Paul Arciero, associate professor of exercise science, will make a presentation titled "Comparison of Green Tea, Caffeine, and Ephedrine Combinations on Energy Expenditure in Humans" May 29 at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in St. Louis. Co-authors of the study are B.C. Nindl of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and Skidmore students R. Quigley and D. Pecchia, Class of '01; and M. Ormsbee, M. Tiede, and N. Taveras, Class of '02.

Katharine Cartwright, lecturer in geosciences, was recently awarded the W. Parker Dodge Award for her watercolor painting titled "Mail Order Madness" at the Artists of the Capital Region Fine Art Exhibition 2001.

Roy H. Ginsberg, professor of government, gave a series of talks on U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-European Union relations after September 11 in the Czech Republic and Germany over winter break. His lecture tour was organized and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. In Prague, he spoke to groups of Czech foreign ministry and other officials and to students at Charles University and the University of Economics. While in Prague, he joined 13 Skidmore students participating in the 15th annual international intercollegiate simulation of the European Union. In Germany, he spoke to German-American Institutes in Heidleberg and Stuttgart; as well as to the University of Munich; the German Council on Foreign Relations; the Institute on International Politics; and officials in the Green Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Bundestag in Berlin.

James Kennelly, assistant professor of management and business, and Aldo Vacs, Palamountain professor of government, served as resource experts during the Jan. 24 meeting of the Saratoga Chapter, League of Women Voters, on the topic of world trade policy.

Jill Sweet, professor of anthropology, has received a Resident Scholar Fellowship from the School of American Research (SAR). Fellows are scholars who have completed their research and "need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind." Sweet will spend eight weeks in residency at the SAR in Santa Fe next summer. She will work on a new edition of her book, Dances of the Tewa Pueblo Indians: Expressions of New Life. More information about the SAR and its Resident Scholar program is at: http://www.sarweb.org/n4.htm News of the SAR fellowship closely follows the opening of Sweet's exhibition at the Tang Teaching Museum, "Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation."

Publications & Exhibitions

Paul Arciero, associate professor of exercise science, has several new publications. He is lead author of "Comparison of Creatine Ingestion and Resistance Training on Energy Expenditure and Limb Blood Flow, published in Metabolism, Vol. 50, December 2001. Co-authors are B.C. Nindl, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM); and M.D. Vukovich, South Dakota State University; and Skidmore graduates N.S. Hannibal '99, C.L. Gentile '00, and J. Hamed '00.

A second article, "Overnight responses of the circulating IGF-1 system after acute, heavy-resistance exercise," appeared in Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 90, 2001. Authors were Arciero, and W.J. Kraemer, B.C. Nindl, and J.O. Marx, all of the USARIEM.

A third article, titled "Circulating Leptin concentrations experience a delayed reduction after acute heavy-resistance exercise in men," will appear in a forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Physiology. Authors are Arciero, Nindl, and Kraemer.

Doretta Miller, professor of art, had a solo exhibition titled "Signs of the Times: New Paintings of China" at the First Street Gallery, 526 W. 26th St., New York City, during January. Last September, Miller was juror for the first Schoharie County Arts Council 11-County Regional. In March she will make a presentation on gouache painting at the Albany League of Artists.

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