Faculty-Staff Achievements, Feb. 12, 2009

Activities

Penny Jolly, professor of art history, gave a lecture titled “Representing Eve and Adam in Medieval and Renaissance Art” Feb. 2 at the University of Connecticut, Stamford campus.  The event was sponsored by the university’s Women’s Studies Center and its Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Robert Shorb, associate dean and director, Student Aid and Family Finance, was a co-presenter for a Jan. 25 webinar titled “Paying for College and Keeping Your Wallet.”  Other panelists were Don Betterton of Howard Greene & Associates, former longtime director of financial aid at Princeton University, and Matthew Greene, educational director of Howard Greene & Associates, which produces the “Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning” series.

Publications

Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, published an article on the classic neorealistic film, Riso amaro di Giuseppe De Santis: ovvero tra bandiera rossa e boogie-woogie. The 18-page article is part of a book-length critical study that re-examines “Italian Neorealism: Ripensare il neorealismo,” edited by Antonio Vitti (Metauro Edizioni: Pesaro, 2008).

Regina Janes, professor of English, is the author of “Fielding and the Case of the Misguided Reader,” published in Henry Fielding In Our Time: Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference, ed. J.A. Downie. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Andrew Skinner, visiting assistant professor of physics, is co-author (with Vincent Newell ’10 and Ronald Sanchez ’09) of a paper titled “Unbiased bases (Hadamards) for six-level systems:  Four ways from Fourier” published in Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 50, (2009).

Denise Smith, professor of exercise science and Class of ’61 Term Professor, Patricia Fehling, professor and chair of Exercise Science, and Jeffrey Segrave, dean of special programs and professor of exercise science, have published a book chapter titled “Exercise, work and stress in adolescent and adult women” in Physiological bases of human performance during work and exercise, ed. Nigel A. S. Taylor and Herbert Groeller, New York: Elsevier, 2008. Smith also coauthored a second chapter titled “Physically demanding trades: Can women tolerate heavy workloads?” in the same text with colleagues from Wollongong University, where she completed her sabbatical in 2000.

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for the story “Applications Surge at Cooper Union,” published Feb. 9 in The New York Times.

Bob Turner, associate professor of government, was quoted in the story “Candidates meet with party leaders” published Feb. 5 in The Daily Gazette.