Awards

Ron Eglash, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies was appointed vice president for the North American Study Group for Ethno-mathematics

Ron Eglash, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies and Audrey Bennett, Associate Professor, Language, Literature, and Communication, received the American Anthropological Association's award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship for their article "Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethno-computing from Field Site to Classroom."

Patricia Search, Professor, Language, Literature, and Communication was elected President, International Visual Literacy Association, the oldest international, not-for-profit association of researchers, educators, designers, media specialists, and artists dedicated to the study and practice of visual literacy.

Research

Clinical Professor Pauline Oliveros, Arts: proposal for A Social Telematic Music Network with enabling tools for the sensory impaired submitted to NSF CreativeIT SOcS.  Co PIs Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, and Jim Hendler.

Dan Shawhan, Assistant Professor, Economics, received a grant: "Scalable and flat controls for reliable power  grid operation with high renewable penetration."  From the Global Climate and Energy Program at Stanford, which is funded by GE, Toyota, Schlumberger, and Toyota.  $580,500 for Rensselaer over three years, including full overhead.  The investigators at Rensselaer are Joe Chow (PI), Jian Sun (co-PI), and me (co-PI).  I am pleased to have helped the team that includes Rensselaer win this grant, beating five other teams of universities.   In addition to contributing substantially to the proposal, I also was glad to be able to fulfill a requirement of the funders, which was to make the team interdisciplinary; all of the other investigators are engineers.

Kenneth L. Simons, Assistant Professor, Economics,  submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation, "Technology Disruptions in Industries: Assessing Their Frequency, Processes, and Impact", totaling US $389,890, submitted September 9, 2009

Publications

Nancy D. Campbell, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, published a chapter titled "Multiple Paths to Partial Truths: A History of Drug Etiology" in The Handbook of Drug Etiology, ed. Larry M. Scheier (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2009).

Ron Eglash, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies,  co-authored the following publication:  Barta, J. & Eglash, R. (2009). Teaching artful expressions of mathematical beauty: Virtually creating Native American beadwork and rug weaving. In J. Braman, (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.

John Gowdy, Professor, Economics, "A Group Selection Perspective on Economic Behavior, Institutions and Organizations" (with Jeroen van den Bergh) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72 (2009), 1-20 (lead article).

Clinical Professor Pauline Oliveros' "From Outside the Window" was included in the Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, Oxford University Press, 2009.

Kenneth L. Simons, Assistant Professor, Economics, and Susan Walsh Sanderson, "SSL Technology Development and Commercialization in the Global Context," in Ian Ferguson, Christoph Hoelen, Jianzhong Jiao, and Tsunemasa Taguchi, eds., Proceedings of SPIE: Ninth International Conference on Solid State Lighting, SPIE, 2009, pp. 74220X-1-15.  This was an invited anchor paper.

Ron Sun, Professor, Cognitive Science, was a contributing author on:  N. Wilson, R. Sun, and R. Mathews, A motivationally-based simulation of performance degradation under pressure. Neural Networks, Vol.22, pp.502-508. 2009

Merrill D. Whitburn, Professor, Language, Literature, and Communication, "The First Weeklong Technical Writers' Institute and Its Impact," Journal of Business and Technical Communication 23 (2009): 428-47.

Presentations

Sharon Anderson-Gold, Department Head, Science and Technology Studies, presented "The Political Foundations of Kant's Prophetic History" at the European Consortium on Political Research, Potsdam, Germany

Linnda Caporael, Professor, Science and Technology Studies:  The KLI Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria (http://www.kli.ac.at/), accepted a proposal submitted by Professors  Linnda Caporael (RPI), James Griesemer (UCDavis) and William Wimsatt (University of Chicago) to fully sponsor an Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology. The topic of the workshop will be "Scaffolding Development, Culture and Cognition from Evo-Devo Perspectives."

Linnda Caporael, Professor, Science and Technology Studies, organized and chaired a session, entitled "Human Embodiment and Cultural Evolution," at the meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009. Prof. Caporael also presented a paper on "Human Embodiment: Individuals and Groups."

Boryana Dragoeva, Ph.D. student, Arts, is the executive producer of the film "Blind Spot", written and directed by Oleg Mavromatti, which premiered on September 23, 2009, Cinema Fitil, Moscow

Faye Duchin, Professor, Economics,  "Global Recycling Society: What Economics has to Offer," presented at workshop on Towards a New Economic Framework, World Resources Forum, Davos, Switzerland, September 15, 2009.

Faye Duchin, Professor, Economics, "Everyday Life in a Resource-Constrained Global Economy," an invited plenary lecture, World Resources Forum, Davos, Switzerland, September 14, 2009.

Faye Duchin, Professor, Economics, "Modeling a Sustainable, Global Economy: Objectives, Requirements, Challenges," International Colloquium on Sustainable Growth, Resource Productivity and Sustainable Industrial Policy, Wuppertal University, Wuppertal, Germany, September 12, 2009.

Yehuda Duenyas, MFA student, Arts, gave a talk at the Prelude Festival at CUNY, New York, NY on September 30, 2009.   http://preludenyc.org/

John Gowdy, Professor, Economics, was appointed to the Steering Committee for the Garrison Institute Initiative on Climate Change Leadership: "Neuro- and Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Policy"

Dara Greenwald, Ph.D. student, Arts, gave a multi-media presentation, "Spectres of Liberty", at the Conflux 2009 Festival in NY, NY on September 19, 2009.  http://confluxfestival.org/2009/events/workshops/spectres-of-liberty/

David Hess, Professor, Science and Technology Studies,  gave an invited lecture at Marlboro College on his new book Localist Movements in a Global Economy and had radio and press interviews for the book.

Larry Kagan, Professor, Arts, had a one person exhibition, "Object/Shadow", at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH, from Sept. 20 - Dec. 27.  http://www.butlerart.com/DisplayExhibits.asp?Mode=current

Brenda Kenneally, Ph.D. student, Arts, gave presentations and exhibited "Upstate Girls - What Became of Collar City" at Visa Pour L'Image (International Festival of photojournalism), Perpignan, France, from Aug. 29 - Sept. 13, 2009.  http://www.visapourlimage.com/index.do

Michael Mascarenhas, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies, gave the presentation: "The Upper Hudson River Valley:  Then and Now." Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY. September 24th, 2009.

Pauline Oliveros, Clinical Professor, Arts: 1.)    Deep Listening Workshop at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA on Sept. 26-27. 2.)    An evening of music & sound by Pauline Oliveros, reading by Moira Roth's texts with storytelling, dances, and songs by the Artship Ensemble at Firehouse North, Berkeley, CA on Sept. 28, 2009.

Neil Rolnick, Professor, Arts: 1.)  ETHEL premiered Neil's new quartet, "Extended Family" at Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA on Sept. 4, 2009. 2.)  Kathleen Supove performed Neil's "Digits" at Club Berghain, Berlin, Germany on Sept. 10, 2009. 3.)    ETHEL played Neil's "Extended Family" at the Grand Canyon Music Festival, Shrine of the Ages, South Rim of Grand Canyon on Sept. 11-12, 2009. 4.)    ETHEL played Neil's "Extended Family" at the New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM on Sept. 22, 2009. 5.)    Neil gave a lecture on his current projects for Intro. to Media Arts at NYU Polytechnic, Brooklyn, NY on Sept. 25, 2009.

Patricia Search, Professor, Language, Literature, and Communication, presented "Multicultural Perspectives in Digital Storytelling" at the  41st Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Jeff Stark, MFA student, Arts, presented a workshop, "Subway Theater", at the Conflux 2009 Festival in NY, NY on September 18, 2009.  http://confluxfestival.org/2009/events/workshops/jeff-stark/

Langdon Winner, Professor, Science and Technology Studies,  served as a "scientific expert" commenting upon the first worldwide citizens consultation on September 26, "World Wide Views on Global Warming," an event that linked 4,000 people from 38 countries deliberating and voting on issues to be decided at the climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen this December.