William Durfee, associate professor, Chemistry, published two papers with his collaborator Christopher J. Ziegler, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Akron: “Low-Coordinate Transition-Metal Complexes of a Carbon-Substituted Hemiporphyrazine” (coauthored with UA graduate student Anil Çetin), inInorganic Chemistry 46 (16): 6239–6241; and “Co(II) and Co(III) Complexes of M-Benziphthalocyanine” (coauthored with UA graduate students Anil Çetin and Saovalak Sripothongnak and Buffalo State undergraduate student Michael Kawa) in Chemical Communications 2007 (41): 4289–4290.

Sharon Cramer, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Exceptional Education, recently presented two papers: “How Technology Can Transfer Research: Real Solutions for Busy Teachers Who Are Intrigued by Action Research,” at the 42nd annual conference of the New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education (NYSCATE), held in Rochester, New York, November 17–20; and “What Facilitates and Impedes Collaborative Work during Higher Education Software Implementation Projects?” coauthored with Sheldon Tetewsky, research scientist and senior data analyst, and Kelly Marczynski, assistant director and senior research scientist, Center for Health and Social Research, at the 38th annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA), held in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, October 17–19.

An article by Dolores E. Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, titled “Children, Education, and Living in Poverty,” was published in Perspectives on School-Based Issues 8 (3): 14–17 (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Division 16, October 2007). Battle participated in a panel presentation, “What Future Professors Need to Know,” at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Boston, Massachusetts, November 15–17. She was also invited to participate in the World Health Organization Division on Prevention of Blindness and Deafness meeting on Hearing Aids and Services for Developing Countries, held in Geneva, Switzerland, November 8–9.

Deborah Silverman, assistant professor, Communication, presented “Ethics in Public Relations” to public relations practitioners and students at the Northeast District Conference of the Public Relations Society of America, held in Rochester, New York, on October 4. Silverman was named district chair-elect for the Public Relations Society of America’s Northeast District, representing public relations practitioners and educators in upstate New York and part of New England. She will assume the office of district chair in January 2008.

Brian Porter, lecturer, Fine Arts, has been awarded a commission from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo to create a life-size bronze statue of a World War II Navy Seabee. The statue will be installed and dedicated at the Seabee Monument in Fisherman’s Park on River Road in North Tonawanda in November 2008.

Susan Mary Paige, lecturer, Exceptional Education, was accepted as a member of the board of directors for the Literacy Empowerment Action Program (LEAP) of Western New York. She has also been selected for inclusion in the 62nd edition of Marquis Who's Who in America (2008).

Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented a 60-minute workshop to classics teachers, “More Than Etymology: ‘Roots’ in a Summer Science Program,” at the 60th Annual Institute of the American Classical League, held in Nashville, Tennessee, June 28–30. This session shared teaching strategies from the class sessions in Latin and Greek word roots in scientific terminology, which Johnson has taught annually since 1996 in the Upward Bound Math/Science Program at Buffalo State College.

A painting by Lin Xia Jiang, chair and professor, Fine Arts, has been accepted as one of 30 works in the juried annual Americas 2000 All Media Exhibition at the Northwest Art Center at Minot State University, in North Dakota. Two of Jiang’s other paintings were accepted in the National Spring Open Juried Exhibition at the Wayne Art Center, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kimberly Hart, assistant professor, Anthropology, co-organized a panel with Susan Rodgers from College of the Holy Cross, titled “Heritage Entrepreneurs: Producing Tradition for National and Global Markets,” given at the 106th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., November 28–December 2. Hart’s article “The Economy of Elopement” has been accepted for publication by Anthropological Quarterly. The piece is based on an ethnographic study and explores the relationship between the commercialization of weaving in a cooperative in Western Turkey and the increase in elopements among young women.

Maria Ceprano, professor, Elementary Education and Reading, recently published a paper with a student collaborator, Pamela Sivret, titled “Experiencing Cambourne’s Model through Pen-Palling: Children and Junior Practitioners Co-learning about Literacy,” inSchool-University Partnerships, the journal of the National Association for Professional Development Schools 1 (2): Fall 2007.

In collaboration with professors Barbara Bontempoand Geraldine Bard, English, Ceprano delivered a research-based presentation, “Teacher Candidates Connecting with Parents: Demonstrations on How to Promote Literacy Development at Home,” at the New York State Reading Association (NYSRA) Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York, November 7–9.

Ceprano, along with graduate student Lisa Sukdolak (2007), designed and presented a poster session at the biennial Kappa Delta Pi (KDP) Biennial Convocation, held in Louisville, Kentucky, November 12–14. The presentation documented a two-year service project wherein student volunteers from KDP pen-palled with special needs children from a high-need urban school.