Faculty Notes
Carlo Alvaro ( Philosophy ) had his paper Ethical Veganism , Virtue , and Greatness of the Soul published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics . http :// rdcu . be / yBN9
Olivia Bullio Mattos ( Economics ) appeared in an article about Bitcoin in the Brazilian edition of Forbes magazine . http :// bit . ly / Mattos-Forbes
Andrew Cotto ( English / MFA ) is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has a new novel coming out in October , Cucina Tipica : An Italian Adventure ( Black Rose Writing ), about a disheartened American who arrives in Tuscany with his travel-writer fiancé for what is to be a year abroad and an opportunity to get his life together . http :// bit . ly / Cotto-NYTimes
John Dilyard ( Management ) was part of the Financial Executives International ( FEI ) panel , Innovations in Finance — New Tools for a New World , held at the Brooklyn Historical Society . Before earning his Ph . D ., Professor Dilyard worked for nine years in the financial services industry . http :// bit . ly / Dilyard-FEI
Suzanne Forsberg ( Chair , Foreign Languages , Fine Arts & International Cultural Studies ) sat on the 2018 European Studies Book Award Judging Committee , culling the more than 50 submissions written over the last two years by first time authors about any subject in European Studies . The winning book was written by Max Bergholz ; Violence as a Generative Force : Identity , Nationalism , and Memory in a Balkan Community ( Cornell University Press ).
Uwe Gielen ( Psychology ) produced the 20th Anniversary conference for the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology based at St . Francis . The conference was also the 30th Anniversary for Meaningful World , part of the Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention .
Emily Horowitz ( Chair , Sociology & Criminal Justice ) is quoted in a story that looks at the reality and the hysteria surrounding Halloween . She also contributed to a story about sex offender registries in the French newspaper L ’ obs and participated in a debate about the subject for Reason Magazine held at the Soho Forum . Article : http :// bit . ly / Horowitz-Police http :// bit . ly / Horowitz-Reason-Video
Mitch Levenberg ( English ) read his short story , The Cruller on the Passionate Justice podcast ( forward to 17:35 in the podcast ). http :// bit . ly / Levenberg-Podcast
Sintia Molina ( Spanish ) and photographer César B . Pinedo curated the exhibition , Farming , Planting and Living : Resisting Hunger and Poverty in Cuba and Dominican Republic , shown in the College ’ s Callahan Center Art Gallery . “ This exhibition celebrates and is dedicated to the people and , especially , the women that make food available for the poor in their communities by working on the huertos or green gardens ,” said Professor Molina .
Michele Meservie-Montecalvo ( Health Care Management ) appeared on the Complexity Talk-Radio podcast in a two-hour show titled Sexual Harassment , Assault , Molestation and Girls and Women of Color : Victims , Visibility , Voices , and Silence . Dr . Montecalvo ’ s Health Care Management students went to Albany for Tobacco Legislative Day in partnership with NYC Smoke Free ( pictured above ). This is the third year they spoke with elected officials about vaping use , tobacco marketing , and smoke free housing . http :// bit . ly / Montecalvo-Women-of-Color
Kathleen Nolan ( Chair , Biology and Health Sciences ) and Allen Burdowski ( Dean of Sciences and Health Sciences ) were published by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science , a division of the National Science Foundation for their study , Cystic Fibrosis : Then and Now . Study : http :// bit . ly / Nolan-Burdowski https :// youtu . be / ymvPrk _ DslY
Nickie Phillips ( Interim Chair , Sociology & Criminal Justice ) appeared on the podcast Sexology with Dr . Nazanin Moali to discuss the # MeToo Movement & Popular Media . She also contributed to the article , Why Does the Myth That Attractive Men “ Don ’ t Have to Rape ” Persist ? Which appeared in Playboy . Article : http :// bit . ly / Phillips-MeToo-Article http :// bit . ly / Phillips-MeToo
Howard Skrill ( Fine Arts ) published his latest art project in the Anna Pierrepont Series on the website Belle Ombre . His pictorial essay ; Evicting Robert E . Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans , was published in the magazine , ARTisON out of the University of Lisbon , Portugal . Belle Ombre : http :// www . belleombre . org / the-anna-pierrepont-series / ARTisON : http :// bit . ly / Skrill-ARTisON
Gregory F . Tague ( English ) and Fredericka Jacks have fully funded an Orangutan Caring Scholarship that will send a deserving Indonesian student to college to study forestry or biology . The scholarship was set up as part of a service component to Dr . Tague ’ s Evolutionary Studies Collaborative at the College and was established with Dr . Gary Shapiro , founder and president of The Orang Utan Republik Foundation in Santa Monica , California . www . orangutanrepublik . org ●
Briana Carter ’ 21 , Jessica Guaman ’ 19 , Julia Cuthbertson ( NYC Smoke Free ), Luis Torres ( NYC Treats Tobacco ), and Pamela Zvirkic ’ 18 meeting with New York State Assembly Member Felix Ortiz .
ST . FRANCIS COLLEGE TERRIER | SUMMER 2018 , VOLUME 81 , NUMBER 2 13