Lorna Pérez, associate professor of English, has been named special issues editor for Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production. Label Me Latina/o is a peer-reviewed journal publishing Fall, Spring, and Special issues annually. It is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, is listed in the MLA Directory of Periodicals, and is a member of Latinoamericana: Asociación de Revistas Académicas en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. The articles are discoverable on EBSCOhost research databases (ISSN 2333-4584).

Jill M. Gradwell, professor of history and coordinator of social studies education, and Kathryn H. Leacock, director of collections at the Buffalo Museum of Science and lecturer of museum studies, both in Buffalo State's History and Social Studies Education Department, edited the recently published book Finding History Where You Least Expect It: Site-Based Strategies for Teaching about the Past. They collaborated with 21 local museum educators and personnel, including Daniel DiLandro, head of archives and special collections in Butler Library, to highlight how museum programming, object-based learning, and site-specific education can bring history to life in the most unlikely places or in the most unlikely ways.

Vida Vanchan, associate professor of geography and planning, recently published her paper "COVID-19 and Alternative Conceptualisations of Value and Risk in GPN Research," coauthored with John R. Bryson of the University of Birmingham Business School, in the international peer-reviewed journal Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (June 2020). She also delivered the webinar "COVID-19 Impact on American Trade and Global Value Chains: Risks, Strategies, and Future," with Professor Bryson on September 17, 2020. The webinar was sponsored by Buffalo State's Economic Development Office and Small Business Development Center and was attended by top government officials and industry leaders across the state as well as faculty, staff, and students.

John Cabra, professor of creativity and change leadership, co-facilitated an Ideaslab for three Hispanic-serving institutions, which are part of the California State University (CSU) system in the San Joaquin Valley. The Ideaslab aimed to design, deliver, and test new practices for teaching in STEM and engage faculty in a novel collaborative process to adapt and develop high-impact practices (HIPs) using explicit Creative Problem Solving (CPS) methodology.

John Cabra, professor of creativity and change leadership, designed and facilitated a one-day virtual workshop for Ariadne Labs joint center for health system innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in August. The workshop involved designing, developing, and testing a tool that local governments (cities and counties) and community partners can use to measure and improve maternal health.

John Cabra, professor of creativity and change leadership, chaired the symposium "Post-Traumatic Creativity: Examples from Myanmar through an Academic Civic Engagement Program" and presented with former graduate students at the Virtual Marconi Institute of Creativity Conference (PDF, 594 KB), hosted by the University of Bologna, Italy, September 14–16.

John Cabra, professor of creativity and change leadership, facilitated a breakout session on identifying stories of success that promoted diversity in early career stability within the field of exoplanet general circulation models for NASA's research coordination network. This session was part of a three-day TRAPPIST Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison virtual meeting.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his paper "The Strain Theory of Suicide Part I" in Suicidology (????????????) 11 (2): 118–134 (in Russian).

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his paper "Comparing Suicide Attempters with and without Mental Disorders: A Study of Young Adults in Rural China" in the Community Mental Health Journal 56 (7): 1372–1379. The study's coauthors are Ning Li, Huiying Wang, and Fangru Yang.

Dr. Ning Li was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State College twice, in academic years 2008–2009 and 2018–2019, and Dr. Fangru Yang was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State in academic year 2015–2016.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his paper "Identifying Psychological Strains in Suicide Notes" in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 82 (1): 120–127. The study's coauthors are David Lester, Janet Haines, Christopher L. Williams, Rui Zhou, Qing Qi, Tang Li, Lu Liu, and Wen Ma.

Dr. Rui Zhou was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State in the 2012–2013 academic year, and Ms. Qing Qi was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State in 2014.