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| Art and Art History | ||
| Deborah
Hall, Associate Professor 518-580-3585 |
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| Topics | Type in Art | |
| Biology and Neuroscience Program | ||
| Bernard
Possidente, Professor 518-580-5082 |
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| Topics | Biological Clocks: Symmetry of Wrist Activity Rhythms: Effects of Sex and Handedness | |
| Biological Clocks: Expression of Peripheral Clock Genes in Liver and Mammary Tissue under Disrupted Photoperiod Conditions | ||
| Genetics and Popular Culture: Genetic Dialogs in the Sopranos | ||
| Chemistry | ||
Raymond
J. Giguere, Professor |
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| Topics | Microwave Heating in Organic Synthesis | |
| Tandem Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions | ||
| Adventures of Undergraduate Research in Organic Synthesis | ||
Rajesh
Nagarajan, Assistant Professor |
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| Topics | Enzymes as Drug Targets | |
| Chemical Approaches to Understand Topoisomerase Mechanisms | ||
| Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics: Challenges and Solutions | ||
| Substrate Specificity of a Bacterial DD-Peptidase | ||
| Quorum Sensing in Bacteria | ||
| English | ||
| Terence
Diggory, Professor 518-580-5613 |
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| Topics | Poetry and Painting of the NY School | |
Urban Pastoral in Contemporary Poetry |
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| Exercise Science, Dance & Athletics | ||
| Paul
J. Arciero, Associate Professor |
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| Topics | Current Research Findings: Effects of Nutritional and Physical Activity- Interventions on Body Composition Energy Expenditure, and Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease Risk | |
| Foreign Languages and Literatures | ||
| Giuseppe
Faustini, Professor 518-580-5206 |
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| Topics | Italian Literature from Dante to Contemporary
Period: Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Pirandello, Ginzburg,
Il Settecento, Dal Risorgimento ad oggi |
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| Italian Cinema | ||
| Italian Society and Politics | ||
| Angela
Tumini, Visiting Assistant Professor 518-580-5225 |
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| Topics | Italian Literature and Cinema | |
| Comp. Cinema Italian/Spanish | ||
| Government | ||
| Beau
Breslin, Associate Professor 518-580-5244 |
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| Topics | From Words to Worlds: Examining Constitutional Functionality | |
| The Impact of Victims' Stories on the Clemency Process in Death Penalty Cases | ||
| History | ||
| Margaret
Pearson, Associate Professor |
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| Topics | Women in Early China | |
| A New Reading of the Yijing (Book of Changes) | ||
| Earliest Meanings of Yin (of yin/yang): Revising our Understanding of a "Universal" Concept - Yin | ||
| Management and Business | ||
| Timothy
Harper, Assistant Professor 518-580-5111 |
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| Topics | Social Categorization and Social Stereotyping and Diversity in Organizations | |
| Organizational Decision-Making | ||
| Various topics related to Management, including leadership, coaching, teamwork, interpersonal dynamics | ||
| Mathematics & Computer Science | ||
| David
Vella, Associate Professor 518-580-5291 |
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| Topics | Symmetry, Rigid Motions and Polygons | |
| Partitions of Integers and Counting Irreducible Polynomials | ||
| Generating Functions and Combinational Identities | ||
| Orbits in Lie Algebras | ||
| Philosophy and Religion | ||
| Stephen
Butler Murray, College Chaplain, Dir, of Intercultural Center 518-580-5673 |
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| Topics | Christian Systematic Theology | |
| Christian Social and Theological Ethics | ||
| Theology of Paul Tillich | ||
| Religion and Literature | ||
| ChristianProtestant-Catholic Dialogue | ||
| Christian Perspectives on World Religions | ||
| War, Violence and Theology | ||
| Laury
Silvers, Assistant Professor 518-580-5454 |
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| Topics | Islamic Intellectual History, specifically Surfism Major Figures such as Junayd, Wasiti, and Ibn al-Arabi | |
| Early Sufi Women | ||
| Gender and Surfism | ||
| Nation of Islam | ||
| Moorish Science | ||
| Muslim Slaves in the Americas | ||
| Sociology | ||
| David
Karp, Associate Professor 518-580-5426 |
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| Topics | Restorative Justice | |
Campus Crime/Disciplinary Problems |
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| Offender Reentry from Prison | ||
| Rik
Scarce, Associate Professor 518-580-5416 |
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| Topics | Imposing Meaning on Nature | |
| Scholarly Research Ethics | ||
| Corrections from Jail Inmates' Point of View | ||
| Theater | ||
| Lawrence
Opitz, Professor 518-580-5432 |
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| Topics | Acting Shakespeare | |
| Shakespear's Language on the Stage | ||
