Dorcas Colvin, associate vice president for policy and planning, was named to the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation board of trustees for a three-year term. The foundation receives and administers funds supporting scientific and clinical research, medical care, and patient-related activities at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Colvin was also elected vice chair of the board of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, and chair of the Grace Manor Health Care Facility board.

Dolores Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, conducted a mini-seminar (with Loretta Nunez from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and audiologist Janet Koehnke), "The Praxis II Examination in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: What Faculty Need to Know," at the 28th annual conference of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders in Palm Springs, California, April 11–14. Battle also presented two papers at the annual convention of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing: "Using Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice for Adult Neurogenics" and "Looking Back…Looking Ahead: A Model Program for Mentoring Faculty of Color," withConstance Qualls, chair and professor, Speech-Language Pathology, in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 19–21.

Dolores Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, conducted a mini-seminar (with Loretta Nunez from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and audiologist Janet Koehnke), "The Praxis II Examination in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: What Faculty Need to Know," at the 28th annual conference of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders in Palm Springs, California, April 11–14. Battle also presented two papers at the annual convention of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing: "Using Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice for Adult Neurogenics" and "Looking Back…Looking Ahead: A Model Program for Mentoring Faculty of Color," withConstance Qualls, chair and professor, Speech-Language Pathology, in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 19–21.

Dolores Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, conducted a mini-seminar (with Loretta Nunez from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and audiologist Janet Koehnke), "The Praxis II Examination in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: What Faculty Need to Know," at the 28th annual conference of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders in Palm Springs, California, April 11–14. Battle also presented two papers at the annual convention of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing: "Using Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice for Adult Neurogenics" and "Looking Back…Looking Ahead: A Model Program for Mentoring Faculty of Color," withConstance Qualls, chair and professor, Speech-Language Pathology, in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 19–21.

Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published his article “Comparing Depression Levels between Relatives and Friends of Suicide,” coauthored with Le Fang and Li Zhou, in theChinese Journal of Public Health 23 (5): 549–551.

Daniel Thiel, director, Buffalo State College Child Care Center, received the 2007 Outstanding Program Director or Administrator award from the Association for the Education of Young Children of Western New York at the organization’s annual dinner at the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora on June 6.

Deborah Silverman, assistant professor, Communication, was named chair-elect of the Northeast District of the Public Relations Society of America in May. The Northeast District, one of 10 PRSA districts in the country, includes PRSA chapters in upstate New York and New England. She will become chair in January 2008.

The essay “Re-valuing Traditional Patrimony,” by Lucy Schwartz, professor, Modern and Classical Languages, was published in Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels, edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo (Africa World Press, June 2007).

Steve Macho, assistant professor, Technology, presented “The Impact of Home Internet Access on Test Scores” at the Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT 2007) at SUNY Plattsburgh May 29–June 1.

The film Walk, by Meg Knowles, assistant professor, Communication, was awarded First Prize for Experimental Film in the 34th Athens International Film and Video Festival in Athens, Ohio, April 27–May 3. Walkhas also been exhibited at the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the 20th annual Dallas Video Festival, and the Three-Minute Film Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and will screen this fall at Annexe Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.