Faculty-Staff Achievements
Barbara Black, professor of English and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, returned to serve on the graduate faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English this summer. She was invited back in September to Middlebury College's Alumni College for four days of lectures and sessions titled "David and Demon: Charles Dickens, Then and Now.鈥�
Jason Breves, professor of biology, Mariana Posada 鈥�25, and Yixuan Tao 鈥�24 co-authored an article, 鈥溾�� in the American Journal of Physiology 鈥� Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
Veena Chandra, lecturer of music, received the 鈥淥ur Town鈥� Grant from National Endowment for Arts for July 2023- August 2024. She focused on Schenectady schools, elementary to high school, where she did performances, workshops and residencies with her son Devesh Chandra. Chandra has also received apprenticeship awards from NYSCA in 2023-24 and a Creator Fund award to compose and record her music from New Music USA.
Heather Hurst, professor of anthropology, contributed illustrations of Maya murals featured in . The program aired on NHK World Japan in August.
Lily Kozel, microscopy technology and research coordinator; David Domozych, professor of biology and director of the 吃瓜爆料 McGraw Microscopy Imaging Center (SMMIC); Josie LoRicco, research scientist in biology; and Kaylee Bagdan 鈥�24 presented images from the SMMIC in Plant Biology 2024, an international conference hosted by America Society of Plant Biologists, at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. Many researchers were amazed by their 3D electron tomography model built on the Golgi Apparatus structure of algae as they successfully presented their results and connected with other members in the plant science community.
Evan Mack, senior teaching professor of music, won the American Prize in Music Composition: Opera/Film/Theater Division for the family opera, "Dragon's Breath,鈥� cocreated with librettist Joshua McGuire. is the nation's most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The competitions are unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings.
Jeff Segrave, professor of health and human physiological sciences, published "Tennis in Modern American Fiction" in Letterature d鈥橝merica.
Ann Showalter, instructor of biology, delivered a workshop, "Focus on variables: scaffolding for effective inquiry-based teaching of scientific study design," at the BIOME 2024 meeting, 鈥�.鈥� She also gave a work-in-progress presentation on "Using student-created posters of counter-stereotypical scientists to foster identity as a scientist."
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