Faculty-Staff Achievements, Dec. 16, 2014
Recognition
Mary Solomons, senior director of donor relations and campaign events, received a CASE faculty
star for her participation at the summer annual Donor Relations Conference in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. Faculty stars are awarded to speakers who rate 4.5 or more on a 5-point
scale. More recently, she was one of four faculty at the three-day conference 鈥淩evitalizing
your Donor Relations Program鈥� hosted by Academic Impressions in Phoenix, Ariz., in
November. Based in Washington, D.C., CASE (the Council for the Advancement and Support
of Education) is a leading resource for knowledge, standards, advocacy and training
in alumni relations, communications, fundraising, marketing and related activities.
Activities
Elzbieta (Ela) Lepkowska-White and Emily Kortright 鈥�15 presented their summer collaborative student-faculty research on the 鈥淢eanings of
food: Conversations of American Women on Food Blogs鈥� at the Academy of Business Administration
International Conference in Florence, Italy, Aug. 6-9 2014. The abstract of this research
will be published in Summer 2014 edition of the Academy of Business Administration
Conference Proceedings.
In addition, Lepkowska-White and Catherine Chang '13 presented their research 鈥淔riend or Foe? Food in the Eyes of Young Consumers: The
Many Perceptions of Food鈥� at the American Marketing Association Public Policy Conference
in Boston, June 6-9, 2014. The abstract of this research was published in American
Marketing Association Public Policy Conference Proceedings.
Lepkowska-White is an associate professor of marketing, Department of Management and Business, and director of the International Affairs Program.
Publications & Exhibitions
Victor Cahn, professor emeritus of English, wrote Villainous Company, A Caper for Three Women, scheduled to be performed Jan. 9-31, 2015, at the Clurman Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St., New York. For details, click .
Katie DeGroot, director, Summer Studio Art Program, is one of four artists whose work is featured in 鈥�,鈥� on exhibit through Jan. 21, 2015, at the Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Conn. She will participate in an artists鈥� talk at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.
Hedi Jaouad, professor of French, is the author of a new book titled Browningmania, America鈥檚 Love for Robert Browning (2014, Cambria Press). Read more here.
Dan Nathan, associate professor and chair, Department of American Studies, is the author of a chapter titled 鈥溾�橝 Matter of Basic Fairness鈥�: Ed O鈥橞annon Takes the NCAA to Court,鈥� published in edited by Samuel L. Regalado and Sarah K. Fields and published in 2014 by the University of Arkansas Press. The book examines not only how athletes looked to the nation鈥檚 judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases transformed the interpretation of laws.
Research by Robin Nelson, assistant professor of anthropology, on kin and social networking in Jamaica was featured in a (Oct. 1, 2014) Scientific American by Danielle Lee titled 鈥淭aking it Personally.鈥�
Linda Simon, professor emerita of English, is the author of a new book titled A History of the Circus: The Greatest Shows on Earth (2014, Reaktion Books). Read more here.
In addition, Simon wrote an essay-review of the following four books: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America, by Kate Haulman; Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France, by Susan Hiner; Cultures of Feminiity in Modern Fashion, by Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan; and The Empire鈥檚 New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, by Christine Ruane. Simon鈥檚 essay was published in the 2014 Journal of Women鈥檚 History, Vol. 26, No. 4, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
In the News
Paul Arciero, professor of health and exercise sciences, had his 鈥溾�� on the quality of exercise routines, originally broadcast Nov. 6, 2014, featured on 鈥淭he Best of Our Knowledge,鈥� No. 1262, also a national production of WAMC.
David Kieran, visiting assistant professor of history, is the author of an opinion essay titled 鈥�,鈥� published Nov. 25, 2014, in the Albany Times Union.
Denise Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences, was a source for 鈥淧ursuit and restraint raise police officers鈥� risk of sudden death,鈥� which moved on the Reuters News Health wire Nov. 28, 2014.
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