Lisa Berglund, professor and chair of the English Department, delivered the 36th annual Morris Croll Lecture at Gettysburg College, "Take That, Noah Webster! Early American Readers Really Liked to Write in Their Dictionaries," on February 26. Her lecture focused on her study of nearly 250 individual dictionaries published in the early decades of the United States. An earlier version of her research was presented at Buffalo State's Conversations in and out of the Disciplines lecture series.

Michael Johnson, associate professor and interim chair of the Modern and Classical Languages Department, read his paper “Some Light on the Darkness: Temperament Theory in the Latest Edition of Star Trek” in the Science Fiction and Fantasy section of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association's 24th annual conference, held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 7–9.

Kimberly Hart, assistant professor of anthropology, delivered an invited lecture, "The Gendering of Islamic Practice in Rural Turkey," for the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University on February 25.

Dolores E. Battle, professor emerita and lecturer in the Speech-Language Pathology Department, will receive the Honors of the Association from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the highest award given by the association, at its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, on November 21. The award is in recognition of her distinguished and exceptional contributions to the field of speech, language, and hearing over the course of her career and is based on her outstanding contribution and leadership in multicultural and international issues in communication sciences and disorders.

At the meeting, she will deliver the seminar "The Impact of War, Political Conflict, and Natural Disasters on Persons with Communication Disorders." She will also serve on the panel "Breaking News: ASHA's International Collaborations."

Battle served as co-editor (with Yvette Hyter, professor of speech pathology and audiology at Western Michigan University) on a special issue of Topics in Language Disorders, "Global Issues in Language Disorders: Frameworks, Processes, and Policies" 34 (2), April–June 2014.

She continues to serve as associate coordinator of ASHA's Special Interest Group 17, Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article "Effects of Community Stress and Problems on Residents' Psychopathology," coauthored with Rui Zhou, in the journal Psychiatry Research 215 (2): 394–400. Zhou was a visiting scholar at Buffalo State in 2012.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article "Suicide Ideation and Acceptability among Females Aged 15 to 34 Years in Rural China," coauthored with Long Sun, in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 202 (2): 161–166. Sun is currently a Ph.D. student at Shandong University School of Public Health.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article "Developing the Psychological Strain Scales (PSS): Reliability, Validity, and Preliminary Hypothesis Tests" in the journal Social Indicators Research 115 (1): 337–361. The articles coauthors are Juncheng Lu, Sibo Zhao, Dorian A. Lamis, Ning Li, Yuanyuan Kong, Cunxian Jia, Li Zhou, and Zhenyu Ma. Five of them have studied at Buffalo State as visiting scholars.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article "Effects of Value Strains on Psychopathology of Chinese Rural Youths," coauthored with Sibo Zhao, in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry 6 (6): 510–514. Zhao was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State in 2010 and is now a Ph.D. student in the department of sociology at the University at Buffalo.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article "Characteristics of Chinese Rural Young Suicides by Pesticides," coauthored with Li Ziyao, in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry 59 (7): 655–662. Li was a visiting scholar at Buffalo State in 2011–2012.

Lindsey Freeman, assistant professor of sociology, has published an edited volume, Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information (Berghahn Books, 2014). The work was coedited with Benjamin Nienass, postdoctoral fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris, and Rachel Daniell, a doctoral student in anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.