Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 5, 2009

Activity

Mike Ormsbee, visiting assistant professor of exercise science, gave an invited lecture titled “The Regulation of Fat Metabolism During Resistance Exercise” in early Feburary to faculty, staff, and graduate students in the Exercise Physiology Department at Syracuse University.

In the News

Tom Lewis, professor of English, was interviewed for a story titled “Rising from condemnation,” a progress report on the renovation of Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs, published Feb. 26 in The Post-Star (Glens Falls).  Lewis is president of the hall’s board of directors.

Sheldon Solomon, Courtney and Steven Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and professor of psychology, was interviewed for a story titled “Learning to get along,” published Feb. 21 in The Post-Star, about Solomon’s lecture in the Albert W. Fowler Speaker Series at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Glens Falls.  The lecture was presented Feb. 21.

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, was interviewed for a story about his mentor, UCLA Professor Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, for a story published in the Fall 2008 edition of the UCLA Graduate Quarterly.  Jairazbhoy’s experiences as a session musician in London during the 1960s (he played sitar) informed some of Thompson’s research for his book Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out.  That book, published last year by Oxford University Press, was the subject of a blog entry titled “Gordon Thompson about the British pop of the 60s” published Nov. 17, 2008, at beatlesfanclub.nl, the Dutch news site on the (solo) Beatles.