Faculty-Staff Achievements, Nov. 24, 2015

Activities

Joan Ann Swanson, assistant professor, Education Studies, presented a paper titled “Technology as Skin” and a Pecha Kucha titled “Selfie:  Imagery of Emerging Adult Development” at the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood conference Oct. 14-16 in Miami.

Publications

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, is the author of "Not a Beatle: Andy White,” about the session drummer best known for playing on The Beatles' first disc. The piece is published on the Oxford University Press monthly blog for November and includes a photo of White taken at Skidmore in 2006.

In the News

Catherine Hill, F. William Harder Professor of Business Administration, and her work to develop NY EXCEL was the subject of a recent feature posted on the NYSERDA web site.

Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology, was the featured guest on the Nov. 20 edition of The Pulse, a program about health, science and innovation produced by WHYY in Philadelphia. The program is available via NPR podcast here.

In addition, Solomon was the subject of an interview titled “Fear of death mines ‘Worm at the Core,’” published Nov. 15 in the Albany Times Union. The TU+ feature is available here to digital subscribers of the paper.

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