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Faculty-Staff Achievements, Dec. 5, 2011

December 4, 2011

Activities

Beth Post-Lundquist, director of financial aid, led a College Financial Aid Workshop Dec. 1 at the Saratoga Springs High School.

Daniel Swift, assistant professor of English and author of Bomber County: The Lost Airmen of World War II, gave a talk Nov. 28 at Spring Street Gallery, part of a regular series sponsored by the Adirondack Center for Writing.

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of women's studies and religion, and her latest book Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch are the subject of a feature profile in Montana Quarterly magazine.

Susan Zappen, librarian, presented "What Gives When Something's Gotta Give," Nov. 2 at the 31stAnnual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisitions.

Publications

Noah Coburn, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, is the author of Bazaar Politics - Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town (2011, Stanford University Press).

Timothy Harper, associate professor and chair, Department of Management and Business, is co-author (with P.J. Harper and M. Mithani) of Corporate Social Performance: Public Opinion Matters, published last month in the proceedings of the Southern Management Association Meeting, Savannah, Ga.

In the News

Anthony Holland, associate professor of music, was featured in a story titled "So Crazy It Just Might Work" that aired Nov. 11 on This American Life. The story centered on Holland and his former student, Jonathan Brody, and their novel approach to fighting cancer.

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