Leigh Duffy's review of the book Women In Philosophy: What Needs to Change? (K. Hutchison and F. Jenkins, eds.) has been published in the Journal of Value Inquiry.

Daniel Cunningham's paper "Strong Partition Cardinals and Determinacy in K(R)'' now appears in the latest issue of the journal Archive for Mathematical Logic 54 (1-2): 173–192. The paper shows that within K(R), the existence of strong partition cardinals is equivalent to the axiom of determinacy. K(R) is an inner model that satisfies the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory.

Bloomsbury Academic Publishing has awarded a book contract to Bridget María Chesterton's for her edited volume titled The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. The book is the first to explore the Chaco War (1932–1935) from the perspective of both the rival nations in the war, Bolivia and Paraguay. The text contains chapters from South American, North American, and European scholars. Chesterton also coauthored a chapter with Thilo Papacek (Freie Universität Berlin) titled "Paraguay Guazú: Big Paraguay, Carlos Frebrig, and the Botanical Gardens as a Launching Point for Paraguayan Nationalism." Chesterton traveled to Berlin, Germany, in fall 2013 to research the chapter at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and begin writing with Papacek.

A paper by Julian Cole, associate professor of philosophy and humanities, titled "Social Construction, Mathematics, and the Collective Imposition of Function onto Reality" has been published in Erkenntnis, a top generalist journal in philosophy. Cole's paper debunks important aspects of our socially constructed conception of social construction, including the thoughts that social constructs must be arbitrary and subjective, and applies his conclusions to mathematics. His paper "Towards an Institutional Account of the Objectivity, Necessity, and Atemporality of Mathematics" (Philosophia Mathematica) was recently listed as a "Notable Writing" in Princeton University Press’s The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014, which brings together the world’s finest writings on mathematics.

Tim Walsh, associate vice president for college relations, has been elected to the board of directors of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fontana Boathouse.

Daniel Cunningham, professor of mathematics, was notified that his paper "A Diamond Principle Consistent with AD" has been accepted for publication in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. This refereed journal publishes research papers in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics, including set theory and mathematical logic. Cunningham's paper introduces a combinatorial principle that generalizes a principle due to Ronald Jensen (Humboldt University at Berlin). In the paper, it is shown that this new principle holds in John Steel's (UC Berkeley) inner model K(R). Thus, it follows that this diamond principle is consistent with the axiom of determinacy (AD). The paper is expected to appear in print by the end of the year.

Daniel Haick, lecturer in the Business Department, presented his paper "Explicit Instruction: A Matter of School Engagement in Career and Technical Education" at the Association for Career and Technical Education CareerTech Vision 2014 conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee, November 19–22.

Aaron Moss, assistant professor of theater, narrated the "Peter Pan" suite for orchestra (music by James Newton Howard and narration by Virginia Russell) with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for its family concert series on Sunday, February 15, at Kleinhans Music Hall.

Neil O’Donnell’s newest book, Return of the Sagan, was just released (Argus/W&B Publishing, 2015). This sci-fi novel follows the adventures of the crew of the USS Carl Sagan as they return to Earth after nearly 300 years to find humanity extinct and the planet populated by once-extinct prehistoric predators.

Aaron Moss, assistant professor of theater, narrated "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night before Christmas"), accompanied by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, for the annual Jingle Bell Jam family holiday concert on Sunday, December 14, at Kleinhans Music Hall.