Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) published a paper titled, “Justification of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review” in the journal Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 2012, 13 (3): 167-175. Sarah Wyman (English) published “Beyond the Veil: Indeterminacy and Iconoclasm in the Art of Robert Hayden, Janet Kozachek, and Tom Feelings” in The Comparatist, 36: 2012. Anne Gorrick (Accounting Services) has published I-Formation (Book 2), her third full-length book of poetry, with Shearsman Books (Bristol, UK). She has also recently published work in several electronic and print journals.
Campus News
- New Paltz selects Interim Dean of the School of Business
- SUNY New Paltz picked as site for Governor Cuomo’s NYS Master Teacher Program
- Dr. Hamilton Stapell Named 2012-13 Teacher of the Year for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- New Paltz ranked second in list of top 50 affordable colleges
- New Paltz names Nicolette Glebatis as class of 2013 valedictorian
Bulletin Board
New Paltz American Marketing Association chapter receives awards
The New Paltz chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA), which won a bronze medal at the AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans this year, also received several awards at the New Paltz Student Club and Leadership Awards reception held on campus. The AMA received three awards including the Best Large-Scale Event of the Year, Outstanding Promotional Award, and the Outstanding Recruitment Award. The awards recognize the AMA’s success in organizing the 16th Annual Business Day Conference, promoting the chapter, and recruiting and retaining members. The board’s commitment to community service was also recognized with a nomination for...
Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition
The Center for Research, Regional Education, and Outreach (CRREO) is one of 10 members of the Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Consortium, which has received an $800,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency’s (NYSERDA) Cleaner, Greener Communities Program (CGC). The grant will be used to develop and implement a regional sustainability plan. Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Sara Pasti has received a $12,600 grant from the Japan Foundation for her project titled, “Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York.” CRREO Research Associate Joshua Simons has received a $6,712 grant from...
Publications
Professor Emeritus Gerald Sorin (History) has had four review essays published in the monthly Books section of the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz (The Land): “Unlikely Collaboration,” by historian Barbara Will, who exposes the fascist background and activities of Gertrude Stein (Dec. 1, 2011); “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” short stories by Nathan Englander (March 2012); “Breaking and Entering,” a novel by Eileen Pollack (April 2012); and Bernard Avishai’s Promiscuous, a literary and historical analysis of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (June 2012). In June, Sorin also delivered a talk, “Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge,” at the...
Our Evolving Brains
Is the human brain continuing to evolve? In what ways does it adapt to changing conditions? Who else is asking these questions, and what answers are they finding? PsychTable.org is a new, online project co-created by Daniel Glass ’12g (Psychology), with Niruban Balachandran (Rutgers University) and Timothy Nabzdyk (Mississippi State University and SUNY Buffalo), to collect information related to these issues. Evolved psychological adaptations (EPAs) of the human mind are the focus of Glass’s research, and PsychTable.org is the first international collaborative endeavor to classify them. The project, which lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and...
Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition
Professor Napatsorn Jiraporn (Marketing) received the 2012 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the social sciences category from Binghamton University, where she completed her Ph.D. program. A faculty review panel selected Jiraporn’s dissertation, “Maintenance Versus Attainment Goals: Influence of Self-Regulation Goal Type on Goal Pursuit Behaviors,” for this award using the following criteria: the level of creativity and originality of the work; the methodological and substantive quality of the research; and the degree to which the research makes a significant contribution to the discipline. Professor Wilma Feliciano (Languages, Literature and Culture) was inducted into the Order of the Discoverers, one of...
Publications
Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology)has published the article, “Ngos as Shadow Pseudo-Publics: Grassroots Community Leaders’ Perceptions of Change and Continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil,” in American Ethnologist.
Sociology students bring attention to distracted driving
Why do people use cell phones while driving, despite the activity’s classification as a crime? Students in Eve Waltermaurer’s Criminological Theory class explored a variety of theories that explain the behavior, and implemented several real-world solutions to help address the problem. One theory suggests that because distracted driving is viewed as normal in our society, and engaging in that behavior doesn’t break any social norms, the criminality of it isn’t enough to dissuade people from doing it. To get the message out that society does not approve of the behavior, students proposed legislation to create a Distracted Driving Awareness...
Marketing association wins three awards
The SUNY New Paltz chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA), which took home a bronze medal at the International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans this year, won more awards at the New Paltz Student Club and Leadership Awards reception held on campus. The AMA received three awards, including the Best Large-Scale Event of the Year, Outstanding Promotional Award, and the Outstanding Recruitment Award. The awards recognize the AMA’s success in organizing the 16th Annual Business Day Conference, promoting the chapter, and recruiting and retaining members. The board’s commitment to community service was also recognized with a nomination for...