SUNY New Paltz News Pulse: March 1, 2004

Awards, Honors, Appointments, and Recognition

The Print Shop has announced that Jim Lyons has joined Jim Coddington and Marilyn Hoberg in the print shop, and will be printing services coordinator. Lyons has worked in the printing industry for more than 20 years in various capacities, including press foreman, production planning and operations management. Lyons can be reached at x2646. Please feel free to stop by and welcome him in the Print Shop, HAB 8.

Publications

Elisa Davila (Foreign Languages) had two poems published in "Alhucema: Revista de Teatro y Literatura," (Vol. I, No. 11, Enero-Junio 2004), published by Editores Dauro in Granada, Spain. The poems' titles are: "Los otros tienen intento..." and "Barco, te has soltado..." This international journal is distributed in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Oceania.

Brian Obach (Sociology) published a book titled "Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground"(MIT Press 2004). This book examines the complex relationship between the two most powerful progressive social movements in the United States, organized labor and the environmental movement. While many issues, such as free trade agreements and workplace health measures, serve to unite these two movements, the specter of job loss makes some unionists wary of environmental regulation. This study examines when and under what circumstances workers and environmentalists will unite around common goals and when they will come into conflict.

Yaser Khalifa (Electrical and Computer Engineering) presented and published the paper “Isomorphism Elimination to Enhance Design Centering of Analog Circuits Using Genetic Algorithms and the Regionalization Method” at the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dec. 14-17.

Howard Good (Communication & Media) published a poem, “Outtakes,” in the spring issue of Rose & Thorn, available online at theroseandthornzine.com.

Presentations & Exhibitions

John P. Harrington (Dean, School of Science and Engineering) presented recent research work titled “Structural Integrity and Redox Stability of Acellular Invertebrate Hemoglobins: Implications for Red Cell Substitutes” at the national Biophysical Society’s meeting in Baltimore on Feb. 16. A recent undergraduate chemistry major, Sara Zevotek, was also a co-author on this work along with Dr. Rhoda E. Hirsch, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

Ernelle Fife (English) presented “The Role of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy in Teaching Narrative Medicine”at the first international Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine conference held in Gainsville, Fla., Feb. 19-22.

Anne R. Roschelle (Chair, Sociology) presented her paper “Gender, Work, and Family in Cuba: Challenges of the Special Period” (Co-authored with Maura Toro-Morn, Illinois State University, Elisa Facio, University of Colorado at Boulder) at the conference “Wither Goes Cuba?: Economic Prospects for Economic & Social Development” at the University of Iowa on Feb. 6.

Students in the News

Kathleen Dowley's (Political Science) Model United Nations class participated in the Harvard National Model United Nations simulation in Boston on Feb. 12-15. Most of the students represented the Republic of Croatia in various General Assembly and Economic and Social Council Committees over the four-day period, attempting to pass resolutions related to their assigned agenda items. Political Science major Andrew Wheeler, who won a best delegate award last year, participated independently in a simulation of the Peloponnesian Wars as a member of the Athenian Cabinet. Other students participating included Orges Koka, Jacklyn Negron, Jessica Stevens, Jonild Pashaj, Michelle Neener, Sean McArdle, Danielle Antonelle, Edgard Pires, Atsushi Motoshige, Thinley Athupsang, Jade Dockery, Marcella Hutton, Claudia Hernandez and Marina Damsky. Congratulations to the whole team!

MARCH, 2004
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