Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 5, 2012
Activities
Peg Boyers, executive editor of Salmagundi magazine and lecturer in the English Department, gave a reading in January with Mary Gaitskill and Nicholas Dawidoff at the Civitella Ranieri fellows reading at KGB in New York City. In February she taught a four-week master class titled "Throwing Your Voice: Translation for Writers and Vampires" as part of Columbia University's MFA program.
Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Professor in Management for Liberal Arts Students, gave an invited lecture titled"Crippled Giant: American Decline in an Age of Corporate Takeover" Jan. 25 at University of Madras, India.
David Vella, professor of mathematics, gave a talk titled"Across the Great Divide - Bridging the Gap Between Two Competing Perspectives in Mathematics" Feb. 24 to theMath Colloquium at Siena College.
Publications
Peg Boyers, executive editor of Salmagundi magazine and lecturer in the English Department, has had poems appear in recent issues of Southwest Review, Sewanee Review, Notre Dame Review, Earth Daughters and Hudson Review. Her poem "Tobacco" (from Honey With Tobacco)was reprintedin Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, an anthology published by Seren Books.
Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Professor in Management for Liberal Arts Students, is co-author of a book chapter titled"Role Definitions and Interactions with Immigrants: Understanding the World of Swedish Employment Officers" (written with Agneta Moulettes) in Equal is Not Enough: Challenging Differences and Inequalities in Contemporary Societies, J. Motmans, D. Cuypers, & P. Zanoni, et al. (editors). Antwerp: University of Antwerp Press, 2012.
In the News
Jorg Bibow,associate professor of economics, was a source for "Stimulus projects moving along very slowly," an analysis of Capital District projects funded by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, published March 4 in The Sunday Gazette.
Ron Seyb, associate professor of government, had a letter to the editor responding to an essay by Ross Douthat published March 1 in NYTimes.com
