Faculty-Staff Achievements, April 26, 2010
Awards
Dale Willman, adjunct professor of English, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and conduct research in Indonesia during the 2009-2010 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board.
Willman will be teaching environmental journalism and new media courses at Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia. He will also research noted naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and his work in what was then known as the Malay Archipelago.
"While this is simply an incredible honor and opportunity, I'm particularly excited about the chance to research Wallace's time in Indonesia," Willman says. "Wallace's work was integral to the formation of what we now know as the theory of evolution." Wallace spent eight years working in the Malay Archipelago (1854-62). He is considered one of the world's greatest naturalists. His correspondence with Charles Darwin while Wallace was in Southeast Asia is also considered to be a major factor in Darwin's eventual completion and release of his book, " On the Origin of Species." Wallace independently developed a theory of evolution through natural selection while working in Southeast Asia.
Willman is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program.
Ian Berry,Malloy Curator of the Tang Museum is editor and co-author (with Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson) of an award-winning book. Fred Tomaselli has been received first prize in the American Association of Museums' 2010 Publications Design Competition. Co-published by Tang, Aspen Art Museum and DelMonico Books / Prestel to accompany the exhibition of Tomaselli's works jointly organized by the two museums, the book is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date. The award marks the fifth such AAM award for a Tang publication, but the first "first" in a category that includes such major museums as the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum, and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Activities
Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history,presented an invited plenary lecture titled "The Intervening Widow: Performing Spousal SalvationThrough Rogier van der Weyden's Braque Triptych" last November at a University of Maryland conference called "Attending to Early Modern Women."
Skidmore attends, participates in annual math conference On Saturday, April 17, a group of students and faculty attended the 17th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Keene State College in Keene, N.H., along with almost 300 other students and faculty from across the Northeast. Skidmore was one of the founding schools for this conference in 1994 and has always been an active participant, but this was a banner year for Skidmore participation.
Four mathematics faculty members delivered talks: Mark Huibregtse,Dan Hurwitz, andDavid Vella,professors; and Rachel Roe-Dale, assistant professor. Eight student talks were presented by teams that included the following students: Laura Attley, Noah Champagne, Lindsey Curtis, Melissa Hamilton, Amanda Holland, Larry Hok, Kenneth Jung, Michael Kellar, Kubra Komek, Kim Lai, Emi Lipcsey-Magyar, Alex McGuire, Sean Muron, Amanda Paret, Peter Selinsky, Evan Warshaw, andZhi Jiang (Jason)Wu, all Class of 2010; and Spencer Cheng, Sarah Keeney, and Andrei Margea, all Class of 2011.
Skidmore hosted the conference in 1996 and 2001, and will do so again next year. More information may be found on the web site.
Kimberley Frederick, associate professor of chemistry, and students Ashley Stingel '10, Sarah Bashaw '11 and Katherine Roguski '11 attended and presented at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry (Pittcon), Feb. 27-March 2 in Orlando, Fla. The presentations were as follows:
-K.A. Frederick and D. Iimoto, gave a talk titled "Authentic Modeling of the Method of Scientific Inquiry during the Senior Year."
The following are the student posters:
-K. Roguski, E. Lipscey-Magyar, R. Roe-Dale, K.A. Frederick, "Measurement and Modeling of Real-Time Changes in Electroosmotic Flow under Dynamic Buffer Conditions";
-S.A. Bashaw, A.K. Kotze and K.A. Frederick, "Using Thermoresponsive, Guanosine Gels for In-capillary Sample Pre-concentration"; and
-A. M. Stingel, L. Sussman, S.P. Crowley and K.A. Frederick, "Rapid Method for Assessing Coating Performance in Capillary Electrophoresis."
Linda Simon, professor of English, has curated 'Life Is In The Transitions': William James, 1842-1910, scheduled Aug. 16-Dec. 23, 2010 at Harvard University's Houghton Library. Scheduled to mark the centennial of the death of William James, the exhibition shows the complexities of the life and thought of one of America's most interesting and provocative thinkers, in his own words and the words of his family and colleagues. The opening of the exhibition coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association and titled "In the Footsteps of William James: A Symposium on the Legacy - and the On-Going Uses - of James's Work."
Simon, the author of the book Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (1998) and general editor of William James Studies, took the title for the exhibition from James's 1904 essay titled "A World of Pure Experience."
Publications
Jennifer Delton, associate professor of history, is the author of "Rethinking Post-World War II Anticommunism," published in The Journal of the Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2010.
Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history,is the author of "The Wise and Foolish Magdalene, the Good Widow, and Rogier van der Weyden's Braque Triptych," published in Studies in Iconography, Vol. 31 (2010). In addition, she wrote a review of a book by Susie Nash, Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), published in Speculum, Vol. 85, No. 1 (January 2010).
In the News
Dawn Greenlaw, Skidmore Shop, was a source for "Area colleges to offer textbook rentals," published April 19 in The Daily Gazette.
John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang Museum, was a source for "Earth Day turns 40 with more to be done," published April 22 in The Daily Gazette.
