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The end of the Spring 2013 semester has been a busy time for Dr. Carl Johengen, Assistant Professor of Voice (adjunct).

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Assistant professor of music composition Jorge Grossmann has been selected to receive a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation, which grants him five-week residency at the study center in Liguria, Italy. 

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In the past two weeks, Rachel Wagner was a featured panelist at New York University and at University of Colorado, Boulder, sharing her work on religion and virtual reality.

At NYU's Center for Religion and Media, in partnership with NYU Abu Dhabi, she presented a talk entitled: Mitzvot Mash-up: Interactivity as Transformative Interpretation, as part of an event called "Digital Judaism: Tablet to Tablet." The event was supported by the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.

At the University of Colorado's Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, she presented a talk entitled "Video Games, Ritual and the Problem of Violence," in a pair of talks alongside Jason Anthony, senior editor at Time Inc.

The publication is in the Indian Theatre Special Issue: The Body.

Guest-Editor Sreenath Nair. Studies in South Asian Film and Media. Vol.5.1 August/September 2013.

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The School of Business hosted a luncheon to thank their student workers for all their hard work this academic year.  

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Asma Barlas, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, has published a chapter, “Does the Qur’an Support Gender Equality?" in  Negotiating Autonomy and Authority in Muslim Contexts. The editors of the volume are M. Buitelaar and M. Bernards and it has been published by Peeters, in the Netherlands.

Graduating seniors Anna Rothfus (Theater Arts Management with a minor in French) and Richard Yue (French and Francophone Studies) have been selected to teach English in France as part of the French government's Teaching Assistantship in France Program for the 2013 - 2014 academic year.

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An article written by Music Education and Performance major Michael Reinemann (’13) was accepted for publication earlier this month in the Journal of Band Research, a premier collection of academic articles on musical analysis, band history, and rehearsal methodology. 

Titled “Agents of Form in the Third Movement of Ned Rorem's Sinfonia for 15 Wind Instruments,” Reinemann’s article investigates formal construction in a lesser-known 20th Century work for wind ensemble by Ned Rorem called “Sinfonia for 15 Winds and Percussion.” It will be published in the spring of 2014. 

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Matt Fee, director of the Park Scholar Program, presented at the recent international conference Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts, held at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland.

Fee presented "Gothic Anxiety and Historical Transformation in Irish Cinema," research that examines how Irish films from the 1980s and 1990s use the Gothic in order to examine anxieties around Irish identity in the late twentieth century, particularly involving Ireland's Anglo-Irish inheritance from its colonial eighteenth century.

Asma Barlas, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, gave invited presentations on the Qur'an and Muslim women's rights/status at SUNY at Oneonta, Cornell University, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges in March and April.
 

Four students from the Department of History presented their research at the recent Phi Alpha Theta West-Central New York Regional Conference held at SUNY Geneseo on Saturday April 13th.

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With National Science Foundation funding, Dr. Paula Turkon and Dr. Sturt Manning (Cornell University), in collaboration with Mexican and American archaeologists and dendrochronologists, will undertake a two-year project to develop a much higher resolution chronology than previously possible for Classic Period archaeological sites in Mesoamerica.

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The panel David was discussant on was entitled, "Development from 'Above' and 'Below': in Malawi, Lesotho and Zimbabwe."  The panel examined neoliberal development issues, migration and infrastructure development in diverse settings across southern Africa.

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Scott Hamula, associate professor and chair of the Department of Strategic Communication, has been invited to join America Advertising Federation’s (AAF) National Education Executive Committee (NEEC). Hamula will represent District 2 which is comprised of schools located in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

AAF is the oldest national advertising trade association, representing 40,000 professionals in the advertising industry. The organization also includes more than 200 college chapters and 6,500 student members.

The NEEC committee is comprised of nationally recognized advertising professors and industry professionals and oversees all of the AAF’s educational programs such as the National Student Advertising Competition, Alpha Delta Sigma Honor Society, Vance Stickell Internship program, Adweek Pen Tudor Internship program, and the Annual Student Conference.

Hamula will serve a three-year term.

Elizabeth Woollard ’15 was selected as a finalist in Photographer’s Forum magazine’s 33rd Annual College & High School Photography contest sponsored by Nikon, USA.

Woollard’s work will be published in the Best of College & High School Photography 2013 book. Her work was selected from a pool of 16,700 submissions worldwide.

All winners, honorable mentions and finalists will be in the Winners Gallery which can be found at pfmagazine.com.
 

Maria DiFrancesco, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, was recently elected Secretary of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH). 

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Professor Ron Jude currently has photographic work on view in Off The Grid, an exhibition running through May 4th at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica. His work will also be on view April 26 - 28th at Paris Photo Los Angeles at Paramount Studios.

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 This Month's issue of “GreenLeaf: The Newsletter of Greenstar Cooperative Market” contains Sox's article which connects Food Justice to the work Project Look Sharp (Based at Ithaca College) conducts in the area of Media Literacy.

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The following HPPE graduate students presented research conducted in their Research Methods course and supervised by Professor Raj Subramaniam at the 2nd Annual Master's Level Graduate Research Conference at the College at Brockport on April 20, 2013:

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Journalism major Qina Liu (2013) has created a short documentary about English Professor Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench.

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