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Antonio Devereaux named February RA of the Month
The Residence Life Student Recognition Committee recognized Antonio Devereaux, a Resident Assistant in Igoe Hall, as the Resident Assistant of the Month award for February.
Marketing association names Huang research track chair
School of Business Associate Professor Lei Huang has been selected as the research track chair by the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA), a premier marketing association that hosts an annual conference that brings together marketing researchers and professionals from the United States and abroad.
Zevenbergen appears on Reach Out and Read podcast
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Andrea Zevenbergen was a guest on a Reach Out and Read podcast, “The Secret to Reading with Young Children.” During the March 4 episode, Dr. Zevenbergen, of the Department of Psychology, discussed dialogic reading, an empirically-supported shared reading intervention.
Music Education alumna presents research at national conference
Grace Doebler, who received a Mus.B. in 2019 and an M.M. in 2020, both in Music Education at Fredonia, presented her research study, "Ukulele Usage in Western New York Classrooms," at the National Music Research and Teacher Education Conference of the National Association for Music Education on Feb. 26.
Newspaper article highlights Purtill's latest publication
A recent column published in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch newspaper highlighted a journal article, “The Road Not Taken: How Early Landscape Learning and Adoption of a Risk-Averse Strategy Influenced Paleoindian Travel Route Decision Making in the Upper Ohio Valley," written by Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Matthew Purtill.
Vanwesenbeeck, UB librarian launch online research guide on anniversary of Zweig’s death
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck collaborated with University at Buffalo librarian Michael Kicey to develop a new online research guide for Jewish-Austrian author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942).
Smith appointed GM of international composers society
Senior Adjunct Lecturer Andrew Martin Smith of the School of Music has been named the new general manager of the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI).
Vanwesenbeeck pens review of classic work by Dutch historian
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck wrote a review of the new English translation of “Autumntide of the Middle Ages,” a classic work by Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, that appears in the Feb. 7 issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Fan explores Chinese nationalism in Cambridge Winter History Festival talk
Department of History Associate Professor Xin Fan gave a virtual talk, devoted to a discussion of Chinese nationalism, with Trinity University professor Gina Tam, on Jan. 25 at the Winter History Festival, organized by Cambridge University Press.
Purtill writes multidisciplinary article for archaeology journal
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Matthew Purtill recently had a multidisciplinary article published in American Antiquity, an online publication of Cambridge University Press considered to be the premier journal of North American archaeology.