Faculty-Staff Achievements
Lori Acee, assistant to the director of Scribner Library, served as chair of the Village of
Ballston Spa’s Public Safety Committee on Police Reform and Reinvention. The committee
engaged in constructive and inclusive conversations — with lengthy community involvement
— concerning policing and efforts to foster trust, fairness and legitimacy within
the community and address any racial or disproportionate policing. A report was submitted
on conclusion of the committee’s work.
Emmanuel Balogun, assistant professor of political science, has been named a Council of Foreign Relations international affairs fellow. Balogun will spend the 2022 calendar year working as a policy advisor on African affairs and United States-U.N. Security Council policy at the U.S. Department of State. According to CFR, fellowship alumni “constitute a who’s who of the U.S. foreign policy community and include a former secretary of state, several undersecretaries of state and defense, ambassadors to NATO and the United Nations, and many other influential leaders in government, academia and the private sector.”
Balogun was also selected as the inaugural diversity, equity, and inclusion fellow at the Bridging the Gap project based at American University. The organization promotes scholarly contributions to public debate and decision-making on global challenges and U.S. foreign policy. Balogun will help create initiatives to mainstream equity in the organization and support underrepresented scholars and undergraduates. He was interviewed about his role by the international relations blog Duck of Minerva.
Balogun also published “African Responses to COVID-19: The Reckoning of Agency?” in African Studies Review and spoke in the “Health Competition and Great Power Politics” public panel of the Oxford University China Africa Network Annual Conference in May.
Vojta Kejzlar, assistant professor of statistics, is the lead author on the scientific paper “A fast and calibrated computer model emulator: an empirical Bayes approach,” which was recently published in the Statistics and Computing journal.
Jason Ohlberg, associate professor of dance, was invited to stage a work by New York City-based
choreographer Zvi Gotheiner for the University of Washington’s Chamber Dance Company.
Reconstruction of the piece took place this June in preparation for the company’s
October performances in Seattle.
Masami Tamagawa, senior teaching professor of Japanese, was interviewed by Bruce Einhorn of Bloomberg and quoted in a news article.
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