Bill Grieshober, senior business adviser, Small Business Development Center, was selected as the 2009 State Star by the Association of Small Business Development Centers.
Jean F. Gounard, director, International Student Affairs, and vice president for advocacy, Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Fulbright Association, spoke on future projects and funding of the Fulbright Program at the Fall Fulbright Conference of the chapter, held at Medaille College on October 16.
Sharon Cramer, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Exceptional Education, was recently appointed to the SUNY Committee on Honorary Degrees. This committee, chaired by the provost, reviews all honorary degree nominations from SUNY campuses. Her term is 2009–2012.
Julie Wieczkowski’s article “Brief Communication: Puncture and Crushing Resistance Scores of Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) Diet Items” was recently published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140: 572-577.
John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, published his paper “Three Approaches to Green Computing on Campus” inEDUCAUSE Quarterly magazine 32 (3).
A paper by Ramona R. Santa Maria, assistant professor, Computer Information Systems, titled “Technology Shifts Equate with New Challenges: Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives, and Classroom Technology Use in Urban Schools,” was published in the International Journal for Technology Knowledge and Society. She recently became associate editor of the journal.
Stephen Houseknecht, photography lecturer, Fine Arts, was awarded the Ethel and Wilbur Lytle Memorial Award for his photograph “Stuka,” from his series “It Can’t Happen Here.” Houseknecht was one of 13 award winners at the Buffalo Society of Artists 113th annual fall catalog exhibition. The show is on view through November 15 at the Kenan Center House Gallery in Lockport.
Mark Goldman, lecturer, History and Social Studies Education, received the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society’s Owen B. Augspurger Award on October 26. The award recognizes local historians devoted to the preservation of Erie County’s heritage. In his historical trilogy—City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900–Present; City on the Lake: The Challenge of Change in Buffalo, New York; and High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York—Goldman traces Buffalo’s 100-year journey from its history as one of America’s emerging cities of the nineteenth century to a city facing significant challenges.
William Engelbrecht, professor emeritus, and Lisa Marie Anselmi, assistant professor, Anthropology, published their article “Jack Holland: Pioneer Chert Collector” in the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 38: 13–16.
Marian Deutschman, interim director, College and Community Partnerships, presented “Building Community Social Capital: The University’s Role” at the 15th annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 11–13. Deutschman was also a facilitator for another session on bringing communities together.