Stephen Houseknecht, photography lecturer, Fine Arts, had his photograph Stuka, from his series It Can't Happen Here, included in the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s permanent collection. The image is currently on view in Moxie and Mayhem: Acquisitions for a New Museum through September 5.

Ruth X. Guo, assistant professor, Computer Information Systems, presented a research paper at the Technological Learning & Thinking 2010 international conference, June 17-19, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Guo's research paper, “Web Design in Service-Learning,” focused on the design and development of Web sites by educational technology graduate students as service-learning projects for local community organizations.

Jill M. Gradwell, assistant professor, History and Social Studies Education, served as coeditor with S.G. Grant, dean of the School of Education at Binghamton University, for the new book Teaching History with Big Ideas: Cases of Ambitious Teachers, published this summer by Rowman & Littlefield. Gradwell was also an invited guest of the ninth annual R. Freeman Butts Institute on Civic Learning in Teacher Education in Indianapolis, May 21–25.

Ann Emo, assistant professor, Theater, was awarded anArtvoice Artie Award for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on the 2009 Shakespeare in Delaware Park production of The Tempest.

John Cabra, assistant professor, Creative Studies, presented a five-day elective course in Spanish for the Universidad de La Sabana’s International School of Economic and Administrative Sciences, in Bogotá, Colombia, in June. In attendance were entrepreneurs, students, and faculty. The course was titled “Creativity and Innovation Uncovered: Skills and Tools to Facilitate Creative Problem Solving.”

Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published his article “Psychometric Properties of the Scale for Suicide Ideation in China,” coauthored with G. K. Brown, in the Archives of Suicide Research 11 (2): 203–210.

Phyllis Thompson, assistant professor, Art Education, presented “Inservice Art Teacher Technology Training: The Impact on Professional Growth,” with graduate research assistant Jamie Tabone, at the 18th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education in San Antonio, Texas, March 27–30.

Ted Schmidt, associate professor and chair, Economics and Finance, presented the paper “Farm Credit of Western New York: A Case Study of a U.S. Financial Cooperative” at the third annual Colloquio Internacional sobre Pequeñas Empresas (Colloquium on Small Business Development) at the Universidad de Quintana Roo in Chetumal, Mexico, March 29 and 30.

A solo exhibition of artwork by Carol Ann Rafferty,lecturer, Design, was displayed at the HME Gallery in Indiana, Pennsylvania, March 15–April 13. Rafferty also participated in a “Meet the Artist Forum” in the gallery on March 16 to speak with local elementary school children about her work as an artist.

Susan McMillen, associate professor, and Jodelle Magner, assistant professor, Mathematics, gave two presentations at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) 2007 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, March 21–24: “Making Teaching Children Mathematics Come Alive in Your Classroom,” which addresses the format and types of articles that should be written for the Investigations column in the NCTM journal Teaching Children Mathematics, and “Content Courses for Teachers: Impacting Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching,” which addresses data from in-service teachers enrolled in graduate mathematics courses during the summer and fall 2006 semesters.