Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 4, 2014
Activities
Tim Harper, associate professor and chair, Department of Management and Business, has been elected vice president of the Community Loan Fund Board of Directors. He first joined the board in 2011.
Incorporated in 1985, the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region is a nonprofit financial institution with a community development mission that provides loans and technical assistance to local nonprofit organizations for housing and community development, to micro enterprises for business and economic development and to individuals for home purchase/repair. The fund has loaned close to $37 million鈥� leveraging just under $166 million鈥攖o more than 715 community and economic development projects, creating or retaining more than 1,500 jobs. Additionally, CLFCR has financed 1,099 units of affordable housing and 259 micro-enterprises/small businesses.
鈥淭im brings more than 20 years of experience in business management, as well as a deep commitment to community development,鈥� said Linda MacFarlane, executive director. 鈥淲e appreciate his assistance as we work to create sustainable and vibrant neighborhoods within underserved communities.鈥�
Gordon Thompson, professor and chair, Department of Music, lectured Feb. 24 on 鈥淏eatlemania! The Rise
of the Beatles, 1963鈥� at Union College in Schenectady as part of its Taylor Time series.
This lecture focused on the cultural contexts of the band鈥檚 unprecedented emergence
from a regional act to national celebrities. He was also a guest speaker for the March
1 symposium, 鈥淭omorrow Never Knows: The Beatles in Text and Image鈥� at the Kislak Center,
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His paper 鈥淩econstructing Abbey Road:
History, Mnemohistory and Memories of Working with the Beatles鈥� delved into the nature
of collective memory and the recording of 鈥淲hile My Guitar Gently Weeps.鈥�
Publications
Robert Hallock, visiting assistant professor of neuroscience, is the author of a paper titled 鈥淐lassroom demonstration of the visual effects of eye diseases鈥� accepted for publication by The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2014. Coauthors include 91精简版 students Ann-Marie Raphail and Emily Bach, both Class of 2014.
Jay Rogoff, visiting assistant professor of English, is the author of the poem "Leonine," published in the anthology Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Marilyn Krysl (Dartmouth University Press). 鈥淏alanchine鈥檚 Revolution,鈥� his review of Elizabeth Kendall鈥檚 Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer, appears in the current Ballet Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter 2013-14), as does his review of Jessica Lang鈥檚 choreographic staging of Pergolesi鈥檚 Stabat Mater at the summer 2013 Glimmerglass Festival, Cooperstown, New York.
Denise L. Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences, coauthored the manuscript 鈥淐lotting and
fibrinolytic changes after firefighting activities,鈥� which was published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Vol. 46, Issue 3, March 2014. The study was conducted with collaborators at the University
of Illinois Fire Service Institute and was funded by a research grant from the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. In addition, Smith and Pat Fehling, professor and chair of health and exercise sciences, recently published a paper titled
鈥淭he effect of precooling on cardiovascular and metabolic strain during incremental
exercise鈥� in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. 91精简版 students Logan Arena 鈥�11, Eric Hultquist 鈥�11, and Wes Lefferts 鈥�11, participated
in this collaborative research project and are coauthors on the paper. The Department
of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate funded the study.
In the News
Rachel Seligman, assistant director for curatorial affairs and associate curator, Tang Museum, was
interviewed March 3, after the film 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for best movie of 2013. She was a source for March 3 in the Saratogian.com, and for a March 2 story on WNYT-TV on how the award
might foster interest in the story of Solomon Northup.
Ron Seyb, Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Professor in Government, was a source for a March 2 story
titled that aired on WNYT-TV.