Faculty-Staff Activities

Dennis Conway, director of Campus Safety, and Karen Kellogg, associate director of environmental studies, were called “Hometown Heroes” Nov. 20 by the Saratoga Convention and Tourism Bureau for promoting Saratoga Springs by hosting conferences here. Conway was responsible for bringing the Northeast College and University Security Association annual meeting to Saratoga Springs last June, while Kellogg organized two events: the College Climate Response Conference in September 2002 and a meeting of the Environmental Studies Group in late 2001.

Roy Ginsberg, professor of government and Glaverbel chair in European Politics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, was in Brussels Dec. 3-5 to consult with the European Union presidency on the current state of U.S.-European relations and present a paper on “United States-European Union Relations during the Bush Administration.” The European Commission will publish the paper. In November, he was appointed by the president of Adelphi University to the newly established International Studies Advisory Board. From September to November, he was a consultant to undergraduate international studies programs at Siena College, Morehead State University, and the College of New Jersey.

Charlotte Goodman, professor emerita of English, this fall taught a course on the Modern Short Story to more than 70 senior citizens in Delmar, N.Y., under the auspices of the Humanities Institute of Lifelong Learning.

Bob Shorb, director, Office of Student Aid and Family Finance, led a workshop on College Financial Aid Dec. 9 sponsored by the Saratoga Springs High School Guidance Department.

Susan Zappen, associate college librarian for collections, has received the Janice Graham Newkirk Research Award from the Eastern New York Chapter, Association of College and Research Libraries, to support her sabbatical research project, “Future Directions of Academic Library Services for Remote Users.” On Oct. 30, she presented a paper titled “The Two faces of Journals: Cost and Usage,” at the 22nd annual Charleston Conference preconference, Managing Serials in an Electronic Environment.

Publications

Roy Ginsberg, professor of government and Glaverbel chair in European Politics, is the author of a monograph, Ten Years of European Foreign Policy: Baptism, Confirmation, Validation, in press from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin.

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