Presentations & ExhibitionsAhmed Ebrahim (Business) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association held in San Francisco during Aug. 7-10, titled Earnings Management and Board Activity: An Additional Evidence. Lou Roper (History) presented a paper on Parliaments and English Politics: Charles I and Virginia, 1638 at the Tenth Annual International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1820, at Harvard University on Aug. 13. Roper received support from the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For further information on the seminar, please visit www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic. Jo Margaret Mano (Geography) co-chaired and organized sessions for the Environmental Values group at the annual meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education, which met July 28-Aug. 2 at Portland State University, OR. Mano also made a presentation on Land Use Regulation and Oregon's Measure 37. Howard Good (Communication & Media) has two poems, The Beach at Louis Bay and Threatened Birds Nesting, in the current issue (#8) of Right Hand Pointing, available online at www.righthandpointing.com. Awards, Honors, Appointments and RecognitionBrian Obach's (Sociology) book, "Labor and the Environmental Movement" (MIT Press, 2004), recently received honorable mention for the Distinguished Book Award from the Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Students in the NewsThe Management Association, a student association in the School of Business, received the 2004-2005 "Program of the Year" award for its annual Student Development Day conference. This conference was recognized by the campuswide Student Association for its outstanding contribution to New Paltz. Alumni in the NewsJingguo Luo '81g (English ) and retired professor of English at Beijing University has published a new English translation of the fabled 17th-century anthology called "Guwen Guanzhi." With original Chinese texts and notes, the translation was published in June by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. PublicationsHoward Good (Communication & Media) has a commentary about the hard-won reward of teaching, "Why It's Worth It," in the September, 2005 issue of Teacher Magazine available online at www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2005/09/01/01view.h17.html. Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) published the article, Femicide in New York City, 1990-1999, in the journal, Homicide Studies v.9, August 2005 with her colleagues, Victoria Frye (New York Academy of Medicine), Venessa Hosein (Columbia University), Shannon Blaney (New York Academy of Medicine) and Susan Wilt (New York City Department of Health). Peter D.G. Brown published a book, "Das Liebeskonzil. Eine Himmels-Tragoedie in fuenf Aufzuegen von Oskar Panizza" (The Love Council. A Heavenly Tragedy in Five Acts by O.P.), Muenchen: Belleville, 2005. It includes facsimiles of the 1893 manuscript and the first edition of 1894, including transcription, introduction and commentaries. Mohammad R. Zunoubi and Hassan A. Kalhor (Electrical and Computer Engineering) collaborated on a paper, Numerical Analysis of Radiation Characteristics of Antennas on Space Probes, that was presented and published in Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, p.p. 164-165, Saint Malo, France, June 2005. Hon Ho (Biology) co-authored a paper with F.C. Zheng and H.C. Zeng (Environmental and Plant Protection Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences), titled Phytophthora cyperi on Digitaria ciliaris in Hainan Province of China, which was published in the October- December, 2004 issue of Mycotaxon. Sally Schultz (Business) and Joan Hollister (Marist College) published an article, Jean Cottin, 18th-Century Huguenot Merchant, in the Spring 2005 issue of New York History. Ron Knapp (Geography Emeritus) is the author of three chapters, China's Houses, Homes, and Families, ‘In Search of the Elusive Chinese House, and Siting and Situating the Dwelling: Fengshui, House-Building Rituals, and Amulets, in a book he coedited with Kai-Yin Lo titled "House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese." The book was published by the University of Hawaii Press and China Institute in July 2005. |
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