Faculty-Staff Achievements
Paul Arciero, professor of health and human physiological sciences, published a scientific paper. “Impact of intermittent fasting regimens on circulating markers of oxidative stress in overweight and obese humans: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials” appears in Advances in Redox Research (Volume 3, December 2021).
Yelena Biberman, associate professor of political science, published an article with Zachary Troyanovsky ’21 and delivered an online talk. "How to kill a superpower: Do you remember the Belavezha agreement?" appeared in Inkstick Media. They also delivered an online talk for Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies about their newly released podcast series “How to Kill a Superpower: Lessons from the USSR.” Both the article and the talk coincided with the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Veena Chandra, music instructor, received the Sangit Sevi award from Sangit Kala Kendra, Agra, India.
Kristofer Covey, assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, presented at the Climate
Underground Conference with former Vice President Al Gore. During the session, Covey
and collaborators discussed the Soil Inventory Project, a de-centralized national-scale soil carbon inventory to inform agricultural innovation
and markets.
Beck Krefting, associate professor of American studies, published the chapter "Maria Bamford: A/Way With Words"
in the edited collection “Taking a Stand: Contemporary U.S. Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals.” In the chapter, Krefting uses Bamford as case study to examine gendered and ableist assumptions about public
intellectuals.
William S. Lewis, professor of philosophy and director of media and film studies, has published a
new book. “Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser’s Marxism” was published by Brill (December 2021). Taking an analytic and historical approach,
the work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory and also contributes to
Anglo-American political philosophy and to current debates in the philosophy of the
social sciences.
Kurt Smemo, associate professor of environmental studies and sciences, co-authored a journal
article. “Arbuscular mycorrhizal tree communities have greater soil fungal diversity
and relative abundances of saprotrophs and pathogens compared to ectomycorrhizal tree
communities” appeared in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (October 2021).
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