Faculty-Staff Achievements

PUBLICATIONS AND GRANTS

Jennifer Delton, professor of history, published “In praise of colorblind conservatism” in The Washington Post. 

 

 

Corey Freeman-Gallant, professor of biology, has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study “the Functional Genomics of Plumage Ornaments” in a North American songbird, the common yellowthroat.  The research will be conducted in collaboration with Skidmore undergraduates and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. An article by Freeman-Gallant and Conor Taff ‘05 of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (“Age and Infection History are Revealed by Different Ornaments in a Warbler”) has been accepted for publication in Oecologia. Freeman-Gallant is co-author of another manuscript recently published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, “Major histocompatibility complex variation and blood parasites in resident and migratory populations of the common yellowthroat.”

Reference Librarian Jiebei Luo’s article “Habitual Wayfinding in Academic Libraries: Evidence from a Liberal Arts College” has been accepted for publication in the journal Library & Information Research.

 

"Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Post-Positivist Traditions” by Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Chair and professor in the Department of Management and Business, has been translated this year into Japanese and published by the Japan UNI Agency in Tokyo. The textbook was first published by Routledge in 2005.

 

 

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