Gerald Nosich, professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented “Critical Thinking in FAA Management and Leadership Training: A Two-Day Intensive Workshop,” at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Center for Management and Executive Leadership, in Palm Coast, Florida, June 30–July 1.
Because of the reference value of her achievements,Rafika Merini’s biography has been selected for inclusion in Who’s Who of American Women 2008–2009 edition, Who’s Who in America 2009 edition, and Who’s Who in the World 2009 edition; all were published in fall 2008. Returning students from the Buffalo State/Trois-Pistoles/University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario French Immersion Program in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, which Merini founded in 1994 and directed in 1995, and for which she started a grant in 2005, are still expressing a high degree of satisfaction with the learning experience it offers. Several Buffalo State students have attended this summer program every year since its inception, and students from other institutions in the area have also participated through the Buffalo State International Education Office, which has been managing the program.
Susan Maguire, lecturer, Anthropology, and Elizabeth Peña, director and professor, Art Conservation, presented papers at the 42nd annual conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Toronto, Ontario, January 7–11. Both were based on their research at Old Fort Niagara, in Youngstown, New York. Maguire’s paper, “Military Provisioning of the Niagara Frontier during the Early Nineteenth Century,” focused on supplies to the fort during the War of 1812, while Peña examined the struggles to obtain adequate supplies for Old Fort Niagara in her paper, “So Much Damaged Provision: Supplying the Eighteenth-Century Niagara Frontier.”
Marianne Ferguson, professor, Philosophy and Humanities, presented “The Development of Faith” for religious teachers from the Diocese of Buffalo at the Center for Certification of Religion Teachers of St. Gregory the Great parish in Williamsville, New York, in October.
A paper by Julian Cole, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, titled “Creativity, Freedom, and Authority: A New Perspective on the Metaphysics of Mathematics,” will be published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Cole also has contributed a chapter, “Mathematical Domains: Social Constructs?” to the book Proof and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy, (Bonnie Gold and Roger Simons, eds.; pp. 109–128; Mathematical Association of America, 2008).
Work by Patrice Cathey, director, Liberty Partnerships Program, has been included in the book Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady, published by the Uncrowned Queens Institute. One hundred letters and poems were collected from African American women around the world. The book, to be presented to Mrs. Obama, was compiled and edited by Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram and published by SUNY Press. The first printing sold out in less than one week. The forward was written by President Muriel A. Howard.
Steve Street’s short fiction essay “Do You Think?” appeared in the spring issue of wordriver, a literary journal compiled by the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Lou Rera, assistant professor, Communication, presented “How IT Saved a $100,000 No Budget Project” at the New Media Consortium's annual summer conference in Los Angeles on June 11. The conference was hosted by the University of Southern California. Buffalo State College, through a collaboration between Computing and Technology Services and the Communication Department, discovered an in-house solution to provide students and faculty with a multimedia server and a basic approach for the logistics of converged media. Faced with increased pressure from budget cuts, this presentation focused on the creative solutions to technical advancements.
Scott W. Phillips and James J. Sobol, assistant professors, Criminal Justice, along with Sean P. Varano of Roger Williams University, had a research paper accepted for publication in the International Journal of Police Science and Management titled “Work Attitudes of Police Recruits: Is There a Family Connection?” The paper examines beliefs and attitudes of police recruits in the training academy, comparing recruits with a generational connection to policing with those recruits with no family link. Recruits with no family in law enforcement were more likely to respond that citizens would be uncooperative and not supportive of police patrol efforts. Moreover, recruits with no family in law enforcement were more likely to hold a negative attitude toward their supervisor.
Joe Marren, associate professor, Communication, andKimberly Blessing, chair and associate professor, Philosophy and Humanities, collaborated on the article“One Monk's Message: Establishing an Enlightened Ethic for the Media” for Media Ethics magazine. Marren also had his article “Citizen Journalism in the Newsroom and Ad Office” published in the Convergence Newsletter from the Newsplex at the University of South Carolina, Vol. VII No. 4 (May 2010).