Presentations & ExhibitionsGeorge Schnell (Geography Emeritus) presented “Demography as Destiny,” at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society in Harrisburg on Nov. 5. Ron Knapp (Geography Emeritus) presented an invited paper, “Designing with Nature in Huizhou: Environmental Awareness and Comfort,” at the Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese House International Symposium at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. on Nov. 13. http://www.pem.org/pdf/yyt.pdf. Russell Hilliard (Music Therapy) recently presented the following two papers at the American Music Therapy Association Conference in Austin, Texas: “Music Therapy for Nursing Home Residents Receiving Hospice Care” and “Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapy Clinical Supervision and Specialty Training Issues.” Hilliard also recently presented the paper, “Pediatric Oncology and Music Therapy: A Research Report” at the Society for Integrative Oncology in New York City. Barbara Whitney Petruzzelli (Library) presented a poster session, titled “From Our Continuous Improvement Toolkit: Understanding & Improving the Library,” at the New York Library Association Annual Conference in Rochester on Oct. 22. PublicationsJoseph Diamond (Anthropology) published an article, titled “Marbletown and Nachte Jan: Two Multi-Component Rockshelters in the Esopus Drainage, Ulster County, NY” in the journal Northeast Anthropology, No. 67, Spring 2004. Baback Izadi and Damu Radhakrishnan (Electrical and Computer Engineering), along with colleagues A.P. Preethy (Georgia State University) and Vijayan Asari (Old Dominion University) co-chaired the 2004 International Workshop on Methodologies in Low Power Design in Las Vegas, June 21-24. They also presented and published the following papers: “Experimental Analysis of Batteries Under Continuous and Intermittent Operations,” in Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, pp. 18 – 24, June 2004, with Naveen K. Samala and Kerron Manwaring, graduate and undergraduate students in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as co-authors; “A Low Energy Deep Sub-Micron Bus Coding Technique,” in Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, pp. 25 – 30, June 2004, with Rakesh Menon (graduate student) and Samala as co-authors; and “Switching Activity Minimization in Combinational Logic Design,” in Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, pp. 47 – 53, June 2004. Mohammad R. Zunoubi and Hassan A. Kalhor (Electrical and Computer Engineering) published a paper, titled “A Systematic Analysis of Top-Hat Monopole Antennas Loaded with Radially Layered Materials,” in the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEMWA), Vol. 18, No. 12, p.p. 1689-1706, December 2004. Awards, Honors, Appointments and RecognitionProfessors Ahmed Ebrahim and Jun Lin (School of Business) received promotion to the rank of assistant professor. Ebrahim successfully completed the Doctor of Philosophy at the State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, with a major in management. Lin successfully completed all requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, with a major in the field of business administration. Kurt Daw (Dean, Fine and Performing Arts) is serving on a curriculum committee of academic and community experts for the Poughkeepsie Institute’s “Art in Poughkeepsie” project. The group helped to develop a 14-week study by 15 students from the five local colleges - SUNY New Paltz, The Culinary Institute of America, Dutchess Community College, Marist College and Vassar College. The findings show how art is creating fragile local economic activity, even as it attempts to infuse a new hope into schools - uncovering the surprising links between local economic and educational development. By fostering community research and community action in an urban environment, the Poughkeepsie Institute is the only collaboration of colleges in America with a city as the lead partner. Other Interesting EndeavorsSeveral members of the Instructional Media Services (IMS) staff attended the New York State Contract Trade Show at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy on Nov. 3. At the event, IMS entered a raffle for a wooden lectern worth approximately $1,800 from Marshall Furniture. They won the raffle and the lectern was delivered last week for use in our classrooms. Congratulations! |
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