Pulteney Street Podcast

[https://www2.hws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Pulteney-Street-Podcast-DU-Cecere-150x150.jpg] In the latest issue of the Pulteney Street Podcast [https://www2.hws.edu/audio/s3e7.mp3], President Joyce P. Jacobsen talks with Jim Cecere ’91, founder and owner of two of Geneva’s newest and most interesting shops, FLX Goods & Vinifera. During the interview, Cecere discusses his time as a student at HWS, the value he’s realized from his liberal arts education, as well as his significant career in finance in New York City and now as an entrepreneur back in Geneva. Cecere earned a degree in American Studies from HWS. Prior to returning to Geneva, he held a successful finance career working for firms such as JP Morgan, BNY Mellon, Vanguard Group and Strayer Education. He holds an MBA from Duke University and earned a certificate in international business from New York University. Cecere is a member of the President’s Leadership Council at HWS.

[https://www2.hws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Pulteney-Street-Podcast-DU-Kirk.jpg]Provost and Dean of Faculty Sarah Kirk discusses her background, the HWS curriculum, and her first year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on the latest episode of the Pulteney Street Podcast [https://www2.hws.edu/audio/s3e6.mp3]. Kirk joined HWS in June 2021. In addition to serving as Provost and Dean of Faculty, Kirk is a professor of chemistry. As the chief academic officer and dean of the faculty, she is responsible for the planning, development and delivery of the Colleges’ educational programs and services. Kirk works with the faculty on curricular management and operations, supports faculty initiatives and development, and supervises academic support offices and centers of the Colleges. Previously she served as Associate Provost and Professor of Chemistry at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. An experienced administrator and scholar, Kirk also held a four-month term as the Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Willamette, following a five-year rotating term as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development. Kirk holds her Ph.D. and master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, and her bachelor’s in chemistry from Whitman College.

[https://www2.hws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Pulteney-Street-Podcast-DU-Norvell.jpg] Former Director of Alumni Relations Lt. Col. John Norvell ’66, P’99, P’02 discusses his military service after graduation and his long-time service to the Colleges. U.S. Air Force veteran, former assistant professor of history at the Air Force Academy and former Director of Alumni Relations Lt. Col. John Norvell ’66, P’99, P’02 joined President Joyce P. Jacobsen on the latest episode of thePulteney Street Podcast [https://www2.hws.edu/pulteney-street-podcast/]. During their conversation, Norvell reflected on the familial roots of his military service, his participation in ROTC as a student and his subsequent service in Vietnam, as well as the historical research for his blog, Tales of Hobart and William Smith Colleges [https://hwstory339905366.wordpress.com/], and the major changes he’s seen at HWS over the years. A decorated air combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Norvell served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1989. He is a master navigator and weapons system officer with more than 1,000 hours in the F4 Phantom II and 400 as an instructor navigator in other jet aircraft. In 1973, as a member of the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron, he flew the last unofficial F4 fighter bombing mission of the Vietnam War to launch from Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base. Norvell went on to serve as assistant professor of history at the Air Force Academy and later as alumni director at HWS until 2002. He holds an M.A. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. As a student at HWS, he studied American history and was a member of the Druids, Canterbury Club and theEcho and Pineyearbook staff.

[https://www2.hws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pulteney-Street-Podcast-DU-Ivanchikova.jpg] English Professor Alla Ivanchikova on the ways fiction and film “imagine” Afghanistan in the post-9/11 world. On the latest episode of the Pulteney Street Podcast, President Joyce P. Jacobsen asks Associate Professor of English Alla Ivanchikova about her scholarship, which ranges from post-9/11 literature to the concept of “technoimmortality.” They also discuss global literary trends, book recommendations and the Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice, which Ivanchikova directs. Ivanchikova’s research and teaching boast considerable breadth, spanning critical theory, psychoanalysis, war literature and science fiction. Her courses are crosslisted with Environmental Studies, International Relations, Women’s Studies and Media & Society. She is the author of Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars, which examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts produced after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion. Ivanchikova, who joined the faculty in 2012, holds a B.A. in philosophy from Moscow State University of Lomonozov, an M.A. from Central European University, Budapest, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her articles on the global novel and film have appeared inTextual Practice,Camera Obscura andModern Fiction Studies, among other journals. Her edited collection,The Future of Lenin, is forthcoming from SUNY Press, and she is currently working on the new book, tentatively titledTechnoimmortality: An Unfinished Project, which traces the fantasy of technoimmortality from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to today’s Silicon Valley. Beginning in 2020, she took over as director of the Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice.

[https://www2.hws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Pulteney-Street-Podcast-DU-Graham.jpg]The third season of Pulteney Street Podcast kicks off with Associate Professor of Psychological Science Daniel Graham, whose new book explores the parallels between the internet and the human brain. On the latest issue of the Pulteney Street Podcast, President Joyce P. Jacobsen and Associate Professor of Psychological Science Daniel Graham discuss how the brain and the internet solve similar problems — and why the brain-as-internet metaphor is pushing psychological research into new territory. In his new book An Internet in Your Head [_wp_link_placeholder], Graham proposes that the best metaphor for the human brain is the internet. As Graham has explained on his Psychology Today blog, Your Internet Brain, this new paradigm can open new avenues of research, allowing neuroscientists to unravel the brain’s routing mechanisms and help unlock its deepest secrets. Both the internet and the brain are “big, highly connected systems,” Graham explains, “but there’s no central thing that’s controlling [either one]. There’s no little person inside of our head that’s directing all the signals and telling us what to do or making sure that everything works. It’s just implemented through local rules, and the internet is really the same way. There’s no central place where all messages go and then get passed along. There are local rules that make sure that everything works.” This model — a decentralized network of connections — offers promising avenues of research not only for psychologists and neuroscientists, but computer scientists as well. Graham specializes in the field of sensory and perceptual psychology, performing experimental, theoretical and computational research related to visual processing and neural network communication. His research spans computational and theoretical studies of natural vision coding in the retina and visual cortex, network science approaches to understanding dynamic activity on the connectome and human visual aesthetics and art-making from a statistical/computational perspective. Graham’s scholarship has appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vision Research and other journals. A member of the HWS faculty since 2012, he earned his B.A. in physics from Middlebury College and his M.S. in physics and Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University.