Faculty-Staff Achievements, Nov. 19, 2012
Activities
Sheila Tuttle, research associate, Department of Biology, recently completed a study (funded by a grant from the American Wildlife Conservation Foundation) for the Lake George Land Conservancy. The conservancy is completing a multi-step process to pave the way for the first managed wildlife refuge on Lake George. Tuttle, whose specialty is wood turtles, also has been monitoring the peregrine falcons on Anthony's Nose in Putnam, N.Y., for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Her work for the conservancy involved surveying for vernal pools, snakes and turtles in the area known as the Last Great Shoreline of Lake George, which is believed to provide an important travel corridor for large mammals crossing between the Adirondack and Green mountains. She then wrote a management plan focusing on vernal pools, streams and wetlands, turtle nesting habitat, beaver, peregrine falcons, and heron rookeries. Her research will contribute to a growing body of knowledge about the biological health of the lake.
Publications, Performances
Robert Hallock, visiting assistant professor of neuroscience, is co-author of "Exposure to Mature Puffball Spores Can Cause Lung Inflammation and Death in Dogs," published in Fungi, 2012, Vol. 5, No. 4. His co-author is Carolyn O'Connor, a 2012 neuroscience major.
Evan Mack, private music instructor, Department of Music, performed his composition The Fountain with the Marshall University Chorus at a memorial service Nov. 14 at the university. Mack's inspiration for the piece was the James Russell Lowell poem of the same name. The Marshall University memorial service is an annual observance to honor the 75 people who perished in a 1970 plane crash. The program at this year's service included the premiere of Mack's Langston Hughes' Dream of Freedom and two other of his works. Mack was an artist-in-residence at Marshall, located in Huntington, W. Va., in 2009.
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has an article, "Why Poems Don't Count as Song," in the current issue of The Southern Review, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Fall 2012). His review of the Bavarian State Ballet's production of Daphnis and Chloe appears in the current Ballet Review, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer 2012).
