Faculty-Staff Achievements
Paul J. Arciero, professor of health and human physiological sciences, published the scientific paper
“Resistant Starch Combined with Whey Protein Increases Postprandial Metabolism and
Lowers Glucose and Insulin Responses in Healthy Adult Men” in the nutrition journal Foods. The study was co-authored by six former Skidmore
students (Olivia Minicucci, Allison Keller, Caitlin Sheridan, Gabriel O’brien, Brad
Schuler and Christopher Gentile) along with former Visiting Assistant Professor Feng
He and former Visiting Research Coordinator Emery Ward.
Veena Chandra, private music instructor, performed and delivered a lecture and demonstration for
a virtual conference organized by the music department of Dayalbagh Education Institute
(Deemed University), in Dayalbagh, Agra, India on Friday, March 12.
Marc Conner, president of Skidmore College, has recorded a lecture series for The Great Courses
called “The Great Tours: Ireland and Northern Ireland.” The 24 lectures offer an in-depth, virtual travel tour of Ireland and Northern
Ireland with visuals and attention to all aspects of Ireland. “The course really emerged
from my decades of experience taking students and adult learners to Ireland to study
and travel,” the English professor said. The production is his third for The Great
Courses, formerly The Teaching Company. His first, “How to Read and Understand Shakespeare,” in 2012, explores Shakespeare’s plays as if in a college classroom, defining the
“tools” for understanding every Shakespeare play. “The Irish Identity: Independence, History and Literature,” came out in 2017, and consists of 36 lectures that focus on Irish history, literature,
art, politics and landscape, focusing especially on the great achievements of the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. The courses have been very well reviewed and featured
in The New York Times and other venues.
Kristofer Covey, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, has received a
$100,000 grant from the TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation. The grant supports new staff positions to foster student-driven soil carbon inventory
research in agricultural landscapes. TomKat Rach is an 1,800-acre ranch in Pescadero,
California, founded by Kat Taylor and her husband, Tom Steyer, with a mission to provide
healthy food on working lands in a way that regenerates the planet and inspires others
to action.
Stephen Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, published a research paper in the Journal of Applied Physiology, titled “Spinal cord injury and vascular function: evidence from diameter-matched vessels.” This article was a collaboration with the University of Verona and the University
of Utah.
Karen Kellogg, associate professor of environmental studies and sciences, has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy's Visiting Faculty Program
at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This appointment includes summer
2021 research support for Kellogg and several Environmental Studies and Sciences Program students. Their project will focus on wind energy equity. This work will provide a scaffolding for future research involving
Skidmore students and help shape more effective renewable energy installation strategies,
market incentives and policies to accelerate the adoption and economic growth of renewables.
A book by Murray Levith, professor emeritus of English, is set to be republished. Routledge announced that the 43-year-old onomastic study “What’s in Shakespeare’s Names” will be published in hardback and as an e-book, on March 31, with a possible paper version to follow. The new edition will be volume six of the 14-volume “Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare.” The book was originally published in 1978 by Archon in the U.S. and Allen & Unwin
in England.
Jennifer Mueller, associate professor of sociology and director of the Intergroup Relations Program,
recently appeared on “Ways and Means Podcast,” Season 6: “The Arc of Justice: From Here to Equality,” produced by Duke University
Sanford School of Public Policy. Episode 2, “This Land is My Land,” features discussion of teaching and research related to Mueller’s in-progress book,
“Inheriting the Gap: Wealth, Capital, and Intergenerational Race-Making" (under contract with NYU Press).
Research on the ecology-economy intersections of Cuba by Josh Ness, associate professor of Biology, was highlighted in Nature and National Geographic. The work is an outgrowth of collaborations with colleagues from Cuba and the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium and was recently published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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