Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was the Constitution Day speaker on Sept. 17 at Manchester University in Indiana, where he met with students and gave a featured address on “The Second Amendment and Guns in America” as part of that university’s Values, Arts and Ideas speaker series.
Eamon O'Shea
Eamon O'Shea, University Police Department, received a State University of New York 2021 University Police Award in a ceremony hosted by the SUNY Police Chiefs Association on Nov. 16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The annual awards honor lieutenants, officers and staff who played a key role in life-saving events in the past year, as well as others on the New York University Police force for their outstanding professional service.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had her poem, “Three's a Crowd,” placed with 19 other selected poems in an exhibit titled “Hay(na)ku: A 21st-Century Diasporic Poetry Form” in the San Francisco Public Library. Also, she wrote a haiga, a Japanese form which is typically a haiku with illustration, accepted for publication in New Verse News. This poem called “Amiss” was written as a tribute (elegy) to Aretha Franklin on her passing. Her poem “Head Over Heels,” written for a fantastical theme in the haiku form, was accepted for publication in the last week of August by the Colorado Boulevard.net. Also, Lawrence received notice that her speculative poem titled “Not Tonight” will soon appear in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA).
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was selected by the American Anthropological Association to participate in The Op-Ed Project's "Write to Change the World" workshop to be held Dec. 10-11, 2025.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction” (2015), re-published in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 433, edited by Jennifer Stock and published by Gale Cengage.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Separating Truth and Myth in the American Gun Debate,” published in the Fall 2013 issue of The Islamic Monthly.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his essay, “Literature in an Age of Plague: The AIDS Epidemic,” published in American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990. The volume was edited by D. Quentin Miller and published in November by Cambridge University Press.
Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek, Rod Koch and Chris Badurek
Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Rod Koch, all from Memorial Library, and Chris Badurek, Geography Department, presented virtually at the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology on Thursday, May 27. The title of the presentation was “Tired of video conferencing fatigue? Explore tools to increase learner engagement and energize the class.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, continued to play a leading role in the national debate on gun violence with an Op-Ed article titled “Stand Your Ground Makes No Sense,” published on May 4 in the New York Times.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, applied for and won a travel grant from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute, to participate in a California workshop, “Empowering Your Teaching with Python.” The July workshop focused on introducing undergraduate students to computer literacy/programming fundamentals embedded in courses based in the molecular sciences.