Faculty-Staff Achievements

 

Cecilia Aldarondo, assistant professor of English, was selected for a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. Aldarondo creates “deeply intimate, personal films that telescope outward onto broader social and existential issues, including sexuality, bigotry, family and religion,” according to a description of her work on the Guggenheim Foundation website. 

Ian Berry, the Dayton Director of the Tang Teaching Museum, was quoted in an article in ArtNews about artist Nayland Blake, who had a major exhibition at the Tang in 2003 and whose work is in the Tang collection and is often included in student-curated exhibitions. The article mentions an upcoming exhibit at the Tang, “Beauty and Bite.” 

David Domozych, professor of biology, co-authored two recently published papers. The first paper, “Arabinogalactan Proteins and the Extracellular Matrix of Charophytes: A Sticky Business,” was published this month in Frontiers in Plant Science and was co-authored by Skidmore research associate Kattia Palacio-Lopez, Skidmore graduate Berke Tinaz and researchers from the University of Innsbruck. The second paper, “A Hybrid Approach Enabling Large-scale Glycomic Analysis of Post-Golgi Vesicles Reveals a Transport Route for Polysaccharides,” was published in The Plant Cell. It was the result of a major collaboration with researchers from the University of California at Davis, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky and Hainan University.

Larry Jorgensen, associate professor of philosophy, published a new book, “Leibniz’s Naturalized Philosophy of Mind,” through Oxford University Press.

 

James Kennelly, professor of business, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for the spring 2020 semester to the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Austria.

Julia Routbort, associate dean of student affairs for health and wellness, and student Arielle Knight were featured in a WAMC interview about Out of the Darkness, a walk to raise funds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The walk will begin at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Case Center Green.

Jeffrey Segrave, professor of health and human physiological sciences, published an article, “Victorian Seriality and the Modern Olympic Games,” in Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume XXVII. He also gave a lecture at Union College on April 11 titled “Understanding the Olympics.”

 

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