Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson, Psychology Department, has written a chapter in Dynamic Classroom: Engaging Students in Higher Education, recently published by Atwood Publishing LLC. The book is a collection of 14 best-practices papers enabling instructors to discover innovative ways to incorporate the best techniques, transform the worst and create a meaningful and dynamic environment for learning.
Luis Columna
Luis Columna, Physical Education Department, received the Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Social Justice and Diversity Young Professional Award. The award is given to a minority member of AAHPERD who is 40 years old or younger and who has demonstrated superior promise in the areas of service, teaching, scholarship and commitment to the goals of the alliance, focusing specifically on under-represented and/or underserved populations and promotion of social justice and diversity.
Gregory Phelan
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, served as the program chair for the International, Women, and Minority Track at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Conference held Jan. 13-16 in Hilton Head, S.C. At this meeting, Phelan was also elected the co-chair of the International Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, served as a panelist for evaluating National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends applications in Art History for 2011. Wisch was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend in 2006 and an NEH Fellowship in 2007.
Alexander G. Gonzalez
Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, has been informed that his article, “Letting a Poem Mean as Much as It Can Mean: Additional Interpretations of Eavan Boland’s ‘I Remember’ and ‘In Her Own Image,’” has been accepted for publication at ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. It will appear in a special edition on contemporary Irish writers that also will feature his previously accepted annotations on Brendan Behan’s play “The Quare Fellow.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of the just-published eighth edition of We The People: An Introduction to American Government. Published by W.W. Norton, the book is an analytic examination of the American governing system. The book’s co-authors include Benjamin Ginsberg, Johns Hopkins University; Theodore J. Lowi, Cornell University; and Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley.
Lieutenant Francis Cullen
Lieutenant Francis Cullen, University Police Department, was recognized by the State University of New York with a 2021 University Police Award. The SUNY Police Chiefs Association held a ceremony on Nov. 16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to present the annual awards to lieutenants, officers and staff who played a key role in life-saving events in the past year, as well as others on the New York University Police force for their outstanding professional service.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had an article published in the February issue of Management Communication Quarterly. It is titled, “Workplace Emotion and Communication: Supervisor Nonverbal Immediacy, Employee’s Emotional Experience, and Their Communication Motives.”
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had six poems from his current work-in-progress, Approaching Home, excerpted for an anthology of memoir to be published later in the year by Telling Our Stories Press.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, appeared on the Discovery Channel show “NASA’s Unexplained Files” on March 11. Also, her paper, “New Insight into the Solar System’s Transition Disk Phase Provided by the Metal-rich Carbonaceous Chondrite Isheyevo,” was published in the March 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.