Faculty-Staff Achievements, April 2, 2018

Activities

David Howson, Teaching Professor of arts administration, has been named chairman of the board of trustees of the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. Howson's research focuses on nonprofit organizations in the Adirondack region.


Publications and Exhibitions

David Domozych, professor of biology, is co-author of a paper titled "The Secretome and N-Glycosylation Profiles of the Charophycean Green Alga, Penium margaritaceum, Resemble Those of Embryophytes" in the journal Proteomes, Volume 6, issue 2. The paper explores the molecular and cellular aspects of the diverse secreted biochemicals of the model unicellular plant Penium and its implications in the evolution of land plants. The work is part of a collaboration with researchers from the Instituto de Ecología A. C. of Veracruz, Mexico, the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University and Skidmore College.

Paul Sattler, associate professor of art and director of the schick art gallery, will have a one-person exhibition titled The Petting Zoo at Alpha Gallery in Boston April 6–May 2. Sattler’s newest solo exhibit (his sixth with Alpha Gallery) takes its title from a hallucinatory novel by Jim Carroll that features among its characters an immortal talking crow. Other literary sources include Grimm fairy tales, children’s literature and a host of other works in which animals have a narrative presence.


In the News

Christopher Mann, assistant professor of political science, was quoted in a March 28 US News and World Report story titled "Vote ... or Die?" Mann says that voters who turn out consistently for elections tend to fare better, citing a self-fulfilling effect, with residents of low-turnout areas continuing to stay disengaged because they feel ignored, while those in high-turnout areas see the ongoing value of their involvement.

Rik Scarce, professor of sociology, had a letter to the editor published in the March 29 New York Times in response to a March 25 article titled "Cynthia Nixon and the Age of Inexperience." Nixon, an actress, announced her candidacy for the New York State gubernatorial race on March 19.


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