Faculty-Staff Achievements

Jason Breves, associate professor of biology and a collaborator at Jewish National Health, co-authored an article, “Molecular mechanisms of Cl- transport in fishes: New insights and their evolutionary context,” in the Journal of Experimental Zoology A. 

A two-year project led by Kris Covey, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, and Kurt Smemo, assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, in cooperation with the Skidmore GIS Center and outside partners at Oak Spring National Labs, was featured in an article, “Dome Island: Nature’s Research Laboratory,” in the Lake George Mirror. The project involved a number of Skidmore students and was funded by the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and the Lake George Land Conservancy.

Jordana Dym, professor of history and director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, was elected to the Executive Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-Net), "an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web." She is currently editor of the H-Net network, H-Maps. 

Amy Frappier, associate professor of paleoclimatology, was interviewed by InsideClimate News for the article “In a Warming World, Hurricanes Weaken More Slowly After They Hit Land.” 

Stephen Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, Sarita Lagalwar, associate professor and director of neuroscience, and T.H. Reynolds, professor and chair of health and human physiological sciences, co-authored a research paper, “The effect of succinic acid on the metabolic profile in high‐fat diet‐induced obesity and insulin resistance,” in Physiological Reports. They collaborated with Kendall Zaleski ’22, Cheyanne Slocum’17, Daniela Escudero ’16, Caty Sheridan ’16, Saada Legesse ’16 and Kavey Vidal ’15. 

Ives also published a research paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Heart Rate Variability Responses to a Training Cycle in Female Youth Rowers,” in collaboration with Julian Egan-Shuttler ’16 and Rohan Edmonds of Creighton University. 

Christine F. Reilly, assistant professor of computer science and Charles Lubin Family Chair for Women in Science, and Matthew Clark '21 published a research paper, "Moving Recursion Out of the RDBMS for Transactional Graph Workloads," in the Proceedings of the 11th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE UEMCON 2020). Reilly presented this paper at the conference and served on the technical program committee for the distributed systems and robotics track of the conference. 

A research collaboration between Jessica Sullivan, associate professor of psychology, Leigh Wilton, assistant professor of psychology, and Boston University faculty was highlighted in the BU article “If Babies and Toddlers Can Detect Race, Why Do So Many Parents Avoid Talking about It?” Sullivan and Wilton helped to analyze a demographically representative sample of U.S. adults’ basic questions about childhood development milestones, children’s processing of race and what factors influence their ability to talk about race. 

 

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