Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, coauthored the article “West China Hospital Set of Measures in Chinese to Evaluate Back Pain Treatment,” Pain Medicine 11: 637–647.

Ramona R. Santa Maria, assistant professor, Computer Information Systems, published a case study in “Digital Shifts in Urban Schools: Classroom Technology Connecting Digital Natives’ Skills to Learning” in Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology: editors K. Gherab-Martin and P. Kalantzis-Cope, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-0-230-27346-7.

Ramona R. Santa Maria, assistant professor, Computer Information Systems and Meg
Knowles, assistant professor, Communication, coauthored a paper, “Representations
of Gender in the ‘Get a Mac’ Ad Campaign,” which was published in Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal (2011).

A. Michael Vermy, assistant professor, Modern and Classical Languages, presented “Perception and the Role of Language and Power” at the Spanish in the United States/ Spanish in Contact with Other Languages Conference presented by the University of California in Sacramento, California on March 20.

Michael I. Niman, associate professor, Communication, published “The Shanti Sena ‘Peace Center’ and the Non-Policing of an Anarchist Temporary Autonomous Zone: Rainbow Family Peacekeeping Strategies,” Contemporary Justice Review 4 (1): 65–7.

Jean F. Gounard, director of International Student Affairs, has been elected to the board of directors of Project FLIGHT.

Sharon Cramer, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Exceptional Education, co-authored a chapter “Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Higher Education” with Melissa Haab, Ph.D., of Alabama Southern Community College. Their chapter was published in Technology Integration in Higher Education: Social and Organizational Aspects, which was edited by Daniel W. Surry, Robert M. Gray Jr., and James R. Stefurak. The book was published by IGI Global in 2011.

The fourth edition (extensively revised) of Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum, by Gerald Nosich, professor, Philosophy and Humanities, has just been published by Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Alexander Karatayev, director of the Great Lakes Center, recently coauthored two papers on invasive species. “Limnoperna fortunei vs. Dreissena polymorpha: Population densities and benthic community impacts of two invasive freshwater bivalves” appeared in the Journal of Shellfish Research 29(4): 975-985. “Differences in growth and survivorship of zebra and quagga mussels: size matters” appeared in Hydrobiologia, published online. 

Stephen M. Street, lecturer, Writing Program, coauthored “Confronting Contingency: Faculty Equity and the Goals of Academic Democracy,” which appears in the American Association of Colleges and Universities' Liberal Education 97 (1).