Report of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-423
Author(s):  
Charles G. Davis

The 1988 convention will be held 20-22 October at the Las Cruces Hilton. New Mexico State University will host the meeting as part of its centennial celebration. A Mexican banquet, a wine reception hosted by the university and the New Mexico Vine and Wine Society, a program on western and southwestern literature, a program on class, race, and gender in Chicana literature, as well as excursions to Juarez, Mexico, and to Old Mesilla will help participants celebrate the flavor of the region.

PMLA ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-855
Author(s):  
Joan Grenier-Winther

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association hosts an annual convention attended by more than four hundred scholars and teaching professionals. The 1999 convention in Santa Fe, New Mexico, included over one hundred regular, special-topic, and conjoint sessions on a wide variety of subjects.Established in 1947, the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes the study and teaching of language, literature, and culture. The RMMLA is one of six regional but independent branches of the Modern Language Association of America.


Author(s):  
A. D. Martinez ◽  
B. J. Kid

Professor Lavinel G. Ionescu was born of Romanian parents in Varset (Vrsac), Banat, Yugoslavia, on May l9, 1943. He attended primary and secondary school in Yugoslavia, Italy, and Switzerland. He obtained the Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry in l963 and the Master of Science Degree in l966 from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, and the Ph.D. Degree in Physical Chemistry from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA in l970. He did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has held faculty positions at universities in the United States and Brazil. At the present, he is Professor of Chemistry at the Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre and the Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, RS, Brazil. His research work includes liquid scintillators, radioactive isotopes, noble gases, solution thermodynamics, surfactants and micelles, micellar catalysis, respiratory pigments, membrane models, and history and philosophy of science. He has trained more than fifty research scientists from different parts of the world, is the author of more than two hundred and fifty scientific works, and has been the recipient of many prizes and awards.


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