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Two Lake Forest College students, Emily Capettini '09 and Jonathan Chiou '09, participated in the Powell’s North Reading Series, co-sponsored by Powell’s, the School of the Art Institute, and Lake Forest College. They read with author Nick Mamatas.
Associate Professor and Chair of Music Don Meyer, Instructor in Music Dave Amrein, and Meg Golembiewski '10 recently heard the premiere of their new film score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film The Lodger. Conducted by Professor Amrein, the Lake Forest College Orchestra played the work before a packed Mohr Student Center on the night before Halloween. The three composers worked through the summer of 2007 on the project, with Golembiewski working through the Richter Apprentice Scholar program. The orchestra will perform the work again on February 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Portage Theater in Chicago, in association with the Silent Film Society of Chicago.
Jessica Jester ’07 presented her senior thesis, “Verbal overshadowing and memory for order” at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in May in Chicago. Three experiments showed that, whereas verbally describing faces impairs performance on a facial recognition test (traditional verbal overshadowing), retention of order information (i.e., when a particular face occurred in a temporal sequence) was not influenced by verbalization.
Assistant Professor of Psychology Matthew Kelley presented, “Ironic effects of censorship: Generating censored lyrics enhances memory” at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in November in Long Beach, California. Four Lake Forest College students served as co-authors on the project: James Chambers '05, Emily Blegen ’07, Dustin Koch ’09, and Joanna Bovee ’06. Two experiments explored the generation effect — mnemonic advantage for self-generated information — in the applied setting of lyrical censorship. Results suggest that by omitting certain words from songs, censors might actually make those words more memorable than noncensored words.
Marina Pinayeva '08 gave a poster presentation with Professor of Psychology Robert Glassman in the "Teaching of Neuroscience" grouping at the National Society of Neuroscience meeting in San Diego November 3 - 6. The first two pages of the presentation are now published online and in a CD in the Neuroscience Meeting Planner for 2007 (click on Annual Meeting and searching for Glassman or Pinayeva). Click here for the abstract. Several Lake Forest and high school students worked on the project, including Joanna Bovee '06, Elaine Bregman '05, Rachel Gottlieb '07, Katie Good, Leslie Modlin, Ilya Krutoyarskiy '08, Michael Wollar '06, Grace Kronauer, Andrea Hansen, Liz Birnbaum '08, Courtney Barry '07, Cory Querubin '08, and Brian Kinsman '08.
Assistant Professor of Communication Rachel Whidden presented “Good Parents Vaccinate: An Analysis of Merck’s Gardasil Campaign” at The Alta Conference on Argumentation in August. The paper was co-authored with Taylor Tuscherer '10, a Richter Scholar. The paper was selected to be published in the conference’s proceedings.