Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, and Sun Long, of the Shandong University School of Public Health in Jinan, China, published their paper "Medically Serious Suicide Attempters with or without Plan in Rural China" in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 204 (11): 851–854. Dr. Sun was a visiting scholar at Buffalo State two years ago.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his paper "Prevalence and Related Factors of Successful Aging among Chinese Rural Elders Living in Nursing Homes" in the European Journal of Ageing (First Online: March 29, 2017; pp. 1–10). The study's coauthors were Menglian Wu, Yang Yang, Dan Zhang, Yaoyao Sun, Hui Xie, Jihui Jia, and Yonggang Su.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his paper "Social Support Moderates the Effects of Self-Esteem and Depression on Quality of Life among Chinese Rural Elderly in Nursing Homes" in the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 31 (2): 197–204. The study's coauthors were Yaoyao Sun, Dan Zhang, Yang Yang, Menglian Wu, Hui Xie, Jihui Jia, and Yonggang Su.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, and Sun Long, of the Shandong University School of Public Health in Jinan, China, published their paper "Gender Differences among Medically Serious Suicide Attempters Aged 15–54 Years in Rural China" in the journal Psychiatry Research 252: 57–62. Dr. Sun was a visiting scholar at Buffalo State two years ago.

August 1, 2017, was named Patrice Cathey Day by a City of Buffalo Executive Chamber Proclamation. During her time at Buffalo State, Cathey has developed partnerships with numerous programs and departments at Buffalo State, with the Buffalo Public Schools, and in the community. The proclamation was presented at the Buffalo Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) Program’s 20th annual Golf Classic Fundraiser in recognition of her outstanding leadership and commitment to encouraging high school students to pursue higher education.

Cathey was recently named director of Precollegiate Programs at Buffalo State. Her new duties include overseeing the STEP and Upward Bound programs and the operation of the Precollegiate Academic Success Center. (PASC). These duties are in addition to her responsibilities as director of the Liberty Partnerships Program, a position she has held since 2001. Cathey served as principal grant writer for the Liberty Partnerships Program proposal, which was recently awarded $2.25 million for the 2017–2022 grant cycle. Cathey also coauthored the Upward Bound grant proposal, which recently received just over $2 million for 2017–2022.

George Hole, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, published a book of his poetry, Buffalo Dust (Buffalo Arts Publishing, June 2017), and an essay, "The First Trial of Socrates" (PDF, 604 KB), in the journal Philosophy and Literature 41 (1): 1–15.

Stephen Saracino, professor of metalsmithing in Art and Design, has been selected to participate in the national invitational exhibition Current Reflections on the Natural and the Handmade, part of the Texas Tech School of Arts' Landmark Arts Exhibitions and Speakers Program in Lubbock, Texas, on view October 7–December 16. The exhibition was curated by nationally known freelance curator Gail Brown.

Two works were included in the exhibition:

Pineapple of Anguish (detail)
Sterling silver, mokume gane, boar tusk
9 x 3.5 x 3.5 in.
2015

and

L'Ultima Cena  (The Last Supper)
Sterling silver
13 x 9 x 4 in.
2015

Ken Robinson's latest manuscript, "UConn Women's Basketball: Dynasty and Dominance versus Gender Inequality in Sports Media Coverage," has been published in Volume I of Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles (A. N. Milner and J. H. Braddock II, eds.; ABC-CLIO, 2017). Robinson interviewed Dan Shaughnessy, sports columnist for the Boston Globe. The author of 12 books, Shaughnessy has been named Mass Sportswriter of the Year 11 times and a top-10 columnist by AP sports editors 11 times. Shaughnessy caused a stir in 2016 when he stated that UConn's women's basketball team was ruining the sport because of its dominance. His statements and the ensuing controversy provoked much-needed discussion about gender inequalities in sports media coverage. 

Robinson's chapter looks at the UConn women's basketball program as a case study in the evolution and growth of the sport since the enactment of Title IX in 1972. Despite the significant achievements of the UConn women's basketball program over the last 20 years—they have shattered all major team records in men's and women's college basketball—gender inequalities persist. The discussion used theoretical perspectives such as "gender schema theory," "equity theory," and "labeling" to examine and explain the greater harm associated with the perception of women in sports, the devaluing of their contributions in sport, and the hazard of women being typecast through pejorative labeling.

Thomas Reigstad served as a member of the New York State Education Department’s Rangefinding Committee for the Regents Exam in English Language Arts (ELA), which met in Albany August 6–10. Composed of English educators from across the state, the committee closely reviewed student responses and scoring materials (tasks and reading passages) from select field-tested ELA Regents Exams to be used in scoring guides. Reigstad was assigned to Part 2 of the exam, the argument-essay assignment.

Hope Dunbar, archivist in Butler Library's Archives and Special Collections, successfully passed the Academy of Certified Archivists exam, earning her certification in the archival field. The academy recognizes roughly 1,500 certified archivists throughout the United States and Canada. Additionally, Daniel DiLandro, head of Archives and Special Collections, was successfully recertified through the academy this summer. Buffalo State's Archives and Special Collections is one of the few educational institutions with two certified archivists on staff to assist students, faculty, and community members in accessing and using the wide variety of primary source historical documents available on campus.