Kudos

Mara Alper, television-radio, was nominated to serve as executive vice president of the University Film and Video Association, a national organization of educators in the field.

Stewart Auyash, health policy studies, was the keynote speaker at the 34th annual meeting of the Health Planning Council of Tompkins County, held in Ithaca in December. The theme of the meeting was Public Health in the Age of Terrorism.

Roger Custer '04 was one of four students nationwide invited to take part in a panel discussion, "Real Stories of Liberal Bias on College Campuses," at the 2003 Conservative Political Action Conference held January 30 - February 2 in Arlington, Virgina. Sixteen members of the Ithaca College Republicans student organization attended the conference, whose speakers included vice president Dick Cheney.

Howard Erlich, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Michael Taves, academic computing and client services, and Gary Wells, art history, presented a session entitled "Collaboration, Cooperation, and Computing: Implementing Technology Initiatives in a Humanities Context" at the American Association of Colleges and Universities annual conference held in January in Seattle. In another session, "Dialogue and Inquiry: On-Line Approaches in English and Writing Pedagogy," Erlich, along with Barbara Adams, writing, and Katharine Kittredge, English, described curricular approaches to using technology in the disciplines of English and writing. The two programs were supported by the School of Humanities and Sciences' Hewlett grant, which seeks to integrate technology with the humanities.

In other conference activity, Tanya R. Saunders, assistant provost and dean of interdis-ciplinary studies, and Gina Marchetti, cinema and photography, presented "Integrative Learning: A Liberal Education Strategy for the 21st Century." Also, Peter Bardaglio, provost and vice president for academic affairs, participated in discussions with other representatives of the Associated New American Colleges (ANAC), an organization that seeks to advance the common interests of comprehensive colleges and universities.

Katharyn Howd Machan, writing, won first prize in the 2003 Loella Cady Lamphier Prize for Poetry, an annual competition sponsored by H&H Press. The theme of the contest was to celebrate the life of a loved one or mentor. Machan's winning work, "Foxes," was written in honor of poet Sharon Olds, who served as a distinguished visiting writer at the College in 2001.

Kinsuk Maitra, occupational therapy, and Kal M. Telage, speech-language pathology and audiology, recently presented two papers at scientific forums and published a third. "Can Synchronized Vocalizations Enhance Motor Performance in Stroke Patients?" was presented at the 13th World Congress of Occupational Therapists in Stockholm. "The Effect of Vocalization in a Reaching and Placing Task in Patients with Parkinson's Disease" was presented at the Society for Neuroscience's 32nd annual meeting in Orlando. "Using Speech Sounds to Enhance Occupational Performance in Young and Older Adults" was published in the winter 2003 issue of Occupational Therapy Journal of Research.

Harry McCue, art, has had a print selected for exhibition in the Great Plains Ninth Annual National Exhibition at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. The exhibit is scheduled to run through March 21.

Art Ostrander, dean of the School of Music, was elected to a three-year term on the board of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). He was also named chair of Region Six, a 13-state area in the northeastern United States. NASM is an organization of schools, colleges, and universities that offer music studies. With 589 institutional members, the organization establishes standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials.

Kristina L. Shanton, library, authored five entries for Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, which was published by Greenwood Press in 2002. The entries were for Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Diana Ross, The Supremes, and Amy Grant.

Larry Shinagawa, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, delivered the keynote address at the ninth annual community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., held January 20 at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.

Ben Simmoneau '03, communications, was a spring 2002 intern for the MSNBC television show Hardball. In the acknow-ledgement section of his new book, American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions, Hardball host Chris Matthews remarked, "Ben Simmoneau, my second researcher, was my other wise and energetic partner. His fine intelligence was critical at the project's beginning, decisive in its final weeks."

Andy Smith, biology, presented a paper, "Proteins Characteristic of the Adhesive Mucus of Molluscs and Their Potential Role in Determining Gel Function" at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Toronto in January. The paper was coauthored by three students: Courtney Pierce '04, Donna Rahme '03, and Tom Startz '04.

Stephen Sweet, sociology, wrote an article, "Understanding Fraternity Hazing," that will appear in the forthcoming book "Examining Hazing," edited by Hank Nuwer. Indiana University Press will publish the book in 2003.

Dave Weil, academic computing and client services, was recently accepted as a participant in the Frye Leadership Institute, an intensive two-week residential program held annually at Emory University. Through presentations, seminars, group projects, and readings, participants analyze the leadership challenges stemming from the changes in higher education, paying special attention to the growing power of information technology. After the residential portion, institute participants conduct a yearlong practicum to explore, within their own institution, the issues raised during the two-week program. Practicum results are shared in a seminar the following year. The program is sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources, EDUCAUSE, and Emory University, and funded by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.

Patricia R. Zimmermann, cinema and photography, was invited to give a memorial tribute to the late media historian and film producer Erik Barnouw at the 48th Annual Robert Flaherty Seminar at Vassar College in June. She was also the invited plenary speaker at the Digital Terror Symposium at Cornell University in September and the Race and Digital Space Symposium at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in October. The latter event was sponsored by MIT and the University of Southern California. Zimmermann is spending the spring 2003 semester in Singapore as a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University, where she is lecturing on international cinema and digital culture.