Sharon Cramer, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Exceptional Education, attended NCATE updates at both the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) conventions in February and April, in Chicago and Seattle respectively. At the CEC meeting, Cramer was recognized for her long-standing work as a program reviewer for CEC, as part of the NCATE review process. CEC published names of reviewers in its sixth edition ofWhat Every Special Educator Must Know (the “red book”), which contains an updated list of professional standards, and Cramer is included in the listing. She has reviewed programs since 2006.

Ann C. Colley will be the keynote speaker at the 42nd annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, to be held at York University in Toronto, Ontario, on April 25. Her talk is titled “Spectators, Telescopes, and Spectacles: Mountains and Mountain Climbing as Spectacle in the Victorian Era.”

Computing and Technology Services/ITEC won first place for the fastest faculty/staff team in the 12th annual Bengal 5K Run and Fun Walk on March 14. Team participants were Paul Bentkowski, senior systems programmer, Kari D’Amico, training team consultant;Andrew Garrity, programmer/analyst, Maria Garrity,systems administrator, Churchill Gwan,programmer/analyst, Tom Killian, director of networking and operational services, Dave Marcinkowski, systems programmer, Rada Montroy,technical support specialist, Neil Palmer, network support programmer, Molly Prell, programmer/analyst,Brendan Rooney, director of administrative computing, and Roxanne Sarver, secretary 1, CTS; and Sheila Pragel, secretary 2, ITEC. Proceeds from the race benefit the Buffalo State Alumni Association’s Legacy Scholarship Fund, a scholarship awarded annually to a student who is the child or grandchild of a Buffalo State graduate.

William F. Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research, presented the paper “Calibrating Small Area Indicators of Alcohol Availability Using Ancillary Data” at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22–27.

Evelyn (Santiago) Rosario, counselor, Educational Opportunity Program, facilitated a workshop titled “Study Tour to Puerto Rico: A Nontraditional Way of Learning” at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Tri-State Consortium of Opportunity Programs in Higher Education in Galloway, New Jersey, March 22–25. As the primary presenter, Rosario outlined how a short-term study-abroad program to Puerto Rico was created as a nontraditional way of learning in a 6-credit course. She also addressed three main areas: course development, implementation, and evaluation and used David Ellis’s “Power Process(es)” inBecoming a Master Student to guide her presentation.

Gerald Mead, lecturer, Design, was honored by University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson at the “Third Annual Salute to UB Authors” for his authorship of the publication “Continuum: The MacKrell Collage Archive Project” on April 6. Mead also gave a presentation on the history of photography in Western New York for the Still Film Photographers of Greater Buffalo on March 26. He curated the exhibition UB Alumni and Faculty for the Visual Studies Department Gallery in the UB Center for the Arts March 19–April 17. He also served as a grant reviewer for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Special Opportunity Stipends on March 10, and served on the Cedar Arts Center’s Exhibitions Submissions Review Panel in Corning, New York, on February 15.

Satasha Green, assistant professor, Exceptional Education, presented “ADHD Diagnoses and Its Influence on the Health-Seeking Behaviors of African Americans” at the Council for Exceptional Children’s 2009 Annual Convention and Exposition in Seattle, Washington, April 1–4.

Shannon Gormley Budin, assistant professor, Exceptional Education, co-presented a paper with colleagues from the University of Iowa and Texas Tech University titled “Can Meta-Analyses Guide Practice? A Review of the EBD Research Base” at the Council for Exceptional Children’s 2009 Annual Convention and Exposition in Seattle, Washington, April 1–4.

Alan M. Delmerico, Research Analyst, Center for Health and Social Research, presented the paper “Undiagnosed Diabetes among a General Population Sample: Targeting Community-Based Diabetes Screenings Using Spatial Health Data” at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22–27.

Based on service as a lead program reviewer for the Council for Exceptional Children, Sharon F. Cramer,SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Exceptional Education, was recently named to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Board of Program Reviewers, through 2011. The board, established in 2008, is designed to provide consistent policies for program reviewers across all specialized professional associations. The Council for Exceptional Children is a specialized professional association of NCATE.