Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, had his book, Off-Broadway Musicals: From Greenwich Village to The Toxic Avenger, released by Scarecrow Press/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. The non-fiction book is a critical study that examines 375 off-Broadway musicals between 1919 and 2009.
Martine Barnaby and Jenn McNamara
Martine Barnaby and Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, will have their exhibit, “Look But Don’t Touch, Touch but Don’t Look: An Art Installation by Martine Barnaby and Jenn McNamara” on display from April 2-30 at the Bundy Museum, 129 Main St., Binghamton, N.Y.
Jenn McNamara
Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, will have two works of art on exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre’s “Fiber: TwentyTen.” The juried exhibition, which celebrates contemporary fiber art, will be held April 2-May 14 in St. Charles, Mo.
Irena Vincent
Irena Vincent, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented a poster session on “A Multisensory Approach to Teaching and Learning Speech Anatomy” at the 2010 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention held Nov. 18-20 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, participated on a panel discussing the early history of African American involvement in basketball at “The Emergence and Legacy of Black Basketball” national conference. The event was jointly hosted Nov. 12-13 by the Smithsonian Museum of American History and Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Eileen Gravani, Jacqueline Meyer and Deborah Wilson
Eileen Gravani, Professional Studies, and Jacqueline Meyer and Deborah Wilson, both from the Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented a poster session at the 2010 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention held Nov. 18-20 in Philadelphia, Pa. The poster was titled “Explicit Teaching of Narrative Structure to Preschool Children: A Pilot .”
George McDermott
George McDermott, geography emeritus, will give a presentation at a special event honoring women during World War II being held Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Henderson County (N.C.) Heritage Museum. McDermott, who resides in Brevard, N.C., is a World War II veteran and the author of Women Recall the War Years: Memories of World War II, a collection of mini-memoirs of 27 American and nine European women describing their experiences during the war. The diversity of their roles, the hardships they endured and the contributions they made are amazing and a tribute to their resolve and ability. The locale of their stories ranges over six continents. None of the women are well known or famous, just young women who performed extraordinary tasks during extraordinary times.
Donna K. Anderson
Donna K. Anderson, performing arts (music), spoke about American composer Charles T. Griffes in London's Wigmore Hall on June 25. The talk preceded an all-Griffes concert, the first in England that Anderson helped to organize and for which she also provided publicity materials and extensive program notes. Of the latter, critic Peter Grahame Woolf wrote, "A pre-concert talk had been given by Donna Anderson, whose photos and extensive notes made the programme one of the best seen at Wigmore Hall." Anderson just returned from the Czech Republic where, on Oct. 12, she delivered the inaugural address, "A Brief Introduction to the Rise of Choral Music in the American Colonies During the 17th and 18th Centuries," at a three-day choral symposium, "Cantus Choralis 09," held Oct. 12-14 at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. The event, held every two years, featured presentations by scholars from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and the United States, as well as concerts by Czech and Slovak choirs.
Cynthia J. Benton and Kathleen A. Lawrence
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, and Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies, collaborated on an action research project that was presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators on Feb. 14 in Orlando, Fla. Their work was titled “An X-Factor for Preservice Teacher Excellence: Practicing Communication and Presentation Skills in Multiple Contexts.”
John Foley
John Foley, Physical Education Department, will be inducted as a fellow in the prestigious Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) at the annual conference in San Diego, Calif., on March 31.