This newsletter, prepared quarterly, provides highlights of the Performance Plan Updates developed by H&SS Department Heads of news within their departments. Presented here are works accomplished: grant awards, program and curricular initiatives, appointments, publications, performances, conference papers, and the like.

AWARDS

Pauline Oliveros, Distinguished Research Prof. in Arts, was awarded Artist of the Year Diploma -L'AJuntament de Saldes atorga El Titol d'accordionista d'honor de Maçaners presented by the Mayor of Saldes during the opening of the festival La Trobada d'Acordionistes de Maçaners in Saldes, Spain; and she was named Honorary Member of National Council of Visitors, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

APPOINTMENTS

Sara Tack, Adjunct Prof. of Design in LL&C, will judge the 2008 52nd Annual Adrian Awards of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI).  A member of this year's Adrian Awards Advisory Board, Ms. Tack was chosen for her client experience and brand portfolio in the industry.

PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITIONS

Katya Haskins, Assoc. Prof. in LL&C, and Jim Zappen, Prof. in LL&C, gave a paper on "Totalitarian Rhetoric as Monologic Discourse: Reading Soviet Posters with Bakhtin" at the  Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Conference,   Seattle, WA.  May 2008.

Shawn Lawson, Assistant Professor of Arts, exhibited two prints from the Migration series in Slow Art at Siggraph in Los Angeles, CA.

Neil Rolnick, Prof. in Arts, had his works performed at Le Poisson Rouge (the old Village Gate), Violinist Jennifer Choi and pianist Kathleen Supové played Hammer & Hair;  Golandsky Institute Int'l Piano Festival, Princeton University, Pianist Vicky Chow played Digits; 2008 Beijing Summer Digital Entertainment Jam at the 798 Art Area, Beijing, China, The Economic Engine for an octet combining traditional Chinese instruments with a classical string quartet and video track by Taiwanese artist Cindy Ng Sio Ieng; Live Bar #721, Shanghai, China; NOIShanghai presented Neil Rolnick in a solo laptop set, featuring A Robert  Johnson Sampler; Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai and delivered a Lecture and a Master Class for students in Music Technology; and MAYA performed Uptown Jump, Sato Moughalian, flute, Jacqueline Kerrod, harp, John Hadfield, percussion at Judson Memorial Church, NYC, . 

Pauline Oliveros, Distinguished Research Prof. in Arts, authored Hidden Forest, in Leçon d'amour/Le son d'amour, edited by Jean Marc Montera, Edition Akenaton, Marseille 2008; The Expanded Instrument System: Introduction and Brief History, in Future of Creative Technologies, Journal of the Institute of Creative Technologies, Editors, Professor Andrew Hugill and Dr. Tracy Harwood, DeMonfort University, Leicester, UK 2008; Quantum Improvisation: The Cybernetic Presence, in Sound Unbound, editor Paul Miller, MIT Press 2008; A Community Enterprize in The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960's Counter Culture and the Avant Garde, editor David Bernstein, University of California Press 2008.  She also performed with Stephen Vitiello in June; and with the Deep Listening Band celebrating 20 years in August, Spiegel Tent, New Albion Festival, Bard College; in a Deep Listening Workshop, Happen'n, The Circle Lodge Camp and Retreat Center on Sylvan Lake in Hopewell Junction, NY;  Panel on Network Performance, ICMC08, Belfast IR; Telepresence performance with SoundWire-CCRMA, Palo Alto, CA; Roots Ensemble-Queens University, Belfast IR; and Tintinnabulate-iEAR/CARL, from VATL, RPI in ICMC08. All in August.

LECTURES AND PANELS

James D. Adams, Prof. in Economics, presented "The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions" at a conference on "The Organization, Economics, and Policy of Academic Research," held at the University of Torino, Torino, Italy, July 14-15, 2008.

Sharon Anderson-Gold, Prof. and Head in STS, presented "Cosmopolitanism and Democracy" at the 25th International Social Philosophy Conference, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, July 2008.

Marc Destefano, Clinical Asst. Prof. in Cognitive Science,  presented "The Development of Lisp Bindings for the D-Bus Interprocess Communication System"  at the 13th Annual ACT-R Summer Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.  He also presented a poster with Prof. Wayne Gray, "An integrated model of action video game play," in V. Sloutsky, B. Love & K. McRae (Eds.), at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2016), Austin, TX.

Faye Duchin, Prof. in Economics, had two presentations at the International Input-Output Meeting on Managing the Environment, Seville, Spain, July 9-10, 2008: "Transforming the Energy Economy" and "The Application of Markov Chains to the Global Supply Chain."

Ron Eglash, Assoc. Prof. in STS, was a guest on the BBC World Service program, "the forum," where he conversed with British-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko and British political theorist David Runciman. The broadcast was available starting in August and was aired on the BBC 0905 GMT on Sunday morning August 3.  Eglash also gave an invited talk on Ethnomathematics at Governor's School West in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/indepth/the_forum.shtm

Jan Fernheimer, Asst. Prof. in LL&C, gave a talk at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan Israel on July 16, 2008 on Black Jewish Identity and Burkean Invention.

Cheryl Geisler, Prof. and Head in LL&C, gave an invited talk to the Organization of Women Faculty at the University at Albany on The 13+ Club: "A Tool for Understanding, Documenting, and Resisting Patterns of Non-Promotion to Full Professor." She also organized and led A Society Colloquy on Gender Equity in The Rhetoric Society of American at the Biannual Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, May 2008.  Cheryl Geisler, Roger Grice, and Robert Krull presented a research report on "Tech-Mediated Communication: A Research Study Sponsored by STC" at the STC Summit, Philadelphia, May, 2008.

Katya Haskins, Assoc. Prof. in LL&C, gave a paper on "Rhetorics of Grassroots Commemorations of the War in Iraq: Iconography, Space, and Mediation."  Kern Visual Communication Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY.  April 2008.  She was also one of the three rhetoric scholars selected nationally to address rhetorical studies graduate students and faculty at the annual colloquium on Reading Strategies, Communication Department, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. June 2008.

Dan Shawhan, Asst. Prof. in Economics, presented "A regional incentive-based carbon dioxide emission regulation in the power sector: Impacts predicted using an alternating-current model"  at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists session at the 2008 meeting of the AAEA, July 27-29, 2008;  with Doug Mitarotonda, Ray Zimmerman.

Michael Mascarenhas, Asst. Prof. in STS, presented "Just Renewal: Urban Parks Redevelopment or Second Wave Environmental (In)Justice. An Environmental Justice Assessment of the Hudson River Corning Preserve," Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Boston: MA, July 2008.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, presented S. Helie and R. Sun, "Knowledge integration in creative problem solving," Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC. pp.1681-1686., published by the Cognitive Science Society, July, 2008; and S. Helie, R. Sun, and L. Xiong, "Mixed effects of distractor tasks on incubation," Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC. pp.1251-1256. Published by the Cognitive Science Society. July, 2008.

Bram van Heuveln, Clinical Asst. Prof. in Cognitive Science, presented "Cognitive Engineering" at General Electric Global Research Center Headquarters, Niskayuna, NY in June 2008.