Emeritus professor of political science Bruce Altschuler will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the political science department of the CUNY Graduate Center. The award will be presented at a ceremony on May 7. The award honors a graduate “who in their work and achievements, brought recognition to CUNY, our program and faculty.”
Pamela Caraccioli, deputy to the president for external partnership and economic development and Carolina Ilie, associate professor of physics, participated in the workshop “The Power of Women in STEM: Opportunities Past, Present and Future,” which took place April 9 at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. The MedTech Association and WISE Women’s Business Center co-founded the event; SUNY Oswego is a member of MedTech.
Shannon Cilento, a senior majoring in anthropology and global and international studies with a minor in museum studies, was selected as one of the top three student historians to make presentations at the Oswego International War of 1812 Symposium last week. She presented her paper “From Rebels to Patriots: Governor Daniel D. Tompkins and the Involvement of Oswego in the War of 1812.” Currently an intern at Fort Ontario State Historic Site in Oswego, she plans to attend Cornell University to pursue a master’s degree in historic preservation planning. The other two top student presenters at the Oswego symposium were graduate students at SUNY Albany and the University of North Georgia.
Matthew Dykas, associate professor and chair of psychology, received a $5,500 grant from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation for “Circle of Security Parenting,” a community program that will partner with Oswego County Opportunities to offer attachment-based parenting classes to a dozen parents of children from infant to age 4 in the county. Craig Gilkey of Residence Life and Housing and Jahleh Mohammadi, both of whom have master’s degrees in mental health counseling from SUNY Oswego, will conduct classes this spring and summer for eight weeks for two groups of six parents each, according to Dykas’ grant proposal. Videos licensed from Circle of Security International will focus the classes on issues in infants’ and children’s need for deep and enduring emotional bonds, how parents can respond sensitively to those needs and how they can become the safe haven their children can return to throughout adolescence and into adulthood. The ultimate goal is to reduce instances of child maltreatment in Oswego County, according to the proposal.
Eight honors students made presentations at the 2015 Northeast Regional Honors Council annual conference, held April 9 to 12 in Gettysburg, with the theme “Battlefields of Change.” Victoria Love, Carson Metcalf and Justine Polonski participated in a roundtable on sustaining honors teaching and learning. Their presentation was “Common Obstacles Aided by Seminar Leaders.” In a second roundtable with the same theme, Timothy Bowman and Serena Testone presented “Battling Change: From Nothing to an Honors Student Advisory Board.” Professor of English Robert Moore of Oswego’s Honors Program moderated that roundtable. Three students gave talks. Claire Cerra spoke on “The Battlefield of the American Workplace, Poetry and the Working Class.” Mollie Clarke spoke on “The Underground Battle: Representation of Organized Crime in American Fiction” in a panel entitled “Battlefields of Power.” Kimberlyn Bailey presented “The Recipe Model of Mental Disorders and Its Use as a Psychotherapeutic Tool” in a session entitled “Battlefield of Medicine.” Professor of history Gwen Kay of Oswego’s Honors Program moderated both of these sessions. Pictured from left: Metcalf, Love, Polonski, Bowman, Testone, Clarke and Cerra.
Representatives from the School of Education made presentations at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held April 16 to 20 in Chicago. Bruce Long Peng, Jean Ann, Pat Russo and Anneke McEvoy presented “Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation: Promises and Challenges.” McEvoy and Barbara Garii, formerly of SUNY Oswego, presented “Clinically Rich in Action: Pathways to Induction and Implementation.”
K. Brad Wray, professor of philosophy, has published a contribution to the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. His contribution is titled “The History of Epistemic Communities and Collaborative Research.”
Several Oswego students made presentations at the Rochester Symposium for Physics Students, held at SUNY Oswego April 11. At the opening session, on astronomy, three presentations were by Oswego students: Daniel Wysocki presented “Morphology of the Large Magellanic Cloud Using Classical Cepheids,” co-authored with Oswego professor Shashi Kanbur and Sukanta Deb and Harinder P. Singh of the University of Delhi; Vincent DeBiase and Gabriel Lauffer Ramos presented “Conditional Entropy Methods for Period Detection in Variable Stars”; and Kenneth Roffo and Michael Leone presented “Fourier Analysis of CSTAR RR Lyrae Variable Stars.” Oswego students presented six posters: “Spectral Analysis of French Horn and Trumpet Mouthpieces” by Josh Bivens; “Temperature Dependence of the Saturation Magnetization in Ferromagnetic Metallic Glasses” by Andrew Bordash and Jacob Mills; “Thin Film Solar Cells: Enhancing Efficiency Using Various Nanoparticles” by Martin Dann with professor Carolina C. Ilie; “Physics in Video Games: Using Numerical Methods to Simulate Newtonian Physics” by Timothy Dougherty; “Capillary Condensation Transitions and Meniscus: Parallel Planes, Nanotubes, and Wedges” by Dylan J. McIntyre, Nicholas C. Jira, M.T. Romano, J.R. D’Rozario, T. Dougherty, M. Guedes-Duarte and Ilie; and “The Brain as a Universe: Misconceptions and Limitation in Brain Theories” by Marie Romano.
In Memoriam
John Glinski, 85, emeritus professor of health and physical education and former athletic director and coach of basketball, baseball and tennis, died April 13 in Charleston, South Carolina.