Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 14, 2015
Activities
Jason P. Breves, assistant professor of biology, delivered an invited talk at the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology鈥檚 recent meeting held at the University of Ottawa (June 21-25). Breves鈥� talk, entitled 鈥淧rolactin and cortisol direct branchial aquaporin 3 expression in euryhaline tilapia,鈥� was included in the Featured Topic Symposium: Neuroendocrine regulation of ionic, osmotic, and acid-base balance in fish.
David Domozych, professor of biology, was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Cell Walls July 12-17 at Bentley University in Boston. His talked was titled "Resolving primary cell wall architecture through directed polymer perturbation in the unicellular charophyte, Penium." He was also co-author of two posters at the conference. The first poster, titled "Dissecting plant cell wall development one polymeric domain at a time using the unicellular charophyte, Penium margaritaceum,'' was co-authored by 吃瓜爆料 Microscopy Imaging Center Coordinator Li Sun, 吃瓜爆料 students Berke Tinaz, Anna Lietz, Molly Patten, Perri Keehn and Eleanore Ritter and by Sandra Raimundo and Zoe Popper of the National University of Ireland in Galway. The second poster was titled "VPS26C, a predicted novel retromer subunit, is responsible for polarized growth and cell wall organization in Arabidopsis.鈥� Co-authors were Suryatapa Jha and Mary Tierney of the University of Vermont.
Juan Navea, assistant professor of chemistry, gave a talk titled 鈥淎tmospheric Science: Status and challenges of Climate Research鈥� July 21 at the Congregation Sharra Tfille.
Publications and Performances
Jason P. Breves, assistant professor of biology, and collaborators from the University of Tokyo and the University of Hawaii published a paper titled 鈥淚n vivo and in vitro effects of high-K+ stress on branchial expression of ROMKa in seawater-acclimated Mozambique tilapia鈥� in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Vol. 187.
Evan Mack, visiting assistant professor of music, was in San Francisco July 9 to 14 for two performances of his opera, Angel of the Amazon. He was at the piano for performances at Notre Dame de Namur University before an audience of 700 high school students.
Mason Stokes, associate professor of English, is the author of an essay titled "Namesake" in Colorado Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 2015. The journal editor describes the piece as follows: In "Namesake," "Mason Stokes sifts through memories and mementoes of his uncle, trying to discern whether they shared something more significant, more poignant, than just their first name."
Linda Simon, professor emerita of English, is the author of a chapter titled "Knowledge and Power in Henry James's 'In the Cage'" published in Critical Insights: American Short Story, edited by Michael Cocchiarale and Scott Emmert (Salem Press).
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, had a number of publications appear this summer. "Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the Beatles" appeared in This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (Rowman and Littlefield). "'A Day in the Life': The Beatles, the BBC, and Censorship" appeared in The Oxford Handbook on Music Censorship (Oxford University Press). He also had three short articles appear on the OUPblog: (5 June 2015), (14 July 2015), and (4 August 2015). Finally, his online edition of the was released in July by the Society for Ethnomusicology.
In the News
Caroline D鈥橝bate, associate professor of management and chair, Department of Management and Business, and Thomas P. (Pat) Oles, associate professor and chair, Department of Social Work, are quoted in published June 26 by the Albany Times Union.
Paul Arciero, professor of health and exercise sciences, was a source for 鈥淒octor says fitness tracking devices need to be looked at in steps,鈥� which aired July 10 on WNYT-TV, Channel 13.
Penny Jolly, professor of art history, was quoted in the opening paragraphs of published in the Sept. 14 edition of The New Yorker, about the hairstyles of those currently running for president.
Rik Scarce, associate professor of sociology, and his new book and film are the subjects of a feature story titled in the Sept. 13 issue of the Times Union.
Jeffrey Segrave, professor of health and exercise sciences, is the author of 鈥� published Aug. 7 in the Times Union.
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