Awards

Audrey Bennett served as principal investigator for "Go to Frear Park!" Sappi Fine Paper, Ideas that Matter.  Amount: $48,626.

EE Miller, MFA graduate student, was a resident artist for the first week of July 2009 at Denniston Hill (www.dennistonhill.org/residents.html) and will return for last three weeks of September.

Neil Rolnick, professor, received a travel grant from the US Artists International, administered by the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, for support of his attendance at the 2009 MusicAcoustica Festival in Beijing, China which will take place October 26-30, 2009. 

Research

Janice Fernheimer, along with Jim Hendler (Tetherless World Constellation Head and faculty in Cognitive Science Department) submitted "EAGER: Using the Web for Science and Society" to the National Science Foundation (under review). 

Wayne Gray and Mike Schoelles submitted a 3-yr, $900k proposal to the Office of Naval Research entitled: Cognitive Workload in Multimodal Task

Kenneth Simons, collaborated in a research proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities' Digging into Data Challenge 2009: "Linking Society and Nature in the Hudson Valley" with Peter Fox and Michael Mascarenhas (STS). 

Publications

James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons, “The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector,” in Science and Engineering Careers in the United States, Richard B. Freeman and Daniel L. Goroff, editors, University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2009, pages 349-382.

Albert J. Sumell, Paula E. Stephan, and  James D. Adams,“Capturing Knowledge: The Location Decisions of New Ph.D.s Working in Industry,” in Science and Engineering Careers in the United States, Richard B. Freeman and Daniel L. Goroff, editors, University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2009, pages 257-290.

Byeong Sam Jeon, Ph.D. student: curated the International New Media Art Exhibition “ThisAbility” at the CAFA Art Museum in Bejing, China from July 10 – July 30, 2009. His research paper, “A Networked Percussion Improvisation Using Telerobotics: Telematic Drum Circle” was accepted to the 2nd International Conference on Media Art and Information Aesthetics (MAIA, 2009) and was presented at The Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China on July 10, 2009.

Veksler, V. D., Gray, W. D., & Schoelles, M. J. (2009).  Goal-proximity decision making: Who needs reward anyway? In N. A. Taatgen & H. v. Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1264-1269). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

John Heim, "Consumer Demand for Durable Goods, Nondurable Goods and Services," Journal of the Academy of Business and Economics, Vol. 9(1) (Publication Date: Oct. 2009).

John Heim, A Method For Separating Income & Substitution Effects Of Exchange Rate Changes," Journal of International Finance and Economics, Vol. 9(1) (Publication Date: Oct. 2009).

John Heim, "U.S. Demand for Different Types of Imported and Domestic Investment Goods," International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, Vol. 7, Special Issue (Publication Date: Sept. 2009).

John Heim, "Do Declining Exchange Rates Help the U.S. Economy?" Journal of Finance and Accountancy, Vol. 2(1) (E-Journal Published Aug. 2009; Hard Copy Publication Date: Sept. 2009).

Sal Restivo was commissioned to write an entry on Bruno Latour in The New Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (2010), edited by George Ritzer and Jeffery Stepinsky (Boston: Blackwell). 

Sal Restivo submitted book proposals for Red, Black, and Objective: Science and the Anarchist Tradition (completed manuscript), and for Asphalt Children: Theorists, Ethnographers, and the Street Children of Sao Paolo (completed manuscript, co-authored with Monica Mesquita and Umberto D'Ambrosio), and "A Humanistic Perspective on Science and Society" (1978, co-authored with Michael Zenzen) is to be reprinted in Pioneers of Public Sociology: Thirty Years of Humanity and Society, co-edited by Corey Dolgen and Mary Chayko (2010). 

Kenneth L. Simons, "Assessing the Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Firm Performance, Plant Productivity, and Workers: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data," (joint author with Donald Seigel) accepted for publications at Strategic Management Journal. 

Ron Sun published "Modeling Mathematical Actiotopes: the potential role of CLARION" in Talent Development and Excellence, Volume 1, No. 1, 2009. 

Donald Vitaliano's "A Frontier Approach to Testing the Averch-Johnson Hypothesis" (co-authored with Gregory P. Stella), has been accepted for publications in the International Journal of the Economics of Business. 

Xiaodan Yan, Cognitive Science graduate student, published (along with Yi Jiang, Yuan Deng, Jin Wang, Shen He, and Xuchu Weng) "Preconscious Attention bias in Cigarette Smokers: A Probe into Awareness Modulation on Attentional Bias" in Addiction Biology. 

Presentations

Sharon Anderson-Gold presented “The Truth, The Whole Truth: Kant on Truth and Privacy”, The 26th International Social Philosophy Conference: The Public and the Private in the 21st Century,  July 29-31st, Philadelphia, PA.

Nancy Campbell presented a paper entitled, "Multiple Paths to Partial Truths: The Intertwined Histories of Drug Use Etiology and Psychiatric Epidemiology" to the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri on July 21, 2009.

Michael Century performed his own composition, Tango, for accordion and Two Keyboard studies by Terry Riley at the American Accordion Association Annual Festival and seminars in New York City on July 24-26, 2009. 

Ron Eglash (with Fred Martin and Sarah Kuhn from UMass/Lowell), gave a workshop at Dine College on the Navajo Nation. The workshop helped students to create computer simulations of Navajo rug patterns, and use mobile sensors for collaborative displays of environmental data.

Ellen Esrock presented a paper, "Embodying Literature" at the International Conference for the Scientific Study of Consciousness" in Hong Kong in June 2009.

Janice Fernheimer submitted a proposal for a panel, "Performing Unproductive Discomfort: Commonplaces, Uncomfortable Communcions, and 7 Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza" to the Association for Jewish Studies meeting to be held in December 2009. She will organize and participate in the panel. 

Veksler, V. D., Gray, W. D., & Schoelles, M. J. (2009). A mechanism for decisions in the absence of prior reward. A talk presented at the ACT-R Workshop at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam

Schoelles, M. J., & Gray, W. D. (2009). Interfacing ACT-R with different types of environments and with different techniques: Issues and Suggestions.  A talk presented at the ACT-R Workshop at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Connolly, T. J., Veksler, V. D., & Gray, W. D. (2009).  Predicting interest: Another use of Latent Semantic Analysis. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Manchester, England.

Stipicevic, M. J., Veksler, V. D., & Gray, W. D. (2009).  Computational models of human document keyword selection.  Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Manchester,

Wayne Gray delivered a talk, The Cognitive Science of Natural Interaction, to the Cognitive Science Program at University of Edinburgh on July 22, 2009.

Veksler, B. Z., Gray, W. D., & Schoelles, M. J. (2009). Cost of Information Acquisition and Evolving Strategies poster presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Shawn Lawson, Assistant Professor, exhibited A Bar at the Folies Bergère in the exhibition, "A Case for Wine
from King Tut to Today," www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/CaseWine/index at The Art Institute of Chicago, July 11-
September 20.  Mentioned in a Chicago Tribune review of the show: www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-0715-wine-exhibitjul15,0,3727763.story

Linda Layne presented, "Reproductive Health Expert Testimony, Consulting, and Advocacy:"  She was a 2009 Contributor to "my story" Huffington Post blog on abortion, posted July 29. www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-m-paltrow/pregnant-women-and-mother_b_247108.html and co-signer of an open letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding reproductive health questions to be posed to Sotomayer and all future Supreme Court nominees. A 2009 Evaluation of HR bill 541, the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act of 2009 and the Michigan HR 102 for National Organization of Women

EE Miller, MFA graduate student: EE Miller's video, "Flights of Fancy 3" screened as part of "One Night of Utopian Misfits" at Dixon Place, NYC, July 5, 2009.  Miller also curated a program of videos at CANADA gallery in NYC which was written up in Art in America online: www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2009-07-30/canada-gallery-film-screening/

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, was interviewed by Joseph Sabljic for the University of Guelph, July 3, 2009.

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, Did a radio interview -
cypressrosewood.com/Concerts.html as part of the Cypress Rosewood's Second Life Concerts, July 6, 2009.

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, hosted a Deep Listening Retreat at Dartington, Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom on July 20, 2009.

Bill Puka delivered three papers at two conferences in Konstanz, Germany:  a MOSAIC conference on moral judgement and a Konstanz University conference on democracy education (Can Morality Be Taught).  The titles of his presentations were: "Democratizing Democracy Education," "The Downside of 'Just Community' Approaches to Moral Development, and "Interpretive Freedom and Bias in MRI Research." 

Sal Restivo presented "Six Adult Mathematical Workers on Literacy, Numeracy, and Technocracy for Life," at the7th National Numeracy Works for Lifeand Adults Learning Mathematics 16 conference at London's South Bank University, July 6-9. 

Dan Shawhan, facilitating Environmental Initiatives While Maintaining Efficient Markets and Electric System Reliability, a research presentation to the CEO and two vice presidents of the New York Independent System Operator, which is the organization that runs the New York electric power grid and wholesale market, Ithaca, NY, July 17, 2009.

Kenneth L. Simons, presented his work, "The Frequency and Nature of Disruptive Technological Change in Industries" at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan. 

Daniel Veksler, graduate student in Cognitive Science, presented a talk at the 2009 ACT-R Workshop and at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2009, both in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  He also presented three posters at the International Conference of Cognitive Modeling, ICCM2009 in Manchester, UK.