Faculty kudos
Deborah Taub, incoming chair for the Department of Student Affairs Administration in the College of Community and Public Affiars, has been awarded the 2016 Writing and Publication Award from the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International, in recognition of her body of work.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Nicole Hassoun was awarded the Hope & Optimism Fellowship as part of a project to explore the theoretical, empirical and practical dimensions of hope, optimism and related states. She will spend her one-year fellowship at Cornell University on a project titled “Can Hope Help Us Overcome Obstacles to Doing What We Should?”
Nicholas Quackenbush, Department of Physics, won a postdoctoral research fellowship through the National Research Council (NRC), USA. He will work for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) beginning in December, 2016, and he be stationed at the new National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., working under Joseph C. Woicik. Quackenbush’s proposal is to use hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) to investigate novel electronic materials. Specifically, he will study rare earth perovskite heterostructures that are promising for application in oxide electronics. He will also have the opportunity to participate in the commissioning of the brand-new beamline at NSLS-II that he will use for his research.
Anne Bailey, associate professor of history and Africana studies, has helped negotiate an MOU between the University of West Indies (UWI) and the SUNY system and has facilitated the development of an Engineering program in which students from UWI finish their program of study at Binghamton University and then enroll in the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science graduate program; Bailey also co-edited a study of Jamaican identity with a colleague from the University of West Indies in Jamaica.
Robert Parkinson, assistant professor of history, published an opinion piece in The New York Times on July 3, titled “Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?”
Distinguished Professor John Frazier, Associate Professor Norah Henry and Associate Professor Eugene Tettey-Fio, all of the Department of Geography, worked with ethnic and racial scholars to produce the third edition of Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, which published in summer 2016 (SUNY Press). More than 20 authors from 16 different universities and agencies participated in this production. Collaborators were from international origins including China, Canada, Portugal, Latin America, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, among others.