Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, and Bruce Q. Sun, assistant professor of mathematics, published their paper "Economic and Sociological Correlates of Suicides: Multilevel Analysis of the Time Series Data in the United Kingdom" in the Journal of Forensic Sciences 61 (2): 345-351.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his paper "The Use of Microblog, Social Support, and Depression: A Study of Chinese College Students," coauthored with Yingjiang Liu and Lu Sha, in the International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology 3 (1): 1–5. Yingjiang Liu was a visiting scholar at Buffalo State last year.

Frances Gage, associate professor of fine arts, published the book Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art in June (Penn State University Press, 2016).

Elisa Bergslien, associate professor and department chair of Earth Sciences and Science Education, presented the talk "Portable X-ray Fluorescence (PXRF) Spectrometry of Soils: Method Limitations" at the 35th International Geological Congress held in Cape Town, South Africa, August 27–September 4. Her talk was part of the special Fifth International Conference on Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics session. She has been invited to submit a full paper for the conference proceedings of the special session.

Carol DeNysschen, chair and associate professor, and Diane Marra, lecturer, both of the Health, Nutrition, and Dietetics Department, were interviewed by Channel 2 on September 1.
 

Katherine Grennell, lecturer in the History and Social Studies Education Department, recently earned her Ph.D. in American studies from the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation examined representations of bodily deviance and disability in contemporary American popular culture.

Daniel Cunningham, professor of mathematics, has published his latest book, Set Theory: A First Course (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The basic facts about abstract sets—relations, functions, numbers, cardinality, transfinite recursion, the axiom of choice, and the ordinal—are covered in this book and are developed within the framework of axiomatic set theory. Cambridge University Press is the second-largest university press in existence and is the world's oldest publishing house. Its mission is to disseminate "knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence."

Christienna Fryar, assistant professor of history and social studies education, will spend the fall 2016 semester on leave as a faculty fellow at Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

A work of art by Stephen Saracino, professor of design, has been included in I.M.A.G.I.N.E. Peace Now, an international invitational exhibition relating to gun violence, which opens November 21 at the Wellington B. Gray Gallery at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. The exhibition features more than 100 compelling peace-themed works made from decommissioned firearms by world-class metal artists from six countries.

Saracino's work, Iowa House Bill, File 2281, was inspired by proposed state legislation that would have allowed children of any age to handle handguns and ammunition. Current Iowa law prohibits children under 14 from using handguns.

The exhibition will travel to Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts in early 2017.

Iowa House Bill, File 2281
Brass
Diaper made from Iowa state flags, Purple Heart
16 x 10 x 9 in.
2016

Michael MacLean, associate professor of psychology, made two presentations at the 39th annual scientific meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 25–29.

The first was with alumna Brandi Hoffman, '16, titled, "Gender Differences in Adolescent Substance Use Motives and the Prediction of Related Problems."

The second was with Janice Burns from the Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (ECCPASA), titled "The Effectiveness of a Personalized Brief Intervention Program Targeting Youth Substance Misuse."