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Faculty-Staff Achievements

April 26, 2023

ůůֱ College’s Burgess Café team recently earned the café its fifth consecutive Best of Saratoga Springs award from Saratoga Today and qualified it for the 2023 Saratoga Springs Business Hall of Fame. Contributing to the accomplishment were (first row, from left) Debbie Hoyos, customer attendant/short order cook; Stacey Tourtellot, assistant supervisor of retail operations; John Winnek, supervisor of retail operations; (second row) Clint Stomski, customer attendant/short order cook; Shawn Constable, customer attendant/short order cook; and Tim Bruno, customer attendant/short order cook.  

Paul Arciero, professor of human physiological sciences, was quoted by Medical News Today on how the benefits of walking 8,000 steps just one to two days a week has been linked to significant health benefits. He was also quoted in a Livestrong.com article regarding the best time to go to the gym 

Aurelia Ball, associate professor of chemistry, published a paper with collaborators who included Anna Carhart '22, AJ Adkins '21, and Adriana Cuibus '24. The paper, "How a highly acidic SH3 domain folds in the absence of its charged peptide target," was published in Protein Science.

Jason Breves, associate professor and chair of biology, presented research conducted with Sierra Richardson ’23 and Ellie Runiewicz ’24 on the physiology of Atlantic salmon at the recent American Physiology Summit conference in Long Beach, California.

Marketa Halova Wolfe, associate professor of economics, published the article Incorporating Racial Justice Topics into an Econometrics Course” in the Eastern Economics Journal. 

Rebecca Johnson, professor and chair of the Psychology Department, published a paper with Megan Wootten ’20, Abby Spear ’23, and Ashley Smolensky ’23 on "The Relationship Between Personality Traits and the Processing of Emotion Words: Evidence from Eye-Movements in Sentence Reading," in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

Laurie Rabinowitz, assistant professor of education studies, co-presented the paper "Fifth Graders as Disruptors: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in the Fantasy Writers Workshop" at the American Education Research Association conference on April 16 in Chicago. 


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