Coralee Smith, associate professor, Elementary Education and Reading, with Katrina Zaleski and Jason Legrett, Elementary Education and Reading undergraduate students, presented two interactive Web-based workshops, “Fly Me to the Moon: Second-Graders Blast Off for an Outta-This-World Experience” and “Get Ready to Soar Out of This World: Solar System Webquest,” at the 58th annual conference of the National Science Teachers Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 18–21. The workshops were developed using the undergraduate’s field-based math, science, and technology teaching experiences in a second-grade classroom with Matt Roll, cooperating teacher at West Hertel Academy in Buffalo.

Ramona R. Santa Maria, assistant professor, Computer Information Systems, was the keynote speaker at the PHIT 2010: Prentice Hall Information Technology Symposium for Educators, held in Skaneateles, New York, on March 12. The title of her talk was “Using Technology in the Classroom.”

Lorna Perez, assistant professor, English, presented her paper “Purposeful Silence: Voice and the Space-Between in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters” at the 41st annual conference of the College English Association, held in San Antonio, Texas, March 25–27.

Joe Marren, associate professor, Communication, had his article “The Business of Segregation in Baseball” published in the Winter 2010 issue of the online quarterlyOutside the Lines, a publication of the Business of Baseball Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented a paper, “The Structure of Fellini Satyricon,” at the 31st annual conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, in Orlando, Florida, March 17–21.

Carolyn Guzski, assistant professor, Music, presented the paper “American Ballet at the Metropolitan: Henry F. Gilbert’s The Dance in Place Congo” at the 36th annual conference of the Society for American Music, held in Ottawa, Ontario, March 17–21.

Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published his article “Mental Disorders and Suicide in Chinese Rural Young Population: A Case-Control Psychological Autopsy Study” in the American Journal of Psychiatry (in press). The study’s coauthors were Shuiyuan Xiao and Liang Zhou. Dr. Zhou is associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Central South University School of Public Health in China and was a visiting scholar to Buffalo State during the 2006–2007 academic year.

John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, moderated a panel presentation, “The Future of eLearning,” at the DigitalNow 2010 conference in Orlando, Florida, April 7–10.

Gerard Puccio, professor and chair, Center for Studies in Creativity, served as a featured speaker at the 65th annual conference of the ASCD (formerly the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development), held in San Antonio, Texas, March 6–10. The speech, delivered to an audience of more than 500 educators and educational leaders from around the world, was titled “Creative Leadership: Skills that Drive Change.” The speech focused on the current educational trends that highlight the importance of creative thinking and creative problem solving as twenty-first-century skills.

Joe Marren, associate professor, Communication, presented his paper “Art and Artifice: Reportage and Reportifarce in James Joyce” at the annual joint meeting of the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication on March 13 in New York City.