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Vol. 6, No. 3 - November 1, 2006
Faculty/Staff Activities Sarah Goodwin, professor of English, delivered an invited paper titled "Rites, rights, writing: 'Tintern Abbey' as Last Will and Testament" during an interdisciplinary seminar on "Death Rites and Rights" Sept. 19-22 in Cambridge, England. Mary Kathryn Jablonski, assistant to the director of the Schick Art Gallery, gave a reading of her poetry Oct. 26 at Crandall Library, Glens Falls. Jablonski is a former director of the Saratoga Poetry Zone who has read her poems throughout the Capital Region and who has twice been a finalist for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize sponsored by Hunger Mountain. Karen Kellogg, director, Environmental Studies Program and assistant professor of environmental studies, gave a presentation titled "The Water Resources Initiative (WRI) at Skidmore College" at the 118th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America Oct. 22-25 in Philadelphia. Her co-authors were Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, anthropology, Judy Halstead, chemistry, and Kyle Nichols, geosciences. Approximately 6,200 people attended the meeting. Kyle Nichols, assistant professor of geology, gave a presentation titled "A 10Be View of Tropical Erosion: The Rio Charges, a Steady Supply of Sediment in Panama" and was a co-author of a presentation by Michael Cleveland '06 of "Asymmetric Tributary Erosion Rates of Eastern Grand Canyon Based on Cosmogenic 10Be" at the 118th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. Jeffrey Segrave, David H. Porter professor, presented a paper titled "Pietro Metastasio's L'Olimpiade: A textual exegesis and an analysis of the role of L'Olimpiade in Olympic Games history," at the eighth International Symposium for Olympic Research Oct. 19-21 at the International Center for Olympic Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Publications & Exhibitions Paul Arciero, associate professor of exercise science, was lead author of "Increased Dietary Protein and Combined High-Intensity Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Improves Body Fat Distribution and Cardiovascular Risk Factors" published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, Vol. 16, No. 4, August 2006. His co-authors were the following former students: Christopher L. Gentile, Roger Martin-Pressman, Michael J. Ormsbeee, Meghan Everett, and Lauren Zwicky. Alison Doyle, associate director of Career Services, is the author of The About.com Guide to Job Searching: Tools and Tactics to Help You Get the Job You Want (2006, Adams Media Corp.), a comprehensive career-search guide that offers advice on everything from writing a resume and using the Internet to research career options, to best ways to network and how to manage a career search. Readers reviewing Doyle's book on Amazon.com have given it top ratings. Deb Hall, associate professor of art, accepted an invitation to exhibit her work at the University of Southern Maine's Gorham Art Gallery in a show titled "Calendar Months and Other Printed Matter,"open through Dec. 9. She contributed to the gallery talk and panel discussion held Oct. 19. The exhibit is a part of The Maine Print Project: 200 Years of Printmaking that is taking place across the entire state of Maine. Curated by gallery director Carolyn Eyler, the USM exhibit features 12 artists, four from Maine and eight from across the nation. All the artists produced a print in Maine and each created a print representing one month of the year for a calendar/catalogue of the exhibit. Regina Janes, professor of English, is the author of "Why the Daughter of Herodias Must Dance (Mark 6.14-29)," published in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol. 28, No. 4, June 2006; and reviews of John Bender, ed., Regimes of Description, and Michael Prince, "A Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy and Literature," The Scriblerian, Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2006. Doretta Miller, Robert Davidson Professor of Art, was awarded the Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal for Water Media at the 110th annual Juried Exhibition of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club. The awards dinner took place Oct. 27 in the Grand Gallery of the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park South, New York City. Miller also has a gouache painting in the North East Watercolor Society 30th annual International Juried Exhibition at the Gallery at the Kent Art Association, Kent, Conn., through Nov. 5. Steven Millhauser, professor of English, is the author of "The Dome," published in The American Scholar, Vol. 75, No. 4, Autumn 2006. The American Scholar is the journal of intellectual and cultural affairs published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Kyle Nichols, assistant professor of geology, is co-author (with A. Matmon, Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the U.S. Geological Survey, and R. Finkel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California) of "Isotopic Insights into Smoothening of Abandoned Fan Surfaces, Southern California" published in Quaternary Research, Vol. 66, No. 1, July 2006.
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