Kudos

Bonnie Auslander, writer/editor in the Office of Publications 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.

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 currently at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York.

A number of students working in the cognition laboratory under the supervision of Nancy Rader, psychology, have recently won awards and/or had papers accepted for presentation. Two received grants from Psi Chi, the national psychology honorary society, to help cover costs associated with their honors research: Pavitra Sundar ’99, who is studying "Infant Perception of Transparent Surfaces," and Jamie Donsbach ’99, who is researching "Effects of Praise Given by a Peer or an Authority Figure on the Subsequent Task Performance of Boys and Girls." May 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. Accepted for presentation at the annual University of Scranton Psychology Conference, being held this month, were papers by Donsbach, Sundar, Theresa Cain ’99, Jill Fadia ’00, Erin Hughes ’00, and April Smith ’99.