Cynthia J. Benton
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-presented a paper with Undergraduate Research Council Fellowship Awardee Jeremiah J. Best, a senior childhood education major from Inlet, N.Y. They delivered “Gender and Teaching Choice: Males’ Career Decisions and Elementary Teaching as a Profession” at the International Conference on Education held in January in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, gave two talks at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2010 held Jan. 13-16 in San Francisco, Calif. The first talk, “Displaying Mathematics with Plain HTML,” was part of a session on publishing mathematics on the Web. The second talk, “Teaching Abstract Algebra using Technology,” was part of a session on the scholarship of teaching and learning in undergraduate mathematics.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a book chapter titled “Gun Control: Constitutional Mandate or Myth?” for a book titled Moral Controversies in American Politics, to be published later this year by M.E. Sharpe.
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Emmanuel S. Nelson, English Department, presented a paper titled “Maps of Desire: James Baldwin, Europe and the Pleasures of (Homo)Sexual Exile” at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities held in January in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Chang Ki Bahng
Chang Ki Bahng, a graduate student in the Sport Management Program, was appointed an Official International Referee by the USA Taekwondo Association to officiate the 2010 United States Open International Taekwondo Championships held Feb. 10-15 in Las Vegas, Nev. The event is one of the oldest and most prestigious taekwondo championships in the world, hosted by the USA Taekwondo Association, sanctioned by the World Taekwondo Federation and sponsored by the United States Olympic Committee.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, co-authored “The Effects of Prevailing Wage Regulations on Construction Efficiency in British Columbia” with Kevin Duncan, Colorado State University-Pueblo, and Peter Philips, University of Utah. The study, which examines the effect of prevailing wage legislation on the efficiency of school construction, was published by International Journal of Construction Education and Research in 2009.
David Snyder
David Snyder, Sport Management Department, had his article, “Automatic Outs: Salary Arbitration in Nippon Professional Baseball,” published in the Fall 2009 edition of the Marquette Sports Law Review. Portions of the article were also in Japanese.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. Chicago. The McDonald case is a constitutional challenge to Chicago's strict handgun law based on a Second Amendment right to bear arms claim that asserts that the Second Amendment should also apply to the states. As of now, the amendment applies only to the federal government. In the brief, Spitzer and co-authors argue that the right of states to regulate guns should fall outside of Second Amendment's protection as first established in the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling in D.C. v. Heller. The Supreme Court held oral argument in the McDonald case on March 2.
Brent T. Wilson
Brent T. Wilson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, has been invited to present at the 13th meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association June 23–26 in Oslo, Norway. Two Speech and Hearing Science majors who completed an independent study with Wilson during the Fall 2009 semester were also invited to present. They are Alyssa J. Riehle of Webster, N.Y., and Alicia M. Gloede of Coram, N.Y.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, and Jennifer S. Tuttle of the University of New England have been nominated for the Modern Language Association’s Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters for The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (University of Alabama Press, 2009). The recipient will be selected in the fall.