Gerald Mead, lecturer in the Design Department, was invited to lecture at SUNY Fredonia in January as part of the college's Visiting Artist Program. His lecture coincided with the major exhibition and catalog Archiving Western New York: Select Artists from the Gerald Mead Collection, on view in the college’s Marion Art Gallery in the Rockefeller Arts Center January 26 through February 28. A 20-year retrospective of Mead’s own artwork was presented in the Center Gallery of Jamestown Community College in Olean, New York, in April, and he served as the juror of the Biennial Niagara Frontier Art Exhibit at the Kenan Center in Lockport, New York, in June.

Maryruth Glogowski, associate vice president for RITE Operations Management, presented on her joint $20,000 SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant, “Engaging Health Professions Students Using an Evidence-Based Case Study Approach in Interprofessional Education: An IITG Inspired Ignite Session,” at the 25th annual SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT), held at SUNY Potsdam May 31 to ?June 3.

Amy Lyons of the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library was co-PI on the grant. Research contributors included UB's Patricia Ohtake, Michelle Zafron, Nell Aronoff, Elizabeth Stellrecht, Jeremiah Grabowski, and Buffalo State's Leah Galka. Carol DeNysschen and Constance Qualls and their students were also involved in the research.

Neil O'Donnell, a senior EOP counselor, is now also a contributing blogger for the American Counseling Association's website. O'Donnell's blog posts cover such topics as stress management, academic and career counseling, and managing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The blog provides guidance and advice for the association's members whose specialties cover the entire realm of counseling.

Kathleen Falconer, lecturer of mathematics, presented two invited plenary sessions on improving the teaching of physics using the Reformed Teaching Observational Protocol (RTOP)—The RTOP and Its Role in Improving Physics Teaching Parts 1–2—at the XXIV Taller Internacional Nuevas Tendencias en la Enseñanza de la Física (24th International Conference on New Methods in Teaching Physics) at Facultad de Ciencias Físico – Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, in Puebla, Mexico, May 26–29.

Dan MacIsaac, associate professor of physics, presented three invited plenary sessions on teaching physics with video—Using Videos to Foster Physics Learning Parts 1–3—at the XXIV Taller Internacional Nuevas Tendencias en la Enseñanza de la Física (24th International Conference on New Methods in Teaching Physics) at Facultad de Ciencias Físico – Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, in Puebla, Mexico, May 26–29.

Frances Gage, associate professor of art history, co-curated the exhibition A Picture of Health: Art and the Mechanisms of Healing, on view at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College through July 3. Christina Neilson, assistant professor of Renaissance and baroque art at Oberlin, is co-curator, and Buffalo State students Melissa Ellis, '14; Pamela Koons, '16; and Thaddeus Wieleba, '18, contributed to the research for the exhibition.

Thomas Reigstad, professor emeritus of English, was elected to a three-year term on the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Board of Education on May 17.

Jeffrey Hirschberg's original half-hour TV pilot, "Unfiltered," was named an Official Selection at the Pilot Light TV Festival and made its UK premiere on Friday, May 6, in Manchester, England. Hirschberg wrote, produced, and directed the pilot. The festival received submissions from around the world, and only a handful of shows were selected.

Lindsey Freeman, assistant professor of sociology, was asked to participate in the collaborative project Ethnography in the Expanded Field, organized by the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST) at the Parsons School of Design's School of Design Strategies.

Bruce Sun, assistant professor of mathematics, has published the paper "Economic and Sociological Correlates of Suicides: Multilevel Analysis of the Time Series Data in the United Kingdom," coauthored with Zhang Jie, professor of sociology, in the Journal of Forensic Sciences 61 (2): 345–351.