Photographs by Joan Barker (Communication and Media) are on display at the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colo., and the NAVE Gallery in Somerville, Mass., throughout November.
A.J. Williams-Myers (Black Studies) presented a lecture, “African American History in the Hudson Valley,” at the Senate House State Historic Site in Kingston on Oct. 3. Williams-Myers’s lecture kicked off the Senate House’s African American Culture and History Festival, which took place on Oct. 3 and 4.
Joel Evans (Music) presented a master class, lecture and solo oboe recital at the School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, as part of the fall 2009 Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Amy Cheng (Art) installed a 6-by-39.5-foot hand-painted ceramic-tile mural at the Howard St. El Station in Chicago, Ill., in July 2009. Commissioned by the Chicago Transit Authority, the piece, titled “Destination: Points Unknown,” had budget of $69,150. The mural was depicts a cosmic scene that aims to transport viewers on an imaginative journey. The mural was fabricated by Sherle Wagner International LLC in Falls River, Mass.
Donna Flayhan (Communication and Media) presented a paper, “Arab Professors and Academic Freedom Post 9/11,” at The American Association of University Professors Academic Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 12. The Chronicle of Higher Education reviewed the paper and Flayhan was later interviewed by The Chronicle about her scholarship on pejorative terms used for Arabs since 1991. Flayhan’s work in that area is summarized in the article “Beyond Henry Louis Gates: Many Scholars Find Inspiration in Discrimination,” which appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Aug. 4. Flayhan also presented as an invited expert in a Media Ecology Roundtable at the Congress of the Canadian Communication Association in Ottawa in May 2009, where the Canadian Congress is forming a media-ecology area of its own.
Provost Donald Christian (right), seen here with his wife, Sandy, is speaking to Robert Michael, dean of the School of Education, at the faculty/staff barbecue on May 19.
Provost Donald Christian began his work at the college on Aug. 1.
Christian said, “After many months of transition, I am excited to be on campus, beginning my work as Provost and learning all the things I need to help make a great college be even better. I look forward to meeting and working with faculty, staff, and students here, and hope that people will introduce themselves to me as we cross paths on campus or in town in the coming months.”
As provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, he is the chief academic office of the college overseeing five instructional divisions and six departments.
A full interview with Christian will appear in the Aug. 17 issue of News Pulse.
Greta Winograd (Psychology) presented a poster, co-authored by Patricia Cohen of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University’s New York State Psychiatric Institute, titled “Improved Functioning and Personality Disorder: Finding (or Creating) One’s Niche” at the May 2009 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention in San Francisco.
Kristine Harris (History, Asian Studies) presented a paper, “Re-makes/Re-models: The Red Detachment of Women between Stage and Screen,” on April 17 at the Chinese Opera Films after 1949: Music, Performance, and Cinematic Arts symposium at the University of Chicago.
Sally Cross (Development) outlined the SUNY New Paltz Foundation’s role in the recent purchase and leaseback agreement to acquire 40 acres of land south of campus for student, faculty and staff housing at a panel discussion at the Higher Education and Real Estate: Developing and Managing Real Estate Assets in a Tough Economy conference in Boston, April 16-17. The panel was one of two university/developer case studies presented at the conference.
Thomas Sarrantonio (Art – Foundation) will have an exhibition of paintings at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, May 2-June 1.
On April 18, 38 student members of the Concert Choir participated, along with other regional choral groups, in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston.
Karanja Keita Carroll (Black Studies) presented “Maintaining Africana Studies: Content, Structure and Ideology for the 21st Century” at the 33rd Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference in Atlanta, Ga., on March 19. Carroll also presented “Black Studies at SUNY New Paltz: The Formative Years, 1968-1972″ at the SUNY 60th Anniversary Scholarly Conference on April 4. He also participated in a panel discussion at New Jersey’s Monmouth University’s Global Understanding Convention on “Race and Racism in the Classroom,” with Sharon Lewis of the English Department at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Leslie Wilson of the History Department at Montclair State University, and Danielle Wallace of the African American Studies at Temple University in Pennsylvania and the Black Studies Department at New Paltz, on April 7.
Benjamin Junge (Anthropology) accompanied several students from the Anthropology Club to participate in the Lower Hudson Valley Forum, March 27-28, in White Plains. Junge and Emily Korona ‘09 (Anthropology) presented their ongoing research, through the Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience (AYURE) program, on United States grassroots groups understandings of globalization. For more information, visit http://lhvsocialforum.org/.
Performances of “Porch by Moonlight,” a one-act play by Larry Carr (English), premiered at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater in the West Side YMCA in New York City on April 1 and 2, as part of the YMCA Playwriting Festival.
Jannett Dinsmore ‘09 (Biology) presented a poster detailing her research conducted with Aaron Haselton (Biology) at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America’s Eastern Branch in Harrisburg, Pa., on March 21, titled “The Effects of Dietary Regime on Post-Starvation Feeding in Drosophila Melanogaster.”
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