Faculty-Staff Achievements, Feb. 14, 2008

Publications

Susan Lehr, professor of education, edited the book Shattering the Looking Glass: Challenge, Risk, and Controversy in Children's Literature (Christopher-Gordon Publishers, 2008), and wrote two chapters, ?Feminist Women Writers of the 18th Century: Those Barbarous and Didactic Women,? and ?Contemporary Women Writers: Undercutting the Patriarchy.? Lehr has also been invited to be a member of the inaugural Literature Advisory Board for the U.S. Department of Education, ?Reading is Fundamental.?

In the News

Mary Lou Bates, dean of admissions and financial aid, was interviewed regarding current admissions data and statistics for a Saratogian story titled ?Picking the Cream of the Crop,? published Feb. 12 on page one.

Denise Smith, Class of 1961 Term Professor and professor of exercise science, was a source for a Capital News 9 story titled ?Albany Fire Department on front lines of heart health,? that aired Feb. 12.

News of faculty and staff activities, achievements, performances, publications, and exhibitions is published regularly in Scope Online. Please send news items to awise@skidmore.edu for inclusion in the next edition.