Susan Maguire, assistant professor, Anthropology, presented “The Impact of the Quartermaster in the War of 1812: A Case Study from the Niagara Frontier” at the 43rd annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, held in Amelia Island, Florida, January 6–9.
Lisa Berglund, associate professor, English, published her article “Fossil Fish: Preserving Samuel Johnson within Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy,” in Dictionaries,the journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 30: 96–107.
Dolores E. Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, conducted a workshop, “Preparing Speech-Language Pathologists to Serve Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and International Clients with Communication Disorders,” at St. Xavier University, in Chicago, Illinois, January 6–7.
John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, published an article, “Using Web 2.0 Applications to Transform Analog Government into the Digital Age,” in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society 4 (4):143–148.
Eileen Merberg, retention and leadership specialist, Residence Life, has been selected to serve as a program reviewer for the ACPA College Student Educators International 2009 Convention, to be held in Washington, D.C., March 28–April 1, 2009. Merberg will also be a keynote speaker at the Small College Consortium annual student leadership conference held on October 4 at Daemen College. Her talk will focus on the millennial student and the advantages and challenges of being a leader.
Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented his paper “Trying New Approaches to Kafka’s The Trial” in the “Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works” section of the 39th annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, held in Buffalo, New York, April 10–13.
An article by Trish Dillenbeck, assistant director, Orientation and New Student Programs, titled “The New Era of Mentoring,” was published in the September issue of the Bulletin (76) 5, the journal of the Association of College Unions International.
Marguerite Knowles, assistant professor, Communication, will present her short documentary, “See That the World Is Moving,” at the first biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues to Celebrate Women’s and Human Rights, in Seneca Falls, New York, October 11–12. The film, directed and shot by Knowles, is a historical documentary focused on the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls.
Kimberly Hart, assistant professor, Anthropology, received research grants from the American Research Institute in Turkey and the Institute of Turkish Studies to support her summer ethnographic work in western Turkey on piety and Islamic modernity.
Roger Firestien, lecturer, International Center for Studies in Creativity, presented the keynote address, “Leading on the Creative Edge,” to about 200 members of the Northeastern Economic Developers Association Conference at the Adam’s Mark Hotel on September 22.