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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.

Feb 21, 2018

Dr. Hossein Sarrafzadeh

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Professor and Director of the Cybersecurity Program

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Dr. Hossein Sarrafzadeh published several articles and papers, along with making a number of appearances and interviews, in 2017 and 2018.

JOURNALS:

Dadgostar, F., Sarrafzadeh, A. (2018). Gesture-based human–machine interfaces: a novel approach for robust hand and face tracking. J Comp Sci (2018). Springer Intl Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42044-018-0005-6.
Zhu, L., Ikeda K., Pang S., Ban T., Sarrafzadeh, A. (2018). Merging weighted SVMs for parallel incremental learning, Neural Networks 100, pp. 25–38.
Sharifzadeh, H., HajiRassouliha, A., McLoughlin, I., Ardekani, I., Allen, J., Sarrafzadeh, A. (2017). A training-based speech regeneration approach with cascading mapping models, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Vol 62, Aug, pp. 601-611.
Pang, P., Komosny, P., Zhu, L., Zhang, R., Sarrafzadeh, A., Ban, T., Inoue, D. (2017). Malicious Events Grouping via Behavior Based Darknet Traffic Flow Analysis, Wireless Personal Communications 96, (4), pp 5335–5353. doi: 10.1007/s11277-016-3744

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Pang, S., Zhao, J., Hartill, B., & Sarrafzadeh, A. (2017). Modelling land water composition scene for maritime traffic surveillance [In press]. Intl Journal of Applied Pattern Recog, 3(4), pp.324-350.
Hach, S., Baghaei, N., Jauny, R., Hayward, C., & Sarrafzadeh, A. (in press). MoodRush: Designing a Language-free Mobile App for Mood Self-assessment. Proceedings of 7th EAI Intl Conf on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, Springer.
Zhao, J., Pang, S., Hartill, B., Sarrafzadeh, A. (2017). Class-Wised Image Enhancement for Moving Object Detection at Maritime Boat Ramps, International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Nov 14-16, pp. 675-685.

SPEECHES:

Sarrafzadeh, A. (2017). Multinational cybersecurity center in Western New York: The vision and requirements, AI in CyberSecurity Summit, Suzhou, Nov 10-13. Keynote
Sarrafzadeh, A. (2017). Impact of emerging intelligent systems technologies on our knowledge economies. International Conference on Computer Science and AI, December 5-7, Indonesia.

Additionally, throughout 2017 and 2018, Sarrafzadeh has collaborated with 22nd Century Tech, participated in an SBU-TV interview, acted as Chair of the International Conference on Computer Science & AI in Indonesia, was a reviewer for multiple conferences in the area of computer science and security, as well as Steering Committee Member and Session Chair of the Privacy Security and Trust Conference in Calgary. Sarrafzadeh also gave multiple presentations at St. Bonaventure University and was the Sponsorship Chair for the 25th International Conference on Computers in Education.

Feb 7, 2018

Dr. Robin Valeri

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Professor, Psychology Department

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In November 2017, Dr. Robin Valeri, together with Erik Furgal (SBU 2017) and Samantha Gier (SBU 2019), presented "The State of the Islamic State: From Physical World to Virtual Reality" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Valeri also presented, along with Kevin Burgeson (SBU 2017), Josiely Reyes (SBU 2017) and Cynthia Symons, "Lifting the Veil: Religiously Motivated Hate Crimes Against Veiled Women" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology.

Valeri and Burgeson also recently co-authored the book "Skinhead History, Identity, and Culture" New York, N.Y.: Routledge. On November 8, 2017, Valeri was asked to present a talk on "The Proliferation of Hate" at the Prendergast Library, Jamestown, N.Y.

Feb 6, 2018

Mark Phillips

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Tutor, Higher Education Opportunity Program

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An essay by Mark Phillips was published in the print and online editions of the February 9 Commonweal. His essay, titled “How to Fell a Tree,” reflects on the cost and dignity of physical work. A slightly different version of the essay will be published in his collection Love and Hate in the Heartland: dispatches from forgotten America forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing in April 2018. “How to Fell a Tree” can be read here: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/how-fell-tree

Feb 6, 2018

Dr. Michael Chiariello

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Professor Emeritus, Philosophy Department

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Dr. Michael Chiariello is living in Perugia, Italy, where he continues his work with the board of the Romeyne Robert and Uguccione Sorbello Foundation. On February 8, he will present an invited paper titled “Postmodernita, ideologia e rationalita` nel Manifesto Communista: il Marxisme come teoria e metateoria,” at La cantina associazione filosofica di Lugo. “La cantina” (literally “the cellar,” after its historic meeting site) comprises faculty from several universities and non-academic professionals in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The paper is a translation of “Postmodernity, Ideology and Rationality in the Communist Manifesto” originally presented at the national conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses in April 2016.

On April 19, Chiariello will present “John Wisdom’s Parable of the Invisible Gardener and the Nature of Religious Belief” at the Association for Core Texts and Courses conference.

In June, he will present “The Moral Challenge of Global Hunger” at the International Conference on Exploring Ethics Through Food Choices, which is sponsored by the Food Studies Program of the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy.

Feb 6, 2018

Dr. Kimberly Young

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Professor, Director of the Masters in Strategic Leadership Program

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Dr. Kimberly Young had an invited paper, "Internet Gaming Disorder in the 21st Century: Development and Implications," published in the Journal of Behavioral Addiction for their special issue on Internet Addiction. The paper was co-authored with Dr. Mathias Brand, director of the Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Feb 6, 2018

Robbie Chulick

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Assistant Director, Center for Activities, Recreation and Leadership

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Robbie Chulick, ’13, ’15, will present to various student leaders across the country at the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA) National Conference, on Friday, Feb. 23, on “What Your Personality Says About Your Leadership Style.” APCA is a national organization that hosts student leadership development workshops and campus events planning conferences. The mission of APCA is to promote campus engagement through quality educational experiences, affordable entertainment and community service initiatives.

Feb 6, 2018

Dr. John Mulryan

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Professor Emeritus, English Department

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Dr. John Mulryan's review of Dario Rivarossa's translation of Torquato Tasso's 17th century "Il Mondo Creato" ("The Creation of the World") has just appeared in Milton Quarterly (Winter 2018).

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