Jenn McNamara
Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, won Best in Show at the Foundry Art Centre’s exhibit “Fiber: Twenty Ten.” She was awarded a solo show that will take place next spring at the Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Mo.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented her paper “From Our House to Your House: Economic Utility of the U.S. Garage Sale in the ‘Great Recession’” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting held March 24-27 in Merida, Mexico. The paper treats the renewed utilization of garage sale shopping and selling to stretch tight budgets, and, for movers and those foreclosed upon, to quickly liquidate belongings for needed ready cash during the current economic downturn.
Luis Columna and Marley Barduhn
Luis Columna, Physical Education Department, and Marley Barduhn, Academic Affairs Office, co-presented a paper on “Integrating Physical Activity into the Lives of Migrant Workers’ Children and Families” at the National Migrant Education Conference held April 11-14 in Anaheim, Calif.
Robert Darling
Robert Darling, Geology Department, co-presented a paper with a former student John-Luke Henriquez ’09, at the Northeast/Southeast Regional Meeting of the Geological Society of America held in March in Baltimore, Md. The title of the paper is “Zircon-clinging, Inferred Analectic Melt Inclusions in Adirondack Garnet.” Henriquez is currently a graduate student at the University of Maryland.
Alexander G. Gonzalez
Alexander G. Gonzalez, English, has been informed that his article, “Annotations for Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow,” has been accepted for publication in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews.
Arden Zipp
Arden Zipp, chemistry, chaired the annual meeting of the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) Subcommittee meeting that was recently held at the headquarters of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. Zipp has chaired the USNCO Task Force for several years and has recently added the Subcommittee Chairmanship to his duties. The Task Force writes and grades the annual exams used to select 20 students to attend a two-week study camp where a four-person team is identiied to compete in the International Chemistry Olympiad.
Dawn Van Hall
Dawn Van Hall, library, attended the University Photographers Association of America's annual symposium in June at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, N.Y. She was honored at this event by being inducted as a fellow of the University Photographers' Association of America for distinguished ability and service to the association and contributions to the advancement of photography. Van Hall, vice president of University Photographers Association of America, is on the board of directors of this national organization and chairs the Publications Committee.
Robert Darling
Robert Darling, geology, recently co-authored a paper appearing in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. The paper, titled "Hydrothermal Heat Flow Near the Main Central Thrust, Central Nepal Himalaya" summarizes the loss of geothermal heat from the Himalayan Mountains, the tallest mountain range on Earth.
Arden Zipp
Arden Zipp, chemistry emeritus, was honored at the 238th National American Chemical Society meeting recently held in Washington, D.C. Zipp was presented with a certificate, signed and presented by Thomas Lane, president of the Society, recognizing Zipp's 25 years of service to the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) program.
The USNCO program, which began in 1984, uses a series of exams to identify the 20 top high school chemistry students in the country. These individuals attend a two-week study camp at the Air Force Academy where they are given further chemistry instruction and exams designed to select four students to compete in the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). At the 2009 IChO, held in July in Cambridge, England, the U.S. team was awarded a gold and three silver medals, its best showing in several years.
Zipp became involved with the USNCO in 1985 when he was invited to mark student free response exams. He began contributing questions soon after that and continued marking exams. In 1993 he was named chair of the Examinations Task Force, which prepares the new multiple choice and free response exams used in the selection process yearly, and continues in this role to the present time. He is also the current chair of the USNCO Subcommittee that establishes policies for the program.
In addition to his efforts on behalf of the USNCO, Zipp has been active in both the College Board's advanced placement chemistry program and the international baccalaureate chemistry program for more than 25 years and held major leadership roles in both programs. He is the author of more than 50 publications in inorganic chemistry and chemistry education and has delivered more than 250 papers, presentations and workshops at local, regional, national and international conferences.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, communication studies, had his book, The Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, accepted for publication in June by Cornell University Press. The book is a work of narrative journalism and recounts the cycle of the seasons at a ″mom-and-pop″ winery on Cayuga Lake — Long Point Winery owned by Gary and Rosemary Barletta — by capturing everyday activities such as planting and pruning the vines, grape crushing and fermenting and aging wine in barrels and bottles. It also details the challenges and triumphs of trying to make the perfect vintage. The book, intended for wine lovers, is the first to examine the national phenomenon of the rapid rise of small artisanal wineries outside of California. It is also the first in a new publishing initiative on the part of Cornell University Press to publish narrative journalism on regional subjects with the potential for national appeal.
Accepted for publication in July by the University of Massachusetts Press was Hartsock′s book Theorizing Literary Journalism: Examining a Narrative Genre. The volume will re-synthesize the last 10-plus years of his work which has appeared in publications such as Prose Studies, DoubleTake, the Journal of Communication Inquiry and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, as well as insights gained as the founding editor of Literary Journalism Studies, the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of the genre and published in cooperation with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The book will provide a scholarly summary after 20 years of research on the subject, and will serve as a companion volume to Hartsock′s award-winning A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2000, which is now in its second printing.