Vida Vanchan, professor of political science and public administration, recently delivered an international webinar as part of the Think Tank 2022 Public Lecture Series, "Global Economy and Geographies of Production during Crises," hosted and sponsored by the Asian Vision Institute. The webinar examines the key actors and processes that contribute to the global economy in understanding the geographies of production, supply chains disruptions, and economic life. It offers development on a more resilient approach to understand the changing nature of global economy, production systems, and societies during crises. Three key areas are identified in developing such an approach, which extend beyond the existing literature and understanding of the geographies of production. They involve identifying the very processes and tasks underlying each operation and decision-making process, reconceptualizing "value" and "risk" and proactively managing risks.

A presentation proposal by Denise Harris, director of the Career and Professional Education Center, titled "Integration and Collaboration: Reaching Diverse Student Populations in a Post-Pandemic Environment," was recently accepted for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2023 Conference.

Work by Kim Chinquee, associate professor of English and co-director of the writing major, is featured in Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, edited by Peter Johnson and Cassandra Atherton. Her work appears alongside such acclaimed writers as Sherman Alexie, Nin Andrews, and Maxine Chernoff.

Dan MacIsaac, professor of physics, edited the fall 2022 edition of The Science Teachers Bulletin 85 (1), a peer-reviewed publication of the Science Teachers Association of NY State. His editorial, "Practical Science for Pandemic Classroom Safety," is joined by four articles on the history of the NYS Astronomy Regents Exam, grade school student STEM reasoning, explanation and scientific argumentation, and an introductory physical chemistry activity using batteries and indicator dye. The Science Teachers Bulletin is freely available.

Macy Todd, associate professor of English, published the article “How Do I Love Thee? Numbers, the Rom-Com, and What’s Your Number? (2011),” on the relationship between numbers and romantic comedies, in the December 2022 issue (114) of Bright Wall/Dark Room.

Graziela Rondon-Pari, assistant professor of Spanish, was invited by the Modern Language Association (MLA) to present at its 2023 annual convention, held in San Francisco, California, January 5–8. Dr. Rondon-Pari presented “Languages for the Professions: Immigration Interpreting,” winner of the MLA Humanities Innovation Grant and Award, on January 6.

Sourav Biswas, assistant professor of chemistry, was invited as a guest speaker at the Department of Chemical Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India, on December 22. Dr. Biswas presented his research group's work, "Metal Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Materials for Aerobic Oxidation Reactions." He acknowledged the contribution of five Buffalo State students and the EURO and Small Grants programs of the Undergraduate Research Office.

Dr. Cleary's paper, "A Suburban Funeral" (Journal of Autoethnography, Summer 2022), won Honorable Mention for the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry’s (IAANI) 2023 Outstanding Journal Article Award. The award will be recognized at the IAANI's annual conference in January 2023.

An article by Alice Marie Villaseńor, associate director of the Civic and Community Engagement Office, is featured in the winter 2022 issue of Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 43 (1). The article, “From Prada to Nada: Displaced Dashwood Sisters in Los Angeles,” examines the ways in which a 2011 film uses the story of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to highlight issues facing Latin American communities in Los Angeles.

The article is based on a presentation that Dr. Villaseńor gave at the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, held in Victoria, British Columbia, September 30–October 2.

Thomas Reigstad, professor emeritus of English, presented an illustrated lecture, “Mark Twain, His Presidents, and Buffalo,” for the Buffalo Presidential Center at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library on December 10. The presentation focused on Twain's personal encounters with two U.S. presidents—Millard Fillmore and Ulysses S. Grant—and future president Grover Cleveland while Twain lived and worked in Buffalo as a journalist from 1869 to 1871. The talk also included Twain's late career political platforms that shaped his dim view of William McKinley and his love-hate relationship with Theodore Roosevelt.

Dr. Reigstad was also the source of a December 8 Buffalo News column by Erik Brady, “Bills-Jets Rivalry Missing the Hatred, But It Does Have a Poem,” which cited his frequent teaching of May Swenson’s 1970s poem “Watching the Jets Lose to Buffalo” to his American literature students at Buffalo State.