Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of a new book, Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights. The book is a compendium of information about all aspects of the gun issue in America. Co-authored with Glenn Utter of Lamar University, the book is published by Grey House Publishing.
Tim Delaune
Tim Delaune, Political Science Department, presented research on the depiction in film of pirates as domestic and international outlaws from the 1930s to the present at the international conference Frontière(s) au Cinéma on June 27 in La Rochelle, France. His paper “The Outlaw at Sea: An Inquiry into Cinematic Depictions of Pirates and Piracy,” was included in the panel discussion on “Borders and Lost Territories” (Frontières et territories perdus).
Donna West
Donna West, Modern Languages Department, shared that the first of two multinational special issues which she has edited on Peirce and Consciousness has been published in Cognitive Semiotics and has been released by Mouton De Gruyter. The second issue is forthcoming later in 2021 in Semiotica, also a De Gruyter publication.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, will be inducted into the State University of New York Council for University Affairs and Development (SUNYCUAD) Hall of Fame Class of 2018 on June 7 during the organization’s annual conference in Syracuse, N.Y. She and fellow honoree Nancy Prott of Upstate Medical University co-chaired the conference corporate sponsorship committee for five consecutive conferences through 2016, raising support and serving as sponsor liaisons for conferences in Syracuse, Farmingdale, Lake Placid, Rochester and Cooperstown. Each year, the SUNYCUAD Board of Directors adds up to two new Hall of Fame members who have distinguished themselves, their institutions and the State University by their significant contributions to the organization and its mission of service and education. Each honoree has his or her name added to a permanent plaque housed at the State University headquarters in Albany.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, was invited for a weeklong stay with the research group on quadratic forms at the Zukunftskolleg of the Universität Konstanz, Germany, from June 4-8. While there, he gave a talk titled “On Quadratic Forms of Height 2.”
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy,” included in a new e-book titled Grading Strategies for the College Classroom: a Collection of Articles for Faculty, from Magna Publications. The book is available on Amazon.com.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had an article about a recent off-Broadway production in Spanish published in the journal Bulletin of the Comediantes (issue 69.1, 2017). The article, titled “Virués’s Theater of the Grotesque: Interrogating La gran Semíramis from Roman Chronicle to the New York Stage,” analyzes elements of the grotesque in the 1579 text by Cristóbal de Virués and in Diego Chiri’s 2015 production of the play at Repertorio Español in New York City. Integrating the perspectives of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Foucault, the study concludes that Chiri uses the grotesque to reconcile contradictory elements of the work, and that Virués participates in the processes of distortion and degradation that have typified the production of the Semiramis myth, itself grotesque, throughout the centuries.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been invited to join the Survey Team for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). AUCCCD promotes the awareness of student mental health and development issues in higher education through research, advocacy, education and training provided to members, professional organizations and the public. In 2006, AUCCCD instituted the Annual Survey as a means to increase objective understanding of factors critical to the functioning of college and university counseling centers. The survey is published online annually and serves as a resource for directors as well as others interested in college mental health and development.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled “To Brandish or Not to Brandish: The Consequences of Gun Display” at the Duke University Law School Conference on Historical Gun Laws, held virtually on June 19.
Karen Downey and Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and senior student researcher Matthew Ellis, presented their work, “Density Functional Theory Modeling for Design of Group 10-based Metallo-organic Catalysts,” at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 10 in Ithaca, N.Y.