Faculty-Staff Achievements
Sarah Friedland, director of the Storytellers’ Institute, and Adam Tinkle, assistant professor and director of MDOCS, worked to secure a $25,000 grant from
the Ford Foundation that will allow for more artists in residence during the . 
Bill Jones, senior athletic communications manager, is the recipient of the 2020 Lester Jordan
Award, presented by the for exemplary service to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Program and promotion of
the ideals of being a student-athlete.
Sarita Lagalwar, associate professor of neuroscience, Denise McQuade, senior instructor of biology, Lucy Oremland, assistant professor of math and statistics, and Bernie Possidente, professor of biology, and 18 students attended the Northeast Undergraduate Research
on Neuroscience (N.E.U.R.O.N.) conference at Quinnipiac University Medical School
on Feb. 23. They presented 10 research posters co-authored by 20 students.
Aarathi Prasad, assistant professor of computer science, presented the research paper “Analyzing
Privacy Practices of Existing mHealth Apps” at the International Conference on Health
Informatics in Valetta, Malta. She co-authored the research paper with Skidmore students
Matthew Clark ’21, Ha Linh Nguyen ’22, Ruben Ruiz ’21 and Emily Xiao ’21. 
Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Chair in Management for Liberal Arts Students, presented a paper, “Carried
and Delivered: Racialized Gestational Labor and New Contours of Precarity,” at the
Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society in Philadelphia on Feb. 29.
Dwane Sterling, chief technology officer, was named a 40 Under 40 honoree by .
Murat C. Yildiz, assistant professor of history, he had with his 5-year-old son Sami about the recent attacks in Germany in a piece
published in Jadaliyya.
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