Kudos

Manas Chatterji, professor of management, was the keynote speaker for the International Meeting on the Economics of Peace and Security, held at American University in Cairo, Egypt in June. The title of his presentation was “Peace Economics and Peace Science - Theory, Methods and Cases.” He also made a refereed presentation titled “Applications of Management Science in Peace Marketing” at the 12th Tinbergen International Meeting on the Network of European Peace Scientists held at the German Institute of Peace and Security, Berlin, Germany in June. The paper was prepared in association with two PhD students in the School of Management.

Thomas O’Connor, distinguished professor of Spanish, was appointed this summer by to the Executive Committee of the SUNY Distinguished Academy. The academy’s first meeting was held in Albany on Oct. 22, to organize its by-laws and activities and involve the 444 system-wide distinguished professors in actively furthering the SUNY chancellor’s Six Big Ideas initiative for the system.

Joshua Price, associate professor of philosophy, interpretation and culture, recently published a book titled Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women (SUNY Press, September 2012). Detailed information about the book can be found at http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5375-structural-violence.aspx

Binghamton had a significant presence in the Division 9 program at the American Psychological Association annual convention in Orlando in August. Dan O’Brien, a Binghamton University graduate now in a post-doc at Harvard; Susan Seibold-Simpson, assistant professor of nursing;  Rick Kauffman, a graduate student in biological sciences; and Sean Massey, research associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, presented on their work as part of the Binghamton Neighborhood Project. The group has been invited to submit its work as a collection in the Division 9 journal Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP).

The Academy of Management has ranked SUNY Distinguished Professor Fran Yammarino of the School of Management in the top five most influential scholars of leadership over the last three decades. The ranking is based on two different criteria: cites in the Social Sciences Citation Index and cites on Google pages.

The cover image for the October 2012 issue of the professional journal College & Research Libraries News is an illustration from Die Nibelungen, interpreted by Franz Keim and illustrated by Carl Otto Czeschka, published in 1909. This copy of Die Nibelungen was a gift to the Binghamton University Libraries by Harper College alumnus William M. Voelkle ’61. The work is an Austrian folktale about the royal family or lineage of the Burgundians who settled in the early 5th century at Worms. Keim was an Austrian writer whose literary works were predominately based on Austrian folktales. Although small in size, the book is richly illustrated by Austrian painter and graphic designer Czeschka, and is an outstanding example of the Art Nouveau movement in Austria. See the cover at http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/9.cover-expansion.