Faculty-Staff Achievements

Kristofer Covey, assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, discussed his research on the public radio program “Living on Earth.” Covey also contributed to the article “Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors,” which appears in the scientific journal One Earth and creates a global vulnerability index for tropical forests.  

Dan Curley, associate professor of classics, published an essay with Emily Gunter ’19 on United States classical mythology courses, titled “The Greatest Stories Ever Told.” The essay appears in the volume “Our Mythical Education: The Reception of Classical Myth Worldwide in Formal Education, 1900-2020" (University of Warsaw Press). A census of content and methodologies of myth courses at U.S. colleges and universities, this publication is the culmination of a Skidmore Faculty-Student Summer Research grant in 2017. 

Catherine Golden, professor of English, led a teacher training workshop about online gallery building for the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE) on July 2. Emilka Jansen '24 served as her assistant and offered participants a student's perspective on using COVE to construct a virtual gallery display. 

Stephen Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, was a co-author on a research paper published in the Journal of Sleep Research, titled “Subjective sleep score is associated with central and peripheral blood pressure values in children aged 7-12 years.” This paper was the result of a collaboration with the University of Delaware. 

Christopher Mann, associate professor of political science, was interviewed by CBS 6 Albany about the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s investigation into sexual harassment allegations involving Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  

---

We welcome submissions from faculty and staff related to professional accomplishments and scholarly endeavors. Please send submissions to the Office of Communications and Marketing.