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May 2, 2018

Dr. Robin Maria Valeri

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Professor of Psychology, School of Arts & Sciences

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Dr. Robin Maria Valeri, Capt. Christopher Ward (New York City Fire Department) and Dustin Kowalik (SBU class of '20) presented their research, "Assessing the Human Threat to Members of the Fire Service," on April 18 at the 2018 Intelligence Liaison Officer Conference in Utica, N.Y. On April 14 and 15, Valeri completed training at the National Fire Academy as a Youth Firesetter Program Manager.

Apr 18, 2018

Jandoli School of Communication

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Faculty, Jandoli School of Communication

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Jandoli School faculty members Anne Lee and Dr. Richard Lee participated in a Bruce Springsteen academic conference from April 12-15. Rich presented a paper, "I’m Bruce Springsteen, and I Approved This Message," in which he explored Springsteen’s viability as a political candidate, based on analyses he gathered from 17 political and music experts. During a session titled “When the Promise Was Broken: Plays Inspired by Bruce Springsteen,” Anne read the part of Springsteen’s mother in a short play written by the panel moderator. She also attended sessions on Springsteen and gender to gather material for the Women, Minorities and Media course she teaches. The conference, "Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town: An International Symposium," took place at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. According to the conference website, the symposium featured “an international roster of participants, as well as a host of keynote speakers and musical acts celebrating the life and times of the Jersey Shore and popular music.”

Apr 18, 2018

Mark Phillips

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Tutor, HEOP

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Two excerpts from "Love and Hate in the Heartland," a new book by Mark Phillips, were recently published in magazines. One excerpt, titled “Growing Up with Racists,” appeared in Salon, and can be read here. The second excerpt, titled “Ahead of Darkness,” appeared in Notre Dame Magazine, and can be read here.

Apr 18, 2018

School of Business

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Professor of Business Information Systems, Professor of Management

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Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of business information systems, Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, and Dr. Todd S. Palmer, associate professor of management, had their paper titled “Recreational Use of the Internet: An Examination of Undergraduate Business Students" published in the Proceedings of the 2018 International Academy of Business Disciplines 30th Annual Conference.

Apr 18, 2018

School of Arts & Sciences

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Professor Emeritus of Classics, Professor Emeritus of English

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The University of Reims in France designated March 23 as a "study day" devoted to Natale Conti's "Mythologiae," a text first translated into English by Dr. John Mulryan, professor emeritus of English, and Dr. Steven Brown, professor emeritus of classics. In addition, Mulryan has accepted the editorship of the Renaissance volume in the series "A Cultural History of Myth," which is edited by Eric Ziolkowski and Robert Segal (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Co.).

Apr 18, 2018

School of Arts & Sciences

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Department of English and Department of Classics

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Dr. David Matz, professor of classics, participated in a roundtable discussion on the topic of Classics Today at the Northeast Modern Languages Association annual convention in Pittsburgh on April 13. His presentation was titled “Keeping the Classics Alive at a Small Liberal-Arts University.” Dr. Lauren Matz, professor of English, presented a paper, “’Some little whiff of God’: Metaphor and Faith in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle (1948),” at the Northeast Modern Languages Association annual convention in Pittsburgh on April 13. Her presentation was part of a session on post-World War II British literature.

Apr 18, 2018

Dr. Kimberly Young

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Director, Strategic Leadership Program and Professor, Communication

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Dr. Kimberly Young, director of the Strategic Leadership Program and professor of communication in the Jandoli School of Communication, presented a keynote address at the International Conference on Behavioral Addictions in Cologne, Germany. Her presentation, "Understanding Internet Addiction 20 Years Later," chronicled the discovery and history of internet addiction as a new psychological condition. The presentation included milestone events in the development of internet addiction as well as new standardized assessment tools and evidenced-based treatment techniques for practitioners that have evolved over the last 20 years. The presentation also reviewed areas for future research, given the rapid growth in technology advances that furthers new changes in the field.

Apr 4, 2018

Center for Attention, Learning, and Memory

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Center for Attention, Learning, and Memory

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Dr. Adam Brown and Dr. Althea Need Kaminske (formerly Bauernschmidt) published their book "Five Teaching and Learning Myths - Debunked" in March. Drawing from research in developmental and educational psychology, cognitive science, and the learning sciences, "Five Teaching and Learning Myths―Debunked" addresses some of the most commonly misunderstood educational and cognitive concerns in teaching and learning. Multitasking, problem-solving, attention, testing, and learning styles are all integral to student achievement but, in practice, are often muddled by pervasive myths. In a straightforward, easily digestible format, this book unpacks the evidence for or against each myth, explains the issues concisely and with credible evidence, and provides busy K-12 teachers with actionable strategies for their classrooms and lesson plans. Brown and Kaminske also held their second workshop in their Better Teaching Through Research Series on March 10. Fifteen faculty and staff from across the university attended the workshop focused on the research behind using retrieval practice in the classroom. To learn more about CALM, visit their website at sbucalm.blog or email them at CALM@sbu.edu.

Apr 4, 2018

Dr. Anne Foerst

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Associate Professor, Computer Science

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Dr. Anne Foerst attended an invitation-only workshop on "Loving Machines" at the Lincoln Theological Institute at Manchester University, UK.

Apr 4, 2018

Dr. Althea Need Kaminske

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Co-Director, Center for Attention, Learning, and Memory

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Dr. Althea Need Kaminske (formerly Bauernschmidt) recently joined the Learning Scientists as a collaborator. The Learning Scientists are an international group of cognitive psychologists whose vision is to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators. They can be found on the web at learningscientists.org or on Twitter at @AceThatTest.

Apr 4, 2018

Dr. Diana Lawrence-Brown

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Professor, School of Education

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Dr. Diana Lawrence-Brown presented three papers at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Meeting. Topics included assistive technologies, which was the featured presentation for the Inclusive Education Special Interest Group, and "Becoming Advocates: The Role of Transformative Experience" (research in progress).

Mar 14, 2018

Chris Brown

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Director of First-Year Experience & Orientation

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Chris Brown served as the chair for educational sessions at the Region IX conference for NODA, the Association of Orientation Transition and Retention in Higher Education. In addition to his role on the planning committee, he presented an educational session at the conference. His session, "The Questions We Dread," explored communication strategies to respond to difficult, invasive, and inappropriate questions from new students and their family members.

Mar 14, 2018

Dr. Doug Cashing

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Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

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Dr. Doug Cashing's article titled "An Informal Justification for Selected Degree-of-Freedom Formulae" was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Teaching Statistics. Cashing also presented on the topic at the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State Conference on November 3, 2017.

Mar 14, 2018

Jandoli School of Communication

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Jandoli School of Communication Faculty and Staff

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A research project prepared by Jandoli School faculty and students was presented Saturday, March 10, at the 2018 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference at New York University. The study, “Dawkins vs. Lautenberg: Exploring the Impact of New Jersey’s 1988 U.S. Senate Campaign,” was presented by faculty members Anne and Richard Lee and students Christian Gravius and Nicholas Youngs. Students Tyler Grudi, Michael Nelson and Sarah Waychoff assisted with the research. In their presentation, the Jandoli School faculty and students suggested that the campaign had long-term implications on politics, media and democracy because it helped fuel an era in which negative ads and personal attacks dominated political campaigns and news coverage, placing less focus on important public policy issues and ultimately leading to a less educated and informed electorate. In the years that followed the election, several of the consultants who worked on the campaign, among them Roger Ailes, Paul Begala, James Carville and Roger Stone, helped shape the nation’s political climate. The Jandoli School presentation was part of a “Politick & Rhetoric: Mass Communication Across the Political Spectrum” panel at the conference, which took place in NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. The one-day interdisciplinary conference was co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Mar 14, 2018

Dr. Richard Lee

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Associate Professor and Director of the Integrated Marketing Communications Program

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Dr. Richard Lee was quoted in a March 6, 2018, Columbia Journalism Review story about investigative reporting. The article can be read here.

Mar 14, 2018

School of Business

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Christy A. Williams and Dr. Paul G. Barretta

School of Business, Marketing Department

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Christy A. Williams, an adjunct professor in the School of Business, and Dr. Paul G. Barretta, assistant professor and Marketing Department chair, had an article titled “Beer Purchase Decisions & Consumption Behavior" accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of BRC Journal of Advances in Business. The research effort was the subject of an independent study research project conducted by Williams when she was a student in the MBA Program; it was presented at a conference last year before being revised for journal submission. In addition to being an adjunct faculty member and graduate of the St. Bonaventure University MBA Program, Williams has experience working at Try-It Distributing Co. and is now key accounts manager (Northeast) at Founders Brewing Company.

Mar 14, 2018

School of Business

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School of Business Faculty

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Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of business information systems, and Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, had their paper titled “Internet Trolling Victimization: An Empirical Examination of Incidence in Undergraduate Business Students" published in the Research in Higher Education Journal.

Feb 21, 2018

Dr. Margaret Jones-Carey

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Assistant Professor and Director of Educational Leadership

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In December of 2017, Dr. Margaret Jones-Carey, with colleagues from Niagara University and Daemen College, presented "Instructional Strategies in Literacy That Support Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students" at the American Reading Forum in Florida.

Feb 21, 2018

Dr. Paula J. Scraba O.S.F.

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Associate Professor

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Dr. Paula Scraba O.S.F., a 2005 graduate of the School of Franciscan Studies, along with Bonaventure alumns from two Franciscan universities, will present two sessions at the 2018 Association of Franciscan Universities and Colleges Symposium, to be held June 5-7, 2018, at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill. The symposium theme is "With Living Stones: Building a Franciscan Future…Together."

Along with Rick Trietley, vice president for Student Affairs at Viterbo University, Scraba will be presenting “Student Veterans are the Living Stones for Building a Franciscan Future Together.”

Together with Sr. Anita Holzmer, O.S.F., vice president for Mission at the University of St. Francis at Ft. Wayne, Ind., Scraba will be presenting "Embracing the Franciscan Imagination" through “Build With Living Stones.” Scraba and Holzmer are members of the Editorial Board for the Franciscan Institute Publication "Build With Living Stones." They are also both national facilitators for the Franciscan Institute’s Build With Living Stones Program.

Feb 21, 2018

Dr. Robin Valeri

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Psychology Professor, Psychology Department

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In January 2018, Dr. Robin Valeri had two co-authored research methods case studies published by Sage: Valeri, R. M. & Borgeson (January 2018). Understanding the Complexity of Gay Skinhead Identity Through Case Studies. Sage Research Methods Cases. Valeri, R. M. Sweazy, & Borgeson (January 2018). Exploring Skinhead Identity and Culture Through a Content Analysis of Skinhead Webpages and Social Network Pages. Sage Research Methods Cases.

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