Bhakti Sharma, assistant professor, Interior Design, presented her paper “The Experiential Factor in Corporate Architecture and Branding” at the Seventh International Conference on Design & Emotion in Chicago, Illinois, held October 4–7.
Lisa Marie Anselmi, chair and associate professor, Anthropology, presented her scholarly poster “The Buffalo State College (SUNY) and McClurg Museum Community Partnership: Fostering a Collaborative Relationship between Two Public Institutions in Western New York” at the 37th annual Ontario Archaeological Association symposium in Killarney, Ontario, September 24–26. She also served on the planning committee and as program co-chair of the Conference on Iroquois Research, October 1–3, in Cornwall, Ontario. At the conference, Anselmi presented her scholarly poster titled “The Martin II Site: an Early Woodland Lithic Manufacturing Locality on Grand Island, New York.”
John Thompson, associate professor, Computer Information Systems, participated in a panel presentation, “Web Collaboration User,” at the Visual Communications Industry Group 2010 Annual Conference held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 3–6.
Gerhard Falk, professor, Sociology, has had his 20th book, Anarchy, Assassination and Terrorism, accepted for publication by the Edwin Mellen Press.
Michael Johnson, associate professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented his paper, “The Final Frontier—Space: Humor in Star Trek” at the 41st Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association, “Far Stars and Tin Stars: Science Fiction and the Frontier,” which was held in Carefree, Arizona, June 24–27.
Louis Rera, assistant professor, Communication, published an invited article in the July/August edition of Educause Review for the column “New Horizons: The Technology Ahead.” The article is “Serving Students in the Current Economic Environment.”
Gerard Puccio, chair and professor, and John Cabra, assistant professor, both of Creative Studies, are contributing authors to the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity, edited by James Kaufman and Robert Sternberg. The title of the chapter written by Puccio and Cabra is “Organizational Creativity: A Systems Approach.” This edited collection features authors from around the globe who write about contemporary issues in the field of creativity. Malcolm Gladwell described the book as “…an indispensable guide to one of contemporary psychology's most fascinating fields.”
Daniel Cunningham, professor, Mathematics, had his paper “A Covering Lemma for HOD of K(R)” published in the current issue of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (Volume 51, Number 4). The journal “provides a forum where researchers working in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics can read and publish original and significant work.”
Bruce Fisher, director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies, presented his paper “Fiscal Imbalance, Dependency, and Population Decline: the Framework for Policy Challenges for Upstate New York” at the 63rd annual meeting of the New York State Economics Association, which was held at the Rochester Institute of Technology in September.
Andrew Nicholls, professor, History and Social Studies Education, wrote a new book, A Fleeting Empire: Early Stuart Britain and the Merchant Adventurers to Canada, which was released by McGill-Queen's University Press on October 1.