Graham Bradley of the atmospheric and geological sciences faculty has received $1,153 from St. Lawrence University to support his contribution this summer to the project “Salvage Excavations of Group R-183, an Ancient Maya Metalworking Houselot at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico.” Elizabeth H. Paris of St. Lawrence’s anthropology department leads the project, which is funded by a grant from the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Lisa Evaneski, associate dean of students and Title IX coordinator, was selected to participate with representatives of SUNY General Counsel, New York State Department of Health and the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault at the action planning meeting for sexual violence prevention on college and university campuses, sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Public Health Association in Atlanta in July. This meeting is a part of “Not Alone: The First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.”

Sophomore Danielle Grasmeder rode Peppy to a National Reining Horse Association individual open reining championship while representing the Oswego State equestrian team in the International Horse Show Association finals May 2 in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Grasmeder, a marketing major from Queensbury, and three other top finishers in the NRHA individual open reining event earned the opportunity to participate in the annual NRHA Derby at the end of June in Oklahoma City, according to an article in the American Quarter Horse Journal.

Shashi Kanbur, professor and chair of physics, is a co-author of a paper selected for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. The paper is titled “Period-Luminosity Relations Derived from the OGLE-III Fundamental Mode Cepheids II: The Small Magellanic Cloud Cepheids.” The lead author is Chow-Choong Ngeow of Taiwan’s National Central University and co-authors include Anupam Bhardwaj and H.P. Singh. In addition, Kanbur is a member of international teams that have obtained observing time on two satellites. He is on the working group for Cepheids and RR Lyraes for a recently launched Kepler satellite. Two Oswego undergraduates will participate with this group and may be able to visit Konkoly Observatory in Hungary in connection with this project. Katrien Kohlenberg of the Institute of Astronomy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium leads the project. Kanbur is also part of a team of Taiwanese and U.S. astronomers that obtained observing time on the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope to observe Cepheids in M33 in the H band, a project that is important for the extra-galactic distance scale and efforts to measure Hubble’s constant to better than 3 percent accuracy independent of the cosmic microwave background. Ngeow leads that project.

Joshua S. McKeown, director of international education and programs, was recently named to the technical review panel on clarifying study abroad enrollment for the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics in Washington, D.C. The panel is part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). He will attend meetings June 23 and 24 in Washington.

Kristen Munger of the counseling and psychological services faculty; Michelle Bandla, coordinator of first-year programs; Amy Plotner, director of human resources; and Mallory Bower, associate director of Career Services, pictured left to right, graduated May 29 from Leadership Oswego County. Offered by SUNY Oswego’s Office of Business and Community Relations, Leadership Oswego County teaches a select group of county residents community trusteeship, leadership skills, current issues and networking to a diverse group of community residents. This group embarks on a nine-month course of intensive study of leadership skills, Oswego County and its resources, vital issues of today and visioning for tomorrow. Key community members teach participants about the skills and knowledge needed to be effective leaders. Graduates of the program are better prepared to serve the community in the roles of board member, citizen, employee or to volunteer with organizations that serve Central New York.

The animated film “A Winter’s Tale,” directed and animated by cinema and screen studies May graduate Peter Myers, won honorable mention at the SUNY-wide Film Festival held April 24 to 26 at SUNY Oswego. Myers also directed the photography and designed the sound. Jesse Malone, a senior in cinema and screen studies, produced the film. Emily Stott, a junior with majors in cinema and screen studies and theater, designed costumes. Evan Maroun, a cinema and screen studies May graduate, did secondary character animation.

A paper titled “On the Detection of Heteroscedasticity by Using CUSUM Range Distribution” by Amapalavanar Nanthakumar of the mathematics faculty, Shashi Kanbur of the physics faculty and Erika Wilson, a senior who graduated in May with a major in applied mathematics and a minor in applied statistics, has been accepted for publication by the International Journal of Statistics and Probability.

Tim Nekritz, associate director of communications and marketing and director of digital communications, presented two versions of “6 Suggestions for Successful Student Storytelling” at regional conferences this month. Senior communication major Lizzy Marks joined him to lend her perspective for a presentation to an overflow crowd at the SUNYCUAD Educational Conference, June 3 to 5 in Rochester. Nekritz partnered with Christopher D’Orso, assistant director of enrollment communication at Stony Brook University, for a similar presentation at the HighEd Web New York conference June 11 and 12 in Ithaca. The presentations highlighted how Oswego and other colleges partner with students through tactics like blogging, social media internships, Instagram takeovers, incoming student Facebook groups and more to support strategic institutional goals.

Michael Schummer of the biological sciences faculty teamed with scientists from four other SUNY colleges recently to win a $9,600 SUNY 4E grant titled “Developing a New York Waterfowl and Wetlands Collaborative Network.” The grant will enable SUNY Oswego to host a meeting in July to launch “a SUNY-based network of scientists, managers, stakeholders and educators to share information and develop action items aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of science-based conservation, restoration and management for waterfowl and other wetland wildlife” around the state. The grant application said the network would be modeled on one that Schummer has co-coordinated the past four years, the Great Lakes Wetlands and Waterfowl Partners Forum in Michigan, Ohio and Ontario. Along with Schummer, co-principal investigators of the SUNY 4E—Network of Excellence in Energy, Environment, Education and Economics—grant are SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s James P. Gibbs, professor of invertebrate biology, and Jonathan Cohen, assistant professor of environmental and forest biology; Jacob N. Straub and Rachel E. Schultz, assistant professors in SUNY Plattsburgh’s Center for Earth and Environmental Science; Douglas A. Wilcox, Empire Innovation Professor of Wetland Science at SUNY Brockport; and Michael P. Lotito, professor of wildlife management and conservation science at SUNY Cobleskill.

Rose Throop, director of publications, was on a panel of printing experts presenting “Don’t Stop the Presses! SUNY Print Matters: Your Statewide Shared Printing Service” at the 2015 SUNYCUAD Educational Conference, June 3 to 5 in Rochester. Print Matters is a consortium of in-plant printers serving faculty and staff of the 64 SUNY institutions. The presentation highlighted broad shared-service offerings and progress updates on the Print Matters initiative. Other panel members included Catherine Chambers, director of print and mail services at Alfred State; James Kanous, manager of printing services at SUNY Brockport; Kirk Starczewski, director of publications at Empire State College; and Dan Wilson, director of campus services for SUNY Potsdam.

Danny Ziemann, the double bass instructor in the music department, won second prize ($1,000) in the jazz division of the International Society of Bassists double bass performance competition, held June 1 and 2 in conjunction with the bassists’ annual convention at Colorado State University. The panel of six judges included musical luminaries Rufus Reid and Buster Williams. Ziemann also did a presentation of his new bass method book, “The Low Down,” for more than 50 bassists and educators at the convention.


In Memoriam

Daniel P. Barach, 84, emeritus professor of music, died May 10 at his home in Oswego.

George D. O’Connell, 88, emeritus professor of art, died May 11 in the Manor at Seneca Hill.