August-September 2007
In this addition to Inside CMC, the College's research centers and institutes report updates and activities as they occur. (Contributions reflect content provided at the date of publication):
The Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Professor Diane Halpern is working with Fanny Cheung from Chinese University on a cross-cultural book based on more than 60 interviews with women with substantial family responsibilities in powerful leadership positions. Halpern will spend part of her sabbatical in China completing this book.
The Berger Institute welcomes its new acting director, associate professor of economics Heather Antecol. She will serve as acting director of the Berger Institute for the next academic year, July 1, 2007 through June 20, 2008, while Professsor Halpern is on sabbatical.
The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
In September, the AnneMerie Donoghue Fellows who completed their human rights internships during the previous summer will be featured at the Center's dinner to discuss their research.
The Center will sponsor a number of presentations at the Athenaeum this fall, including talks by Christopher Clark, professor of History, Cambridge University, and Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner.
Financial Economics Institute
Over the summer, six CMC students completed internships as FEI Student Research Analysts. The students worked on research projects under the supervision of professors from CMC and CGU.
Eric Hughson, a professor of finance, will join the CMC economics department faculty this fall and will be an affiliate of the Financial Economics Institute. Hughson will be teaching Corporate Finance and Investments.
Kravis Leadership Institute
During June, the 130 students and 48 faculty participating in this year's Summer Internship in Leadership engaged in meaningful academic work from internships around the world.
An article by Jay Conger and Doug Ready, Make Your Company a Talent Factory, appeared in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review.
KLI Director Ron Riggio attended the International Leadership Summit of the Americas 2007 Conference in Quito, Ecuador. He gave a presentation on multiple intelligences.
Riggio also organized and hosted the Keck Foundation Teaching Leadership Conference held June 14-15, with a total of 73 participants from 47 colleges and universities in attendance.
Forty-five youth leaders from all over the country gathered June 15-20 for the annual Step Up to Leadership program, learning leadership skills in the classroom and applying them to a variety of real-life situations. The goal of Step Up to Leadership is to help high school students develop leadership competence and character. Step Up is organized and conducted by Susan E. Murphy. She was assisted by Becky Reichard, Kevin Arnold, and CMC alumni Stephanie Halverson Johnson, Jessica Briggs, and Eric Arnold. This year's counseling staff included Camilo Cuellar '09, Alexander Griffing '08, Antonio Gonzalez '08, Greg Hall '09, Jessica Harrang '09, Claudia Lopez '10, Brianna Riggio '10, Emily Shanker '08, Ramon Torres '08, and Carissa Tudor '10. Dan Kan '09 served as videographer/photographer and Edith Castaneda '08 conducted planning and logistics.
Roberts Environmental Center
This summer the Roberts Environmental Center initiated a new Web site, presently in beta testing but online, (www.csrstat.com), which links its large database of corporate environmental and social performance data with current RSS feeds on company activity. The site makes searching for information on any company particularly fast, and automatically includes any information developed by the Center.
The Center also began a joint project with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to analyze the extent of human rights reporting by large corporations.
Salvatori Center
The Center is hosting a seminar on the writings of German/American philosopher Leo Strauss on Tuesday, Aug. 21 in Roberts South 102. The seminar, Leo Strauss and the Literary Question: Author as Educator, primarily is for graduate students and is part of the Center's ongoing project on Leo Strauss.
Planning continues for the Center's fall conference on Leo Strauss and the art of writing, scheduled for Nov. 1-2, 2007. This conference will bring some notable political scientists together for discussion, with CMC undergrads able to participate as well.
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