John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, served as a panel member and moderator for “Green Tech: How Individuals Can Reduce Operational Costs,” which was presented at the Virtualization, Cloud Computing, & Green IT Summit in Washington, D.C., October 6–7. Thompson also served on the Program Advisory Committee.
Deborah Silverman, assistant professor, Communication, chaired the opening general session at the Public Relations Society of America’s Northeast District Conference in Rochester on October 8. The session, a crisis communication panel of journalists and PR practitioners, focused on communication following the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in February. Panelists included Buffalo News reporter Brian Meyer, an adjunct professor in Buffalo State’s communication department. The conference attracted more than 250 PR practitioners, faculty, and students from upstate New York and New England.
An essay on the collapse of the newspaper industry by Michael I. Niman, associate professor, Communication, titled “Die, Zombie Newspapers, Die,” is included in Project Censored’s 2010 Yearbook, Censored 2010,published by Sonoma State University and 7 Stories Press.
A chapter from Rafika Merini’s second book in progress, titled “A Plethora of Words in the Proliferating Desert of Love,” was accepted for publication in the Binghamton University (SUNY) volume Translation and Literary Studies: Homage to Marilyn Gaddis Rose. It includes original translations of poems by Francophone Maghrebian and Francophone Quebecois women writers.
Gerald Mead, lecturer, Design, will be included in a group exhibition of Buffalo artists’ work at the University of Moscow in Sterlitamak, Russia (November 1–30). A solo exhibition of his work will be presented at the Rockefeller Art Center Gallery at SUNY Fredonia (October 30–December 6), and he was part of the Authors and Artists 2009 exhibit at the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda (October 22). Mead was also recently named an honorary member of the Still Film Photographers of Greater Buffalo, an organization devoted to the practice and preservation of traditional photographic techniques. He also judged the regional entries for the Lion’s Clubs International Peace Poster Competition.
Timothy Gallineau, interim chair and associate professor, Student Personnel Administration, presented “College Student Subcultures: A Contemporary View,” with SPA graduate student Jamie Jueckstock, at the annual conference of the College Student Personnel Association of New York State (CSPA), held at the Syracuse University Conference Center in Syracuse, New York, October 4–6.
Roger Firestien, lecturer, International Center for Studies in Creativity, delivered the opening session keynote address, “Leading on the Creative Edge,” to the Leadership Erie class of 2010 in Erie, Pennsylvania, on September 30.
Lisa Berglund, associate professor, English, attended the East Central American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 8-11, where she read her paper “Revisiting Europe from Weston-Super-Mare: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s 1819 Annotations to ‘Observations and Reflections Made during a Tour of France, Italy and Germany’”; chaired a panel on “Teaching Religion and the 18th Century”; evaluated 12 presentations as chair of the Molin Graduate Student Research Award committee; and appeared in a staged reading of Frances Burney’s The Witlings, playing Mrs. Voluble.
John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, delivered a presentation, “Asynchronous Online Course Discussions,” at Niagara University on October 15.
An article by Robert Mead-Colegrove, director, Orientation and New Student Programs, on the shift to a first-year Week of Welcome model, was featured in the fall edition of the Orientation Review, a publication of the National Orientation Directors Association. The article is titled “A Paradigm Shift for Meeting the Needs of First-Year Students.”