Faculty-Staff Achievements, July 2008

Activities

Phylise Banner, instructional technologist, UWW, received an outstanding service award from the Society for Technical Communication in recognition of her contributions as conference manager of the 2008 Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia, May 31-June 4. She was responsible for the development of the educational program. At the conference, she also offered a mini-workshop on information visualization.

David Domozych, professor of biology, was an invited seminar speaker at the seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium in New London, Conn., June 22-26. His talk, ?Bioinvasion by the diatom, Didymosphenia geminata: D-day is upon us,? was part of a mini-symposium titled ?Signals and smells: Chemical ecology and taste.? Domozych reported on the current state of global affairs concerning this serious bioinvasive alga and the Didymosphenia-based research being performed at the Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center.

Catherine J. Golden, professor of English, gave an invited paper titled ?Beyond Boundaries: Defining a Transatlantic Notion of Victorian Feminist Studies? at a conference on the Future of Vicotiran Feminist Studies April 18-19 at the University of Michigan in honor of the retirement of leading Victorianist Martha Vicinus.

Bill Jones, sports information manager, headed the local organizing committee for the 2008 ECAC-SIDA Workshop held June 9-13 in Saratoga Springs. Close to 200 sports information officials from the eastern U.S. attended the workshop, which also featured sessions by Paul Arciero, associate professor of exercise science, on ?Looking Out for Number One: Bringing wellness to a hectic lifestyle; and Dan Forbush, executive director of communications, on ?Crystal Ball: The Future of College Communications.? Sytvia Seitz of the Skidmore sports information office, assisted with event coordination.

Jeffrey O. Segrave, interim dean of special programs and professor of exercise science, delivered an invited paper titled ?Europe and the Resurgence of Olympic Universalism,? to the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece, June 11-25.

Publications, Performances

Robert Boyers, professor of English, is the author of a review of Peter Gay?s Modernism: The Lure of Heresy (W.W. Norton, 2007), published in Twentieth-Century Literature, winter 2007.

Barbara Gulan, guest lecturer, department of theater, recently appeared for the fifth time on Law and Order, playing the role of Judge Carol Coughlin. Gulan also appeared in episodes of The Sopranos, Ed, Spin City, As the World Turns and a number of films, theater productions, and commercials. She is currently producing and co-directing a documentary titled ?The Dark Lady?Amelia Bassano Lanier? with Mitchell Riggs.

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for the following stories: ?Rethinking Student Aid?Really?? by Doug Lederman, July 8, insidehighered.com; ?Public schools battle rising cost? by Theresa Avila, June 23, dailybruin.ucla.edu; ?Merit Aid Still King? by Jack Stripling, June 23, insidehighered.com; and ?Md. Keeps a Lid on Tuition? by Valerie Strauss and John Wagner, June 5, washingtonpost.com.

Richard Lindemann, associate professor of geosciences, was a source for a story titled ?Fossil garden may reopen? by Lee Coleman, June 21, The Daily Gazette.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, was a guest on ?Bard?s Eye View,? which aired July 8 on WAMC-FM. Rogoff discussed his new book The Long Fault with host Paul Elisha.