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Vol. 4, No. 5 - May 17, 2005
Faculty/Staff Activities Research by three members of the Department of Geosciences was presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America. Approximately 700 geoscientists attended the meeting, held March 14-16 at the Prime Hotel and Conference Center in Saratoga Springs, and jointly hosted by Skidmore and Union colleges. The following presentations were made: Richard Lindemann, associate professor, "Walcott at Saratoga, New York, 1877-1878," in the History of Geology Category; James McLelland, visiting professor, with Marion E. Bickford of Syracuse University and Bruce Selleck of Colgate University, "Shrimp U/PB Study of Detrital Zircons from the Adirondacks and Adjacent Grenville Province of Canada: A Preliminary Report," in the Precambrian Geology Category; and Kyle Nichols, assistant professor, and Derek Eaton '05, "Born-Again Gully: The Re-establishment of the Miller Brook Gully, Northern Vermont," a poster presentation in the Geomorphology Category. William LeFurgy, professor emeritus of psychology, was one of four winners this spring of a Journal and Courier George Award. The awards, established in 1963, recognize people in the Lafayette, Ind., area who have contributed significantly to their communities. "Award winners are self-starters who have taken selfless acts of initiative to meet a community need," according to jconline.com., the web-based version of the Journal and Courier newspaper. LeFurgy was cited for his work with the West Central Indiana chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He sought a grant to help support establishing a Crisis Intervention Team to help those with mental illness through a crisis and determine appropriate medial treatment for them. The team involves police officers from Tippecanoe County who trained with mental health professionals to learn appropriate methods to diffuse a crisis involving people with mental illness. The awards were presented at an April 11 ceremony. Murray Levith, professor of English, participated in the "Histories of Sources" seminar at the 33rd annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America March 17-19 in Bermuda. His paper was titled "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Theseus Myth." Reg Lilly, professor and chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, gave a paper titled "Heidegger Originary Incapacity for Ethics" at the 39th annual North American Heidegger Conference this month in Baltimore. Lenora de la Luna, assistant professor of education, gave a presentation titled "Power and Reflection During Student Teaching" at the annual meeting of the American Educational Researchers' Association April 11-15 in Montreal. This month, she is giving two presentations in Athens, Greece, "The Power of Power in Classroom Discourse: and "Sociological Theories of Emergence and the Analysis of Classroom Discourse." George Kamberelis is a co-author of both presentations. Both will be delivered at an international conference sponsored by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). Phyllis A. Roth, professor of English, was honored in April as a Woman of Distinction by Girl Scouts of the Adirondack Council. Roth was one of five people in the region cited by the council for their professional involvement, volunteer efforts, and overall community impact. Robert Shorb, director of the Office of Student Aid and Family Finance, led a college financial aid workshop Jan. 10 at the Saratoga Springs High School. Sheldon Solomon, Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, was a speaker at "Thoughts on War, Death, and Freedom," a conference on the psychology of political violence May 14 and 15 at New York University. The event featured a number of accomplished scholars, thinkers, and writers exploring the inability of people to coexist peacefully. John Cosgrove, Barbara Norelli, and Elizabeth Putnam, Lucy Scribner Library, are the authors of "Setting the Record Straight: How Online Database Providers Are Handling Plagiarism and Fabrication Issues," published in Vol. 66, No. 2 (March 2005) of College and Research Libraries. Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, won a Juror's Award for the work she is exhibiting in "Tech II," open through May 29 at the South Shore Center in Cohasset, Mass., in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Hall's submissions consisted of four large Iris prints titled "ChuteS & LaDders," "Messengers," "Once Upon a Time," and "Radio." Karen Kellogg, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and associate director of the Environmental Studies Program, has had two papers accepted for publication: "Experimental Evidence of Female Choice in Lake Malawi Cichlids," by the journal Copeia, and "Habitat Shift of a Native Darter (Teleostei: Percidae) in Sympatry with a Non-Native Darter" by the journal American Midland Naturalist. Doretta Miller, Robert Davidson Professor of Art, has a solo exhibition of her China Series paintings through June 17 at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I. The exhibition will be featured on Providence Gallery Night during the third week of June. Jeffrey O. Segrave, professor of exercise science, is the author of "The Olympic Games 393 AD-1896 AD: The Genealogy of an Idea in Literature, Music, and Dance," published in Vol. 13 (2004) of Olympika: The International Journal of the Olympics. Kris Szymborski, science librarian, Scribner Library, is the author of "Korzenie trawy," a story on American grassroots democracy that cites the administration of former Saratoga Springs Mayor Ken Klotz. The report was published in the May 8, 2005 edition of Polityka, a leading Polish weekly magazine. In addition, an essay by Szymborski on feral children and language acquisition was read by approximately 300,000 Polish high school students who took their exit exam this spring. The article, originally published May 4, 2002, formed the reading comprehension portion of the exams required for completion of the high school degree.
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