Awards

Wayne D. Gray, Acting Dean, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Professor of Cognitive Science, was presented with the 2008 Franklin V. Taylor Award for Outstanding Contributions in the field of Applied Experimental & Engineering Psychology. The award has been given yearly since 1962. Prior recipients have included Paul M. Fitts (1963), J.C. R. licklider (1966), Richard W. Pew (1981), Raymond S. Nickerson (1991), Christopher D. Wickens (1993), and Donald Norman (2005). The award will be presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the APA this August 2009

Research

Abby Kinchy is part of a grant that was just awarded by the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory. The proposal, entitled “Pilot Testing: Pretreatment Options to Allow Re-Use of Frac Flowback and Produced Brine for Gas Shale Resource Development,” was submitted by Texas A&M University Texas Engineering Experiment Station.  The project is also partially supported by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).

Michael Mascarenhas submitted the following research proposals:  NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, $585,055 over five years and an NSF Small Grant for Training and Research Proposal: An STS Focus on Sustainability.

Publications

A forthcoming paper by James D. Adams, “Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?” has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Bloomberg News, Inside Higher Education, STEM Trends, as well as in a radio interview with the Board of Regents of the State of Oklahoma.

Abby Kinchy published “Local variation or global convergence in agricultural biotechnology policy? A comparative analysis,” Science and Public Policy 36 (5)  2009, with co-authors Daniel Lee Kleinman and Robyn Autry.

Pauling Oliveros, Clinical Professor, “From Outside the Window”, included in the Oxford Handbook of Computer Music , Edited by Roger Dean, Oxford University Press 2009

Bill Puka published an article entitled, "caring and business" for a book named Taking Care of Business.

Ron Sun published, S. Helie and R. Sun, Simulating incubation effects using the explicit-implicit interaction with Bayes factor (EII-BF) Model. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. pp.1199-1205. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2009.

James P. Zappen, “Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 42 (2009): 279-301.

Presentations

Ron Eglash gave an invited talk at the annual meeting of STARS (Students & Technology in Academia, Research & Service) in Tallahassee FL.

Abby Kinchy presented “Governing Environmental Flows: The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops.” at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 7-12, 2009.

Abby Kinchy presented "Anti-GE Activism and Scientized Politics in the Case of ‘Contaminated' Mexican Maize." Presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, WI, July 30-August 2, 2009.

Michael Mascarenhas presented “Where the Waters Divide:” Neo-liberal’s Governing Mentality, Uneven Development, and Social Reproduction” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA. August 7-11, 2009.

Aug 2-7 - 19th Annual Deep Listening Retreat sponsored by the Deep Listening Institute at Rose Mountain Retreat Center, Las Vegas, NM; http://www.deeplistening.org/site/retreats

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, organized the 19th Annual Deep Listening Retreat sponsored by the Deep Listening Institute at Rose Mountain Retreat Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. www.deeplistening.org/site/retreats/

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, gave a lecture and workshop on the history, theory, and practice of Deep Listening for Goddard College graduate students and the community of Port Townsend.  The Goddard campus is at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington.  Deep Listening was born in the cistern at Fort Worden in 1988 when a three person band made a recording there.  The CD "Deep Listening" was released by New Albion in 1989.  Deep Listening was defined and described in the liner notes by Pauline Oliverso--a member of the band.  Goddard students were taken down into the cistern to experience the 45 second reverberation time and to record their experiences. 

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, participated in an internet collaborative performance of NetRooms by Pedro Rebelo in ISEA 2009, SARC, Belfast, Ireland.  www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~prebelo/netrooms/

Kenneth L. Simons presented his work “Entrepreneurs Seeking Gains: Profit Motives and Risk Aversion in Inventors’ Commercialization Decisions” at the Academy of Management meetings, Chicago, 7-11 August 2009.

Kenneth L. Simons presented his work “SSL Technology Development and Commercialization in the Global Context” at the SPIE Optics+Photonics 2009 conference, San Diego, 2-6 August 2009. This was an invited anchor presentation.

Kenneth L. Simons presented his work “Two Roads to Riches? The (In)Frequency of Disruptive Technological Change” at the Academy of Management meetings, Chicago, 7-11 August 2009. This was honored as a best paper.