Dodge Area Symphony as part of the American Composer Forum's "Continental Harmony" project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts)
1st perf: Fort Dodge Area Symphony, Phillips Middle School Auditorium, Fort Dodge, IA, 10/15/00

1999            Prairie Autumn for soprano and piano released on CD "American Song" recorded by American Celebration Duo on Innova label (#529)
 
1996            Broken Ground for choir and orchestra, composed in collaboration with six Iowa-connected poets; 37 minutes
1st perf:  Des Moines Symphony Orch & Grinnell Singers, Joseph Giunta, cond., 5/11, 5/12, and 5/19, 1996, broadcast statewide over Iowa Public TV 5/22/96

1995            Posthumous Orpheus for mezzo-soprano and lute; text by Edward Hirsch; 8 minutes
1st perf: King/Heringman Duo, London, England and Grinnell, IA, 9/15 /95 and 9/29/95

1986 - 93     Eric Hermannson's Soul, opera based on Willa Cather's short story of the same name, libretto by the composer; 98 minutes
1st perf: Scott McCoy, tenor, Jean McDonald, soprano, et al. with the Iowa Chamber Ensemble, Jonathan Knight, cond., 9/11/93 and 9/24/93, Grinnell and Iowa City, IA

1993            Prairie Autumn for soprano and piano based on poem by Willa Cather; 4 minutes
1st perf: Margie Marrs, soprano, Sharon Kay Stang, piano, 4/20/97; version with chamber ensemble premieredat the National Conference of the Society of Composers, Inc at Indiana University in 1998

1992            Oh Millersville! for soprano and orchestra; texts by James Norman Hall; 24 minutes
1st perf: Dubuque Symph Orch, Kristie Tigges, sop, Nicholas Palmer, cond., 2/22/92

1991            Out of the Land, cantata for solo baritone, choir, and organ, based on a poem by Paula Smith incorporating words from Grinnell College's first president, George Magoun (composed for the inauguration of Pamela Ferguson as the 11th President of Grinnell College)
 
1990            Oh Millersville!, song cycle for soprano and voice based on James Norman Hall's (alias Fern Gravel's) collection of poems of the same name
1st perf: Kristie Tigges, soprano & Kris Denton, piano, Iowa Composers Forum Festival concert, Daehler-Kitchin Auditorium, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 9/15/90

Doe, Don

“The Possibility of a Regional Aesthetic: A 15-Minute Introduction.,” paper presented at “Roundtable: Regional Art Esthetics in the Missouri Valley,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2005.    

Eckhart, Vince

Eckhart VM, Jacobson P, Robertson DC (2002) Scaling carbon dynamics from molecules to ecosystems: A model investigation in an integrative biology curriculum. Contributed poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Meetings, Tucson, AZ.

Brown J, Caruso C, Mottl L, Eckhart V (2002) Promoting an understanding of biological inquiry: curricular reform and Grinnell College's Center for Prairie Studies. Invited symposium presentation, delivered by J. Brown at the Ecological Society of America Meetings, Tucson, AZ.

Jacobson, Kathy

 H. Dalgliesh ’00 & K.M. Jacobson. (2005) A first assessment of genetic variation among Morchella esculenta (morel) populations.  Journal of Heredity. 96(3):1-8

Mottl, Larissa

March 5, 2001. Presentation. “Using native plants in an urban landscape: Modeling nature.” Grinnell Area Garden Club. Grinnell, IA

April 16, 2001. Presentation. “Center for Prairie Studies: Developing a sense of place.”

Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon, IL.

July 18, 2002. Presentation. Mini-symposium “Sustaining Beauty in Iowa: Art, Farmland, and Prairie.” “Reconstructing prairie at the Conard Environmental Research Area, Grinnell College.” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.

August 2002. Presentation. “Making connections to the prairie landscape through community field trips.” L. Mottl and J. Andelson. Ecological Society of America and International Society for Ecological Restoration Joint Conference, Tucson, AZ

September 5, 2002. “Andy Goldsworthy: Three Cairns Gallery Talk. “Student research informing the cairn installation at CERA.” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

September 12, 2002. Presentation. “Historical trees of Grinnell.” Mayflower Homes, Grinnell, IA.

September 24, 2002. Presentation. “Planning and planting projects using Iowa’s native plants.” Trees Forever “Native People, Native Plants” Annual Celebration, Ames, IA

 2003. Our Trees: A Guide to Trees in Grinnell. Grinnell, IA.

 Pergl, Will

(1) Will Pergl's exhibition "Boat, Buoy, Island" was on display from Oct. 22 through Nov.19 2004 in the Eaton-Buchan Gallery on the Coe College campus. The central sculpture "Boat" incorporates a video loop of the Iowa landscape traveling between Iowa City and Grinnell. In the piece Pergl explores the poetic relationship between the prairie and the ocean and between the human body's architecture and the equilibrium and architecture of a boat.

(2) Will Pergl was commissioned by the University of Iowa Hospital to produce the sculptural installation "Tree Mandala" for permanent display in the planned expansion of the Emergency Treatment Center, which will be complete in 2007. The plans for the Emergency Treatment Center expansion call for the cutting down a 200+ year-old oak tree. Will Pergl's utilizes the oak tree in his design for the lobby of the Emergency Treatment Center.

The "Tree Mandala's" installation will consist of (1) a twelve foot wooden tree mandala, (2) three sections of the tree trunk subtly carved and sanded smooth and (3) explanatory images that are connected to specific growth rings that outline specific events and dates such as when the tree was cut down, when the University of Iowa's Hospital was built, when The University of Iowa was founded, when the nearby railroad was built, ect.

The "Tree Mandala" is intended to provide a meditation on time and space. The time and space experienced in a hospital emergency room vs the years an old oak tree grew at the site represented by the oak trees growth rings and referenced by the "Tree Mandala". The "Tree Mandala" itself will evolve impacting hours of labor onto the lumber producing the symmetrical circular object in hopes that the final image may give a moment of pleasure during someones traumatic experience.

Smith, Paula

"Living by Corn," Iowa River Corridor Book II, forthcoming Winter 2004 (poem)

"Summer," reprinted in Directory of Grinnell Area Food Producers, 2002/2003 editions (poem)

"Summer," Flyway Literary Review, Vol. 5.1-5.2, Fall 1999/Winter 2000 (poem) * peer reviewed

"The Tallgrass on Fire," "The Grassland," "Rhizomes," The Land Report 65, Fall 1999 (poems)

"Rhizomes," text for choral composition  Broken Ground by Jonathan Chenette.  Collaborative project commissioned by the Iowa Humanities Board and performed at various sites in the United States by the Des Moines Symphony and the Grinnell Singers during Iowa's Sesquicentennial Year, 1996

"Out of the Land," text for choral composition by Jonathan Chenette, commissioned by Grinnell College for performance during the inauguration of President Pamela Ferguson, October 1991

Wright, Lesley

“Synthesizing a Contemporary Midwest,” paper presented at “Roundtable: Regional Art Esthetics in the Missouri Valley,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2005.

“Roots and Renewal in Midwestern Art,” paper presented at session “Sense of Place/Sense of Self,” at Mid-American College Art Association conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2004 (session chair and presenter).

Roots of Renewal, An Exhibition and Community Partnership (editor), Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell College. 2003.

“Getting Below the Surface,” in Roots of Renewal, An Exhibition and Community Partnership, Lesley Wright (editor), Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell College. 2003.