Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 26, 2012
Activities
Lisa Aronson, associate professor of art history,led a tour of her Environment and Object: Recent African Art exhibition March 11 at its current venue, the Museum of Art at Middlebury College. Among those attending the tour were Skidmore alumni Jennifer Muzzy Staats '88, Frances Gubler '10, and current student Rosalie Wright-Lapin '15.
Catherine J. Golden, professor of English, was invited to give the concluding paper at the Interacting with Print research conference on "Print in the Media Ecology" March 15-16 at McGill University. Her talk was titled "From the Victorian Post Office to the Postman's Mailbag: Sites of Media Interactivity in the Age of Postal Reform."
Margaret Pearson, professor emerita of history, gave a talk titled "Can the Book of Changes help a New Yorker?" March 6 at the China Institute in Manhattan.
In the News
Paul Arciero, professor for health and exercise sciences, was a source for "The snack food nation - A culture of near-constant eating contributes to the obesity
epidemic," part of the ongoing "Fit as a Family" series running this year in the Albany Times-Union. The story was published March 24.
Sandy Baum, professor emerita of economics, was a source for "Student debt a growing problem
- Average graduate owes about $25G," published March 25 in The Sunday Gazette.
Michael Emery, senior artist-in-residence, Department of Music, was the focus of a feature titled "Michael Emery solos with the Schenectady Symphony in The Four Seasons," a March 8 entry in the Arts Talk blog published on timesunion.com.
Mary Harney, artist-in-residence, Department of Dance, was a source for "The Global Search for Education: Where Is the Next Martha Graham?" published March 12 in huffingtonpost.com.
Jim Kennelly, professor of international business, wrote an opinion essay titled "A pity we can't offer vision with the bowls of shamrock" published March 21 in Kerryman, a weekly paper in County Kerry, Ireland.
