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Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 19, 2025

March 19, 2025

A paper by Paul Arciero, professor of health and human physiological sciences, and Karen Arciero, teaching professor of health and human physiological sciences, was awarded "Top 25 Health Science Papers" published in Nature Communications last year. His research article "Gut microbiome remodeling and metabolomic profile improves in response to protein pacing with intermittent fasting versus continuous caloric restriction" received 41178 article downloads in 2024, placing it as one of the top 25 downloaded Health Science papers published in Nature Communications.

Hope Casto, associate professor of education studies, co-authored an article published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, titled "Mixed Delivery Prekindergarten Systems: Partnering Practices and Early Care and Education Capacity over Time and Place."

Beck Krefting, professor of American studies and director of the Center of Leadership, Teaching, and Learning, is representing Skidmore during the American Association of Colleges and Universities' (AAC&U) "AI Week," a series exploring AI's impact on higher education. AAC&U identified Skidmore as a leader in the integration of AI into teaching, learning, and institutional planning, and Krefting will present on the College's efforts during the "How Colleges are Responding to AI" session on March 25. Lead Instructional Technologists Aaron Kendall and Ben Harwood; F. William Harder Chair of Business Administration Matt Lucas; and Professor of Mathematics and Director of First-Year Experience Rachel Roe-Dale are also members of the AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.

Laurie Rabinowitz, assistant professor for education studies, was featured on “The Multicultural Classroom” podcast in the episode "Sustaining Cultural & Disability Identities in Literacy w/ Dr. Amy Tondreau and Dr. Laurie Rabinowitz."

Jeff Segrave, professor of health and human physiological sciences, published an op-ed in The Daily Gazette titled "March Madness: Why We Go Crazy Over It."


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