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Vol. 4, No. 3 - February 16, 2005
Faculty/Staff Activities Katharine A. Cartwright and Kyle Nichols, Department of Geosciences, represented Skidmore during the Sea Education Association's Colleagues' Cruise in January aboard the scientific research vessel, the Robert C. Seamans. The South Pacific cruise introduced faculty from many colleges and universities to the six-week sea component of the association's undergraduate program. Colleagues, like the students who enroll in the program, were responsible for all the ship's duties and for data collection and analysis. The Department of Geosciences will use this experience to conduct collaborative oceanographic research projects between Skidmore students and SEA. Kathryn Davis, professor of English, gave a reading Feb. 2 at Western Michigan University, as part of the school's Gwen Frostic Reading Series. On Feb. 17, Davis will participate in the Writing Program's Spring Reading Series at Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University's Department of English in Arts and Sciences. A number of English Department faculty participated in the annual convention of the Modern Language Association Dec. 27-30 in Philadelphia, including the following:
Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, delivered a paper on "Pirandello in America and America in Pirandello" at the annual Pirandello Society meeting and the MLA annual Conference Dec. 27-30 in Philadelphia. Pat Fehling, associate professor of exercise science, presented a paper titled "Exercise and Bone Health: A Pediatric Perspective," at the Mid-Atlantic College of Sport Medicine annual meeting in November. She also was elected to a three-year term as secretary-treasurer on the organization's executive committee. In addition, she presented "Side-to-Side Differences in Bone Strength in a Chronic Stroke Populations: a pQCT Study" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research Oct. 1-5 in Seattle. The paper was the result of her collaboration with colleagues at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada. Catherine Golden, professor of English, accepted an invitation to speak at the Academy for Learning and Retirement last September. She gave at talk titled "Women's Reading in the Victorian Parlor: A Trans-Atlantic Debate." Ken Johnson, professor emeritus of geosciences, has received the Meritorious Contributions Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' Division of Environmental Geosciences (DEG), "for his insightful and significant contributions in the application of depositional systems modeling in environmental geosciences and his dedicated service to the DEG." Susan Kress, professor of English, was the keynote speaker at a symposium in honor of Judith Fetterley titled "The Resisting Reader, Then and Now," held in November at the University at Albany, State University of New York. In addition, she was one of three consultants who conducted a review of the Colorado College English Department in October. Sue Layden, director, and Monica Minor, associate director, Higher Education Opportunity Program, attended the American Association of Colleges and Universities annual meeting Jan. 24-28 in San Francisco, where they led a roundtable discussion titled "Earning Our A's: Access and Achievement in Higher Education." Their presentation looked at the national picture, detailing the achievement gap, and then described the Skidmore opportunity programs, including their compelling outcomes data, as a model for narrowing or perhaps eliminating the achievement gap. Stanley McGaughey, academic advisor, University Without Walls, accepted an invitation from the United Methodist church of Saratoga Springs to arrange a Duke Ellington hymn, "Come Sunday," for choir and accompaniment. The arrangement, performed Feb. 13, was for conga, woodblock, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, electric piano, tenor sax, and soprano, alto, and baritone choir. Robert Shorb, director, Student Aid and Family Finance, led a financial aid workshop Jan. 10 at the Saratoga Springs High School. He presented a similar program Jan. 5 at Mechanicville High School. Publications, Performances & Exhibitions Regis Brodie, professor of art, curated the exhibit "Trial by Fire -- Raku and Saggar-Fired Ceramics" on display through Feb. 25 at Aimie's Lobby Gallery, 190-194 Glen St., in Glens Falls. The show features contemporary ceramics from a Skidmore Continuing Education Program course taught by Jill Fishon-Kovachick '81. Jordana Dym, assistant professor of history, has published two new articles: " 'More Calculated to Mislead than Inform': Travel Writers and the Mapping of Central America, 1921-1945," in the Journal of Historical Geography, 30, 2004; and "The Familiar and the Strange: Western Travelers' Maps of Europe and Asia, ca. 1600-1800," in Philosophy and Geography, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2004. Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, associate professor of anthropology, has a chapter titled "La Vida del Pueblo: Women and Household Water Management in the Valley of Mexico" published in Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America, edited by Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and María Nieves Rico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). Corey Freeman-Gallant, Class of 1964 Professor for Leadership in the Sciences, is the author of a paper titled "Little effect of extra-pair paternity on the opportunity for sexual selection in Savannah sparrows," accepted for publication by Evolution. His co-authors are Sarah States '04, Katie Meiklejohn '03, Suzannah Sollecito, and Nathaniel Wheelwright, Bowdoin College. Catherine Golden, professor of English, has published Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition, Routledge, 2004. Her entry on "Frederick Warne" appeared in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004. Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, has digital work on exhibit in Memoirs through Feb. 26 at the Saratoga County Arts Council gallery on Broadway. Her work also was recently shown at McIntosh College, in the Galleria at the Academy of Design and Technology in an exhibit titled True Colors: Mastering the Art of Printmaking; and at the 2004 Regional Exhibition at the Perella Gallery at Fulton Montgomery Community College. Susan Kress, professor of English, contributed a response to the last essay published by Carolyn G. Heilbrun, "From Rereading to Reading" in PMLA, March 2004. She also published an essay, "Once and Twice Upon a Time...Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Stories of Women in the Academy," in the fall 2004 issue of Phoebe: Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques. Kyle K. Nichols, assistant professor of geosciences, is the lead author of an article tilted "Cosmogenically enabled sediment budgeting," published in the February 2005 edition of Geology, the journal of the Geological Society of America. Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has recently published the following poems: "Death's Move" in North American Review, Vol. 289, No. 5 (September-October 2004); "Translated" and "Chaconne" in The Southern Review, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn 2004); "Aspirations" and "Bar Mitzvah in Prague" in Hotel Amerika, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2004); "Death and the 7 Year-Old Pilot" in Margie, Vol. 3 (2004); and "Courtship at Isenheim" in The Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2004). His extended essay-review, "First Fruits," on eight titles issued by the new literary imprint Handsel Books, appeared in The Southern Review, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Summer 2004). The Southern Review has accepted another essay-review, "Pushing and Pulling," on new books of poetry by Beth Ann Fennelly, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jeanne Murray Walker, Mary Oliver, and Rachel Hadas. Jeffrey O. Segrave, professor of exercise science, contributed several encyclopedia entries to Sport in American Culture: From Ali to X-Games, ABC-CLIO: Santa Barbara, CA., 2004 (edited by Joyce D. Duncan), including "Arete," (pp. 20-21); "Coubertin, Baron Pierre de (1863-1937)," (pp. 94-96); "International Olympic Committee," (pp. 181-183); "Olympic Games," (pp. 273-276); "Olympic Boycotts: 1976, 1980, and 1984," (pp. 271-273); "Women Sportscasters," (pp. 395-396), and with Patricia C. Fehling, associate professor of exercise science, "Steroids," (pp. 354-355).
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