Faculty-Staff Achievements, Nov. 9, 2015

Awards

Benjamin Givan, associate professor of music, received the Steve Larson Award for Jazz Scholarship from the Society for Music Theory’s Jazz Theory and Analysis Interest Group Oct. 31. The group presented the award for Givan’s article titled “Gunther Schuller and the Challenge of Sonny Rollins: Stylistic Context, Intentionality and Jazz Analysis” published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 67, 2014.

Several members of the Office of Communications and Marketing shared an Award of Excellence presented during the recent 45^th annual design competition sponsored by the University and College Designers Association. The prize recognized the tabloid publication “April is Skidgenuity.” Mary Parliman, designer was art director and production manager, Sue Rosenberg, writer, edited the publication, and Dan Forbush, former director, wrote the copy.

Activities

Jennifer Mueller, assistant professor of sociology and assistant director of Intergroup Relations, delivered a keynote address for the Dialogue Enrichment Advisory Committee Workshop on Intergenerational Poverty held at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her Oct. 27 talk (via Skype) was titled “Racial Inequality by Design:  Policy, Private Practice, and the Inexorable Racial Wealth Gap.”

Emily Davidson, sustainability fellow, Paul Lundberg, assistant director of constructions services, and Levi Rogers, sustainability coordinator, attended the national conference sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Oct. 25-28 in Minneapolis. Davidson presented a poster on sustainable transportation efforts at Skidmore, and Lundberg and Rogers presented a case study on Skidmore’s 15-year energy strategy, highlighting recent renewable energy projects.

Publications, Exhibitions

A new book by Tom Lewis, professor emeritus of English, titled Washington:  A History of Our National City, was reviewed Oct. 29 in The Washington Post by Scott W. Berg, who wrote “The entire narrative, first word to last, is told with a kind of brio and keen curiosity.” Washington:  A History of Our National City (Basic Books), is “an authoritative and colorful history of Washington, D.C., the idealistic and contradictory city which has functioned as our national stage, the setting of our dreams and our dramas, and the seat of power from which our representatives have, for better or for worse, determined our destiny,” according to the publisher’s web site.

Paul Sattler, associate professor of art and director, Schick Art Gallery, has a solo exhibition at Marist College Art Gallery opening Nov. 12 and running through Dec. 17. Titled “Remedy:  About a Decade of Painting,” the exhibition features more than 20 works created since 2005, including several new works completed this year. An opening reception is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the gallery. For more information, please click here.

In the News

Cathy Hill, F. William Harder Professor of Business Administration, was a source for a Nov. 6 report titled “GlobalFoundries Announces Investments Amid Layoffs,” that aired on WAMC-FM.

Chirstopher Mann, assistant professor of government, was a source for a recent story in Salon on automatic voter registration, and a related report by Demos.org.

Bob Turner, associate professor of government, was a source for a Nov. 6 report titled “Saratoga PAC Presses on After Election Day” that aired Nov. 6 on WAMC-FM.

Correction—A recent post about Jennifer Castellani, who has completed the requirements for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Dayton, incorrectly reported her title. She is associate director of the Skidmore Fund. Scope Weekly regrets the error.

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