Joëlle Leclaire, assistant professor, Economics and Finance, presented “Household Debt and the Rise of Financial Fragility” at the Eastern Economic Association’s annual conference in New York City February 27–March 1.
Heidi Dietz Faletti, associate professor, English, presented her paper “The City Symphonies of Ruttmann and Vertov: Cinema Eye as Flâneur” at the 40th convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, “Film, Flânerie, Phantasmagoria,” held in Boston, Massachusetts, February 26–March 1.
Gerald Nosich, professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented the following sessions at the 28th International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform in Berkeley, California, July 21–24: “Taking Initial Ownership of the Foundations of Critical Thinking and the Art of Instruction” (pre-conference workshop, July 19–20); “Engaging Students in Taking Ownership of Content,” July 21; “Embedding Core Concepts in Instruction,” July 22; “The Role of Administration in Building a Community of Intellectually Engaged Faculty, Students, and Staff,” July 22; “Understanding the Role of Testing and Assessment in Intellectual Engagement,” July 23; and “Critical Thinking Competency Standards: Keys to Intellectual Engagement,” July 24.
Gerald Mead, lecturer, Design, was one of eight artists from across the United States included inReUse/ReOrder, an invitational exhibition on view at the Indianapolis Art Center January 30–April 19. He also had work in an invitational exhibition, Spirituality, at El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera Gallery in Buffalo December 13–January 9, and the exhibition Visual AIDS: Postcards from the Edge at Metro Pictures gallery in New York City January 9 and 10. He served as a panelist for a Visual Art Career Panel Discussion presented by the Office of Career Services at the University at Buffalo on November 5, and was one of three judges for theNiagara Art & Cultural Center Annual Exhibition in Niagara Falls, New York, on November 21.
Francis S. Lestingi, professor emeritus, Physics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, joined fellow members of the Society of Gilders in doing pro bono work for a week in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a Katrina-damaged 155-year-old church. The group restored severely damaged gold-leafed altars and statuary in St. Alphonsus church, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The United States Sign Council (USSC) sign design competition awarded Lestingi’s company, Signs of Gold Inc., first place for its signage work at the Wine Thief Bistro & Wine Bar at Elmwood and Bryant. This is the fifth consecutive year that Signs of Gold has been awarded first place. In December at the USSC annual sign industry convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lestingi conducted a workshop on “Gold Leafing Techniques.” He has also published an article in Signs of the Times on a new method of gold leafing called “stippled gilding,” and a two-part article in Woodcarving Illustrated titled “Carving and Gilding a House Sign.”
Roger Firestien, lecturer, International Center for Studies in Creativity, delivered a workshop, “Unleashing the Power of Creativity,” to members of Leadership Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania, in October.
Marianne Ferguson, professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented “Light in the Darkness,” Readings and Daily Reflections in Advent 2008, at the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany in Allegany, New York, in October.
Ann Emo, assistant professor, and Drew Kahn,professor, Theater, each presented five workshops to more than 700 New York State high school students at the 12th annual New York State Theatre Education Association Student Conference in Kerhonkson, New York, January 9–11.
John Draeger, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented “Be Nice? I Don’t Even Like Him!” at the 2008 conference of the American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, held at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, September 25–28.
Julian Cole, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, published his review “Gianluigi Oliveri: A Realist Philosophy of Mathematics” in Philosophia Mathematica 16 (3): 409–420 (2008).