Kudos

Bonnie Auslander, writer/editor in the Office of College Relations and part-time lecturer in the writing program, has been awarded a writing residency for the month of May at the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. She will use that time to work on her novel.

Barney Beins and Nancy Rader, psychology, chaired paper sessions at the annual University of Scranton Psychology Conference on March 20. Students presenting the results of their original research at the conference were James Adams ’99, David Wimer ’98, Theresa Cain ’99, Jill Fadia ’00, April Smith ’99, Erin Hughes ’00, Jamie Donsbach ’99, and Tisha Miller ’00. Several students working in Rader’s cognition laboratory have won awards or had papers accepted for presentation elsewhere as well. Donsbach and Pavitra Sundar ’99 received grants from Psi Chi, the national psychology honor society, to help cover costs associated with their honors research. May 1998 graduate Jennifer Piazza was one of 575 undergraduate and graduate students selected last spring to receive a research award from the National Academy of Sciences. Rader herself recently had a paper accepted for the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, to be held this April in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Titled "The Effect of Reflections on Visual Cliff Avoidance: A Tale of Two Cliffs," the paper was coauthored by Piazza and Julie Quimby ’97.

Bill Dewey, mathematics and computer science, can now add his listing in the most recent edition of Who’s Who in the World to his résumé. He has been listed for a number of years in both Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in America.

Carlos Ferguson, art, won the best in show award as part of the 65th Regional Exhibition at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York.

Heinz Koch, chemistry, has received a $65,000 grant from the Teacher/Fellow Grants Program of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to support a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the department. The selected fellow will share teaching duties with Koch and assist with the new molecular modeling laboratory that is being established with the support of a $25,000 grant from the Alden Trust. The Dreyfus grant will also help fund the continuing teaching/research collaboration between Koch and David Pysnik, a chemistry teacher at Sidney High School.

Fred Vanderburgh, physical plant, recently received a certificate of appreciation from the Eastern College Athletic Conference recognizing his "contributions to the advancement of ECAC services and programs" for maintaining the best athletic fields in the region.