Frances Gage, assistant professor, Fine Arts, delivered two Baldwin Fund Lectures at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio, November 3–4: “Dwarves, Hairy Men, and Robust Children: Painting and the Imagination in Early Modern Italy” and “Outrage and Acclaim: The Controversy Over Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin.”

Trish Dillenbeck, assistant director, Orientation and New Student Programs, presented “How to Work with Faculty to Revolutionize Programming” at the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Region 2 Conference in Rochester, New York, November 6–8.

Sue Baldwin, assistant professor and internship program director, Health and Wellness, presented her research, “Health Promotion Data-Driven Decisions: A Practical Application Utilizing the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), the Transtheoretical Model, and the Indicators of Administrative Support for Health Tool,” at the 83rd annual conference of the American School Health Association, held in Denver, Colorado, October 28–31.

Awilda E. Ramos Zagarrigo, assistant professor, Exceptional Education, presented a one-hour session titled “Co-Teaching: Two Heads Are Better Than One!” with Kimberly A. Leavitt-Noble, assistant professor of education, Canisius College, at the 56th annual convention of the New York State Council for Exceptional Children, held in Niagara Falls, New York, on October 23 and 24.

Meg Knowles, assistant professor, Communication, presented the paper “Oral History and Autobiography in Termite TV’s ‘Life Stories’ Project” at the 2009 annual meeting of the Oral History Association, held in Louisville, Kentucky, October 14–18.

Tracy P. Johnson, senior academic adviser, Educational Opportunity Program, presented her research, “Critical Identities Formed at the Crossroads of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality and Intersecting with Education, Administrators, Educators, and Students,” at the Northeastern Educational Research Association’s 40th annual conference in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, October 21–23.

Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented a one-hour workshop, “Digging Down to the Roots: Loosening the Soil around Scientific Terminology,” at the 46th annual Fall Institute of the Classical Association of the Empire State in Saratoga Springs, New York, October 22–24.

Yanick Jenkins, director, Educational Opportunity Program, chaired a panel discussion titled “Critical Identities Formed at the Crossroads of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality and Intersecting with Education, Administrators, Educators, and Students” at the Northeastern Educational Research Association’s 40th annual conference in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, October 21–23.

Dwight Hennessy, associate professor, Psychology; and Stephen Schwartz, coordinator of coaching training programs and assistant to the dean, School of Natural and Social Sciences, published their article, “Influence of Instrumental Motives and Daily Hassles on Spectator Aggression at Little League Baseball Games,” in the Journal of Contemporary Athletics 4 (2). The article was based on their research of parental behavior at Little League Baseball games.

Kimberly Hart, assistant professor, presented two lectures in October in Istanbul based on her forthcoming article in American Ethnologist, “The Orthodoxization of Ritual Practice in Western Anatolia” 36 (4), November 2009, at the American Research Institute in Turkey and Koc University, Department of Sociology.