August 26th, 2010

Julia M. Dutton, adjunct faculty in Modern Languages, was named 2010 New Hampshire World Language Teacher of the Year at the New Hampshire Excellence in Education award ceremony, held on June 12 at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester. Dutton was nominated by the New Hampshire Association of World Language Teachers. In addition to teaching French at Keene State College, Dutton recently retired after fourteen years as the French teacher at St. Joseph Regional School in Keene.

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Prof. Daniel Patterson of the Theatre and Dance department attended the annual conference for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in Los Angeles during the week of Aug 1-8.  Professor Patterson regularly works with the “Playworks” new play development focus group at this conference and this year was an actor in a piece entitled Pemberton, by playwright Ron Purlman.  Professor Patterson played an eccentric famous novelist named Pemberton in this allegorical piece about a man who can’t find an ending for his last work: his life.

Dr. Jose Lezcano (Professor of Music) performed a solo recital and adjudicated an international guitar competition at the Rosario Guitar Festival (May 13-16); he also performed at the Carrera Music Festival in Quito, Ecuador (June 1-5); with members of the New Jersey Symphony in April in Boccherini’s Guitar Quintet in D, and performed solo or collaborative recitals in Sarasota (May 3), and at summer concert series in Westin, Vermont, and Claremont, New Hampshire. His Viola Concerto received its South American premiere with soloist Brett Deubner and the Quito-based Carrera Festival Orchestra on June 4.

Mark C. Long, professor of English and American Studies, was an invited speaker at a conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, focused on reading and textual traditions. His presentation, “The Problem of Reading, the Practice of Writing,” has been published in the conference proceedings, The Natural History of Reading. In addition, Mark’s review of Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story and Encounters with the Land, by Rinda West, appears in the Summer 2010 issue of Western American Literature.

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Emily Porschitz, Management, attended the Academy of Management 2010 Annual meeting in Montreal in early August. She was one of the organizers of a Professional Development Workshop with renowned feminist sociologist Dorothy E. Smith. The workshop had 40 attendees and was entitled “Institutional Ethnography in Feminist Organizational Research: A Session with Dorothy E. Smith.”

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Campus Safety Officer Michael Kocsis received the Robert Bunker Award for Outstanding Performance at the annual Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association (NECUSA) awards banquet on June 30 in Saratoga Springs, NY. Officer Kocsis was nominated by Campus Safety Director Amanda Warman for successfully performing CPR on an individual on March 29. Officer Gregory Williams received a certificate of honorable mention for finding and aiding a student who had fallen out of a window at an off campus house in the early morning hours of August 28, 2009.

Emily Porschitz, Management, presented “Freedom, Flexibility, or Frustration? A Comparative Analysis of New Careers,” co-authored with Sinead G. Ruane, at the Eastern Academy of Management Annual Conference, Portland, ME, May 15, 2010. This paper makes a case for labor process theory as an alternative to the psychological theoretical frameworks typically used in careers research. She also presented “‘Text-ing’ Young Workers: Using Institutional Ethnography in Careers Research” at the Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference in Albuquerque, NM, April 8, 2010. In this presentation she discussed the methodology of institutional ethnography and demonstrated how she used it in her dissertation research.

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Professor Jerry P. Jasinski, Chemistry, has recently been invited into the following Who’s Who directories: Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals, Global Directory of Who’s Who, Strathmore Who’s Who, Presidential Who’s Who, and the Cambridge Who’s Who of Distinguished Individuals.

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Members of the Keene State College Guitar Orchestra (Colin Isotti, Harold Jones, David Pastore, and Andrew Johnston), with their Director, Dr. Jose Manuel Lezcano, performed May 24 - 28 at several cultural educational institutions in Quito and Northern Ecuador, including the Casa de la Musica Concert Hall, the Universidad Politecnica del Norte en Ibarra, the Instituto de Musica de Cotacachi, and the Universidad de los Hemisferios. They performed a program including the world premiere of KSC student Brian Campbell’s Rio for Guitar Ensemble, and the South American premiere of Dr. Lezcano’s Homenaje a Victor Jara, as well as works by Vivaldi, Sor, and Machado. They were assisted with funding from the Office of Undergraduate Conference Travel, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Music Department, and Quito’s La Casa de la Musica. In April, the KSC Guitar Orchestra joined forces with the Boston Guitar Orchestra and the Timberlane High School Guitar Ensemble at Festival 21 in Boston, organized by director Frank Wallace and the Boston Guitar Society, in the world premiere of Dr. Lezcano’s Homenaje to Victor Jara, conducted by the composer, with narration by Dr. Patricia Pedroza of Modern Languages. Dr. Lezcano was commissioned by Meet the Composer New England and the BCGS to compose this work celebrating the music and life of slain singer-songwriter and Chilean political activist Victor Jara.

Judy Brophy, CELT, will be presenting on Sharing Student Work Using Google Sites at the Association of Small Computer Users in Education conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina June 17.

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Mike Caulfield, CELT, gave a plenary presentation on “Learning in an Age of Just-Instruction” and directed a workshop on integrative learning at the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy Conference. The 60 minute presentation is available on the web through ustream.tv.

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As President of the American Institute of Chemists (AIC), a high profile national chemistry organization, Dr. Jerry P. Jasinski had the privilege and pleasure of presenting the 2010 AIC Gold Medal Award to Dr. Robert Grubbs, a 2005 Nobel laureate from the California Institute of Technology, for the development of the Grubbs catalyst at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA on April 8, 2010. This represents the ninth Nobel laureate given this honor by the AIC since 1926. On Friday, April 9, 2010, also at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Dr. Jasinski presented Dr. Sossina Haile, Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology, with the Chemical Pioneer Award for her work on designing materials with enhanced electrical properties in ionic compounds. Over the past 46 years, six previous winners of this award have also won the Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry.

Professor Jasinski has been the coauthor of 29 peer review scientific research papers in 2010. Titles of the most recent include the following: Desipramine hydrochloride: a non-merohedrally twinned structure, By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Ramesha, A. R., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(3), o674-o675; , Imatinibium dipicrate By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Narayana, B., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(2), o411-o412; Trimipraminium maleate, By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Narayana, B., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(2), o366-o367; Chlorimipraminium picrate, By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Narayana, B., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(2), o347-o348, and 5,7-Dimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,4-diazepin-4-ium picrate, Jasinski,Jerry P., Butcher, Ray J., Yathirajan, H. S., Narayana, B. and Prakash Kamath, K.

Chris Brehme, Assistant Professor in the Geography Department, is part of a multi-partner collaboration led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that received a two-year award from the Northeast SeaGrant Consortium to analyze the potential interaction between endangered whales and lobster gear along the Maine coast. Other partners include the Institute for Broadening Participation, Maine Lobstermen’s Association and New England Aquarium.
With the help of geography major Amy Curran, Chris is using GIS to analyze information collected at small meetings in dozens of fishing harbors. At these meetings, lobstermen use paper charts and pens to indicate the location and timing of trap placement. These data will be combined with whale sightings information as part of a risk reduction model that the researchers hope will inform a more balanced approach to conservation management.

Candice Bosse, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, has been invited to give two talks this summer: “El feminismo y el utopismo: la ética de la diferencia y la política de la igualdad” at El Museo del Hombre in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 17, 2010, and “Planeta hembra: el utopismo y el Apocalipsis” at La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 17, 2010.

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Professor Daniel Patterson of Theatre and Dance attended the National Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival last week in Washington D.C. Professor Patterson was awarded the National Critics Fellowship and participated in workshops involving Theatre Criticism with Washington Post critic Nelson Pressley, NPR Theatre and Film critic Bob Mondello, and Web-based critics Tim and Lorraine Treanor. The workshop was led by Daniel Sullivan of the O’Neill Center’s National Critics Institute and National Critics chair, Mark Charney. Professor Patterson was invited to attend the O’Neill Center Critics Institute later this summer.
Also attending the Kennedy Center from TAD was student Molly Chase, who had won the opportunity to participate at the KCACTF National Festival as the regional winner of the Alcone Award for make-up and hair design for her work on The Threepenny Opera.

Barbara Ware, Modern Languages, attended the 63rd Annual Kentucky Language Conference at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 15-17. She participated on the panel “Descontento, identidad y obsesión en la literatura argentina.” Her paper, entitled “El cuerpo de Eva Perón: Una obsesión nacional” detailed the archetypal images of Perón in Argentine poetry, short stories and novels.

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What are the opportunities and challenges of teaching and learning in small college English departments? Mark C. Long, professor of English and American Studies, explores this question in his recently published essay, “Centers and Peripheries,” in the spring 2010 issue of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture. As the guest editor for the special issue, Mark brings together six essays that explore the small college English department to investigate the possibilities for teaching and learning in these institutional settings and to suggest how these local practices might inspire comparable intellectual work in other professional and intellectual contexts. In addition, the Reviews section of the special issue includes writing by Kate Tirabassi, assistant professor of English, and professor of English emerita Robin Dizard.

Laura Seraichick (Information Technology Group) presented on “Perspectives on Leadership from Women in Charge of Campus IT” at the New Hampshire Women in Higher Education Leadership Spring Conference at Franklin Pierce University, NH, April 9, 2010.

Joseph Darby (Music) presented the paper “Revisiting the Early Performing History of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos” at the Fourth Biennial Conference of The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, held at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, on April 8-11. The study uses newspaper advertisements, oratorio wordbooks, and manuscript evidence to improve the documentary record of one of the mid-eighteenth century’s leading orchestral compositions. The paper has been accepted for publication by the Society in an forthcoming book to be published by Steglein Publishing.

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Brian Green, Sociology, give an invited talk at the Second International Seminar on Human Rights Education in Casta Papiernicka, Slovakia on March 23. The seminar, organized by the Slovak Center for Communication and Development, focused on training young educators and other professionals for human rights education. The title of the talk was “Teaching Democracy and Human Rights in a Globalized Era.” It focused on advancing our conceptualization of both democracy and human rights in a changing world, and on strategies for teaching these ideas in classrooms in more developed countries like the United States and European countries.

On April 10, Center for Writing tutors Josh Starkey, Allison Siwacki, Karah Dunn, Kate Curtis, and Administrative Assistant Jahleh Ghanbari presented “Close Knit or Closed Off?: How Writing Centers Project Images of Inclusion and Exclusion” at the Northeast Writing Center Association’s annual conference at Boston University. Their presentation included an analysis of data from different constituencies on campus in order to understand how writing centers are perceived by faculty, students, and administration.

Mark C. Long, professor of English and American Studies, has received a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant is designed to support the development of humanities courses organized around questions to which no discipline or field or profession can lay an exclusive claim—questions that predate the formation of the academic disciplines themselves. Mark’s proposed course, “What is Nature?” will trace the history of experiences and concepts of nature from the ancient world to the age of Darwin. Students will read a sequence of major texts from the Western tradition alongside supplemental treatises and excerpts from religious and scientific documents to help students understand the broad contours of thinking about the natural world in the Western cultures of Europe as well as the Eastern cultures of China and India, and the Arab-World and Africa.

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Beverly J. Ferrucci (mathematics), Jennifer McDougall ‘08, and Jack Carter (California State University East Bay) recently published “Getting a Bead on It!” in the National Council of Teachers’ journal, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. Their article presents a concrete way of demonstrating linear equations and their associated components to students studying algebraic thinking in middle schools.

Katherine E. Tirabassi (English) presented on “Sustaining Writing Across the Curriculum [WAC] in Hard Times: The Creation of a Regional WAC Consortium” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, KY, March 18-20.

Sponsored by a KSC Faculty Development Grant, Katherine Tirabassi also presented with Christina Ortmeier-Hooper (University of New Hampshire) on “Teaching ELL Writers: Writing Center Strategies for Pull-Out Classrooms” at the Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESOL) Conference in Boston, March 26-27.

A report of Elizabeth A. Neuhardt’s (Chemistry ‘10) research has been published in April’s edition of the Nucleus, the journal of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. Ms. Neuhardt was awarded a Norris-Richards Undergraduate Research Scholarship to work with Colin Abernethy during the summer of 2009.
The link to the article is: http://www.nesacs.org/TheNucleus/2010/April_2010_NUCLEUS_web.pdf#page=8 (opens as pdf).

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The spring issue of Metamorphosis, COPLAC’s electronic journal of student work, is live — and includes two papers by Keene State students. The accepted papers were “The Death of the Soul: The Role of Excremental Assault in the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Meagan M. Blais and “Untangling the passionflower vines: preliminary insights on the phylogeny of Passiflora subgenus Decaloba based upon trnL-F sequences” by Nicolle M. Siddall.

Dana Githmark ‘09 and Larry Welkowitz published “Effects of visual feedback of speech patterns on fluency of speech in individuals with autism spectrum” in Mensa Research Journal, Vol 40 (3) pp. 37-40. Their paper was originally presented at the College’s Academic Excellence Conference in 2009.

Jay Kahn (Finance and Planning), Laura Seraichick (IT), and Karen Stanish (Mathematics) presented the session “Integrated Planning: Moving the Parts in Unison” at the Society for College and University Planning 2010 North Atlantic Regional Conference on March 25. In this session, they described the strengths and challenges of KSC’s integrated, bottom-up, constituency based planning process and gave the attendees an opportunity to consider the benefits and obstacles of integrated planning at their own organizations.

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Joseph Darby (Music Department) presented the paper “The Early Marketing of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos” at the 31st Annual Conference of the College Music Society’s Northeast Region, held March 19-20 at the University of Vermont. An examination of London newspapers in 1739-40 reveals that the efforts to market G.F. Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos were substantially greater than existing documentary studies suggest. These advertisements – subscription proposals, concert ads, publication announcements, and retail sales ads – provide insight into the early marketing, publication, performance, and reception of the concertos. These sources also shed light on the relationship of Handel’s opus 6 to a wider practice of issuing large instrumental works by subscription in eighteenth-century Britain.

Steven Spiegel, Associate Director of the Global Education Office, was awarded a travel grant to participate in NAFSA: Association of International Educations Advocacy Day in Washington D.C. on March 16-17. The purpose of  NAFSA Advocacy Day is to promote the importance of international education and legislation related to the global exchange of students and scholars with the Congress.

Skye Stephenson presented a paper at the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (AAPLAC)  conference in Managua, Nicaragua on February 19 on “Sacred Visions and Values from Indigenous Education,” as part of a panel on “Understanding the ‘Other’ in Study Abroad.”

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Patricia Pedroza, faculty member in Modern Languages and Women’s Studies, has had an essay accepted for publication by the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua and The Women’s Studies Institute at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA). Her essay’s title is “The Political and Spiritual Pedagogy of Anzaldua’s Inadequacy.” This essay discusses the curricular exclusions of Chicana/Latina ways of gaining knowledge relating to learning, shifting stages of consciousness, and ways of healing, and will appear published in November 2010 at UTSA.

Barbara Ware (Spanish) presented a paper at the “Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts” Feb. 25-27 at the University of Texas San Antonio. The UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosted the sixth biennial conference and was organized by UTSA Professor Santiago Daydi-Tolson. The event featured 24 national and international scholars presenting a wide variety of papers on the presence of food and food-related issues in literature and the arts. Dr. Ware participated on the panel “European Literature” and presented a paper entitled: “The Creation of a National Culinary Canon: Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Gendered Authority.”

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Dr. Candice Torres (Bosse) has had an article accepted for publication in the academic journal Grafemas. The article is titled: “La Mujer Hondureña, el Feminismo y la Obra Poética: Una Entrevista con Jeny Esmeralda Barahona Arambú (Libélula)” and will appear in the spring issue, 2010.

Economics students Evthoxia Kyrousis and Casey McBrien presented their senior projects at the Eastern Economic Association on Feb. 27 and 28 in Philadelphia. Xia presented “Illuminating Social Capital,” how the business community supports and benefits from the Pumpkin Festival. Casey’s paper “Peak Oil: Will Economies Collapse or Adapt?” found that price signals are not adequate to stimulate alternative energy technologies.

Economics professor Marie Duggan also presented two papers, one about Keynes’s proposal for a world financial architecture at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944, and the other a model of economic growth under the Spanish missions in 18th century California. Conference attendance was supported by grants from the Faculty Development Fund and the Student Conference Fund.

A paper based on the work of Carl E. Johnson (Biology ’08), Everett A. Kysor (Chemistry-Physics ’07), Andrew S. Metell (Chemistry ’08) and Jonathan W. Queen (Chemistry ’08) has been selected as a “Hot Article” by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Hot Articles are those papers rated most highly in terms of both their quality and scientific impact by teams of expert reviewers. The students’ paper, “The Synthesis and Characterization of [IMesH]⁺[(η³-C₅H₅)V(N)Cl₂]^-: An Anionic Vanadium(V) Complex with a Terminal Nitrido Ligand” has recently been published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Dalton Transactions and will be freely available for the next four weeks at http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/DT/article.asp?doi=b922744j.
This paper is the result of a four-year research project at Keene State College funded by Research Corporation and the American Chemical Society. It describes the syntheses and properties of four new chemical compounds, two of which contain extremely rare vanadium-nitrogen triple bonds.

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Beverly J. Ferrucci, professor of mathematics, Jack A. Carter (California State University East Bay) and Ngan Hoe Lee (Singapore National Institute of Education) recently presented “Proportional Reasoning Models in Developmental Mathematics Education: Enhancing Under-Prepared Students’ Transition at the College Level” at the Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in San Francisco. Their presentation discussed their U.S.-Singapore International Project that involves collaborative cross-cultural research in mathematics.

Brian Green, Sociology, had an article published in the December 2009 edition of the Polish Sociological Review. The article, co-written with Maciej Kryszczuk of Kozminski Academy in Warsaw, is entitled “Computerization of Polish Households in Social Structural Perspective: A Dynamic Analysis of the Informatization Process over 20 Years,” and continues their work on the history of the expansion of personal computer and internet use in Poland since the 1989 revolution there. The study examines the connections between adoption and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and changes in social status. The results provide support for the hypothesis that regular use of ICTs does have positive effects on long term income growth, even when controlling for other factors such as age, education, and urban/rural differences.

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Sander Lee, professor of philosophy, presented “Woody Allen Gets Away With Murder, Or Does He?” at the meetings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts held in conjunction with the Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, February 18, 2010. He also presented “The Red Sox and Philosophy” at the meetings of the American Society for Value Inquiry.

Jay Kahn, vice president for Finance and Planning, was elected to a 3 year term as an at-large director for the Society for College and University Planning.

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Beverly J. Ferrucci, mathematics, presented “An Analysis of Model Lessons that Integrate GeoGebra into Mathematics Programs” at the 15th Asian International Mathematics Conference at Beijing Normal University in Beijing, People’ s Republic of China. The presentation illustrated her model lessons and included suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of using dynamic geometry for both K-12 and undergraduate mathematics programs. Researchers from more than 45 countries were in attendance at the conference.

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Frank Mazzola, Director, Physical Plant Operations, was a guest panelist at the winter 2010 meeting of IFMA, the International Facilities Management Association in Boston.
Frank addressed numerous issues facing higher education facilities managers today, including keeping operating costs low, addressing deferred maintenance, and how the physical appearance of a campus helps recruitment. Over 200 facilities managers from higher education, hospitals, and commercial properties were in attendance.

Sander Lee, Professor of Philosophy, contributed an essay titled “Why Are They Our Red Sox?” ” in the anthology The Red Sox and Philosophy, edited by Michael Macomber, as part of the Popular Culture and Philosophy series published by the Open Court Press, 2010.

“Tov L’hodot” for choir and piano, originally written for the KSC Chamber Singers by adjunct faculty member Lainee Broad Ginsberg, will be released by Transcontinental Music Publications, which has published 7 of her choral works. Transcontinental has now sold 3,000 copies of Lainee’s “Oseh Shalom.”

Meriem Pages, Assistant Professor of English, has been awarded a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council to lead an interdisciplinary workshop on the “Teaching the Middle Ages” for New Hampshire educators June 28-29, 2010. The goal will be to address and explore the richness and diversity of medieval European culture and society as well as to examine and investigate the connections between past and present, medieval Europe and modern American society. Targeting the specific needs of middle-school and high-school educators, the workshop meets a critical need by providing professional development on the literature, history, and art of the Middle Ages, and is expected draw educators from around the state.
KSC faculty Stephen Lucey of the Art Department and Susan Wade of the History Department will present sessions, as will faculty from Plymouth State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Matching funds are being contributed by the Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities, Office of the Provost, English Department, History Department, Campus Commission on the Status of Women, and Alumni Association.

Candice L. Bosse, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, delivered a keynote address, “La mujer nomada,” at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras. She was also invited to speak about feminism in a talk entitled “Feminismo: la diferencia o la igualdad” at the Universidad Pedagogica de Honduras.

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In September, Christopher Proulx (Health Sciences) presented at the Sociedad Occidental Colegio Médico de Rehabilitación de Jalisco A.C. 2do. Congreso Nacional de Rehabilitación in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. His magistral lecture was “Advances in Spinal Traction Therapy,” and he gave several small group symposiums on the Application Therapeutic Laser. He also spoke at the first of a lectures series at the Winchester School District (organized by KSC alums Liz Harvey and her intern, a current KSC Health Science major, Dianna Sinni). The talk, “Physical Activity in Youth Populations,” was provided to parents and teachers of school-aged children. It was video recorded by Public Television of NH and is to be aired at a later date.

In November, as an invited lecturer for a conference on Manual Spinal Therapy in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he spoke via live webinar format from his office (with the incredible assistance of Judy and Jenny from Academic Technology). The clinicians in attendance were from all over Brazil, including chiropractors, medical physicians, kinesiologists, and physiotherapists. The three-hour webinar was entitled “Application of Mechanical Traction.” Later in November, he traveled to Quito, Ecuador, to present as an invited guest at the Curso Internacional de Manejo Clinico. The lecture was entitled “Clinical Application of Mechanical Traction and Low-Level Laser Therapy.” He was honored by the Presidenta Federacion Ecuatoriana de Fisioterapia and asked to return to Ecuador to present at the semi-annual international sports medicine conference held in June 2010.

Jose Lezcano (Music), performed two Vivaldi Guitar Concertos (in D and C major) with the Orquesta de Camera Quito, conducted by Dr. Gustavo Lovato, which also performed the South American premiere of Lezcano’s Tango-Overture for Strings, on January 7, 2010, at the Casa de la Musica in the Ecuadorean capital. El Comercio, Quito’s large-circulation daily newspaper, published an on-line video review.

Mark C. Long (English and American Studies) traveled to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to chair a panel sponsored by the Association of the Departments of English (ADE), “Scholarship, Tenure, and Promotion in the Small College Department,” and to introduce a session he helped organize sponsored by the MLA Office of Research, “Reading as a Teacher: a Workshop for Teachers of Literature.” Mark also served as job counselor for the MLA.

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Dr. Beverly J. Ferrucci accompanied 48 Keene Sate College students to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference and Exposition in October. The Conference was held at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston and featured more than 300 sessions on the latest methods of teaching mathematics at all grade levels. More than 4,000 mathematics teachers from throughout the country and Canada attended the event.

Dr. Beverly J. Ferrucci (Mathematics) with KSC Math Education seniors at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference and Exposition (courtesy photo)

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Julia Dutton, KSC adjunct faculty member in French and French teacher at St. Joseph Regional School in Keene, was named the 2009 World Language Teacher of Excellence by the NH Association of World Language Teachers at the NHAWLT Conference on October 23. The award is presented to an outstanding New Hampshire world language teacher who is an advocate for language learning within and beyond the classroom and who has contributed to the world language teaching profession in the state of New Hampshire. Dutton is a board member and past president of NHAWLT.

The men’s Ice Hockey team coached by Bert Poirier (Admissions) and Bobby Rodrigue (class of 2000) held a clinic for local high school age players November 9-20. The clinic consisted of on-ice instruction with an emphasis on individual hockey skills development, team tactics, safety, and fair play. A total of 32 players, mostly from Monadnock Regional High School and Keene High School, participated in this two-week-long minicamp, which also provided an opportunity for members on the KSC Hockey team to instruct and mentor young players.

Colin Abernethy (Chemistry) gave an invited seminar at the University of New Hampshire on November 17. He presented “Ring-slip and ligand death: The unexpected happens in the carbene and germylene chemistry of vanadium” and described some of the results of his student research program.

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Beverly J. Ferrucci (Mathematics) conducted a workshop titled “Using Reasoning Skills to Power Up Students’ Mathematics Performance” at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference and Exposition in Boston, MA. The presentation illustrated how elementary school teachers can design and implement logical reasoning activities for their classes. Beverly also served as Chair of the Volunteer Committee and coordinated the meeting room assignments and publicity for the 4,247 mathematics teachers of grades K-16 who attended the conference.

Jo Beth Mullens (Geography) was elected president of the New England - St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (NESTVAL) at the organization’s annual conference, held November 6 and 7 in Salem, Massachusetts. At the NESTVAL conference, Chris Cusack (Geography) and James Cunningham (recent geography alumni) presented a paper titled “New Kids on the Block: The Process of Neighborhood ‘Studentification’ and Perceptions of Change,” and Klaus Bayr (emeritus faculty in geography) presented his paper “Climate Change and Human Caused Global Warming: Are Glaciers Good Indicators?”

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Kim Accorsi (Online Communications) was featured in an article in the September issue of Business Officer, published by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The article, Into the Online Jungle, explores how colleges and universities are using social media to recruit and screen prospective students, share news, and build community.

Chris Pratt (Mason Library) was recently recognized for his work as the volunteer archivist for the Town of Sullivan. The Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire presented the award at its annual meeting in New London on October 10, 2009. The award recognizes Chris’s organization and documentation of the Sullivan Town Archives as well has his education outreach to the town. It was one of seven awards recognizing the work of historical societies around the state to collect and preserve local history.

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