subsidize three off-campus summer in-
ternships for students at the Genesee
Country Museum in Mumford, N.Y.,
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National
Historic Site in Buffalo and the World
War II Museum in Eldred, Pa.
designated in Friedsam Library for stu-
dents, especially history majors, to use
for seminars, meetings or other events.
The room has been outfitted with Skype
capability and other technologies to en-
able faculty and students to converse
with prominent historians or other im-
portant figures around the world.
work on a new blog -- bonashistory-
dept.blogspot.com -- to further enhance
the experience of current students and
aid in attracting new ones. Be sure to
visit!
sant with new digital pedagogical and re-
search tools, a two-day virtual workshop
on digital history with Dr. Jeffrey Mc-
Clurken from the University of Mary
Washington was held in March.
had met McClurken at a THATCamp
(The Humanities and Technology Camp)
workshop on digital humanities during
the 2012 annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Historical Association. The rest of
history faculty "met" with McClurken
on Skype in a room at Friedsam Memo-
rial Library. The goal was to familiarize
the faculty with trends in undergraduate
teaching, explore the possibility of incor-
porating more digital history classes into
the existing curriculum, and consider the
idea of creating a digital history program
(it would be the first one of its kind in
Western New York).
digital humanities, McClurken discussed
the field of digital history in general, fo-
cused on digitally-enabled pedagogy
with examples from his teaching, and de-
scribed some of the free online tools
available for classroom teaching. Mc-
Clurken discussed online tools Omeka,
Zotero, MapLib and other geospatial vi-
sualization tools, and wordle, among
many others, that professors can use in
tual historical exhibits, timelines, histori-
cal maps, and interactive online research
projects.
thinking with the CS department
computer science at Rochester Institute
of Technology (RIT), visited campus to
discuss developments in computer sci-
ence instruction and its curriculum with
members of the Department of Com-
puter Science.
concept of computational thinking,
which broadly seeks to enhance interest
and access to the field of computer sci-
ence, including those students who have
additional interests in the natural, social
and human sciences. The department
looks forward to a continuation of the
discussion and to strengthening faculty
and student links in computer science be-
tween St. Bonaventure and RIT.
research at EPA conference
strong history of collaborating with stu-
dents on research projects, and one of
the most tangible benefits to students of
this practice is their ability to present
their work at professional conferences.
In the past, students have been able to
attend and present their work at re-
gional, national and, occasionally, inter-
national professional conferences.
used the funds made available through
the Good Ideas initiative to allow four
students and two faculty members to at-
tend the conference of the Eastern Psy-
chological Association in Pittsburgh
March 1-4. The funds were utilized for
travel, accommodations, conference fees
and other expenses.
advantage of this experience were
Chanel Freeman, Hannah Lapp, Kerin
Schmid and Matthew Schweiger. Dr.
Gregory Privitera and Dr. Matthew
Shake attended the conference to accom-
pany the students. Freeman worked with
reliability and validity of the estimated
daily intake scale for fat."
EPA, the study was published in the
Global Journal of Health Science. Lapp,
Schmid and Schweiger worked with
Shake and presented the poster "The re-
lationship of judgments of interest to
metacomprehension."
productions in two days
theater minors, and two theater faculty,
saw four productions in two days in
Manhattan in March. They saw three
short plays, including "Glory Day," a
contemporary musical by Michael John
LaChiusa; "The Long Goodbye," an
early Tennessee Williams piece; and
Maeterlinck's classic expressionist play
"The Blind," as part of Barnard Col-
lege's Senior Thesis Play Festival.
teched and acted by students," said Dr.
Ed. Simone, SBU professor of theater.
"This was also Barnard's first Kennedy
Center/American College Theater Festi-
val entry, so it was an honor to be part
of that and respond to the productions."
The following day, the group saw the
Off-Broadway musical "Avenue Q" at
New World Stages.
funded theater major Emily West's trip
to the United States Institute for Theater
Technology national conference in Los
Angeles in March. West attended semi-
nars and workshops, and discussed her
SBU Theater design work with profes-
sionals in theatrical design. West, who
will be a senior this fall, plans to attend
graduate school for theater design.
the 10th anniversary of SBU Theater,
and will be celebrated with an exhibit in
the Quick Center for the Arts showcas-
ing photos, costumes and props. SBU
Theater will present three faculty-di-
rected/designed productions, including a
new play by Kathryn M. Coughlin, an
adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas
Carol," and a musical.