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After earning a bachelor’s in math at Hamilton College, Pierre von Kaenel did ballistics research at the Aberdeen Proving Ground before earning a Syra- cuse PhD. He joined Skidmore in 1985, teaching a range of computer science courses and a Liberal Studies course in ar- tificial intelligence. He authored not only scholarly articles but also software appli- cations, assemblers, simulators, and web- sites, along with accompanying manuals


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and workbooks. He directed the math and computer science department’s com- puting lab and was active in the Skid- more Scholars in Science and Mathemat- ics program.


Marc-Andre Wiesmann joined Skid-


more’s French faculty in 1993, with a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA and a bachelor’s from UC-Berkeley. A scholar of renaissance literature, he is an expert on the 16th-century French es-


sayist and philosopher Montaigne. Along with courses in French language, litera- ture, and culture (including popular music), he taught international affairs courses and first-year seminars and par- ticipated in events such as a Halloween “international horror stories” reading and a foreign-language poetry festival. He was also active in Skidmore’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. —SR


Thus Passed Some Days 12/20/13, a mixed-media work on paper by Professor Emeritus Jeff Elgin, was part of his solo show of paintings and drawings at Skidmore’s Schick Art Gallery in late March and April. A popular art professor during his teaching years, 1968–98, Elgin has continued as an active artist since his retirement. Among the alumni at a special reception were former Elgin students Josh Dorman ’88, Honour Mack ’85, and Barbara Neulinger ’86, offering a panel dis- cussion titled “The Will to Work: How to Keep Making Art after College.” Elgin also gave an artist’s talk, along with the Schick’s director, art professor Paul Sattler. — SR


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