Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, presented a poster with undergraduate student Tyler Potter at the American Chemical Society’s 244th national meeting, held August 19-23 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, was the plenary speaker at the annual conference of the Alabama World Languages Association on Feb. 3 at Auburn University. Her talk, “Language and Culture in the Classroom: Are YOU on Target?” stressed the importance of teaching and using in the target language 90 percent plus of the time in all foreign language classrooms. She also gave a talk on FLTEACH, the Foreign Language Teaching Forum, an online resource she has co-moderated for 24 years with her colleague, Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department.
Mary McGuire and John Suarez
Mary McGuire, Institute for Civic Engagement, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, will be panelists on a discussion titled “The Campus Action Plan,” at the Eastern Regional Campus Compact Conference at New York University in March. They are partnering with colleagues from Robert Morris University, Buffalo State University and the University of Delaware.
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Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions Office, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to serve on the New York District Export Council. The council is one of 61 in the nation that brings together experienced international businesspeople who provide support, advice, and assistance to New York companies interested in entering into or expanding into international markets. Langhans was nominated for the position due to his 20 years of international recruitment experience and his 11 years of active involvement with Study New York including serving as chair for three years.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, and John Rennie Short, from the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, are co-authors of “Walking the City: Flânerie and Flâneurs,” in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of the City, due out June 9, 2019.
Lauren deLaubell, Dan Harms, Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan and Hilary Wong
Lauren deLaubell, Dan Harms, Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, recently had their book chapter titled “Librarians Sitting Down with Students: Varied Approaches to Co-Teaching Reading Skills for Developmental Writers” published in the ACRL book Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, recently attended the 14th annual National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) conference in Atlanta, Ga. She co-presented with Michael Henningsen, Mohawk Valley Community College, on the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA). Their session title was “A State-Wide Transfer Professional Organization: The Good, the Bad, and the Future.” Henningsen currently serves as NYSTAA president, and Corbin serves as president-elect. At the conference, Corbin was awarded the Bonita C. Jacobs Transfer Champion Rising Star award.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper titled “Tiaras, Tantrums and Toe Shoes: Reality Television Programs that Illuminate Stage Moms & Kiddie Fame” competitively selected for presentation at the January 2012 Annual Hawaiian International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Lawrence’s paper served as discussion for the new trend in reality television that exposes the contemporary version of the age-old stereotypical stage mom. Most of their daughters are filmed crying their way to Warhol’s prophetic “15 minutes of fame.” Exhausted, erratic and overexposed, these girls are often being pushed to perform as young as the age of 18 months. Lawrence focused on how this proliferation of shows reflects a preoccupation in our culture with celebrity at any cost and at any age.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book chapter titled, “Gun Policy Research: Personal Reflections on Public Questions,” in Gun Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice, published by Routledge.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, had a peer-reviewed paper titled “A new species of Phlebopus (Boletales, Basidiomycota) from Mexico” published in North American Fungi, issue 10, 2015. Phlebopus is a relative of the highly sought after porcini mushrooms (boletes) of culinary fame. In addition to describing this new tropical species of bolete, a phylogenetic analysis using RNA genes is provided, a brief overview of the economic importance of Phlebopus in the new world tropics is presented and an identification key of all known species of Phlebopus reported from the Americas is included for use by future investigators. Co-authors included Joaquin Cifuentes of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Beatriz Ortiz Santana of the USDA- Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wis., and Silvia Cappello from Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico.