Frances Gage, assistant professor, Fine Arts, has published an article, “Exercise for Mind and Body: Guilio Mancini, Collecting and the Beholding of Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century,” in the prestigiousRenaissance Quarterly 61 (4): 1167–1207. Gage was awarded the William Nelson Prize for the best article published in the journal in the previous year.
Dermot Coffey, associate professor, and Michael De Marco, professor, Physics, were awarded a grant of $400,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy to fund their research program for three years. Their research is an investigation of the magnetic and superconducting properties of materials using the Mössbauer effect measurements and numerical calculations.
Dolores E. Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, was named a Diversity Champion by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in recognition of her lifelong work to advance multicultural infusion in the professions of speech-language pathology. Battle served as an advocate for multicultural issues, demonstrated respect and value for differing backgrounds and points of view, and has highlighted the impact of culture and/or language on speech-language pathology, audiology, or speech-language or hearing science in her premier textbookCommunication Disorders in Multicultural Disorders,which is in preparation for its fourth edition, and in numerous other publications. She has served as a mentor and supporter for minority students who choose a career in speech-language pathology. The award, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the association in New Orleans in November, is part of a celebration of 40 years of dedication to diversity in the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, and his wife, Dr. Lu Xuehong, instructor of Chinese in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Linguistics, were invited by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China to attend the National Banquet and the October 1 parade in Beijing marking the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Zhang and his wife took the pride in being Buffalo State and UB faculty members.
William Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research, presented the paper “Using GIS in Planning Behavioral Health Preventive Services” at the 2009 ESRI Health GIS Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, September 21–23. Coauthors on the paper from the Center for Health and Social Research wereAlan Delmerico, Sheldon Tetewsky, Kelly Marczynski, and Karl Wende.
William White, assistant professor, Modern and Classical Languages, and Jason Grinnell, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented a paper, “Re-imagining Graduate Studies in Education,” at the 16th annual American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Conference in Arlington, Virginia, October 1–3.
William White, assistant professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented a paper, “Engaging the Self in Teacher Education: Critical Self-Narratives and the Creation of Educational Communities,” at the 16th annual American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Conference in Arlington, Virginia, October 1–3.
Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented a 90-minute workshop, “Timely Lessons from Classical Mythology,” at the American Classical League’s 62nd Annual Institute at Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, California, June 26–28.
Works by Fine Arts photography lecturer Stephen Houseknecht will be presented during the Buffalo Society of Artists 113th annual Fall Catalog Exhibition at the Kenan Center House Gallery from October 18 to November 15. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, October 18, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., with an awards presentation at 3:00 p.m.
Kimberly Hart, assistant professor, Anthropology, delivered the paper “The Moral Community and the Orthodoxy of Emotion” at a conference titled “Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Emotion.” The conference was held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, Norway, September 4–6.