Lisa Berglund, associate professor of English, published two articles in December 2010. The first, a study of James Boswell’s and Hester Lynch Piozzi's biographies of Samuel Johnson, “Oysters for Hodge, or, Ordering Society, Writing Biography and Feeding the Cat,” appeared in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (4): 631–645, in a special issue on animals in the eighteenth century. The second article is “Hester Lynch Piozzi's British Synonymy in Imperial France,” which appeared in Dictionaries 31 (2010): 69–86.

Julian Cole, assistant professor, Philosophy and Humanities, published two peer-reviewed articles in 2010: an encyclopedia article on mathematical platonism for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a state-of-the-field survey article on mathematical structuralism, “Mathematical Structuralism Today,” in Philosophy Compass 5 (8): 689-699.

Frances Gage, assistant professor, Fine Arts, published her essay “Teaching Them to Serve and Obey: Giulio Mancini on Collecting Religious Art in Seventeenth-Century Rome” in Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500–1900, edited by Gail Feigenbaum and Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (Getty Research Institute, 2011).

Amitra A. Wall, associate professor, Sociology, contributed a chapter, “Video Chat Users: Male Perspectives,” to the text, Voices in Sociology: An Introduction to the Core Concepts, edited by Cynthia Cook, Helen Brethauer-Gay, Amitra Wall, and Jessica Gullion (2011, Cognella Press). Voices in Sociology introduces undergraduate students to conventional and nonconventional issues in sociology. Students will find the selected articles informative and applicable to real world concerns, while instructors will find that the book offers many opportunities for class discussion.
 

Joonyeong Kim, assistant professor, Chemistry, published a paper, “Measurements of Water Sorption Enthalpy on Polymer Surfaces and Its Effect on Protein Adsorption” in Surface Science 2011, 605, 419-423. In the article, the molar enthalpy of sorption of water vapor onto three polymer surfaces and its effect on nonspecific protein adsorption were investigated by inverse gas chromatography with the ultimate goals of understanding biocompatibility.

Jill M. Gradwell, associate professor and coordinator of social studies education, History and Social Studies, recently had a book review published in the winter edition of Theory and Research in Social Education (vol. 38, issue 4). The book review, “Speaking from one instructor to another: A dialogue among social studies methods professors and instructors,” reviews the book Social Studies and Diversity Education: What We Do and Why We Do It, by E. E. Heilman, R. F. Amthor, and M. T. Missias.
 

Zhang Jie, professor, Sociology, and director, Center for China Studies, published “Research on the Migration of Rural Women and the Decline of Chinese Suicide Rate” with coauthors Jing Jun and  Xueya Wu. The article appeared in the China Agricultural University Journal of Social Sciences Edition 27(4): 20-31.

Sue Baldwin, assistant professor, Health and Wellness, co-presented "Walk the Walk: A Public School Intervention for Worksite Wellness" at the prestigious American Public Health Association national conference in Denver on November 8, 2010. The co-presenter was graduate student Peter Renkas, a health and physical education teacher with the Buffalo Public Schools.

Jean F. 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 the latest developments of the Fulbright program at a Fulbright meeting of the chapter at Daemen College in Buffalo on December 7.