Joseph Price, associate professor, Theater, recently directed a reading of the new play Insidious by Ibn Shabazz for Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo. Price will direct the world premiere of The Velvet Rut by James Still at the Unicorn Theatre January 28–February 22. Still, an award-winning playwright, was featured in the October issue of American Theatre.
Elizabeth Peña, director and professor, Art Conservation, recently returned from a monthlong course, “Sharing Conservation Decisions,” in Italy. She was one of just 22 participants selected from around the world and the only American. Sponsored by theInternational Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, the workshop focused on decision-making in the interdisciplinary field of cultural heritage and included a collaborative case study at the Sacro Monte di Varallo in the Italian Alps, a site visit to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, and a behind-the-scenes visit to Herculaneum. While there, Peña served as a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
Buffalo State’s College Relations Office was recently honored with the following awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II:
Gold Award
Annual or Institutional Reports: The Power of Education
Silver Award
Crisis Communications: SunGard Theft Situation
Bronze Awards
Best Practices in Communication: Campus Beat System
Web Site—Student Recruitment: Web 2.0 Academic Departmental Templates
Newsletters, Four-Color: School of Arts and Humanities Newsletter
Honorable Mention
Targeted Mail: Undergraduate Admissions Accepted Student Yield Mailing/Flash Drive
Work will be exhibited and awards received during the District II Accolades and Awards Gala at the CASE annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in March. CASE is the professional organization for advancement professionals who work in alumni relations, communications, fundraising, marketing, and other advancement areas. The largest of the eight CASE regional districts, District II helps members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education. A full list of winning entries is available online.
Buffalo State’s College Relations Office was recently honored with the following awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II:
Gold Award
Annual or Institutional Reports: The Power of Education
Silver Award
Crisis Communications: SunGard Theft Situation
Bronze Awards
Best Practices in Communication: Campus Beat System
Web Site—Student Recruitment: Web 2.0 Academic Departmental Templates
Newsletters, Four-Color: School of Arts and Humanities Newsletter
Honorable Mention
Targeted Mail: Undergraduate Admissions Accepted Student Yield Mailing/Flash Drive
Work will be exhibited and awards received during the District II Accolades and Awards Gala at the CASE annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in March. CASE is the professional organization for advancement professionals who work in alumni relations, communications, fundraising, marketing, and other advancement areas. The largest of the eight CASE regional districts, District II helps members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education. A full list of winning entries is available online.
Kimberly Blessing, chair and associate professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented “Acting with Cartesian Resolve” at the annual meeting of the Creighton Club (New York State Philosophical Association) at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, New York, in October.
Associate professors Amitra Wall, Sociology, and Joe Marren, Communication, and eight students from various Buffalo State departments participated in Sojourn to the Past’s 10-day Civil Rights Educational Project from January 8 to 17. The experiential journey featured sites in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Among the visited sites were Dr. King’s gravesite and the King Center in Atlanta; the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; the 16th Street Baptist Church and National Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham, Alabama; Medgar Evers’s home in Jackson, Mississippi; and Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the group heard from two members of the Little Rock Nine, who shared their wisdom and bravery. Participating students were Guyshana Alston, Aminata Camara, Taja Cox, Travis Grodin, April Johnson, Devone Moore, Sametra Toe, and Nese Yazicilar. For more information on the schedule, visit www.sojournproject.org. The 2009 trip was the first of what is hoped to be an annual event. For information on a possible trip in January 2010, contact Wall or Marren.
Carol Townsend, chair and associate professor, Design, served on the Fulbright National Screening Committee for the student awards in the field of design. The committee met at the United Nations Plaza in New York City on November 18.
John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, presented a concurrent session, “Green Computing: Save Energy, Save Money!” at FETC 2009 in Orlando, Florida, January 21–24. FETC is one of the largest educational technology conferences in the United States.
Ivan Rodriguez, lecturer, Theater, was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for presenting in the summer 2008 Educational Opportunity Program Orientation.
Susan Mary Paige’s dissertation, titled “Autonomy in the Preservice Teacher: A Retention Factor for Special Education,” was published in the peer-reviewed journalTeacher Education and Practice 20 (4).