Rachel Coker, director of research advancement, and Martha Terry, creative services manager in the Office of Research Advancement, gave a presentation titled “Starting Over: Giving Your Magazine an Online Makeover” at the annual meeting of the University Research Magazine Association. The conference was held in May at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Md. Coker also participated in a panel discussion titled “Social Media: Beyond the Basics.”
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Kudos
August 24, 2010
August 24, 2010
Michael Leonard, medical director of University Health Service, was recently elected vice president of the SUNY Health Service Council. This two-year term will be followed by a two-year term as president of the council.
August 24, 2010
Hong Zhang, senior lecturer of Chinese, has published an article, “Developing Language Proficiency through Singing,” in the Journal of Chinese Teaching and Research in the U.S. (2010). She also presented papers at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in San Diego, the Third Business Chinese Workshop at the University of Michigan and the National Chinese Language Conference in Washington, D.C. In addition, she performed a solo concert of Chinese songs at the Phelps Mansion Museum in .
August 24, 2010
Sally Dear-Healey, adjunct lecturer in the Department of Sociology, received the 2010 Robert Maynard Hutchins (RMH) Award from The Drake Group (TDG), a consortium of faculty, staff and others concerned with academic integrity with regard to intercollegiate athletics. Created in 2004, the RMH Award is given annually to someone who has shown courage in standing up for academic integrity in the face of commercialized college sport. The award is named after the former president of the University of Chicago who is best known for reforming undergraduate education and eliminating the football program at the university for being a distraction to the campus. Dear-Healey was honored at The RMH Award Luncheon, sponsored by TDG, on April 23 in Chapel Hill, N.C., where the College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) conference was also being held.
August 24, 2010
The following recently taught classes for Lyceum: Hala Auji, lecturer, art history, “Paper vs. Parchment: Studying the Written Word in the Arab World”; Dylan Horvath, Nature Preserve steward, “Nature Walk”; and Donald Weiss, professor emeritus of philosophy, “A Philosopher Looks at Christianity.”
August 24, 2010
Zu-yan Chen, professor of Chinese language and literature, has published a book, Confucius’s Analects: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Culture (Georgetown University Press, 2010) and an article, “Returning to Tradition: Analects as a Textbook for Literacy” (Journal of Chinese Teaching and Research in the U.S. [2010]: 53-55). He was invited to give a lecture, “On the Weiqi Poetry of Shao Yong (1011-77) and Qian Qianyi (1582-1664),” at the National Central University and the National Cheng-kung University in Taiwan. In addition, he presented papers at the following conferences: the Fifth International Conference in Ch’ing Dynasty Studies at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in San Diego, and the National Chinese Language Conference in Washington, D.C.