Kudos

Susan Durnford, speech-language pathology and audiology, Linda Heyne, therapeutic recreation and leisure services, and Emily Morin ’00 presented "Interdisciplinary Pre-Service Training" at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America last fall in Washington, D.C. In addition, Durnford and Heyne, along with Judith Kennison, therapeutic recreation and leisure services, presented a seminar entitled "Collaborative Models for Therapeutic Recreation, Education, and Practice" at the National Recreation and Park Association Conference in Denver in October.

Raymond Ghirardo, art, and Megan Roberts, television-radio, recently returned from a month-long artist residency at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain. They have also been granted a spring residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

Heinz Koch, chemistry, presented "Density Functional Calculations on Proton Transfer between Carbon Acids and Oxygen" at the ninth Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry in Fukuoka, Japan, in November. He also presented "Density Functional Calculations on Proton Transfer between Carbon Acids and Methoxide" at the Gordon Research Conference on Isotopes in Biological and Chemical Sciences in Ventura, California, in February. Coauthored by Vincent DeTuri, chemistry, the presentations incorporate the findings obtained by students doing research with those two faculty members.

Katharyn Howd Machan, writing, had three poems, "Knives of Lighting," "Heritage," and "Drift," selected for honorable mention in the New Millennium Writing Awards competition. The judges considered more than 1,400 entries nationwide. Also, her poem "Les Salles du Gardon" won first place in the ByLine Poetry Award competition. Another poem, "Wise Woman Wears the Black Velvet Dress Her Mother Saved from the War," was the runner-up.

Susanne Morgan, sociology, Susan Durnford, speech-language pathology and audiology, and John Krout and Christine Pogorzala, gerontology, presented "The Success and Challenges of Intergenerational Programming between a College and an Adult Residential Facility" at the State Society on Aging of New York conference in October.

Gladys M. Varona-Lacey, modern languages and literatures, edited an anthology, Contemporary Latin American Literature, that was recently published by McGraw-Hill. The work, written for intermediate and advanced students of Spanish, features original works by 20 Latin American writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Isabel Allende.

Fred A. Wilcox, writing, gave a paper, "Speaking Truth to Power: The Witness of the Berrigans and Friends," at a conference on prisons sponsored by State University of New York College at Cortland last October.