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Lecture
Ecologist, author to discuss 'The Myth of Progress' Oct. 13[10/10/08] Environmental Studies and Sustainable Skidmore sponsor a visit by author and ecologist Tom Wessels, who will discuss reigning notions of progress through the lens of science. Read More. |
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Scholarship
Professor wins $385K NIH grant to study drug use [10/9/08] Does the use of legal performance-enhancing drugs lead to the use of illegal substances, such as anabolic steroids? Psychologist Tonya Dodge hopes to answer this question through research over the next two years. Read More. |
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Career Services
Graduate School Week[10/8/08] Graduate School Week programs and events. Read More. |
Daily Gazette
Study to focus on recruiting, retaining women in science[10/7/08] A $500,000 National Science Foundation grant has been awarded jointly to Union College in Schenectady and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs to study the recruiting and retention of women professors in the sciences. Read More. |
Faculty
Clicking the Wrong Answer Can Be a Good Thing[9/30/08] Learn how iclickers are used to encourage active student participation. Read More. |
Lecture
Ganges River history, future to be explored in talk[9/29/08] The Ganges River—central to the life and culture of India—is threatened. Guest lecturer Julian Crandall Hollick will explore the environmental, religious, and political implications of the river's future in a Sept. 30 talk. Read More. |
Campus News
GIS Center Coordinates Conference For Educators[9/18/08] GIS Educators Day Read More. |
Campus News
IT to Host NERCOMP SIG[9/17/08] Friday, September 19th- Big Picture Instructional Technology: Models for Planning, Piloting, Promoting and Partnering Read More. |
Scholarship
Skidmore, Union win $500K NSF grant for special career study[9/18/08] The only two liberal arts colleges to receive NSF funding for their research, Skidmore and Union will collaborate on how to recruit and retain women faculty in the STEM disciplines. Read More. |
Daily Gazette
College’s North Woods gets community boost[9/17/08] Representatives from Skidmore College and the city of Saratoga Springs worked together to make needed improvements to trails in the North Woods. Read More. |
Campus News
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar to set Darwin talk to music[9/17/08] New insights on the issues and controversies provoked by Darwin’s theory of evolution, and an exploration of the relationship between science and American popular culture will be presented Sept. 22 by Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis of the University of Florida. Read More. |
Career Services
Living the Liberal Arts - Physics[9/16/08] Living the Liberal Arts in Physics -- Alumni, students, and faculty explore what majoring in Physics is like and where it may lead in the future. Read More. |
Campus News
Eco-Reps named, ready to contribute to Sustainable Skidmore[9/11/08] Sustainable Skidmore moves into the residence halls, where Eco-Reps will help increase environmental awareness. Read More. |
Campus News
A year after ‘U-CAN’ launch, membership tops 700[8/22/08] A year after Skidmore and 600 other independent colleges and universities joined in creating the “University & College Accountability Network” , membership has grown to more than 700 institutions. Read More. |
Local media
Marine microbe celebrates 20th anniversary[7/11/08] About 20 years ago, Penny Chisholm '69 participated in research that led to the discovery of a marine microbe named Prochlorococcus, which is responsible for producing approximately twenty percent of the world's oxygen. NPR recently interviewed Chisholm, a biologist at MIT, about this discovery. Read More. |
Faculty scholarship
College receives $1M grant to study firefighter fitness[6/27/08] Professor Patricia Fehling is principal investigator on the grant, which will support a two-year examination of firefighter fitness. The goal? To reduce the incidence of cardiac events—the leading cause of firefighter deaths. Read More. |
Daily Gazette
Motivating seniors to exercise better target of research[6/5/08] Paul Arciero and Union College professor collaborate on excercise study Read More. |
Community
SaratogaArtsFest set to launch the summer arts scene[5/27/08] Citywide celebration of music, dance, visual art, film, theatre, and literary art takes place June 13–15 Read More. |
Campus News
Periclean Award-winning scholars delight[5/22/08] Representing a diverse array of disciplines, the 2008 Periclean Scholar award-winners delighted a large Filene Recital Hall audience with details of their research and findings, delivered with intensity that illuminated even the finer and more esoteric points. Read More. |
Academics
Q&A: Courtney Mattison '08[4/30/08] Self-determined major creates astounding interdisciplinary senior project Read More. |
