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Faculty-Staff Achievements, July 2009
Honor
Cori Filson,
director of Off-Campus Study and Exchanges, has received the Lily von Klemperer
Award from NAFSA: Association of International Educators. The prestigious award
was presented at the organization's annual meeting in Los Angeles in early
June.
Cori Filson (center), pictured
with past award
winners Martha
Johnson (University of
Minnesota) and Lance Kenney
(Villanova)
Inaugurated in 1988 and first presented to Lillian von Klemperer herself, the award recognizes study-abroad professionals who, "like Lily, have brought other education abroad professionals along in the field and who maintain the highest standards of professional ethics while sharing their skills, knowledge, and expertise with colleagues," according to the organization.
Von Klemperer founded the education abroad profession during the mid-20th century and was a longtime mainstay for the growing numbers of professionals in the new field. According to NAFSA, the "inspiration, guidance, and training that she provided to all in education abroad is impossible to overestimate."
Filson, who joined the Skidmore community in 2001, is responsible for the College's international educational programs as well as domestic off-campus programs. She came to Skidmore from the University at Albany, State University of New York, where she was assistant director in the Office of International Education. She earlier taught Spanish at the Emma Willard School and at the University of Texas, and also worked for International Studies Abroad as a resident director in Salamanca, Spain.
Her professional involvement has included membership in the Mid-Career Professionals Group, which she has chaired since 2007; service on the partnership council of the School for International Training; membership on the national advisory board of Arcadia University's Center for Education Abroad; and service on several committees of the IES: Institute for the International Education of Students, including the IES Academic Council. In 2006 Filson received the IES Professional Development Award.
Activities
Gail Cummings-Danson, director of athletics, attended the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Rules Committee annual meeting June 14-16 in Indianapolis. Among other business, the committee addressed the issue of cross-checking during games, and in the interest of player safety, proposed an additional definition for cross-checking as a foul. The proposal must be considered by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel before final implementation.
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has been named dance critic for The Hopkins Review, the literary magazine of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His first piece, on the New York City Ballet's Coppelia, will appear in fall 2009.
Mary Solomons, director of donor relations, was one of five
faculty members at the annual Council for the Advancement and Support of
Education Conference for donor relations professionals. Participants traveled
from as far away as Australia and Scotland for the conference, held June 14-16
in Denver, to attend sessions on a variety of topics, including drafting gift
agreements, conveying bad news to donors, and individualized stewardship
outreach. Solomons was judged a "Faculty Star" by participants, for her
knowledge of subject matter, presentation skills, and ability to respond to
questions.
Sarah Stebbins, academic advisor in UWW
and lecturer in philosophy, delivered a paper titled "Brouwer and Russell: The
Law of the Excluded Middle," at the June 5-7 annual meeting of the Bertrand
Russell Society.
Publications
Mary Ann Foley, professor of psychology, and her
collaborators (Hilary H. Ratner, vice president for research at Wayne State
University, and Emily Gentes, Skidmore Class of 2005) have had a new manuscript
accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognition and Development.
Titled "Helping Children Enter Into Another's Experience: The Look and Feel of
It," the manuscript reports on work supported by the Class of 1948 by way of
Foley's
endowed chair appointment. The work was also made possible through
the generous support of the Early Education Center.
Mary Kathryn Jablonski, assistant to the director of the Schick Art Gallery and a 1989 Skidmore graduate, recently had her poetry featured in an exhibition catalogue published by German painter/publisher Christoph Ruckhäberle in Berlin in January 2009. Jablonski and poet Georganna Millman '06 gave a joint reading at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz, N.Y., to celebrate the publication of their two chapbooks. Jablonski's book is titled To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met and Millman's, which is called Formulary, won the Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press 2008 Poetry Award. Jablonski will again share her poetry at 7 p.m. July 11, at the Robert Burns statue in Albany's Washington Park, in a reading sponsored by the Poetry Motel and Hudson Valley Writers Guild (rain location: the Social Justice Center at 33 Central Avenue in Albany.) For information call 518-482-0262.
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has had his poem "Book Burning" reprinted in the anthology Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine 1909-2009, edited by Matthew Rothschild (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). He has also published the following new poems: "Birthday in Middle Age" and "Side Issue" in Poetry London, No. 62 (Spring 2009), "Wear" in The Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2009), "No Negative" in Bateau, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2009), and "The Buried Future" and "First Photograph" in Green Mountains Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2009).
In the News
Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was interviewed for the story "Aid Experts Like President's Plan to Streamline Fafsa but Hope for Bigger Changes" published June 25 in The Chronicle of Higher Education (wwww.chornicle.com). She also was a source for a story titled "Simplifying in Stages," published June 24 in insiderhighereducation.com
Pat Fehling and Denise Smith, professors of exercise science, and their federally funded research into firefighters' heart attacks were the subject of a story in the June 21 Ventura County Star. Read here.
Kyle Nichols, associate professor and chair, Department of Geosciences, was a source for a story titled "Saratoga Springs at the bottom of a lake," published June 14 in The Saratogian.
Christine Page, associate professor and chair, Department of
Management and Business, was quoted in an article titled "Putting lipstick on a
recession is one way to cope these days," published June 4 in The Daily
Gazette.
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