Nov. 19, 2009 - Fr. Xavier Seubert, O.F.M., director of the visual arts program, will be giving a lecture at The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. The title of his talk is "The Mary-Eve Parallel in Medieval Art."
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Nov. 12, 2009 - Rodney Paul, Ph.D., professor of economics in the Department of Finance, had the paper “Sportsbook Pricing and the Behavioral Biases of Bettors in the NHL” accepted for publication by the Journal of Economics and Finance. This paper presents the results of the research that was the basis for his invited presentation at the University of Alberta last December.
He also had the paper “Competitive Balance in the NFL?” accepted for publication as a chapter in the book “Sport and Economics,” which is being published by the Hamburg Institute of International Economics in the first quarter of 2010.
On Oct. 23, 2009, St. Bonaventure hosted meetings of the Cattaraugus County and Allegany County counselors associations. The Cattaraugus County Counselors Association held a regular monthly meeting, while the Allegany County counselors did likewise plus heard from two St. Bonaventure faculty members. Addressing the group were Dr. Tom Delaney, professor of counselor education, who spoke on “Social Anxiety Disorder,” and Dr. Alan Silliker, associate professor of counselor education, who discussed “Student Success Skills,” an empirically validated approach to bridging the academic achievement gap in middle and high schools. Silliker and Monica Emery, director of recruitment, serve as SBU’s representatives to the Cattaraugus County group and Bruce Campbell, director of graduate admissions, is the representative to the Allegany County Counselors Association.
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Nov. 4, 2009 - Dr. Julie Hens, assistant professor of biology, was a moderator for oral presentations at the Rochester Academy of Science’s Research Exposition on Oct 31, 2009, held at Roberts Wesleyan College. Her students John Nuttall and Aashish Kumar presented their research at this event. Nuttall’s oral presentation was “Cadherin-11 regulation during mammary gland development” and Kumar’s poster presentation was “The role of cadherin-11 during lung development.”
Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of business information systems, Kathleen Premo, lecturer in management sciences, and Ernest Kallenbach, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, presented their paper titled “Costs and Benefits of Foreign Educational Travel Programs” at the Allied Academies 2009 Fall International Conference held in Las Vegas, Nev., on October 14-16, 2009. The paper’s abstract was also published in the Academy for Studies in International Business.
Dr. John Mulryan, Board of Trustees Professor of English, gave two papers during the month of October. On October 15th, he presented a paper at the international Milton conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee: “Is Milton’s Shakespeare better than Shakespeare’s Shakespeare? Gender Ambiguity in Macbeth and Paradise Lost. On October 24th, he presented a second paper at the Fall meeting of the New York College English Association, which met at Niagara Community College: “Milton as Risk Taker, from Birth to Imminent Death.”
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Oct. 27, 2009 - Andrea F. Barone, educational coordinator in the School of Franciscan Studies, was appointed as a consulting editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics. The journal is a publication of the University of Illinois and the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Dr. Joel H. Benington, professor of biology, presented “Why Are Humans Altruistic” at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., on Oct. 1, 2009.
Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, and Edward D. King, 2005 SBU alum, had an article titled “What Every New Forestland Owner Should Know” published in the September 2009 issue of the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly. The article reviewed a number of topics that any new timber owner must know in order to succeed in a forestland business. This article is King's 22nd article published in the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly since 2000.
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Oct. 22, 2009 - Dr. Steven K. Andrianoff, associate professor of computer science, and Dr. David B. Levine, professor of computer science, presented “Twenty Five Years of Outreach Programs at Saint Bonaventure University: Girls’ Day and the High School Programming Contest” at the inaugural Fall conference of the Western New York chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association on Oct. 16, 2009. Andrianoff and Levine are both founding members of the association and helped to organize this year’s conference at Erie Community College’s North campus in Buffalo.
In addition, Levine served as a panelist presenting “The importance of teaching learning logical problem solving skills early in a student's computer science education.” He also serves as the chapter’s treasurer. The Western New York CSTA supports and promotes the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines at K-16 institutions in western New York.
Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of business information systems, Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, and Kimberly DeSimone, lecturer of marketing, presented their paper “The Virtual World: An Environment for Undergraduate Learning” at the Allied Academies 2009 Fall International Conference held in Las Vegas, N.V., on Oct. 14-16, 2009. The paper was also published in the Academy of Educational Leadership Proceedings.
Dr. Jean François Godet-Calogeras, professor of Franciscan studies, attended a conference on the Rule of the Friars Minor in Assisi, Oct. 8-10, 2009, and presented a paper on the development of the Franciscan life from 1209 to 1223: “Dalla ‘Forma vitae’ alla ‘Regula bullata’ e il Testamento di frate Francesco.”
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Oct. 14, 2009 - Bruce Campbell, director of graduate admissions, spoke with new Western New York AmeriCorps Builds Lives through Education (ABLE) volunteers during a training session Oct. 8, 2009, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. During his presentation, Campbell spoke with the volunteers about graduate study opportunities at St. Bonaventure, how SBU now matches their AmeriCorps Education Award, and state and federal loan forgiveness programs.
The Western New York AmeriCorps’ ABLE program serves educational providers across the region, through one-on-one and small group tutoring, after-school programming, and volunteer recruitment. St. Bonaventure is the only college in Western New York to offer matching graduate school awards for AmeriCorps Education Award program.
Dr. Patrick K. Dooley, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, presented “Theodore Roosevelt, Author, Hunter and Ranchman in the North Dakota Badlands” at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Western American Literature Association, Spearfish, S.D., on Oct. 2, 2009. In recognition of Dooley’s service to the Western American Literature, including giving presentations on such figures as Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Norman Maclean, Edward Abbey and Robinson Jeffers at every annual meeting from 1997 to 2009, he was elected to the WLA’s Executive Committee.
Also, Dooley presented “Mark Twain on the Intelligence of ‘Savages’ and the ‘Benefits of Civilization’” at the sixth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College on Aug. 7, 2009.
An article in Choice (October 09 Vol. 47, No. 2 911) cites Phillip Payne, Ph.D., associate professor of history, and his book “Dead Last” about Warren G. Harding.
The role that history, scandal, and memory has played in establishing President Warren G. Harding’s dismal reputation is beautifully laid out by historian Payne. Virtually everyone agrees that if Harding was not the nation’s worst president, he was among the worst. This book is a refreshing look at the Harding legacy based on a deep understanding of the age in which this tragedy took place. The scope of the author’s research is impressive, and lays the foundation for his conclusion about the man and the myth. Probably because Harding’s reputation is so bad, he continues to capture the interest of the nation’s writers. The author’s discussion of these writers, whether of fact or fiction, provides a fascinating portrait of why Harding’s reputation has evolved over time. Payne demonstrates how Harding is often linked to modern presidencies, such as William J. Clinton or George W. Bush, in unflattering comparisons. His discussion of “Wiki-History” in the last chapter along is worth the book’s price. Payne’s reappraisal of the Harding myth is first-rank scholarship and makes an impressive contribution to the debates about the life and misfortunes of Warren Harding. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. — D. L. Wilson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Constance Pierce, associate professor in visual and performing arts, has been invited to exhibit a series of her art works, which were completed during her recent spring sabbatical, at the Toyota Museum of Modern Art in Nagoya, Japan, in the exhibition titled "Art on Paper 2010."
Pierce presented a solo exhibition titled “Sketchbooks and Illustrated Journals" in the Divinity Library of Yale University in New Haven in April 2009. She also exhibited her oil painting "Lacrymosa: Crucifixion of Darfur" in the 2009 Ursuline College Juried Exhibition through the summer of 2009.
Pierce conducted a hands-on graduate seminar in "Imaging Journal: Creative Renewal and the Inward Journey” for graduate students in the Art Therapy Counseling Department of Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio, in May. She offered a public lecture on “Imaging Journals: Creative Renewal and the Inward Journey” at Ursuline College prior to the seminar.
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Oct. 8, 2009 - John Mulryan, Board of Trustees Professor of English, Steven Brown, Professor of Classical Languages, and Bruce Swann, Classics Librarian at the University of Illinois, are now under contract to produce an annotated translation of L.G. Giraldi’s “De Deis Gentium,” an extensive commentary on classical myth, first published in Basel Switzerland, in 1548. This will be the first translation of the Latin text in any language. The contract is with ACMRS, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Oct. 1, 2009 - Dr. Robert Amico co-authored "Infusing Diversity in the Sciences and Professional Disciplines" with Susan Shaw and Donna Champeau of Oregon State University. The article appears in the current issue of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) "Diversity and Democracy" publication, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2009. It can be accessed online at www.diversityweb.org/DiversityDemocracy/vol12no3/shaw.cfm.
Dr. Rodney Paul, professor of economics in the Department of Finance, and Dr. Mark Wilson, assistant professor of economics in the Department of Finance, had the paper "Using Betting Market Odds to Measure the Uncertainty of Outcome in Major League Baseball" accepted for publication in the International Journal of Sports Finance.
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Sept. 23, 2009 - Dr. Dalton R. Hunkins, chair of the Department of Computer Science, had his electronic textbook, “Computer Graphics: An Introduction with OpenGL,” accepted for publication on the public domain site CGEMS (Computer Graphics Educational Materials Service - http://cgems.inesc.pt/. The “book” provides the means for a student user to explore the core topics of an introductory computer graphics course through the use of more than 35 interactive programs with supporting html pages.
Dr. Rodney Paul, professor of economics in the Department of Finance, had the paper “Are Behavioral Biases Consistent Across the Atlantic?” accepted for publication in the Journal of Gambling Business and Economics. The paper studies fan and bettor preferences for scoring in European soccer and compares the results to similar biases found in the most popular North American sports.
Also, Paul gave an invited presentation at the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne at the University of Paris - Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. The presentation was part of the First European Conference in Sports Economics, which included participants from Europe and around the world. The conference included presentations by frequent Financial Times contributor Stefan Szymanski and a representative of UEFA (Union of European Football Associations — who was a sponsor of the event).
For the 15th consecutive year, Dr. Leslie M. Sabina, professor of music, has been honored with an ASCAPLUS award. This award, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, recognizes established composers whose main activity is outside of broadcast media, and whose catalogs have prestige value for which they would not otherwise be
compensated.
Additionally, Sabina’s publisher, Kendor Music Inc., has recently released two of Sabina’s latest big band compositions, “Brouhaha” and “Seismic Strut.” A recording session that will feature the two works is scheduled for January 2010 in Denver, Colo.
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Sept. 16, 2009 - Dr. Kimberly Young, professor of management sciences, was interviewd by The Associated Press and CNN regarding her research on Internet addiction. She was quoted in an Associated Press article about new treatment centers opening for Internet addiction and possible inclusion of the disorder in the DSM-V. She was also interviewed by CNN regarding a probe by the Chinese government after reports that a 14-year-old boy was allegedly beaten at a boot camp for Internet addiction in China.
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Dr. John Mulryan, Board of Trustees Professor of English, has published an article in the Ben Jonson Journal, 2009, titled “The Primrose Way to the Everlasting Bonfire: The Choice of Hercules in Jonson, Shakespeare, and Milton.”
Kristin Paul, lecturer in the Department of Finance, and Dr. Rodney Paul, professor of finance, had the paper “Noise Trading and Pointspread Movements in the NCAA Football Betting Market” accepted for publication in the Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics.
Dr. Barbara Trolley, professor in the School of Education, is the lead presenter among her editorial board, addressing "A Marriage between Practice and Publication: We're All in this Together." Trolley, the editor of the New York State School Counseling Journal, and her colleagues will be making this presentation in October 2009 at the annual New York State School Counselor Association Conference in Syracuse.
Dr. Charles Walker, professor of psychology, gave the keynote address at the Fall Convocation of Raritan Valley College in Somerville, N.J. He was invited to speak on "Constructive and Destructive Roles of Rumor & Gossip Within a College Community." In addition, he has had an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Positive Psychology titled "Experiencing Flow: Is Doing It Together Better Than Doing It Alone?" In this article he reports a program of three studies conducted over the last nine years with students in his social psychology laboratory. All three studies support the conclusion that experiencing flow alone is enjoyable but not as enjoyable as when experienced with others. His article will appear in the next issue of this leading journal in the new field of positive psychology.