Evelyn (Santiago) Rosario, senior counselor in the Educational Opportunity Program office and former director of the Puerto Rico study-abroad program, co-presented "Institutional Innovations and Global Learning for Students and Faculty: 2013 Confucius Institute Faculty Seminar Program, China in the 21st Century, and the Puerto Rico Program (1993–2012) at Buffalo State" at the 2014 National Symposium of New York University’s Faculty Resource Network," held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 21 and 22. The conference was titled “The Global Imperative for Higher Education.”

Rosario's presentation team members were Weihua Niu, director or the Confucius Institute and professor of psychology at Pace University; Adelia Williams, professor of modern languages and cultures and associate provost for academic affairs at Pace University; and Mayra Vélez-Serrano, assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico (and former faculty member at Buffalo State).

More than 400 participants from private and public institutions of higher education in the United States and Puerto Rico attended the conference. The opening session on Friday included Alejandro García Padilla, governor of Puerto Rico; Sila Calderón, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Sexton, president of NYU; Pedro Noguera, professor of education at NYU; Uroyoán Walker-Ramos, president of the University of Puerto Rico; Gilberto Marxuach Torrós, president of the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan; and José Jaime Rivera, former president of the University of the Sacred Heart.

Eileen Merberg, interim director of student life, has received the American College Personnel Association's Outstanding State and International Division Leader award. The award recognizes a leader from a state or international division college personnel association who has made significant contributions to his or her respective association. Merberg served as president of the College Student Personnel Association of New York State (CSPA-NYS) for 2013–2014 and now serves as past president.

Kimberly Kline, department chair and associate professor of higher education administration, was recently named a 2015 ACPA College Student Educators International Diamond Honoree.

The Diamond Honoree Program, established by the ACPA Foundation in 1999, is both a recognition program and a fundraising activity. Those nominated for consideration are recognized for their outstanding and sustained contributions to higher education and to student affairs. The funds raised on behalf of the honorees are used to enhance the student affairs profession and to generate and disseminate knowledge of college students at all levels within higher education.

Kline has dedicated more than 22 years to the field of higher education as an administrator and a faculty member. She is an excellent example of someone who continually provides outstanding service to higher education and the student affairs profession, and she has touched the lives of many. More information about the ACPA Foundation and the Diamond Honoree Program is available on the ACPA website.

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

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article "The Change in Suicide Rates between 2002 and 2011 in China," coauthored with Long Sun, Yuxin Liu, and Jianwei Zhan, in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 44 (5): 560–568. Sun Long is a visiting scholar from China currently on campus.

Gerald Mead, lecturer in the Design Department, presented "Travellages: Travel Inspired Collages" at Churchill College of Cambridge University in England on May 30 as a program for the Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University. Mead was invited to speak about the artworks that he created over a period of three decades that were influenced by his travels throughout Europe and across the United States. Mead also recently served as chair of the review panel for the New York State Council on the Arts 2015 Individual Artist Decentralization Grants. On October 9, he lectured at Daemen College in Amherst, New York, as part of the Sr. Jeanne File Art History Lecture Series. That presentation,"Mirrored: Artists Self-Portraits from the Gerald Mead Collection," coincided with an exhibition of the same name that was on view in Daemen's Haberman Gacioch Art Center September 26 through October 19.

Uma Gupta, professor of business, presented "Broadening the Breadth of the STEM Workforce through Racial and Ethnic Diversity" at the Women in STEM Summit, held at Bentley University on October 21.

Evelyn (Santiago) Rosario, senior counselor in the Educational Opportunity Program office and former director of the Puerto Rico study-abroad program, was elected chair of the 2014–2015 Diversity Abroad Religion Task Force. The task force is composed of Nora Larkin, institutional relations manager at CAPA International Education; Eric Leinen, associate program director of the Learning Abroad Center at the University of Minnesota; and team consultant Lily Lopez-McGee, manager of the Diversity Abroad Network.

As principal investigator, Rosario and her team received approval from the institutional review board to launch a study titled "Gotta Have Faith: The Impact of Religion on Study-Abroad." The study will examine whether religion is considered an important factor among study-abroad participants and explore the importance of religion within the value systems of former, current, and prospective students. Alumni and current students of Buffalo State's offices of Special Programs and International and Exchange Programs will be invited to participate in the study. The results will assist advisers and students in their conversations when considering studying abroad. Other institutions of higher education nationwide are interested in joining the study.

Nancy Weekly, head of collections and Charles Cary Rumsey curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, presented "Color and Synesthesia" at the "Gender & Color" symposium, sponsored by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender at the University at Buffalo, on October 3. Weekly was part of an artists’ roundtable moderated by Toni Pressley-Sanon, assistant professor of African American studies at UB. Her co-presenters were Scott Lyall, an artist from Toronto, and Jacob Kassay, an artist in Los Angeles and instructor of visual studies at UB.

Weekly also serves as a lecturer in the Buffalo State History and Social Studies Education Department's museum studies program.

Bridget María Chesterton, associate professor of history and social studies education, published an article in the October issue of Perspectives on History titled "Historians Working Collaboratively." The piece was inspired by her participation in the 2013 Cain Conference on Chemistry and Global History in Philadelphia.