Kimberly Blessing, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, published “Bullshit and Political Spin: Is the Medium the Massage?” coauthored with Joe Marren,assistant professor, Communication, in The Daily Show and Philosophy (J. Holt, ed.; Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series, 2007)
Susan Baldwin, assistant professor, Health and Wellness, was appointed to the Regional Prevention Initiative board, which serves the eight counties of Western New York. Programs focus on obesity, diabetes, heart disease, physical activity (Fit-n-Fun), and osteoporosis. This group, along with Baldwin and two Ithaca College health educators, has been collaborating to pursue a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation community health grant focusing on health-promoting policy research and implementation across the Western and Central New York regions.
Jill M. Gradwell, assistant professor, History and Social Studies Education, and coordinator, social studies education program, and Scott G. Grant, associate dean for teacher education, University at Buffalo, presented their paper, “Bridging the Perceived Divide: Teachers, Researchers, and Alternative Assessments of Students’ Historical Knowledge and Understanding,” at the 87th annual conference of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies in San Diego, California, November 28–30.
Dan MacIsaac, associate professor, Physics, presented a 30-minute invited presentation, “A Modest Proposal: Addressing the Physics Teacher Shortage by Master’s-Level Cross and Alternative Certification into Physics Teaching,” at the 2008 national Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in Baltimore, Maryland, January 19–23. The paper was coauthored by MacIsaac; David Henry, associate professor; and Kathleen Falconer, lecturer, Elementary Education and Reading.
Jagat J. Mukherjee, research scientist, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Lab, Great Lakes Center, has received a three-year grant award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $214,500 for a project titled “Phenolic Component of Tobacco Smoke as Tumor Promoter.” Mukherjee also published a paper titled “Inhibition of Benzopyrene Diol Epoxide-Induced Apoptosis by Cadmium(II) Is AP-1-Independent: Role of Extracelluler Signal Related Kinase” in the journal Chemico-Biological Interactions (2007, in press, doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2007.11.002). Coauthors are Suresh Gupta and Subodh Kumar from the Great Lakes Center.
Stephen Saracino, professor, Design, is one of just 20 metalsmiths from across the United States to participate in a national invitational exhibition, ...of lineage and legacy: visual conversations on jewelry and metalworks,part of the annual Society of North American Goldsmiths convention, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, March 5–8. Curated by Gail Brown, the exhibition will be on view February 29–March 31 in the college’s Hall Street Gallery.
Cavatappi dei Saracino (Corkscrew of the Saracino’s). Sterling silver, lapis lazuli, onyx, boar tusk; 23 x 6 x 6 in.
A poem by Carol Townsend, chair and associate professor, Design, titled The Visit was published in theBuffalo News on February 3. Townsend was also invited to read her work as part of Just Buffalo’s new/reNEW series at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 21, at Insight Gallery in the Tri-Main Center, Suite 545, 2495 Main Street in Buffalo.
Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published his article “Evaluation of the Scale for Suicide Ideation in Chinese High School Students to Study Its Reliability and Validity,” coauthored with Zhen-Shao Song, in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry17 (6): 367–368 (in Chinese).
Kevin Williams, assistant professor, Earth Sciences and Science Education, presented a talk titled “Geophysical Investigations of Ground Ice in the Arctic: Considerations for Mars” at the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California, December 10–14.
Lynne Sommerstein, lecturer, Exceptional Education, was an invited presenter at the national conference of the Association for People with Severe Disabilities (TASH), held in Seattle, Washington, December 6–8. Her workshop was titled “Postsecondary Opportunities for Students with Significant Disabilities.” Buffalo State has been a leader in this concept since 2001 with the inception of the College-Based Transition Program.