Timothy Gallineau, interim chair and associate professor of higher education and student affairs administration, received the Distinguished Service to Higher Education Award at the College Student Personnel Association of New York State (CSPA-NYS) annual conference, held October 22–25 in Corning, New York. CSPA-NYS, the first chartered state division of the American College Personnel Association, is recognized as one of the most prestigious higher education and student affairs professional associations at the state level. Gallineau has been a charter member since 1981. He has held professional positions at Buffalo State for 20 years. Before coming to Buffalo State, he served as vice president for student development at St. Bonaventure University and as dean of students at Slippery Rock University. He earned his doctorate in education from the University of Akron.

Aimable Twagilimana, professor of English and coordinator of the African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit, had a chapter titled "Native Son" published in Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World (Yolanda W. Page, ed.; Greenwood, October 2011), pp. 321–344.

Gerald Mead, lecturer in the Design Department, served as a panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Strategic Opportunity Stipend grants on October 19. He also juried and selected awards for the 2011 Southern Tier Biennial, an exhibition in Olean, New York, encompassing artists from nine counties of New York’s Southern Tier, on September 16, and he juried applicants for the Echo: Art Fair, Buffalo’s inaugural fine art fair, on July 9.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article Seasonality of Chinese Rural Young Suicide and Its Correlates” in the Journal of Affective Disorders 134: 356–364. The study was coauthored with Cunxian Jia and Gao Qi, a visiting Ph.D student to Buffalo in 2010.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article “Suicide among the Elderly People in Urban China,” coauthored with Jun Jing and Wu Xueya, in Population Research: 35 (3): 84–96.

Jean Gounard, director of international student affairs, gave a conference titled "French and U.S. Relations Today" at the meeting of the Western New York Branch of the National League of American Pen Women in Williamsville, New York, on October 22.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, published his article “Psychometric Properties of the Dickman Impulsivity Instrument in Suicide Victims and Living Controls of Rural China,” coauthored with Qi Gao and Cunxian Jia, in the Journal of Affective Disorders: 132 (3): 368­–374.

Maria Ceprano, professor of elementary education and reading, and Mary Shea, professor of graduate education and leadership at Canisius College, coauthored the article “The Attack on Teachers and Schools of Education: Identifying the Bullies and Bystanders.” The article has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Kappa Delta Pi Record.

Zhang Jie, professor of sociology and director of the Center for China Studies, and William F. Wieczorek, director of Buffalo State’s Center for Health and Social Research, published their article “Psychological Strains and Youth Suicide in Rural China” in the journal Social Science and Medicine: 72 (12): 2003–2010. The study was coauthored by Yeates Conwell and Ming Tu Xin.

Jean Gounard, director of international student affairs and vice president for advocacy of the Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Fulbright Association, spoke on future projects and funding of the Fulbright Program at the chapter's Fall Fulbright Conference, held at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, on October 14.