Ellie Fleetwood, research administrator, Center for Health and Social Research, attended the Society of Research Administrators (SRA) Northeast Section 2008 meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 26–30. While at the meeting, she also attended a full-day review workshop offered by the Research Administrator’s Certification Council.
Tony Astran, publications staff writer, College Relations, presented “How to Grab Your Future Employer’s Attention: Interviewing, Résumés, and Recruiting for PR Students” at the Public Relations Society of America’s Northeast District Conference, held September 11 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Buffalo. His presentation was part of a special student track at the conference, and more than 60 students attended.
Carol Townsend, chair and associate professor, Design, had a poem titled Passage published in the summer 2008 issue of the Sow’s Ear 18 (2). It was one of eight submissions accepted by this national journal as part of the “Community of Poets” article.
Michael C. Lazich, associate professor, History and Social Studies Education, published a Chinese translation of his book E. C. Bridgman: America’s First Missionary to China, 1801–1861. The translation was produced in collaboration with Yin Wenjuan, research scholar in the Department of History at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Titled Qianxiniande Ganzhao, the book was released this past summer by Guangxi Normal University Press.
A paper by Jeffrey Hirschberg, assistant professor and coordinator of the television and film arts program, Communication, titled “The Villain as Outsider: Alex Forrest to Gordon Gekko,” was published in the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) journal,Feedback 49 (5). The paper won third place in the BEA’s annual national peer-reviewed competition for academic papers. The paper will also be included in a book Hirschberg is writing that will be published in 2009.
Kimberly Hart, assistant professor, Anthropology, presented “Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in a Turkish Village” at the 2008 conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society, “Ethnography: Entanglements and Ruptures,” held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, May 8–10. Hart also presented “Making Islamic Modernity in a Turkish Village” at the 13th Annual Soref Workshop, “A Different Approach to Debates on Political Islam: Micro-Level Studies,” held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba, Israel, June 2–4.
Jean F. Gounard, director, International Student Affairs, and vice president for advocacy, Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Fulbright Association, spoke on future projects and funding of the Fulbright Program at the Fall Fulbright Conference of the chapter, held at Niagara County Community College on September 19.
Timothy Gallineau, associate professor, Student Personnel Administration, has been selected to serve as a program reviewer for the 2009 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) national conference, to be held in Seattle, Washington, March 7–11, 2009.
John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, presented the session “Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education” at the SUNY Technology Conference (STC) 2008 in Rochester, New York, on June 18.
Deborah Silverman, assistant professor, Communication, was a panelist for the session “Challenges and Benefits of Incorporating a Service Learning Approach into the Graduate Public Relations Curriculum” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2008 Convention August 6–9 in Chicago, Illinois.