Faculty-Staff Achievements
Paul J. Arciero, professor of health and human physiological sciences, was featured in after receiving a $100,000 grant from the Connelly Foundation for a short-term study on how a patient’s diet can help them overcome the disease. Arciero is in the process of rounding up 24 volunteers who are “pre-diabetic” or Type 2 diabetics and hopes to begin screening participants soon for the eight-week study.
Beau Breslin, professor of political science, was interviewed by Aaron Pedinotti, teaching professor of American studies, on Pedinotti's podcast, “.” The two discussed Breslin's latest book, “: Imagining How Five Generations of American's Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental
Law,” unpacking its alternate history premise and examining the ways in which it relates
to the New Deal. In , Pedinotti interviewed historian and New York Times columnist Margaret O'Mara about her writings on the relationship between the emergence
of big tech and the rise and fall of the New Deal order.
Teisha Duncan, artist-in-residence in theater, was a featured vocalist for Broadway's “Future Songbook” series. The evening, at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, spotlighted songs from Jermaine Rowe's “Children from The Blue Mountain.” Duncan also moderated a discussion for Borough of Manhattan Community College’s screening of their fall production, “Project Sankofa” by Karl Williams. Additionally, her directorial work in Conch Shell Productions’ “Aftershocks: A Tetralogy of our Times” is an official selection at the Cosmopolitan Film Festival of Tokyo 2022.
Stephen Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, co-authored a research
paper published in the journal Autonomic Neuroscience, titled “” This work was a collaborative effort with the University of Utah and the University
of Verona in Italy.
Jane Kjaer, special collections curator at the Lucy Scribner Library, was interviewed by Spectrum
News about Skidmore College founder Lucy Skidmore Scribner. In the news feature Kjaer says Scribner would be amazed and proud of what the College has become 100
years later.
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