Awards, activities, publications and more

After a long hiatus, news of faculty and staff achievements, exhibitions, and publications returns with the debut of Scope Online. This current edition includes primarily the submissions provided since the start of the academic year. New items will be added regularly. Please submit news to awise@skidmore.edu for inclusion in future editions of Scope Online.

AWARDS

Katharine Cartwright, chair , Department of Geosciences, received the Morton J. Scully Memorial Award for Excellence in Transparent Watercolor for her work, ?All Cracked Up,? featured at the 31st annual International Open Exhibition of the North East Watercolor Society in Kent, Conn. The exhibition continues through Nov. 15. The same work won the Creative Catalyst Award at the Georgia Watercolor Society?s 2007 National Exhibition earlier this year in Atlanta, Ga. Cartwright also is a signature member of the North East Watercolor Society and an inducted member of the national Association of Women Artists.

Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, dean of studies and associate professor of anthropology, was promoted to fellow status as a member of the Society for Applied Anthropology at the society?s 67th annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., last spring. The executive committee nominates members for promotion to fellow based on seniority and contributions to the application of the social sciences to contemporary problems. Ennis-McMillan was cited for his experience applying anthropology to health issues, environmental problems, and higher education.

Mary DiSanto-Rose, associate professor and chair, Department of Dance, was honored for "exceptional service and scholarship" by the National Dance Association at its Dance Education in the 21st Century Pedagogy Conference. The event, titled "The Evolving Art of Teaching Excellence," took place in June at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs. DiSanto-Rose presented a workshop on "The Joy of Reading and Dancing: Exploring Children's Literature Through Dance" also was a conference panelist.

Corey Freeman-Gallant, associate professor and chair, Department of Biology, was awarded a Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement to his NSF-funded research on sexual selection in common yellowthroats. His undergraduate collaborator, David Steinberger '09, combined field and laboratory work during the summer of 2007 to perform a bioacoustic analysis of male song and its influence on social and extra-pair mating success.

Doretta Miller, Robert Davidson Professor of Art, had two paintings in the 2007 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany International Airport Gallery last summer. Miller received the Albany Institute of History and Art Purchase Award for "Rules of the Road: Tian'anmen Square," 2005; and "Fast Food: Beijing," 2007. These paintings become part of the museum's permanent collection. In addition, Miller received the Norman S. Rice Jurors Award sponsored by jkdorgan arts Corporate Consulting.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, spent seven weeks in February and March 2007 in residence at Yaddo, the Saratoga Springs artists colony, as both an artist-in-residence and special assistant to the president.

ACTIVITIES

Catherine Domozych, senior teaching associate, Department of Biology, presented a paper titled ?Desmid-rich biofilms and heterotrophic protist assemblages of Adirondack wetlands? at the joint meeting of the Phycological Society of America and International Society of Protistologists, Aug. 5-9 in Warwick, R.I. Co-authors included David Domozych of Skidmore and O. Roger Anderson of Columbia University.

David Domozych, professor of biology, presented an invited seminar titled ?The extracellular matrix of charophycean green algae: biofilms, slime and the evolution of the plant cell wall? at the Oct. 19 Fall Colloquium Series sponsored by the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology at Ohio University.
In addition, he presented a paper titled ?Differential occurrence of land plant extracellular polysaccharides in the charophycean green algae and implications for plant evolution? at the joint meeting of the Phycological Society of America and International Society of Protistologists. Co-authors included Catherine Domozych of Skidmore, Sarah Kiemle and Michael Gretz of the Biotechnology Research Center of Michigan Technological University, and Iben Sorensen and William Willats of the Department of Molecular Biology of the University of Copenhagen.
Domozych also is co-author of a paper titled ?Didymosphenia geminata as a nuisance diatom: runaway stalk production results in mats with significant environmental impact,? which was presented at the joint meeting of the Phycological Society of America and International Society of Protistologists. Co-authors are Sarah Kiemle, Michelle Riccio and Michael Gretz of the Biotechnology Research Center of Michigan Technological University and Sarah Spaulding of the U.S. Geological Survey/EPA Region VII of Denver, Colo.

Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, dean of studies and associate professor of anthropology, presented a paper titled ?Ethnoecology of Aquatic Invasive Species: Conflicting views from Saratoga Lake, New York? at the 47th annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association April 22 at Ithaca College. Co-authors are Karen Kellogg, associate professor of environmental studies; Molly Bergen ?07; and Leah Wohl-Pollack ?08.

Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, has been invited to serve on the College Board?s Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture Course Redesign Commission. Last spring, the College Board selected his FL 206 course, ?Italian Language and Culture,? as ?an exemplar of best practices.?

Catherine Golden, professor of English, presented ?Herland/Catland: Gilman?s Take on the Canine-Feline Debate? for a session titled ?Gilman?s Other Fiction? at May 24 American Literature Association Conference in Boston.

Reginald Lilly, professor of philosophy, was in Paris last spring and gave four lectures at the Coll ge international de Philosophie. The first, "L'analytique des ultimes: vers la singularit ," schematizes mortality and natality as contrary, yet fundamental structures that cleave singular human existence. The second and third lectures, under the single title of "La psychanalyse: le clivage & le traumatisme," explored the psychoanalytic theory of trauma, repression, and the "splittings" that originally constitute and ramify the psychic structure. The fourth, "La singularit : recouper la mortalit -- Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy," details the difficulty both psychoanalysis and Heidegger have in thinking of mortality and singular being, and an appeal is made to Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy for a way to think the finite temporality of singular being as ongoing trauma.

Josh Ness, assistant professor of biology, gave a presentation titled "Is doing something often the same as doing it well? Insights from the barrel cactus-ant interaction" to the biology departments of Rice University and the University at Albany. He also presented a poster titled ?Comparison of leaf processing and macroinvertebrate colonization of invasive Japanese Knotweed and native Sugar Maple? at the North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting in Columbia, S.C. The poster was co-authored by five Skidmore students: Artemis Roehrig, Leigh Siegwarth, Lauren Bloomenthal, Courtney Clark, Sarah Fansler, and Winnie Cheng, all Class of 2007, and Cathy Gibson, assistant professor of environmental studies.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, spent part of July conducting pre-performance interviews at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with members of the New York City Ballet: one each with principal dancers Maria Kowroski and Jenifer Ringer, one with soloist Seth Orza and corps member Kathryn Morgan on dancing Romeo and Juliet, and one with ballet master and former soloist Christine Redpath on Jerome Robbins?s Dances at a Gathering. On July 16, he gave a lecture previewing the Saratoga Shakespeare Company?s production of Much Ado About Nothing, titled ?Some Things Much Ado About Nothing Is About.? He also served as text editor and dramaturg for the production, which ran July 17-29 in Congress Park, Saratoga Springs.

Bob Shorb, associate dean and director of student aid and family finance, was a guest financial aid expert answering parent questions at a session titled "Maximizing Your Scholarship/Financial Aid Options" during the 2007 National Prostart Student Invitational last April in Charlotte, N.C. The session was co-sponsored by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

Jeffrey Segrave, interim dean of special programs, presented a paper titled "Language, gender, and sport: A review of the research literature" at the Popular Culture/American Culture Confrence last spring in Boston. His co-authors were Katie McDowell and Jamie King.

Linda Simon, professor and chair, Department of English, delivered a paper titled ?A Case Study of Pragmatic Politics: William James and the Haymarket Affair? at a conference on ?Democracy, Liberalism, and the Relevance of Pragmatism/Neopragmatism for the Constituting of Political Ideologies? Sept. 29 at Constantin Brancusi University, Targu-Jiu, Romania.


PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES

Lisa Aronson, associate professor of art history, was guest curator and author of the catalog for an exhibition titled ?Threads of Time: African Textiles from the Traditional to the Contemporary? on display earlier this year at the Hillwood Art Museum on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Approximately 125 copies of the catalog were donated to the Arts Council of the African Studies Association?s Books Distribution Program, which is designed to foster and strengthen international scholarly research. Through the initiative, select publications are sent to museums, libraries, and research institutions in Africa and the Caribbean.

Jennifer Delton, associate professor of history, is the author of ?Before the EEOC: How Management Integrated the Workplace,? published in Business History Review, Summer 2007.

Mary DiSanto-Rose, associate professor and chair, Department of Dance, performed the Ave Maria by Isadora Duncan with Skidmore students and members of the Isadora Duncan International Institute for the May opening of "The Dawn of Modern Dance" exhibition at the National Museum of Dance.

David Domozych, professor of biology, published a paper titled "Pleurotaenium trabecula, a desmid of wetland biofilms: The extracellular matrix and adhesion mechanisms" in the Journal of Phycology, Vol. 43, 2007. Co-authors are Leah Elliott, Skidmore class of 2006, and Michael Gretz and Sarah Kiemle of the Biotechnology Research Center of Michigan Technological University.
Domozych published an additional paper titled "Exopolymer production by the green alga, Penium margaritaceum: Implications for biofilm residency" in the International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 168, 2007.

Corey Freeman-Gallant, associate professor and chair, Department of Biology, is an author of ?Geographic Variation in the Function of Ornaments in the Common Yellowthroat,? to be published in the Journal of Avian Biology. Skidmore alumnus Jon DeCoste ?06 is a coauthor, along with Peter Dunn and Linda Whittingham of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Catherine Gibson, assistant professor of environmental studies, is co-author (with J. Meyer, University of Georgia) of "Nutrient uptake in an urban river" published in Journal of the Amerian Water Resources Association, Vol. 43, 2007.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, has an essay titled "Censoring Her Sensationalism: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The Doctor's Wife" in Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina, and published in 2006 by Ohio State University Press. Goldman also is the author of ?Gilman?s Visit to Skidmore College? published in Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Spring 2007).

Deb Hall, associate professor of art, exhibited work in a juried show titled ?Transcendence? at the Digital Artist's Space Gallery in Troy, N.Y., during spring 2007. She also had work included in a spring show titled ?Precarious Domain? in the Perella Gallery at Fulton Montgomery Community College.

Penny Howell Jolly, William R. Keenan Professor of Liberal Arts and professor of art history, is the author of ?Rogier van der Weyden?s ?Pregnant? Magdalene: On the Rhetoric of Dress in the Descent from the Cross,? published in Studies in Iconography, Vol. 28, 2007.

Margo Mensing, associate professor of art, and John McQueen presented "See to It," a two-person exhibition of their works, shown during August and September at the Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Mass.

Doretta Miller, Robert Davidson Professor in Art, had a commentary on her work published in Chinese Oil Painting, Vol. 2, 2007, the only Chinese oil painting quarterly that includes works by foreign artists. The commentary was written by Yao Yong, director of the Graduate Oil Painting Department at China Art Academy, Beijing.

Two Music Department faculty members had articles published in Asian Music, Vol. 38, No. 1. Gordon Thompson, professor, is the author of a review of Kartik Seshadri?s CD set, Raga: Rasa, That Which Colors the Mind; and Lei Ouyang Bryant, visiting assitant professor, is the author of ?Flowers on the Battlefield are More Fragrant.?

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has had several poems published recently: ?St. Peter and the Three Little Pigs? and ?Tree of Life? in Salamander, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2006/2007; ?The Doors of Siena? in Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Winter 2007); ?Such Stuff? in The Southern Review, Vol. 43, No.2 (Spring 2007); ?The Guy Who Passed Me Doing 90 MPH and Playing the Trumpet? in Agni, No. 65, 2007; ?Donne's Effigy? and ?A Fine and Public Place? in Western Humanities Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 2007); ?Flemish Adorations? in Salmagundi, No. 155-56 (Summer-Fall 2007); and five poems from his Danses Macabres series (?Death?s Comfort,? ?Death?s Sentence,? ?Death?s Door,? ?Death Sings Lieder? and ?Death and the Maiden?) in Notre Dame Review, No. 24 (Summer-Fall 2007.
Two of his poems, ?Mennonites By the Sea? and ?Memorial Chapel,? were reprinted in Peregrine, No. 2 (Spring 2007). He has also published ?Better Poetry Through Chemistry,? an essay-review of David Wojahn?s Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, in The Southern Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring 2007), and a review of Vanished, poems by Carolyn Beard Whitlow, in The Georgia Review, Vol. 61, No.2 (Summer 2007). During July 2007, he served as the regular ballet reviewer for The Saratogian, covering the New York City Ballet?s summer season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

Jeffrey Segrave, interim dean of special programs, is the author of a chapter titled "Olympics" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer and published in 2007 by Blackwell Publishing.