Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy,” included in a new e-book titled Grading Strategies for the College Classroom: a Collection of Articles for Faculty, from Magna Publications. The book is available on Amazon.com.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been invited to join the Survey Team for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). AUCCCD promotes the awareness of student mental health and development issues in higher education through research, advocacy, education and training provided to members, professional organizations and the public. In 2006, AUCCCD instituted the Annual Survey as a means to increase objective understanding of factors critical to the functioning of college and university counseling centers. The survey is published online annually and serves as a resource for directors as well as others interested in college mental health and development.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had an article about a recent off-Broadway production in Spanish published in the journal Bulletin of the Comediantes (issue 69.1, 2017). The article, titled “Virués’s Theater of the Grotesque: Interrogating La gran Semíramis from Roman Chronicle to the New York Stage,” analyzes elements of the grotesque in the 1579 text by Cristóbal de Virués and in Diego Chiri’s 2015 production of the play at Repertorio Español in New York City. Integrating the perspectives of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Foucault, the study concludes that Chiri uses the grotesque to reconcile contradictory elements of the work, and that Virués participates in the processes of distortion and degradation that have typified the production of the Semiramis myth, itself grotesque, throughout the centuries.
Karen Downey and Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and senior student researcher Matthew Ellis, presented their work, “Density Functional Theory Modeling for Design of Group 10-based Metallo-organic Catalysts,” at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 10 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, co-authored a paper in the journal Nature Anthropology.
Adam Ferguson M ’12
Adam Ferguson M ’12, English Department, presented his paper “Written Beyond the Body: Queer Narratives, Transgender Identity, and Sem-erotics” at the 2021 Conference of the Semiotic Society of America. The virtual conference was held from Oct. 20 to 23.
Emily Quinlan
Emily Quinlan, Advisement and Transition, was awarded for her blog, “Transfer Student Blog” at the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA) conference in Albany in May. She received the NYSTAA STEP (Successful Transfer Enhancement Programs) Award.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, recently attended the 14th annual National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) conference in Atlanta, Ga. She co-presented with Michael Henningsen, Mohawk Valley Community College, on the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA). Their session title was “A State-Wide Transfer Professional Organization: The Good, the Bad, and the Future.” Henningsen currently serves as NYSTAA president, and Corbin serves as president-elect. At the conference, Corbin was awarded the Bonita C. Jacobs Transfer Champion Rising Star award.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored a chapter with Michelle Kelley titled “Avid Readers in High School: Are they Reading for Pleasure?” It is included in Teaching Adolescent Literature Today, J. A. Hayn & J. S. Kaplan, editors. The book was selected to be showcased in Cambridge Scholars Publishing’s July ‘Best Sellers’ marketing campaign.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Brown University to deliver a campus-wide book talk on March 9. She will discuss her new book Tongzhi Living: Same-Sex Attracted Men in Postsocialist China, published in 2015 by University of Minnesota Press.