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Activities

Tom Lewis, professor of English, was the keynote speaker Jan. 27 at the annual meeting of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation, where he discussed the effect of the city's road system on the cultural and economic resurgence of Saratoga Springs. Read more here.

Several members of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science attended the 2014 Annual Joint Mathematics Meetings Jan. 15-18 in Baltimore. David Vella, professor of mathematics, chaired the AMS Contributed Papers Session on Combinatorics I. He also presented a paper titled 鈥淐atalan Numbers, Fine Numbers, and Partitions.鈥� Rachel Roe-Dale, associate professor of mathematics, presented a talk titled Modeling the diffusion of manual irrigation pumps,鈥� featuring work she completed with Carol Brown 鈥�13 for her senior honors thesis in mathematics. Others attending were Alice Dean, professor of mathematics, Gove Effinger, professor and chair of the department, Mark Huibregtse, Class of 1964 Term Professor, and Dan Hurwitz, professor of mathematics. Kelly Isham 鈥�16 and Cody Couture 鈥�16 also attended, and Kelly presented a poster at the undergraduate poster session entitled 鈥淎 Proposed Digital Signature for Direct Embedded Elliptic Curve Cryptography鈥� which was research she did under the direction of Gove Effinger.

Publications & Exhibitions

April Bernard, associate professor of English, Margaret Drabble鈥檚 new novel In Defiance of Time in the Feb. 6 issue of The New York Review of Books.

David Domozych, professor of biology, is co-author of the featured article of the February edition of The Plant Journal, Vol. 77, 2014. The paper, titled describes the first successful genetic transformation of the unicellular model plant, Penium. Microscopy-based images of Penium also highlight the cover of this edition of the journal. This work was sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy. Co-authors include Iben S酶rensen and Jocelyn K. C. Rose of Cornell University, Zhangjun Fei of the Boyce Thompson Institute, Amanda Andreas of 91精简版, and William G. T. Willats of the University of Copenhagen.

Susannah Mintz, professor of English, is the author of Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body, published by Bloomsbury Academic. Read more

Jay Rogoff, visiting professor of English, is the author of Venera, a new book of poetry considering varieties of love, published by the . One of its poems, "No Dream," appears in the current issue of The Hopkins Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter 2014). The same issue also contains his latest essay-review on dance, "Reimagining Modern Classics," which considers Mark Morris's productions of Dido and Aeneas and Curlew River, and performances by the Dance Theater of Harlem and Wendy Whelan.

Paul Sattler, Ella Van Dyke Professor of Art, has a painting, 鈥淪till Life for 2000,鈥� in a show titled Big and Bold on exhibit through March 2 at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Click to read a review of the exhibition, which features works from the museum鈥檚 permanent collection.

Jeffrey O. Segrave, professor of health and exercise sciences, is the author of 鈥淐oubertin, Olympism and Chivalry,鈥� published in Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies, Vol. XXII, 2013.

Linda Simon, professor emerita of English, is the author of an article titled "The Captured Self: Problems of Portraiture in Henry James's 'The Real Thing'" published in LiNQ, a literary journal published by James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. This is a special themed issue on "Capture."

Denise L. Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences, and Pat Fehling, professor and chair of health and exercise sciences, coauthored a manuscript titled 鈥淓valuation of a Wearable Physiological Status Monitor during Simulated Firefighting Activities,鈥� which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. This study was funded by Department of the Army and Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology. The paper was written in collaboration with colleagues Chris Cooper and Brett Dolezal from UCLA.   

In the News

T.H. Reynolds, associate professor of health and exercise sciences, was the inaugural subject in 鈥淗ealers,鈥� an occasional series in the Times Union on Capital Region people in health care or research whose work has 鈥渕ade a difference.鈥� An interview titled was published Jan. 22.

Gordon Thompson, professor and chair, Department of Music, was a source for published Jan. 24 in U.S. News and World Report.

Bob Turner, associate professor of government, is a source for published Jan. 27 in The New York Times.

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