Faculty/Staff Activities
David Domozych, professor of biology, presented a seminar titled "Desmids and Biofilms" Oct. 15 in the Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich.
Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English, and his wife, Patricia, have been elected co-presidents of the Travel Journalists Guild for a term of two years. Guild members from the United States and Canada are professional writers and photographers who join together to arrange research trips throughout the world. Robert has also been elected to the board of directors of the Eastern Ski Writers Association.
Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, was an invited speaker on "The Use of Type in Contemporary Art" Oct. 7 at the Mid-America College Art Association Conference, "Interplay," sponsored by the University of Minnesota, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the College of Visual Arts.
Regina Janes, professor of English, participated in a panel on theorizing satire at the third annual Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift Oct. 15 and 16 at the Deanery, St. Patrick's Cathedral, in Dublin.
James M. McLelland, visiting professor of geosciences, is the author of a paper, "Evidence for Coeval, Non-Comagmatic Relationships Within the Adirondack Anorthosite-Mangerite-Charnockite-Granite Suite, New York State," presented at the 116th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Nov. 7-11 in Denver. Approximately 6,200 geoscientists were at the event.
Doretta Miller, professor of art, presented a paper titled "Crossing Cultural Borders in Contemporary Academy Painting from China" at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, Oct. 30 at Bard College. Earlier in October, she attended a training workshop for accreditation reviewers at the National Association of Schools of Art and Design Conference in Tucson, Ariz.
Linda Simon, professor of English, discussed her new book, Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray, at the Oct. 5 meeting of the Skidmore Club of Schenectady.
Jeffrey O. Segrave, professor of exercise science and athletics director, gave the keynote address at the seventh International Symposium for Olympic Research Oct. 21-24 at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Titled "The Olympic Games 393 AD-1896 AD: The Genealogy of an Idea in Literature, Music, and Dance," the speech also was published in the symposium's Proceedings, edited by Kevin B. Wamsley, Scott G. Martyn, and Robert K. Barney.
Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, was the guest speaker at the Oct. 7 Skidmore Club of Boston meeting. He discussed his new research on the connections between fear of death and voting preferences and his book In the Wake of 9/11—The Psychology of Terror (2002).
Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor of women's studies and religion, spoke Nov. 9 at the Commonwealth Club of California on the topic, "Mother Nature's Daughters: Women Hunters and the Changing Face of American Environmentalism." While in the San Francisco Bay area, she also did a presentation on women and hunting for the Golden Gate chapter of Safari Club International. On Nov. 12, she joined novelist Rickey Gard Diamond (one of the contributors to her anthology, Heart Shots: Women Write about Hunting) for a reading and book signing at the Burlington, Vt., Barnes & Noble.
Susan Zappen, associate college librarian for collections, presented a paper titled "As the Journals Turn…" at the 24th annual Charleston Conference pre-conference on Managing Serials Nov. 3.
Publications, Exhibitions, Readings, & Performances
Victor Cahn, professor of English, is the author of "Getting the Business," a play performed in early October by the Steamer No. 10 Theater, Albany.
Carolyn Forche, professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Center, gave a reading of her work and hosted a poetry workshop Nov. 10 at Adirondack Community College, as part of its Writers Project series of events.
Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, received a purchase award for work recently exhibited at California State Polytechnic University's Digitally Propelled Ideas 2004 national juried exhibition. In addition, her work was included in the Mohawk Regional Exhibition this fall at Fulton Montgomery Community College.
Flip Phillips, associate professor of psychology, is the author of "Creating Noisy Stimuli" published in Perception, Vol. 33, No. 7, July 2004; and a co-author (with former students Martin Voshell '02 and Colin Thompson '00) of "Effects of 3-D Complexity on the Perception of 2-D Depictions of Objects," published in Perception, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2004.
Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English, wrote the closing essay for Maritime History as World History, edited by Daniel Finamore and published jointly by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., and the University Press of Florida in 2004. The essay, titled "Odysseus's Oar: Archetypes of Voyaging," explores the ways in which the incidents, themes, and characters of voyage narratives grow out of the structure and psychological conditions of voyaging.
Jeffrey O. Segrave, professor of exercise science and athletics director, is the author of "Perspectives on the Development of Sport Literature and Narrativity," in Nordic Narratives in Sport and Physical Culture: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Susan J. Bandy and published in 2004 by Aarhus University Press, Denmark. In addition, he wrote "The Off-Field Deviance of College Athletes: Problem or Hype?" published in Restorative Justice on the College Campus: Promoting Student Growth and Responsibility and Reawakening the Spirit of Campus Community, edited by David R. Karp, associate professor of sociology, and Thom Allena, and published this year by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. Segrave is a co-author (with Robert K. Barney) of "From Ritual Invention to Ritual Entrepreneurship: The Olympic Torch Relay and Enveloping Commercialism," published in the Stadion, International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 29, (Academia Verlag, 2003), a special issue devoted to the Olympic Games.
Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor of women's studies and religion, is the general editor for Sisters of the Hunt, a series of reprints of classic women's writing about hunting published by Stackpole Books. Stange chooses the books for the series and writes a scholarly foreword for each. To date, volumes in the series include: Two Dianas in Alaska by Agnes Herbert and A Shikari (originally published by John Lane, New York and London, 1909), Four Years in Paradise by Osa Johnson (originally published by Lippincott, New York, 1941), Nimrod's Wife, by Grace Gallatin Seton (originally published by Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1907), and The Cruise of the Northern Light by Mrs. John (Courtney) Borden (originally published by Macmillan, New York, 1928). Forthcoming in Spring 2005 are On the Gorilla Trail by Mary Hastings Bradley (originally published by Appleton and Company, New York, 1922), and Adventures in a Man's World by Courtney Borden (originally published by Macmillan, New York, 1933).
Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, is a co-author of "Fatal Attraction: A New Study Suggests a Relationship Between Fear of Death and Political Preferences," published in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Psychology Society, Vol. 17, No. 10. His co-authors are Jeff Greenberg, University of Arizona, and Tom Pyszynski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In addition, the trio's research was featured Dec. 14 in a brief article in Science NOW, the online journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Janet Sorensen, associate professor of art, has a series of paintings titled "Resplendent Remainder" featured in the exhibition Now You See It at the Albany International Airport Gallery through Feb. 6, 2005. The exhibition's theme is art inspired by magic.
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