A paper by Daniel Cunningham, associate professor, Mathematics, titled “A Covering Lemma for HOD of K(R)” will be published in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. Much of the research presented in the paper was conducted during his fall 2008 sabbatical.
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Sharon Cramer,Exceptional Education, and Professor Jan Stivers, Marist College, presented a paper titled “What Skills Do Teachers Need to Anticipate and Capitalize on Change? Theory and Practice for Lifelong Success in and beyond the Classroom” at the 62nd annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Atlanta, Georgia, February 19–22. This paper was based on the book that Cramer and Stivers published with Corwin Press in fall 2009, A Teacher’s Guide to Change. Paper co-presenters Sheldon Tetewsky,senior research analyst, and Kelly Marczynski,assistant director/senior research scientist, Center for Health and Social Research, participated in the analysis of survey data used in the AACTE presentation.
Sue Baldwin, a School Health Index needs-assessment tool trainer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted a full-day training on December 2 for the Maine Department of Education.
Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published his article “Influencing Factors for Depression among Chinese Suicide Survivors” inPsychiatry Research (in press). The study’s coauthor was Li Ning, Ph.D. student and visiting scholar from China, who visited Buffalo State in 2008–2009.
Steve Street’s review of the Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Leaving Tangier appears in the online Winter 2009/2010 edition of Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Robert Mead-Colegrove, director, Orientation and New Student Programs, presented “Signature-Only Advisor? The Sky’s the Limit, but So Is the Cement” at the 2010Western New York Student Leadership Conference on February 27. In addition, Mead-Colegrove presented “The Customer Is Always Right: So Is the Student a Customer or Client?” at the United Across Campuses annual conference on March 3 in Amherst, New York.
Shaun McLaughlin, lecturer, Theater, has published the first of 12 issues of his graphic novel “Cheapjack Shakespeare,” which will be released in a serialized format. Available initially through Amazon, the series will be collected into a single volume next year. His animated feature “Gene-Fusion” is currently being readied for distribution. McLaughlin was the producer and voice director on this picture.
Trish Dillenbeck, assistant director, Orientation and New Student Programs, received the Chester A. Berry Scholar Award for Excellence in Writing from the Association of College Unions International during its Community Builder Awards Banquet on Tuesday, March 2, for her “Women in Leadership” research project and article, which was published in the November 2009 ACUIBulletin. Dillenbeck also completed her term as host director for the ACUI 2010 annual conference in New York City, February 27–March 4.
Tony Astran, publications staff writer, College Relations, was reelected to the board of directors of the Public Relations Society of America Buffalo/Niagara Chapter and will serve as secretary during the 2010 year. He also became chair of the e-communications committee. In addition, he was recently appointed as vice president of Brush Up Buffalo, an all-volunteer organization that repaints owner-occupied, single-family houses for low-income homeowners.
Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published his article “Strain and Suicide: An Analysis of 155 Suicide Cases” in Chinese Mental Health Journal 23: 784–789. The study’s coauthor was Dr. Tang Yong, visiting scholar from China, who visited Buffalo State in 2005–2006.