Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 22, 2014
Recognition
Melora Wolff, visiting assistant professor, Department of English, is the author of 鈥淢asters in
this Hall,鈥� which has received a Notable Essay citation in Best American Essays 2014, edited by Robert Atwan.
Activities
Joel Brown, senior artist-in-residence, Department of Music, performed as part of the Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet Sept. 20 at Keuka College.
Linda Motzkin, Jewish chaplain, is a co-chair of the second annual Women鈥檚 Philanthropy North Country Communitywide event, scheduled Sept. 30 at Shaara Tfille in Saratoga Springs and sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York.
Publications & Exhibitions
Regis Brodie, professor emeritus of art, has a survey exhibition titled 鈥淩egis Brodie: Surface Expressions鈥� on view through Oct. 5 at the Opalka Gallery, the Sage College of Albany. Read .
Dan Curley, associate professor, Department of Classics, is the author of a review of Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood, edited by Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos (London: Legenda, 2013), published Sept. 21 in
Linda Hall, associate professor, Department of English, is the author of published Sept. 19 on chronicle.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
R. Parthasarathy, professor emeritus, Department of English, is the author of a 23-page introduction to three novels (Kanthapura, 1938; The Serpent and the Rope, 1960; and The Cat and Shakespeare, 1965) and Collected Stories (The Cow of the Barricades, 1947; The Policeman and the Rose, 1978; and On the Ganga Ghat, 1993) by the Neustadt laureate Raja Rao about whom The New York Times said: 鈥淎mong the first major Indian writers to cajole the English language into conveying the distinctive cadences of his native country.鈥� Penguin Books published the four books in the Penguin Modern Classics series in August. Parthasarathy was Raja Rao鈥檚 editor from 1974 to 1998.
In the News
Roy H. Ginsberg, professor, Department of Government, published an essay titled in the Sept. 20 edition of the Albany Times Union; participated in a telephone interview Sept. 18 with WRGB, CBS6, in Schenectady; and participated in an email interview Sept. 17 with The Daily Gazette, all on the topic of the historic Scottish referendum on independence. Ginsberg has been in Scotland since Sept. 9.
David Karp, associate dean of students and director of campus life, was the subject of a feature story titled published Sept. 18 in Education News.
Ron Seyb, Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Professor of Government, was a source for 鈥淩epublican lt. gov. candidate talks about Democratic primary results,鈥� which aired Sept. 10 on WNYT, Channel 13 in Albany.
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