Constance Dean Qualls, ASHA fellow and chair and professor of speech-language pathology, recently returned from Harvard University, where she attended the 2013 Management Development Program (MDP). The MDP, presented by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a highly regarded, intensive leadership institute for deans, directors, and department heads that is designed to be both informational and transformational. Joined by 110 of her colleagues from the 50 states and 16 countries, Qualls attended plenary and small-group sessions that focused on effective leadership in higher education, developing and leading high-functioning teams, fostering institutional transformation, aligning strategic planning with financial management, ethical decision making, change management, and identifying the conditions that lead to opportunities for professional development and personal transformation. She met with individual colleagues, including those from Singapore, Denmark, Nigeria, China, and New Zealand, to establish domestic and international networks that will, hopefully, be of benefit to Buffalo State. Qualls looks forward to using her Harvard experiences to enhance the Buffalo State experience both now and in the future.

During the recent Alternative Break Citizenship School (ABCs) in Metro Detroit, Break Away’s executive director asked Osayomwonbor Rachel Algbedo, one of the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center’s peer leaders and co-coordinator of the Alternative Break program, to give the graduation speech in the final workshop of the intensive six-day conference. During her speech, Algbedo reflected on what she had learned from the workshops, from her peers, and about herself during the ABCs.

The Buffalo State Career Development Center was recognized with an Award for Excellence in Programming by the SUNY Career Development Organization Inc. at the 2013 SUNYCDO annual conference, held in Cortland, New York, June 12–14. The award recognized the increased marketing efforts with the CDC ORCA mascot on campus.

Curtis Brickhouse, associate director of residence life, received the James A. Hurd Award in honor and recognition of his outstanding contributions to the association and profession. The award was presented at the 2013 Association of College and University Housing Officers - International annual conference and exposition, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 15–18.

Brickhouse has more than 25 years of dedicated service to the area of housing and residence life. Since 1987, he has worked in a variety of positions and areas that include complex director, student staff development, housing operations, and interim director of residence life. Brickhouse has also actively served the profession through numerous presentations, as an ACUHO-I Host Intern site, and as past chair of the Benchmarking Committee. Most recently, he was part of the Certificate in Occupancy Management (CIOM) peer review team, designed to help professionals increase their competencies in the area of occupancy management.

Lynn Rogers was elected president of the State University of New York Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) and began her term on June 13 at the annual conference held in Cortland, New York. She will serve a one-year term. A member of SUNYCDO since 2001, Rogers has served as conference co-chair (2011), secretary and treasurer (2011–2013), and president-elect (January–June 2013). SUNYCDO is a professional organization for career development professionals across SUNY.

Wendy Paterson, dean of the School of Education, was inducted into the Corridor of Honor at Kenmore West High School in the Kenmore-Tonawanda School District on May 29. Paterson graduated from Kenmore West in 1971 as valedictorian and class president in a class of over 900 students. She was honored by alumni of the school who select one or two recipients each year from nominations of alumni, faculty, and former corridor honorees in the district. A plaque in the corridor commemorates Paterson’s accomplishments and contributions to the community as an "educator, leader, and visionary." Paterson received the award at a ceremony attended by the students and families of ninth-, tenth-, and eleventh-graders who had achieved honor roll status this year.

A proposal submitted by Daniel Haick, lecturer in the Business Department, "The Common Core and the Rigor/Relevance Framework Model: What Does This Mean for CTE?" has been accepted for presentation at the Association for Career and Technical Education's (ACTE) CareerTech Vision 2013 conference, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 4–7. The presentation will be made in collaboration with Michael Littman, associate professor of business.

Laura Roberts, clinical supervisor and lecturer in the Speech-Language Pathology Department, earned an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Award for Continuing Education in February.

Jill Gradwell, associate professor of history and social studies education, and Lorrei DiCamillo, associate professor of teacher education at Canisius College, recently had their manuscript, "To Simulate or Not to Simulate? Investigating Myths about Social Studies Simulations," published in the journal the Social Studies 104 (4): 155–160.

Michael Johnson, associate professor of modern and classical languages, read his paper "Shards of Time: The Fate of the Time Traveler in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine" at the 2013 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, held in Riverside, California, April 11–14.