Faculty-Staff Achievements, Oct. 23, 2009

Award

Award-winning image of Penium

David Domozych, professor of biology, won an award in a recent photography contest.  His confocal laser scanning light micrograph of "oryzalin-treated Penium" (left) won fifth place in the 2009 Olympus Bioscapes international image contest, which drew 2,000 entries from participants in 62 countries. The prize-winning image shows the presence of oryzalin, a common herbicide that affects the cytoskeleton of plant cells, and visible here on the cells of Penium. The red zone is the chloroplast emerging from the green cell wall. Oryzalin is weakening the cell wall and the chloroplast (and other cellular components not visible here) is "bursting" out. Ultimately, the cell will rupture. This effect is completely reversible if the oryzalin is washed out. Domozych's prize is his choice of an Olympus camera.

Activities

David Miller, professor emeritus of art, will participate in a "Conversations with the Artist" panel discussion at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at the Southern Vermont Arts Center.  Kate Leavitt, chair of the Department of Art, and Deborah Morris, visiting assistant professor of art, also will participate.  All three have work featured in a Three-Artist Invitational at the SVAC from Oct. 31-Dec. 1, 2009.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, attended the annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) Oct. 9-11 in Denver, Colo. He participated in a panel of poets and scholars on "The Once and Future Sonnet," where he gave a paper on "The Aesthetics of Contemporary Sonnet Sequences," focusing on recent poetry by Paul Muldoon and Mary Jo Salter.

Publications, Performances

Embraceable Me, a romantic comedy by Professor of English Victor Cahn, is currently being presented at the Kirk Theatre in New York City through Nov. 14. Rachel Reiner Productions is staging the show, which stars Keira Naughton '93. Click here for more information. 

David Domozych, professor of biology, is author of a paper titled  "The distribution of cell wall polymers during antheridium development and spermatogenesis in the Charophycean green alga, Chara corallina," published in the November issue of the Annals of Botany, Vol. 104. Co-authors include Iben Sorensen and Williams Willats of the Department of Plant Biology, Copenhagen BioCentre of the University of Copenhagen. Additionally, an image of the antheridium taken at the Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center was the cover photo of this month's issue of the journal.

Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English, contributed a chapter titled "Sea" to Joseph Conrad in Context, edited by Allan H. Simmons  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

This past year, with his wife Patty and Dr. Michael Slaughter as co-editors, Foulke edited and wrote much of the text of A Family of Friends: The First Hundred Years at the Lake George Club, 1909-2009, (Diamond Point, N.Y.:The Lake George Club, 2009).  This history of the club was released on the centennial day, Aug. 14, 2009.

The Foulkes just learned that their heritage tourism trilogy on the colonial and Revolutionary eras will be reprinted and released as an alternate selection by the Book of the Month Club, the History Book Club, and the Military Book Club. The three volumes were published by Countryman Press, a division of Norton, in 2006 (A Visitor's Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary New England), 2007 (A Visitor's Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary Mid-Atlantic America) and 2008 (A Visitor's Guide to the Colonial & Revolutionary South).

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics and College Board senior policy analyst, is the author of a recently released report titled "Trends in Student Aid 2009" that was the subject of a number of media reports this past week, including the following: "College Costs Keep Rising, Report Says," The New York Times, Oct. 21; "Tuition prices rise, but not as much as expected," USA Today, Oct. 21; "College:  More expensive than ever," CNNMoney.com, Oct. 20; "Students Rely on Federal Loans to Pay Rising College Tuition," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 21; and "Private Borrowing for College Drops Sharply, While College Costs Creep Up," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 20.

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