Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana studies departments, had her book titled Ludic Ubuntu Ethics: Decolonizing Justice published with Routledge’s series in Justice Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice.
Ann McClellan
Ann McClellan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented her paper, “‘Oh, Watson, the (Record) Needle!’: Sherlock Holmes and American Jazz,” at the annual Popular Culture Association conference on March 29 in Chicago, Ill. Also, on April 23 she gave a virtual talk for the Groton Public Library in Groton, Mass., on “The Sherlock Holmes You Never Knew: Black American Adaptations, Then and Now.”
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, with Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, U.S. Air Force Academy, and Mark Warford, Buffalo State College, presented a session at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) annual convention on Nov. 18 in Denver, Colo. Titled “90% Target Language in the Classroom: Yes We Can!” focused on techniques for teaching in the target language. The session explored research that supports 90-100 percent use of the target language in language classes at all levels as recommended in ACTFL’s position paper. It also addressed techniques for implementing the recommendations and for training pre-service and in-service teachers.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “Misfire in the 2012 Election,” published in the Fall 2012 issue of Presidents and Executive Politics Report. The article analyzes the impact of the gun issue on the 2012 presidential election.
Chris Manaseri
Chris Manaseri, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Keeping Schoolhouses in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State,” published in the Country School Journal, Volume 6.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, served as part of the leadership team at the 2013 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Conference held Jan. 10-13 in San Francisco. He led breakout meetings for the International Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group.
Steven Gabriel
Steven Gabriel, Health Department, has had his paper appear in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement, which is published in collaboration with SUNY Buffalo students and housed at SUNY Cortland.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “How Obama Can Use the Power of the Veto and Still Avoid Being Nicknamed ‘President No,’” that was published on the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times on Feb. 3. The link to the article is: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0203-spitzer-presidential-veto-20150203-story.html
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, led authorship on a journal article about multimodal positioning as seen in interactions between children and the designs they create in an after-school engineering club recently published in Multimodal Communication. Co-authors are Mary McVee, Christopher Jarmark, Lynn Shanahan and Kenneth English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). The article features a case study and uses multimodal positioning analysis to determine and describe how a purposefully crafted emergent artifact influenced and manipulated social dynamics, structure, and positionings of one design team comprised of five third graders. In addition to social semiotic theories of multimodality and multimodal interactional analysis, Positioning Theory is used to examine group interactions with their constructed artifact, with observational data collected from audio, video, researcher field notes, analytic memos, photographs, student artifacts (e.g., drawn designs, built designs), and transcriptions of audio and video data. Analysis of interactions of the artifact as it unfolded demonstrates multiple types of role-based positioning with students (e.g., builder, helper, idea-sharer). Foregrounding analysis of the artifact, rather than the student participants, exposed students’ alignment or opposition with their groupmates during the project. This study contributes to multimodal and artifactual scholarship through a close examination of positions emergent across time through multimodal communicative actions and illustrates how perspectives on multimodality may be analytically combined with Positioning Theory.
Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, and students Nicholas Puoplo ’15 and Joseph Hannett ’17, co-authored a paper recently published in Neurotoxicology. It is titled “The secretome of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells protects SH-SY5Y cells from arsenic-induced toxicity, independent of a neuron-like differentiation mechanism.”