Faculty-Staff Achievements, April 1, 2012
Activities
David Domozych, professor of biology, presented an invited seminar titled "Green Algae and cell walls: innovators and models" March 30 at the Institut de Recherche en Biologie V g tale and its Biodiversity Centre at the Montreal Botanical Garden.
Beth Post-Lundquist, director of financial aid, was featured in a live web chat on financial aid hosted March 15 by The Saratogian.
Nate Simms, head coach, men's tennis, led a discussion of Brunswick, his first movie, following a screening of the film April 1 at the Saratoga Film Forum. The documentary is the story of Brunswick, N.Y., a small Rensselaer County town facing the challenge of balancing economic growth with the preservation of its rural character.
Publications
Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English and his wife Patricia, a travel-writing team for more than three decades, were the subject of a full-page profile in the October issue of The Rotarian. They recently completed the second edition of A Visitor's Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary New England, to be published by Countryman Press (a division of Norton) in June. The first edition was part of the series that also included Mid-Atlantic America and the South. The Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and Military Book Club republished all three volumes as alternate selections in 2010.
Dan Nathan, associate professor and chair, Department of American Studies, is the author of"Looking for the 'Marvellous' in Baltimore: A Sport History Sojourn," in Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame, ed. Murray G. Phillips (New York: Routledge, 2012).
Shirley Smith, associate professor of Italian, is the author of the book Imperial Designs: Italians in China, 1900-1947,released in early March by the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies.
