Michael MacLean, associate professor of psychology, conducted the workshop "A Personalized Brief Intervention for Youths: Using Motivational Interviewing to Help Them Stop Their Substance Misuse and Achieve Their Goals," at the 16th annual conference of the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State Association, held in Saratoga Springs, New York, October 11–14.

Bridget Chesterton, associate professor of history and social studies education, has been named the new contributing editor for Paraguay and Uruguay for the Handbook of Latin American Studies, published by the University of Texas Press.

Sue McMillen, professor of mathematics, provided professional development to teachers at Tapestry Charter School on October 9. Tapestry is one of Buffalo State's Professional Development Consortium partners. The topic, "Tape Diagrams in the Common Core," was aimed at supporting teachers as they implement the Common Core math modules this year. Tape diagrams are a visual problem-solving model that empowers students to understand and solve math word problems.

Dolores E. Battle, professor emerita and lecturer in speech-language pathology, presented the seminar "Evaporating Borders: Impact on Communication Disorders, Refugees, and Asylees" at the Fourth International Symposium on Communication Disorders in Multilingual-Multicultural Populations, sponsored by the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, at Lehman College in Bronx, New York, September 17 and 18.

Battle led a delegation of speech-language pathologists and hearing professionals on a People to People visit to Havana, Cuba, July 10–22. The group visited schools for the deaf, rehabilitation centers, and policlinics to learn about health-care services and health-care education in Cuba. She will present a seminar on health-care services and education in Cuba at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Denver, Colorado, November 13, and has submitted an article for publication in Perspectives, the journal of ASHA Special Interest Group 17 on Global Issues, for ASHA.

Battle was also appointed to the Practice Analysis Task Force for Specialty Certification in Child Language and Language Disorders for ASHA.

Buffalo Ladies in Philosophy (BLIP) held its first workshop on Saturday, September 19, in Rockwell Hall. Paper topics covered a diverse range of topics: “The Constitution of Sexuality in the Commodity Model of Sex"; “The Life and Death of Cecil the Lion"; “Meaningful Lives as Significant Lives”; and “Motherhood and the Profession.” Buffalo State Philosophy and Humanities faculty members Kimberly Blessing, professor, and Leigh Duffy, lecturer, were among the presenters. BLIP is a consortium of professional female philosophers and graduate students from six colleges and universities in Western New York: Buffalo State, UB, Canisius, Niagara, D'Youville, and Daemen. BLIP is planning another workshop for the spring. In the meantime, the group will continue its monthly meetings at Campus House at Buffalo State.

Jean Gounard, director of international student affairs, chaired the annual business meeting of the NAFSA Francophone World Special Interest Group at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, May 24–29, and was subsequently reelected chair of the group. During the meeting, official representatives from various parts of the Francophone world spoke on the status of the French language today. Gounard also co-chaired the session "The Importance of NAFSA/Special Interest Group Worldwide." These meetings marked the 14th anniversary of the signature of the Memorandum of Friendship between NAFSA and l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, initiated by Gounard in 2001, as chair of the NAFSA Francophone World Special Interest Group.

Mark Warford, department chair and associate professor of modern and classical languages, delivered a keynote address, "Research on Educational Innovations," to a standing-room only crowd of more than 400 people at EdCrunch, an annual international conference on the newest educational technologies, held in Moscow, Russia, September 13–15. He also delivered a workshop on promoting student engagement in online learning.

Bridget María Chesterton's article "Paraguayan Politics, Economics, and Cultural Identity, 1870–1936" has been accepted for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (W. Beezley, ed.; Oxford University Press).

Leslie K. Day, lecturer and assistant chair for undergraduate programs in the Elementary Education and Reading Department, will be the keynote speaker on Friday, October 2, at the SUNY College at Brockport, where she will share her expertise on developing effective school-university partnerships. Day's hard work and creative force has been behind Buffalo State's nationally recognized Professional Development Schools Consortium. Her address to Rochester-area colleges and their school partner districts will launch a day of discovery on leveraging high-impact practices in school-university partnerships. The PDS was a significant factor in Buffalo State's successful Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement and in securing federal Race to the Top funds naming Buffalo State the SUNY Western Regional Center for Innovation in Education. The conference runs from 8:15 a.m. to noon in the Liberal Arts Building.

Frances Gage, associate professor of fine arts, received the Brown/Weiss Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library for her book Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art (Penn State University Press, 2016).