Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 7, 2011
Activities
David Domozych, professor of biology, was an invited speaker at "Plant Biotech Denmark Annual meeting 2011" in Copenhagen March 3-4, where he presented a research talk titled: "The past meets the future: Evolutionary importance of the charophycean green algae and the prospects for developing them as model systems for plant biology."
He was also co-author on two other presentations at this meeting: "The glycosyltransferase transcriptome of Coleochaete scutata" and "Classification, naming and evolutionary history of glycosyltransferases from sequenced rhodophyte and chlorophyte genomes." Other co-authors were from the University of Copenhagen, University of Melbourne and Cornell University.
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, delivered his paper "'I Feel Fine': Social, Musical, and Technological Dynamics in the Production of the Beatles" Feb. 24 at "The Global Popular Music Business: National Historical Perspectives," a joint conference hosted by Business History Unit, the London School of Economics, and the Institute for Capitalising on Creativity, University of St Andrews, at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland.
Publications
Erica Bastress-Dukehart, associate professor of history, is the author of "Negotiating for Agnes' Womb" published in Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate Press, 2011), edited by Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp.
John Brueggemann, professor of sociology, is the author of a new book titled Inequality in the United States: A Reader (Prentice Hall, 2011). Geared for undergraduate courses on inequality, the book introduces students to the subject of social stratification as it has developed in sociology. The primary goal of the text is to offer an understanding of the history and context of debates about inequality, and a secondary goal is to give some indication as to what issues are likely to arise in the future.
David Domozych, professor of biology, is author of a paper titled "Cell Wall Growth and Modulation Dynamics in a Model Unicellular Green Alga?Penium margaritaceum: Live Cell Labeling with Monoclonal Antibodies," in the Journal of Botany, Vol. 2011, (2011). Co-authors included Skidmore student Hannah Brechka (class of 2012) along with Alicia Britton and Marc Toso of the Department of Biology and the Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center, respectively.
Domozych was also co-author of a chapter published in the Annual Review of Plant Biology, Vol. 62, (2011), titled "Evolution and Diversity of Plant Cell Walls: From Algae to Flowering Plants." Other authors included Zoe A. Popper, Maria G. Tuohy, and Dagmar B. Stengel (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland), Gurvan Michel, Bernard Kloareg and Cecile Herve (CNRS and UPMC University Paris and Station Biologique de Roscoff, F-29682 Roscoff, Bretagne, France) and William G.T. Willats University of Copenhagen).
Denise Smith, professor, Class of 1961 Term Professor for Exercise Science, has authored a chapter titled "Fire Fighter Physiology" which is published in Live Fire Training: Principles and Practice, published by Jones and Barlett. The book has been endorsed by the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the International Society of Fire Service Instructors, and the National Fire Protection Agency and will be used to educate fire instructors in the safe and effective use of live fire training.
Sonia Silva, assistant professor of anthropology, is the author of a new book titled Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets (Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), part of the "Contemporary Ethnography" series at the press.
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, has written a new entry titled "John Lennon and Jesus, 4 March 1966" for his blog, hosted on the Oxford University Press site. The blog was featured in a March 4 Huffington Post item.
In the News
Ginger Ertz, museum educator, and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery were spotlighted in a feature published in an electronic newsletter from Visual Thinking Strategies. The story was in the VTS Weekly News, March 1, 2011.
Catherine J. Golden, professor of English, and Kelly Dempsey-Little, instructional technologist, were featured in a story on Blackboard Learn that moved on the PR Newswire March 1. The story was titled "Improved support, faculty engagement and cost savings drive move to new platform."
