Lucy Walker '19 and geoscience professor Meg Estapa spent the summer performing collaborative research project studying carbon matter in the ocean, and discuss their findings on This is Skidmore - the Skidmore College podcast.
Think of the marine scientists emerging from Skidmore College and the top name is often Penny Chisholm '69, a National Medal of Science winner for her pioneering work on a crucial climate-regulating microorganism. Others students and alumni are following in her path.
To bring more youngsters into science and technology, Skidmore hosts its first cell-biology institute for area high-schoolers, thanks to a National Science Foundation grant.- A photographic traverse of the entirety of Norway from north to south is one of 20 projects challenging recipients of $4000 SEE-Beyond grants this summer.
- Denton Winslow Crocker, noted zoologist and professor emeritus of biology, died Feb. 19, 2012, of complications from cancer.
- Ruth Fleishman, longtime lab coordinator in Skidmore's Biology Department, died Feb. 14, 2012, in Troy, following a long illness. She was 80.
- Lois Rose (Sevigny) Hollenbeck, a Skidmore graduate and assistant professor emerita of biology, died April 29, 2010, in Valatie, N.Y.
- Cathy Gibson, an environmental scientist, is principal investigator for a new National Science Foundation-supported initiative that stresses the interrelationships of scientific systems across disciplines.