Joelle Leclaire, assistant professor, Economics and Finance, presented the paper “The Employer of Last Resort Program: A Road to Development for Mexico” at the third annual Colloquio Internacional sobre Pequeñas Empresas (Colloquium on Small Business Development) at the Universidad de Quintana Roo in Chetumal, Mexico, on March 31.
Kimberly Blessing, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, contributed the chapter “Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral,” with coauthor Justin Donhauser, Buffalo State alumnus (’05 philosophy), in Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery (William Irwin, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2007). Donhauser is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University at Buffalo.
Dolores Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, presented the keynote address, "Communication Disorders and Violence in Modern Society," at the second International Composium of the International Association of Logopedics en Phoniatrics in São Paulo, Brazil, on March 24.
Theresa A. Harris-Tigg, assistant professor, English, received the distinguished Educational Leadership Award from the Career Women Organization, an affiliate of the National Association of Female Executives, on December 11 at the Classic V Banquet Center in Amherst, New York. Harris-Tigg, also known as Ama Serwa Akoto , was honored for her educational leadership at Buffalo State College and in the Buffalo community.
Reva Fish, assistant professor in the Educational Foundations Department, coauthored an article with Jaekyung Lee of the University at Buffalo. The article, “International and Interstate Gaps in Value-Added Math Achievement: Multilevel Instrumental Variable Analysis of Age Effect and Grade Effect,” was published in the November 2010 issue of the American Journal of Education.
Joonyeong Kim, assistant professor, Chemistry, published a paper, “Quantification of Adenosine in Royal Jelly Products Purchased in USA by HPLC” in Food Chemistry 2011 (vol. 126, issue 1). In the article, the composition of adenosine in royal jelly products purchased in the United States was quantitatively analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
John J. Earshen, associate professor, Technology, delivered a keynote address at the annual meeting of Rich Products Corporation held at the Buffalo Yacht Club on December 8.
Carolyn Guzski, assistant professor, Music, presented a paper, “Opera and Nation: Fanciulla in Context,” at the symposium Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini. The symposium was sponsored by the Boston University College of Fine Arts and Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6 at Mugar Library, Boston University. The symposium honored the centenary of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West). The opera’s world premiere took place at the Metropolitan Opera on December 10, 1910.
Nancy A. Chicola, associate professor, and Maria A. Ceprano, professor, both of Elementary Education and Reading, had their article “Responsive Literacy Instruction for at Risk Students: A Path to Critical Thinking” published in The International Journal of Learning (vol. 17, issue 9). The goals of the action research project included assessment of children’s writing, modeling of writing tailored to individual student needs, and communication of social studies content and concepts using reflective letter exchanges between teacher candidates and 5th- and 6th-grade students. Content analysis of these exchanges showed improvements in critical thinking related to social studies content and written language skills.
Michael I. Niman, associate professor, Communication, wrote a chapter, “The Political Tsunami: Not All Death and Destruction Is Natural,” which was published in Tsunami Communication: Interpersonal/Intercultural, Mass Media, and Philanthropic Responses; Historical, Technical, Ethical and Development Communication, edited by Linda Fuller and published by Hampton Press (2010).