Faculty-Staff Achievements, April 16, 2009

Honor

Tad Kuroda, professor emeritus of history, has been chosen a trustee of the National Council for History Education, and  continues to run history workshops for K-12 public school teachers all around the country. He will be in Michigan in later April, Colorado for two consecutive workshops in June, and in Kentucky at the end of June. Kuroda also serves as a reader for the Teach American History grant program administered by the Department of Education; well over 400 applications are submitted by school districts, often in collaboration with universities and colleges, museums and libraries. Approximately 125 grants are funded for $1 million to $1.75 million over three to five years to develop more knowledgeable and more pedagogically inspiring K-12 history teachers.

Activities

David Domozych, professor of biology,  gave an invited seminar April 10 at the Department of Plant Biology of Cornell University. His talk was titled “The Charophycean Green Algae: Living at the interface of the microbial and plant worlds.”

Crystal Dea Moore, associate professor of social work and director of the Social Work Program, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Saratoga Economic Opportunity Council for 2009.  The one-year term ends in February 2010.

Joe Murphy, residence hall director, Office of Residential Life, has been appointed to the executive board of the North East Association of College and University Housing Officers (NEACUHO).  In June he will begin a one-year term chairing the board's media and publications committee where his responsibilities will include publishing the newsletter four to six times a year and marketing the association.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer, Department of English, helped celebrate National Poetry Month by participating in a brown bag lunch April 16 at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.  Rogoff and April Bernard of Bennington College, both veterans of recent residences at Yaddo, were special guests at the program.

Publications

André Carrington, NYU minority dissertation fellow, interviewed comics artist Aful Richardson for the spring 2009 issue of Studio, the magazine of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Crystal Dea Moore, associate professor of social work, is co-author with Elizabeth Heckel, Skidmore Class of 2006, of “Community-Based Participatory Research: The College as the Focal Community,” published in Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2009. The article details a project Heckel did on drunk driving at Skidmore and the collaboration between student and professor in completing the project.

In the News

Ryan Ballantine, community coordinator, Office of Residential Life, was featured on the front page of the winter issue of the NEACUHO publication, Navigator.  Joe Murphy, residence hall director, wrote and submitted the article.

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for a story titled “A better form for financial aid,” which appeared April 9 in Medill Reports, an online publication of Northwestern University.

David Karp, interim associate dean of student affairs and director of campus life, is cited as the person “spreading the buzz” about restorative justice programs on campus in a story published in the current online Chronicle of Higher Education (scheduled for the April 17 print edition).