Jenn McNamara
Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, will have two works of art on exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre’s “Fiber: TwentyTen.” The juried exhibition, which celebrates contemporary fiber art, will be held April 2-May 14 in St. Charles, Mo.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article arguing against granting the president an item veto in the just published book, Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, published by CQ Press.
Darrell Thomas
Darrell Thomas was appointed catering manager for Auxiliary Services Corporation. The 1992 graduate of culinary arts from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., brings to the position a wealth of knowledge from his 25 years of experience in the food-service industry. Previously, Thomas worked at the Sherwood Inn in Skaneateles, N.Y., Phoebe’s Garden Café in Syracuse, N.Y., and several Ruby Tuesday restaurants. His experience includes on and off-site catering, including weddings and corporate dinners.
Henry Steck and Craig Little
Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political science, and Craig Little, professor emeritus of sociology, participated in a series of academic gatherings from Nov. 9 to 15 in Romania at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, and the Ratiu Center for Democracy in Turda. The subject of their presentations covered higher education in illiberal times, America in decline in the time of Trump, and the need for civic engagement as the prerequisite for a robust democratic society.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, with co-authors Philip Chu and Joshua Brumberg of Queens College, had their peer-reviewed paper titled “Exercises in Anatomy, Connectivity and Morphology using Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas” published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. The article discusses how laboratory instruction of neuroscience is often limited by the lack of physical resources and supplies and that the cost of acquiring, maintaining and updating the materials for these labs can be prohibitive. The authors recommend incorporating online, or e-learning, opportunities into undergraduate laboratory courses and describe a method using two free online databases, the Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA), that freely provide access to data from working brain scientists that can be modified for laboratory instruction and exercises.
Julie Ficarra and Sam Avery
Julie Ficarra, International Programs Office, and Sam Avery, Communication Studies Department, presented at the 17th International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Annual Conference held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Julie presented on problematizing issues of race, power and the “helping imperative” in service-learning programs in the Global South; and together, they co-presented a film project exploring the politics of space, memory and belonging for two immigrant groups on the north side of the city of Syracuse.
J. Richard Kendrick Jr.
J. Richard Kendrick Jr., Sociology/Anthropology Department and Institute for Civic Engagement, was a panelist at the New York Campus Compact Workshop, “Achieving Carnegie Community Engagement Classification,” on March 1 at Syracuse University. On Friday, March 5, he presented as part of the “Models for Civic Education and Engagement” series of the Civic Education and Leadership Fellows (CELF) program at Syracuse University. The CELF program brings eight scholars from the Middle East to study for a semester at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to speak in February at Oxford University in England and in March at the University of North Park in Chicago, about her first book, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. Chicago. The McDonald case is a constitutional challenge to Chicago's strict handgun law based on a Second Amendment right to bear arms claim that asserts that the Second Amendment should also apply to the states. As of now, the amendment applies only to the federal government. In the brief, Spitzer and co-authors argue that the right of states to regulate guns should fall outside of Second Amendment's protection as first established in the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling in D.C. v. Heller. The Supreme Court held oral argument in the McDonald case on March 2.
Robert J. Spitzer
Robert J. Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor political science emeritus and author, was featured in WalletHub’s recent article titled “Cities with the Biggest Homicide Rate Problems,” written by Adam McCann and published April 26.