Anthony Taylor
Anthony Taylor, professor emeritus of psychology, serves as a pro bono consultant in the research unit at the headquarters for Wildlife Conservation Society in the Bronx, N.Y. In 2009, he co-authored two journal articles: “Belonging at the Zoo: Retired Volunteers, Conservation, Activism and Collective Identity,” that appeared in Ageing & Society (29, 2009, 351-368); and “What Information Do Zoo and Aquarium Visitors Want on Animal Identification Labels?” that ran in Journal of Interpretation (14, No.2, 2009, 7-19).
Cynthia J. Benton
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-presented a paper with Undergraduate Research Council Fellowship Awardee Jeremiah J. Best, a senior childhood education major from Inlet, N.Y. They delivered “Gender and Teaching Choice: Males’ Career Decisions and Elementary Teaching as a Profession” at the International Conference on Education held in January in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, gave two talks at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2010 held Jan. 13-16 in San Francisco, Calif. The first talk, “Displaying Mathematics with Plain HTML,” was part of a session on publishing mathematics on the Web. The second talk, “Teaching Abstract Algebra using Technology,” was part of a session on the scholarship of teaching and learning in undergraduate mathematics.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was a participant in the Assembly on Health Equity and Prosperity held Aug. 4-5. Hosted by the University of Maryland’s Center for Health Equity and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the assembly brought practitioners, academics, business leaders, and government officials together to build skills and capabilities to empower local actions to improve health equity and prosperity.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, co-authored “The Effects of Prevailing Wage Regulations on Construction Efficiency in British Columbia” with Kevin Duncan, Colorado State University-Pueblo, and Peter Philips, University of Utah. The study, which examines the effect of prevailing wage legislation on the efficiency of school construction, was published by International Journal of Construction Education and Research in 2009.
Brent T. Wilson
Brent T. Wilson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, has been invited to present at the 13th meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association June 23–26 in Oslo, Norway. Two Speech and Hearing Science majors who completed an independent study with Wilson during the Fall 2009 semester were also invited to present. They are Alyssa J. Riehle of Webster, N.Y., and Alicia M. Gloede of Coram, N.Y.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was lead co-author of two articles that were recently published. “Teaching Historical and Current Events from Multiple Perspectives: The Korean War and Six-Party Talks” was published in Social Science Research and Practice, Winter 2009, Volume 4, Number 3. “Whose History? An Analysis of the Korean War in History Textbooks from the United States, South Korea, Japan and China” was published in the September-October 2009 issue of The Social Studies.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, edited a book titled Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press in March.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, gave a talk on “Why Baseball is a Metaphor for Life” on April 15 at the Southworth Library in Dryden, N.Y.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, and Jennifer S. Tuttle of the University of New England have been nominated for the Modern Language Association’s Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters for The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (University of Alabama Press, 2009). The recipient will be selected in the fall.