Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies; Nini Dong, graduate student, Biology;Robert Delprino, associate professor, Psychology; andLi Zhou, professor of public health, Dalian Medical University, China, published their paper “Psychological Strains Found from In-Depth Interviews with 105 Chinese Rural Youth Suicides” in Archives of Suicide Research 13 (2): 185–194.
Julie Wieczkowski, assistant professor, Anthropology, presented an invited lecture, “An Investigation of Seed-Eating in an African Monkey, the Tana River Mangabey,” to the graduate program in evolution, ecology, and behavior at the University at Buffalo on April 17.
Based on his past service as a program reviewer for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE),John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, was recently named to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Board of Program Reviewers through 2011. ISTE is a specialized professional association of NCATE.
Lisa Hunter, assistant professor, Music, was recently elected program chair for the Music Education Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Education Research Association. After a two-year term as program chair, Hunter will serve as the Music Education SIG chair.
Theresa A. Harris-Tigg, assistant professor, English, was the invited keynote speaker for the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education Initiation Banquet on April 16 at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens. Her speech, “The Gift to Teach All Children,” was delivered to 340 people in attendance.
Jill M. Gradwell, assistant professor, History and Social Studies Education, co-presented the paper “The Road to Ambitious Teaching: Creating Big Ideas in History Classes” with S. G. Grant, dean of the School of Education at Binghamton University, at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, California, April 13–17.
Bradley Fuster, chair and associate professor, Music, and Hal Payne, vice president for student affairs, flew to New York City on March 23 to assist the Admissions Office in its yield efforts for accepted fall 2009 students from New York and Long Island. They visited Nassau County on the 23rd and Buffalo State's New York City Admissions Office, located at 80 Maiden Lane in the financial district of Manhattan, on the 24th. Fuster, representing faculty, and Payne, representing the administration, presented an overview of Buffalo State to more than 200 accepted students and their parents.
Maria Ceprano, professor, and Nancy Chicola, associate professor, Elementary Education and Reading, presented “Teacher Candidates Engaging Families in Cross-Cultural Connections” at the 2009 Professional Development Schools National Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida, March 12-15. Their presentation described how junior practitioners in sections of their social studies methods course collaborated in producing a multicultural literacy fair at the Enterprise Charter School last spring. Chicola and Ceprano were joined in their presentation by Amanda Yard, an administrator at the school. A global literacy event involving junior practitioners in their current classes is scheduled for Thursday, April 24, at Enterprise Charter School.
A new book by Chris Vials, assistant professor, English, titled Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947, was released this month from the University Press of Mississippi. A book launch will take place today, April 30, at the Barnes and Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore during Bengal Pause (12:15 to 1:30 p.m.).
Surjit Singh, professor, Chemistry, received the Diversity Award from Leadership Buffalo during the organization’s sixth annual Values Awards Luncheon on April 30.