An article by Heidi Dietz-Faletti, associate professor emerita of English, titled "The Bondage of Cloistered Souls in Rivette's La Religieuse and Godard's Vivre sa vie," has been published in the International Journal of Critical Studies (Common Ground Research Networks) 21 (2): 55–68.
Kristin Fields, director of continuing professional studies, is one of 24 regional participants in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Workforce Leadership Academy, brought together by the New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals.
The Buffalo and Niagara Falls Workforce Leadership Academy, a yearlong fellowship developed through a partnership with the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program, engages nonprofit, government, academic, and business leaders in a series of retreats and workshops as they work together to advance an innovative and equitable workforce ecosystem.
The Buffalo and Niagara Falls Workforce Leadership Academy is the first in the region and one of six to be launched nationally this year through the support of Walmart, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. This academy is the latest in a series of several workforce leadership academies hosted in communities across the United States and Canada.
The 24 members of the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Workforce Leadership Academy Class of 2023 represent a range of nonprofit organizations, business associations, institutes of higher education, training efforts, and public agencies. The academy will culminate with a collaborative capstone project presentation on Tuesday, December 5.
Daniel Cunningham, professor emeritus of mathematics, has been notified that De Gruyter has published his latest book, Mathematical Logic: An Introduction.
The textbook uses mathematical tools to investigate mathematics itself. In particular, the concepts of proof and truth are examined. The book presents the fundamental topics in mathematical logic and presents clear and complete proofs throughout the text. Such proofs are used to develop the language of propositional logic and the language of first-order logic, including the notion of a formal deduction. The text also covers Tarski’s definition of truth and the computability concept. It also provides coherent proofs of Godel’s completeness and incompleteness theorems.
De Gruyter publishes first-class scholarship and has done so for more than 270 years. An international, independent publisher headquartered in Berlin—and with further offices in Boston, Beijing, Basel, Vienna, Warsaw, and Munich—it publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 900 journals in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law.
Carolyn Guzski, associate professor of music, was awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia to support her project "African American Operatic Artists on the Mediterranean Rim, 1925–1939."
Jiuan Jiuan Chen, associate professor of art conservation, will be honored with the Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 17. The Keck Award recognizes a sustained record of excellence in educating and training conservation professionals and is one of the highest honors bestowed by AIC.
Chris Yuen, Ed.D., lecturer of mathematics, has been named president-elect of the New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges. He has served on the organization's executive board for the past six years. The president's term is 2023–2026.
Saquib Ahmed, assistant professor of engineering technology and founding director of the Integrated Studies in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, was awarded the Visiting Faculty position at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) under the Department of Energy (DOE) for a third summer in a row (2021, 2022, 2023). His research is a collaboration with Bogazici University (Turkey), Yale University, Stony Brook University (SBU) and BNL scientists.
The proposal is titled “An Integrated Approach towards Enhancing Supercapacitor Functionality.”
Abstract
Supercapacitors are high-capacity devices with lower voltage limits; these devices occupy the space between electrolytic capacitors and rechargeable batteries. Supercapacitors store 10 to 100 times more energy per unit volume or mass than electrolytic capacitors, can accept and deliver charge much faster than batteries, and tolerate many more charge and discharge cycles than rechargeable batteries. Despite these advantages, widespread adoption of supercapacitors has been restricted due to their limited energy density. Optimizing their energy storage performance is critical to promote supercapacitors’ competitive edge in energy storage applications. The proposed research will explore this limitation at its most fundamental level through computation, machine learning, and experiment. The energy storage performance of supercapacitors will be elucidated by exploring the effect of composition and solvation of applied electrolytes, specifically room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), in conjunction with varying the micropore structure of electrodes. A family of electrochemically stable carbonaceous materials with large surface area will be utilized as electrodes.
Graziela Rondon-Pari, assistant professor in the Modern and Classical Languages Department, presented the two-hour workshop “Languages for the Professions and Specific Purposes: Spanish Court Interpreting” at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) Convention, held in Niagara Falls, New York, March 23–25. Co-presenters included students from her SPA 399 Legal Spanish course.
Their participation was financed by a grant from the Modern Language Association (MLA). The Humanities Innovation Grant was awarded to the Buffalo State Spanish Court Interpreting certificate as an Innovative Emerging Program. The national award and grant were received at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.
In addition, Dr. Rondon-Pari has been invited by the MLA to present the details of this certificate at the plenary session of the MLA’s Professional Development Training for department chairs and program leaders from across North America. Lydia Tang, MLA’s head of world language programs, stated: “We hope you might be interested in presenting your grant-winning project, Languages for the Professions: Immigration Interpreting. It perfectly fits the plenary's vision of demonstrating how language competency and humanities skills more broadly can have a real impact on our communities, and how it can provide students with a new perspective on global challenges, including migration and immigration.”
The presentation will take place on Tuesday, June 27.
Upon invitation from Mathilde Mukantabana, the Republic of Rwanda’s ambassador to the United States, Drew Kahn, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of theater and founding director of the Anne Frank Project, shared his remarks at the Rwanda Embassy’s annual commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, “Kwibuka 29: Remember. Unite. Renew,” on April 7.
Saquib Ahmed, assistant professor of engineering technology, and five of his students presented the poster session “An Integrated Assessment of Next Generation Photovoltaic Technologies” at the American Society for Engineering Students (ASEE) Zone 1 Conference, hosted by Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering, in University Park, Pennsylvania, March 30-April 1.
This project, the first to come out of Buffalo State’s Integrated Studies in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, revolved around tackling next generation photovoltaic technologies through the integrated lenses of science and technology; economics; ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI); and accelerated discovery (using machine learning and artificial intelligence).
The five students, from various departments, worked closely together on the project and presentation:
Joseph Wikar and Nicholas White, Mechanical Engineering Technology; Leanna Tse, Electrical Engineering Technology; Michael Vullo, Chemistry; and Tyler Body, Mathematics and Data Science.
The researchers plan to professionally publish their findings in an interdisciplinary journal.
Watch the Nanotechnology Center video and the SUNY System Administration website for more on the success of this project as well (coming soon).