Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, presented “AUCCCD Annual Survey: Scope, Trends and Current Applications” with David Reetz at the 67th annual conference of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) on Oct. 24 in Tampa, Fla.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, signed a contract with publisher Rowman & Littlefield to write the Jerome Kern Encyclopedia, covering the life, stage musicals, movie musicals, songs and collaborators of the pioneer American theatre composer Kern. The book is a follow-up of sorts to Hischak’s The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia (2006).
Gayle Gleason
Gayle Gleason, Geology Department, co-presented a paper with undergraduate student Amie Whitlock titled “What Happens to Microstructures in Re-activated Shear Zones: An Experimental Approach,” at the combined Northeast/Northcentral regional meeting of the Geological Society of America held March 20-22 in Pittsburgh, Pa.
James Felton
James Felton, chief diversity officer, received an invite from SUNY Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer Carlos Medina to serve on the System-wide SUNY Diversity Advisory Board, which will serve as a standing advisory body to his office and the system provost. Felton was asked to join the board because of his experience and expertise. He will assist the university in working toward its overarching goal of becoming the most inclusive system of higher education in the country.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her report on the exhibition “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists,” published in the November/December issue of Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. The exhibition runs through Nov. 1 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, and coauthors, submitted their paper, “The Isheyevo Meteorite: the Solar System’s Oldest Layered Sedimentary Rock” to the journal, Geology.
Ubaldo Valli
Ubaldo Valli, Performing Arts Department, gave a virtual presentation for the 2021 University of Oxford Conducting International Conducting Studies Conference at St. Anne’s College. Valli’s presentation, “Exploring the Use of Theatrical Mask Techniques in Conducting,” suggested ways of combining and applying ideas and techniques taken from psychology, anthropology, music and theater to conducting and conductor training to an audience of music professionals and conductors from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article published in the Washington Post on Jan. 25 titled “The NRA wants to suppress one of guns’ most important safety features,” about a little-known bill in Congress to remove most existing restrictions on the purchase of gun silencers. Also, he was interviewed on CNN on Jan. 24 about the same subject: The next possible gun industry sales boom: Silencers.
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Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, International Communications and Culture emerita, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, had her article published in the spring issue of The IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies. It was titled “Effectiveness of Computer-Graded vs. Instructor-Graded Homework Assignments in an Elementary Spanish Course: A Comparative Study at Two Undergraduate Institutions.” LeLoup and co-authors Richard Dabrowski and Lunden E. MacDonald collaborated on a cross-institutional research study involving the U.S. Air Force Academy and Metropolitan State University of Denver. The study investigated issues involved in different types of online student activities.
Kim Wieczorek
Kim Wieczorek, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, represented the New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE) at the annual Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) conference held Feb. 15 to 19 in Atlantic City, N.J. As president of NYSATE, she attended the Council of Unit Presidents on Feb. 16. On Feb. 18, she presented her research titled “Pathways to Teaching: The Vague Infrastructure for Potential Teaching Candidates” in a thematic research session.