Joonyeong Kim, assistant professor, Chemistry, published a paper titled “Investigations of Chemical Modifications of Amino-Terminated Organic Films on Silicon Substrates and Controlled Protein Immobilization” in Langmuir 26 (4): 2599–2608. In the article, biological activities of proteins immobilized on silicon surfaces via three different chemical linkers were investigated for potential applications in forensic sciences.
Frances Gage, assistant professor, Fine Arts, published her essay “Giulio Mancini and Artist-Amateur Relations in Seventeenth-Century Roman Academies” in The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Luca in Rome, c. 1590–1635 (Peter Lukehart, ed.; Washington, D.C.,: The National Gallery of Art, 2009.)
Lorna Perez, assistant professor, English, presented her paper “One Holy Night: On the Erotics of Ethnicity” at the 31st annual meeting of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10–13.
William F. Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research, reviewed grant applications for the National Institutes of Health Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology initial review group on February 9 in Washington, D.C.
Andrea Lizak, associate director/business adviser, Small Business Development Center, was elected to serve a one-year term as president of the Hamburg Development Corporation.
Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented his poster “Aspects of Creativity Theory in Genesis 1:1” at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21–24.
Sue Baldwin, assistant professor, Health and Wellness, is a needs-assessment tool trainer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention School Health Index. She conducted a full-day training on November 30th for Williamsville Central School District administrators.
An article by Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies; and William F. Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research, titled “Characteristics of Young Rural Chinese Suicides: A Psychological Autopsy Study,” will be published in Psychological Medicine (in press: First View Article August 2009, pp. 1–9). The study’s coauthors are Yeates Conwell and Xin Ming Tu, University of Rochester; Bill Yow Wu Wu, University at Buffalo; Shuiyuan Xiao, Central South University, China; and Cun Xian Jia, Shandong University, China.
William Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research (CHSR), presented a paper titled “Comparison of Standard and Weighted Measures of Alcohol Availability” at the Fourth International Conference on Social Science Research, held in Nashville, Tennessee, December 9–11. Coauthors on the paper were CHSR staff members Alan Delmerico,research analyst; Sheldon Tetewsky, senior research analyst; and Kelly Marczynski, assistant director and senior research scientist.
William Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research, presented “Alcohol and Public Health: Complex Biological and Social Interactions” to the Western New York Science and Technology Forum, held at the University at Buffalo on December 2.