Physics professor Dan MacIsaac and master teacher Bradley Gearhart published a Springer book chapter with international colleagues titled “Fostering Physics Content and Pedagogy Learning in Future Physics Teachers via Student-Authored YouTube-Style Video Projects” in Physics Teacher Education: Challenges in Physics Education (J. Borg Marks, P. Galea, S, Gatt, and D. Sands, eds.; Springer, Cham, 2022). The work describes instructional innovations used with physics students at Buffalo State.

Buffalo State faculty, alumni, and current students all joined in to celebrate the opening of the 2022 Buffalo theater season at Curtain Up! on Friday, September 16. Carol Beckley, chair and associate professor of theater, hosted a group of 35 current students and theater friends for a downtown theater tour and the 8:00 p.m. Curtain Up! performance of Once on This Island. Buffalo State Theater faculty members who worked on the show include Naila Ansari, assistant professor (director and choreographer); Nicholas Quinn, lecturer (sound); and Melissa VanOsch, lecturer (sign language director). Alumna Zhanna Reed, ’19, played the lead.

John R. Torrey, assistant professor of philosophy, was elected to the Board of Ethics for the City of Buffalo in September. He is the only academic on the board as well as the only member who has conducted academic research on ethics. In 2020, Dr. Torrey served on a panel formed by Mayor Brown to study and recommend police reforms in response to that summer’s demonstrations against police misconduct. This service opportunity allows Dr. Torrey to continue doing public philosophy in the community and to continue the urban-engaged mission of Buffalo State.

David Ben-Merre, professor of English, published an article on the relationships between poetry and crossword puzzles in the summer 2022 issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 64 (2): 115–143. The article, "The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who's There," is available online. An interview about the piece is also available.

Frances Gage, associate professor of art history, published the book chapter "Artists as Critics, and Critics as Artists: Collaboration and Inclination in Giulio Mancini's Taste Formation," in When Michelangelo Was Modern: Collecting, Patronage and the Art Market in Italy, 1450–1650, edited by Inge Reist, 226–245 (Leiden: The Frick Collection and Brill, 2022).

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State's Center for China Studies, published the article “Towards Higher Psychometric Properties: Testing the Psychological Strain Scales with Larger Samples” in the journal Archives of Suicide Research 26 (2): 912–927. The article’s coauthors were Wei Wang, Jenny Mei, Yiu Huen, Juncheng Lyu, and Bob Lew.

Wei Wang was a visiting scholar to the Center for China Studies in the 2018–2019 academic year, and Juncheng Lyu is currently a visiting scholar to the Center for China Studies.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State's Center for China Studies, and Jill Norivilitis, professor of psychology, published the article “Prediction Model for Suicide Based on Back Propagation Neural Network and Multilayer Perceptron” in the journal Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 16. The article’s coauthors were Juncheng Lyu and Hong Shi. Juncheng Lyu is currently a visiting scholar to the Center for China Studies.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State's Center for China Studies, published the article “The Effect of Online Self-Presentation on Self-Esteem of Sensory Impairments Students: Mediation of Social Support,” with coauthors You Yu and Jiajing Liu, in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 10:100392. You Yu was a 2019 Buffalo State graduate from the China 3+2 program.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State's Center for China Studies, and Kimberly Kamper-DeMarco, assistant professor of psychology, published the article "Time Spent on Social Media and Risk of Depression in Adolescents: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (9): 5164. The article's coauthors were Mingli Liu, Jia Xiao, Daifeng Dong, and Peng Xue. Mingli Liu was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State's Center for China Studies in the 2019–2020 academic year.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State's Center for China Studies, published the article "External Protective Factors of Suicidal Ideation in College Students” in the journal Mental Health, Religion & Culture 25 (2): 132–143. The article’s coauthors were Cuntong Wang and Han Tingting.