Faculty-Staff Achievements
Award
Penny Jolly, professor of art history, has been awarded the Phyllis A. Roth Faculty Distinguished Service Award by the Faculty Development Committee. The award recognizes “special achievement in service and leadership.”
Publications
Corey Freeman-Gallant, professor of biology, has had two papers accepted for publication. “Geolocator Deployment Reduces Return Rate, Alters Selection and Impacts Demography in a Small Songbird” will be published in PLOS ONE and “The Buzz Segment of Savannah Sparrow Song is a Population Marker” will be published in the Journal of Ornithology.
"Beyond Peak, a Simple Approach to Assess Rowing Power and the Impact of Training: A Technical Report" by Stephen J. Ives, assistant professor and associate chair in the Department of Health and Human Physiological Sciences, has been accepted into the International Journal of Exercise Science. This work was done in collaboration with Skidmore graduates Julian Egan-Shuttler ’16, Cassandra Eddy ’17 and Veronica O’Neill ’16.
Rebecca Johnson, associate professor of psychology, published an article in Acta Psychologica entitled “” The research was conducted in the Language, Eye-Tracking and Reading lab with Faye Knickerbocker, who was a visiting assistant professor, and Skidmore students Sarah Rose Slate ’16, Emma Starr ’16, Daphne Preti ’16 and Anna Hall ’14.
Oscar A. PĂ©rez, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Literatures, published “,” in IbĂ©rica, the journal of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes. The article describes the process to design and implement a Spanish for the sciences course at 91¶¶Ňů.
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has had Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems accepted for publication by Lousiana State University Press. The book includes poetry chosen from his previous six books, as well as 46 new poems, and will appear in spring 2020.
Scholarly Presentations
Hope Casto, chair and associate professor in the Department of Education Studies, and Sarah DiPasquale, assistant professor and associate chair in the Dance Department, presented a talk titled “The Dance to Success” at the NYSATE/NYACTE conference in Saratoga Springs in October. Casto will speak this panel on a panel titled “Critical Conversations - Community-Aware School Leadership for Rural Vitality: School- Community Partnerships” at the University Council for Education Administration Convention in Houston.
Marisol Diaz, Jay Meeks and Mary Ellen Towne, faculty members in the Department of Education Studies, presented “Open-Ended Learning in a Lab Preschool: Challenging Preservice Teachers Notions of Teaching and Learning” at the International RECE (Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education) Conference: Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care in Copenhagen.
Virginia Lee presented “Integrating Technology and Pedagogy in Undergraduate Teacher Education” at the Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age Conference in Budapest.
Joan Ann Swanson presented “The Communication Preferences of College Students” at the Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age Conference in Budapest.
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