Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 14, 2015
Activities
Jason P. Breves, assistant professor of biology, delivered an invited talk at the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology’s recent meeting held at the University of Ottawa (June 21-25). Breves’ talk, entitled “Prolactin and cortisol direct branchial aquaporin 3 expression in euryhaline tilapia,” was included in the Featured Topic Symposium: Neuroendocrine regulation of ionic, osmotic, and acid-base balance in fish.
David Domozych, professor of biology, was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Cell Walls July 12-17 at Bentley University in Boston. His talked was titled "Resolving primary cell wall architecture through directed polymer perturbation in the unicellular charophyte, Penium." He was also co-author of two posters at the conference. The first poster, titled "Dissecting plant cell wall development one polymeric domain at a time using the unicellular charophyte, Penium margaritaceum,'' was co-authored by Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center Coordinator Li Sun, Skidmore students Berke Tinaz, Anna Lietz, Molly Patten, Perri Keehn and Eleanore Ritter and by Sandra Raimundo and Zoe Popper of the National University of Ireland in Galway. The second poster was titled "VPS26C, a predicted novel retromer subunit, is responsible for polarized growth and cell wall organization in Arabidopsis.” Co-authors were Suryatapa Jha and Mary Tierney of the University of Vermont.
Juan Navea, assistant professor of chemistry, gave a talk titled “Atmospheric Science: Status and challenges of Climate Research” July 21 at the Congregation Sharra Tfille.
Publications and Performances
Jason P. Breves, assistant professor of biology, and collaborators from the University of Tokyo and the University of Hawaii published a paper titled “In vivo and in vitro effects of high-K+ stress on branchial expression of ROMKa in seawater-acclimated Mozambique tilapia” in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Vol. 187.
Evan Mack, visiting assistant professor of music, was in San Francisco July 9 to 14 for two performances of his opera, Angel of the Amazon. He was at the piano for performances at Notre Dame de Namur University before an audience of 700 high school students.
Mason Stokes, associate professor of English, is the author of an essay titled "Namesake" in Colorado Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 2015. The journal editor describes the piece as follows: In "Namesake," "Mason Stokes sifts through memories and mementoes of his uncle, trying to discern whether they shared something more significant, more poignant, than just their first name."
Linda Simon, professor emerita of English, is the author of a chapter titled "Knowledge and Power in Henry James's 'In the Cage'" published in Critical Insights: American Short Story, edited by Michael Cocchiarale and Scott Emmert (Salem Press).
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, had a number of publications appear this summer. "Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the Beatles" appeared in This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (Rowman and Littlefield). "'A Day in the Life': The Beatles, the BBC, and Censorship" appeared in The Oxford Handbook on Music Censorship (Oxford University Press). He also had three short articles appear on the OUPblog: The Stones' "Satisfaction," June 1965 (5 June 2015), The British Invasion, Orientalism, and the Summer of 1965 (14 July 2015), and The Beatles, the Watts Riots, and America in Transition, August 1965 (4 August 2015). Finally, his online edition of the Symposium on the Current State of Ethnomusicology, 1963 was released in July by the Society for Ethnomusicology.
In the News
Caroline D’Abate, associate professor of management and chair, Department of Management and Business, and Thomas P. (Pat) Oles, associate professor and chair, Department of Social Work, are quoted in “The Rise of Reverse Mentoring,” published June 26 by the Albany Times Union.
Paul Arciero, professor of health and exercise sciences, was a source for “Doctor says fitness tracking devices need to be looked at in steps,” which aired July 10 on WNYT-TV, Channel 13.
Penny Jolly, professor of art history, was quoted in the opening paragraphs of “By a Hair,” published in the Sept. 14 edition of The New Yorker, about the hairstyles of those currently running for president.
Rik Scarce, associate professor of sociology, and his new book and film are the subjects of a feature story titled "Sustaining interest" in the Sept. 13 issue of the Times Union.
Jeffrey Segrave, professor of health and exercise sciences, is the author of “Boston deserves gold medal for reneging on Olympic bid,” published Aug. 7 in the Times Union.
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