Faculty-Staff Achievements, Oct. 4, 2010

Activities

Elzbieta Lepkowska-White, associate professor, management and business, and Joanna Bialkowska presented research on "Smoking Motivations in Poland: Looking at the Past and Present," at the Academy of Business Administration Conference, in Riga, Latvia in August.

Bob Turner, associate professor of government, moderated a League of Women Voters-sponsored debate Sept. 27 on the proposal to change the Saratoga Springs city charter.

Publications

Denton Crocker, emeritus professor of biology, is the author of the following:

-"Malaria Survey and Malaria Control Detachments in the Southwest Pacific in World War II," published in Papua New Guinea Medical Journal, Vol. 52, Nos.1-2 (dated 2009, but issued in 2010). He served with a Survey Detachment for two years in that area and believes that their considerable accomplishments in reducing the incidence of malaria have been poorly reported. This paper is my attempt to correct that.

-A poem published in Blueline, Vol. 31, No. 73, published by the English Department at SUNY-Potsdam.

-Five poems accepted at The Aroostook Review, published by the English Department at the University of Maine, Fort Kent.

-A blog published on the Saratogian's Web site. The blog consists of 12 mini-essays, each appropriate to a month of the year, on natural history subjects. One new entry is posted per month. 

In the News

Mariel Martin, director, Office of Student Diversity Programs, was a source for "Colleges aim to prevent bullying, bigotry on campus," published Oct. 1 in The Daily Gazette.

Ron Seyb, associate professor of government, was recently interviewed twice by WNYT-TV, NewsChannel 13, for a story on Rick Lazio's decision to withdraw from the race for New York State governor (Sept. 27), and on the heated conversation that gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino had Sept. 29 with a New York Post reporter.

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, was interviewed by MSNBC for a story titled "Is John Lennon the most interesting Beatle?" that aired Sept. 28 on the Today show. He also was the source for "Coffee, College, and Community" that appeared in the online journal photonics.com