Faculty and Staff Activities
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, had his article, “Environmental enrichment induces early heroin abstinence in an animal conflict model,” published in the recent issue of Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. The findings suggest that environmental enrichment is an effective treatment strategy to support heroin abstinence in heroin seeking rats. The results may have important implications for human heroin addiction.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, presented two sessions at the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA) conference, held May 22-24 in Lake Placid, N.Y. The first was “Pre-Conference Session for New Professionals,” designed for professionals in the transfer field with one to three years’ experience to discuss trends in higher education, terminology and tips for success. Also, she presented “Let’s Celebrate! Promoting the First Annual National Transfer Student Week on Your Campus.” NYSTAA has been working with the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) to launch the first National Transfer Student Week, which is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 9 through Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Corbin served as president of NYSTAA for the 2016-17 year, and her term concluded at the end of the conference.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett, Health Department, delivered a research presentation on “College Men’s Perceptions of Affirmative Consent, Coercion and Sexual Violence: Research Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice” at the Ending Violence Against Women International’s annual conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Engaging Men and Boys, held from March 22-24 in Washington, D.C. The conference was attended by more than 2,000 law enforcement personnel, criminal justice and victims’ advocates, medical providers and campus health and safety professionals from a dozen countries around the world.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will present two papers at the 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries to be held virtually from Oct. 24 to 28. Her papers are titled “The Autonomous Third Element: Asger Jorn’s Theory of Experimental Creativity” and “Artspotting: Collecting the Ephemeral in 1960s Postwar Art.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Gun Law History in the United States and Second Amendment Rights,” published in the most recent issue of the journal Law and Contemporary Problems.
Samantha Moss
Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, presented a research poster, “Home- and Community-Based Interventions in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review,” at the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America national convention held March 28 to April 1 in Seattle, Wash.
Diane H. Craft
Diane H. Craft, Physical Education Department, along with children’s singer/songwriter Vincent, presented the keynote lecture at the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children (MassAEYC) annual statewide conference held March 16-17 in Westford, Mass. Craft also gave two workshops on developmentally appropriate physical activities to the early childhood educators in attendance.
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, was interviewed for education reporter Solveigj Wastvedt’s story “State Education Boards: Who’s Got the Power.” The segment was aired March 9 on public radio stations WSKG, WRVO and WXXI. McGuire focuses on education policy.
Herbert Haines
Herbert Haines, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was interviewed by a Northern Lights Productions video crew in August as part of a documentary film about protests against the classic silent film “The Birth of a Nation” in 1915. The documentary is scheduled to air nationally on PBS sometime in 2016.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has been invited to co-present and co-facilitate a panel discussion at SUNY Plattsburgh’s “The Value of Community Engagement in Higher Education” set for Wednesday, March 1.
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