Faculty and Staff Travel

December 2016
Brendan Mahoney
9/15/16-9/18/16 – Chicago, IL
Serve as a respondent/commentator on two conference papers presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle held at DePaul University
Richard Duque
9/16/16-9/19/16 – Washington DC
Collaborative project work on “Predicting the threat of Work Place Active Shooters”
Joshua Piejko & Ibrahim Yucel
9/20/16-9/21/16 Brooklyn, NY
Round table participation at NYU: Digit Games and Public Policy
Ryan Lizardi
9/29/16-10/1/16 – Detroit, MI
Presentation of Paper entitled “Same Story, Different Summer: Superhero Origin Stories and the Perception of Memory”
Union for Democratic Communications Annual Conference
Ali Tekeoglu
10/10/16 – Brazil
Paper presentation at workshop –
Workshop: the 1st International Workshop on Data Science for Internet of Things
At the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems
Elizabeth Campbell
10/10/16 – 10/16/16 – Anchorage, AK
To present joint research (Elizabeth Campbell & Kathleen Rourke)
“Using Evidence in Nursing Practice Everyday”
Andrea Dziubek
10/20/16-10/22/16 – Boston, MA
International Symposium on AMD
Consult with world experts on macular degeneration in her growing research area

Carolyn Rodak
10/26/16-10/28/16 – Philadelphia, PA
Traveling to the National Society of Women Engineers Meeting with SUNY Poly SWE club President, Rita Sobhy.  Rita will be receiving an honorable mention award at the MAL Meeting.

Esther Bankert
10/26/16-10/28/16 – Boston, MA
Topic presenting on at the International Caritas Consortium, directly impacts online learning environments by structuring discussion that promote collegial engagement in online environments.

Daryl Lee
10/27/16-10/30/16 – Ottawa, Canada
Attend the annual Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference

Susan Siebold Simpson
10/28/16 – Rochester, NY
To attend the DNP meeting.

Shannon Pritting
11/1/16-11/5/16 – Charleston, SC
Present paper ton article and journal purchase project

Mark Bremer
11/2/16-11/3/16 – New Paltz, NY
To attend the NYS Sustainability Conference

Kathleen Rourke
11/2/16-11/4/16 – Albany, NY
To attend the NYS Council of Deans and Directors Meeting

Mohammed Abdallah
11/6/16-11/8/16 – Orlando Florida
International Association of Journals and Conferences
IAJC is a first-of-its-kind, global, umbrella consortium for academic journals, conferences, organizations, and individuals committed to advancing excellence in all aspects of technology-related education.
Paper presentation, chair conference session, co-chair special awards committee.

Zhanjie Li
11/6/16-11/8/16 – Baltimore, MD
7th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures
Presenting paper: “Stochastic mode interaction of thin-walled cold-formed steel members using modal identification”
Richard Duque
11/7/16-11/9/16 – Washington DC
Traveling to National Research Foundation to participate on a proposal review panel.

Leila Choobineh
11/11/16-11/17/16 – Phoenix, AZ
Presenting research on experimental thermal measurement of interdie thermal resistance in a two die stack.  Also serving as session co-chair and topic organizer.

Kathryn Stam
11/10/16-11/13/16 – Plainfield, MA
Participated in the Berkshire Mountains Writers Retreat at Earthdance.

Kathryn Stam
11/18/16 – Minneapolis, MN
Presented, “The Faces of Refugee Resettlement: Portraits of Cultural Change” as part of a session titled, “Culture Makers: Visual Techniques Fostering Conformity and Conflict,” at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Richard Duque
11/21/16-11/23/16 – St. Cloud, MN
Collaborateive project work at St. Cloud State University on the “Community Anti-Racist Education (CARE) International Students’ Climate Survey”
Zora Thomova
11/21/16-11/27/16 – Montreal, Canada
Research collaboration with fellow professors at the University of Montreal.
Andrea Dziubek
12/3/16-12/4/16 – Niagara Falls, Canada
“The CMS winter meetins has a special session on Structure Preserving Discretizations. Werner Bauer, who was at our workshop in Fall 2015, currently at Imperial College in London was there. Aside from interesting talks, this provided an opportunity to talk with him about the progress of our work and of his work.” – Dzibuek
Carolyn Rodak
12/12/16-12/15/16 – San Francisco, CA
Presented original research on hydraulic fracturing at the American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall meeting.  AGU is the top international conference for geophysical research and a presentation is an honor.

Shannon Pritting
12/13/16-12/14/16 – New York, NY
Attended the SUNY Research Council Meeting to be part of the discussion on the future of academic publishing.

Richard Duque
12/26/16-1/9/16 – Santiago, Chile
To re-engage with Chilean research collegues on the “Resilient Knowledge Communities, Resistant Technologies” (RESKNOTEC) Project

Roopa Vishwanathan
1/7/17-1/9/17 – San Diego, CA
To attend the National Effective Teaching Institute Workshop conducted by American Society of Engineering Education.

Michelle Kent-Landes
1/10/17-1/11/17 – Niagara University, NY
To attend the 16th Annual International Conference on Teaching and Learning

Linda Weber
Las Vegas, NV – 1/27/17-1/31/17
To present research on trust the physician-patient relationship at the AABSS Conference
VK Kool
1/28/17-2/5/17 – Ahemdabad, India
To present research at conference hosted by Qujarat Vidyapith, founded by Ghandi and to consult original documents at he library of the university to assist writing his book, Ghandi and Modern Psychology.

Ibrahim Yucel
4/11/17-4/15/17 – San Diego, CA
To present “Service Based Student Interventions with Gamification Course”