Faculty-Staff Achievements, Dec. 16, 2014
Recognition
Mary Solomons, senior director of donor relations and campaign events, received a CASE faculty
star for her participation at the summer annual Donor Relations Conference in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. Faculty stars are awarded to speakers who rate 4.5 or more on a 5-point
scale. More recently, she was one of four faculty at the three-day conference “Revitalizing
your Donor Relations Program” hosted by Academic Impressions in Phoenix, Ariz., in
November. Based in Washington, D.C., CASE (the Council for the Advancement and Support
of Education) is a leading resource for knowledge, standards, advocacy and training
in alumni relations, communications, fundraising, marketing and related activities.
Activities
Elzbieta (Ela) Lepkowska-White and Emily Kortright ’15 presented their summer collaborative student-faculty research on the “Meanings of
food: Conversations of American Women on Food Blogs” at the Academy of Business Administration
International Conference in Florence, Italy, Aug. 6-9 2014. The abstract of this research
will be published in Summer 2014 edition of the Academy of Business Administration
Conference Proceedings.
In addition, Lepkowska-White and Catherine Chang '13 presented their research “Friend or Foe? Food in the Eyes of Young Consumers: The
Many Perceptions of Food” at the American Marketing Association Public Policy Conference
in Boston, June 6-9, 2014. The abstract of this research was published in American
Marketing Association Public Policy Conference Proceedings.
Lepkowska-White is an associate professor of marketing, Department of Management and Business, and director of the International Affairs Program.
Publications & Exhibitions
Victor Cahn, professor emeritus of English, wrote Villainous Company, A Caper for Three Women, scheduled to be performed Jan. 9-31, 2015, at the Clurman Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St., New York. For details, click here.
Katie DeGroot, director, Summer Studio Art Program, is one of four artists whose work is featured in “Reconnecting with Nature,” on exhibit through Jan. 21, 2015, at the Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Conn. She will participate in an artists’ talk at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.
Hedi Jaouad, professor of French, is the author of a new book titled Browningmania, America’s Love for Robert Browning (2014, Cambria Press). Read more here.
Dan Nathan, associate professor and chair, Department of American Studies, is the author of a chapter titled “’A Matter of Basic Fairness’: Ed O’Bannon Takes the NCAA to Court,” published in Sport and the Law: Historical and Cultural Intersections, edited by Samuel L. Regalado and Sarah K. Fields and published in 2014 by the University of Arkansas Press. The book examines not only how athletes looked to the nation’s judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases transformed the interpretation of laws.
Research by Robin Nelson, assistant professor of anthropology, on kin and social networking in Jamaica was featured in a (Oct. 1, 2014) Scientific American article by Danielle Lee titled “Taking it Personally.”
Linda Simon, professor emerita of English, is the author of a new book titled A History of the Circus: The Greatest Shows on Earth (2014, Reaktion Books). Read more here.
In addition, Simon wrote an essay-review of the following four books: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America, by Kate Haulman; Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France, by Susan Hiner; Cultures of Feminiity in Modern Fashion, by Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan; and The Empire’s New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, by Christine Ruane. Simon’s essay was published in the 2014 Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 26, No. 4, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
In the News
Paul Arciero, professor of health and exercise sciences, had his “Academic Minute” on the quality of exercise routines, originally broadcast Nov. 6, 2014, featured on “The Best of Our Knowledge,” No. 1262, also a national production of WAMC.
David Kieran, visiting assistant professor of history, is the author of an opinion essay titled “Vietnam’s legacy, the Iraq War and U.S. foreign policy,” published Nov. 25, 2014, in the Albany Times Union.
Denise Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences, was a source for “Pursuit and restraint raise police officers’ risk of sudden death,” which moved on the Reuters News Health wire Nov. 28, 2014.
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