Faculty, staff activities

Kazuko Behrens, assistant professor of psychology presented “Associations between AAI adjectives, AAI scales, and SSP scales” at the International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) July 3-5, 2014, Berlin, Germany; “Japanese mothers’ attachment status predicts their children’s reactions to the family photographs” at the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), July 8-13, 2014, Paris, France; and “Re-examining infant jealousy” July 8, 2014, at the invitation of the Department of Psychology and Sport & Exercise Sciences, Munster University, Munster, Germany.

Andrea Dziubek, assistant professor of mathematics, Edmond Rusjan, associate professor of mathematics, and William Thistleton, associate professor of mathematics, presented  “How to validate a mathematical model of the eye” at the 6th annual SUNY Eye Institute meeting, September 27-28, Syracuse, N.Y.  Dziubek and Rusjan presented a poster—“EYE DEC A Software Environment to Model Blood Flow in the Eye”—at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications workshop “Structure-Preserving Discretizations of Partial Differential Equations,” October 22-24, University of Minnesota.

Nicholas Grimmer, associate director of development, alumni relations and annual giving, has been awarded a $1,500 Professional Development Scholarship from the National Educational Alumni Trust (NEAT). The award was one of 16 given in October 2014 to enable recipients to attend a professional development conference in 2014-2015.  NEAT is a not-for-profit organization that provides insurance and financial services to constituents of its 140 member associations.

Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media, a book by Ryan Lizardi, assistant professor of digital media and humanities, was published in November 2014 by Lexington Books. (This work will be featured in the February issue of Interface.) 

David Pasick, lecturer in sociology and criminal justice, (far right) took his special topics class on “Technological Surveillance and Constitutional Rights” to Albany on November 18, 2014, for a tour of the Capitol and to hear oral arguments before the Court of Appeals. Students in the course examine surveillance technologies and their use in crime prevention and prosecution, as well as the legal and ethical issues of privacy and how advances in technology are changing privacy debates and laws.