Donald T. Rodbell, assistant professor of geology, organized and co-chaired a
theme session of about 30 papers titled “Terrestrial Records of Late-Glacial-Holocene
Climate Change in the Americas” in October at the Geological Society of America
annual meeting in Toronto. He presented a paper, co-authored by Paul Gremillion,
assistant professor of civil engineering, on the results of a sediment core, which spans
the last 2,000 years, from the bottom of Ballston Lake. Rodbell also co-authored three
papers, two of which were with students Jeremy Newman '97, Chris Moy
'98 and Peter Castiglia '99 on lake sediment's records of recent
global climate change from high-elevation lakes in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes.
Terry Weiner, professor of political science, and Jennifer Schwartz
'98 presented a paper at the Northeast Political Science Association meetings in
November in Boston. The paper, titled “The Politics of Pre-School Special Education:
A Case Study of the Pataki Reform Effort in NYS,” was based on Schwartz's senior
thesis, which explored the reasons New York State has been unable to increase compliance
with federal guidelines on integration and mainstreaming of disabled children.