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Faculty and Staff Achievement
19 Plummer Wins Two

Standora Receives Environmental
Educator Award.

International Awards.

Payne Receives Community
Service Award.

Edward Standora, professor of biology, received the

Brianna Plummer, assistant professor of fashion

Howard Payne, lecturer in the Engineering Technology

2017 Environmental Educator Award from the Nature

and textile technology, won two awards at

Department, received a community service award

Sanctuary Society of Western New York at its annual

the annual International Textile and Apparel

from Southeast Works on behalf of the Engineering

banquet in May 2017. Standora is one of the pioneers of

Conference, held in Vancouver, Canada, in

Technology Department at Buffalo State for work done

biotelemetry-using technology to track the movements

November 2016: the Alvanon Award for

by his TEC 405W Manufacturing Technology class under

of animals so that scientists can understand them better.

Creative Design for her work "Origami

his leadership for the past 10 years. Southeast Works is a

He has worked with volunteers through the Earthwatch

Transformation," and the ATEX Award for

Western New York organization that works with devel-

Institute's research programs in Costa Rica studying

Innovation in Textile Instruction, shared with

opmentally disabled adults in performing light industrial

leatherback sea turtles and at Barnegat Bay, New Jersey,

Dr. Eulanda Sanders of Iowa State University,

work for local businesses. The Community Partner of the

studying diamondback terrapins. Globally, he was involved

for their submission "Practical Application of

Year Award is presented to individuals and organizations

in early Internet classroom research experiences through

Half-Scale Patterning for Online Digital Textile

to recognize outstanding contributions to Southeast

Journey North and EcoTeach.

Design Procedures."

Works, their mission, and their clients.

Frances Gage, associate
professor of fine arts,
published her book Painting
as Medicine in Early Modern
Rome: Giulio Mancini and the
Efficacy of Art (Penn State
University Press, June 2016),
an in-depth study of the

writings of the physician and
art critic Giulio Mancini.
Taronish Irani, senior
counselor and licensed
psychologist in the Buffalo
State Counseling Center,
coauthored the book
Explaining Suicide: Patterns,
Motivations, and What Notes
Reveal, in January 2017
(Academic Press). The book is
the first large-scale analysis
of suicide motivation across
multiple ages in the same
time period using a unique
dataset of all suicide notes
collected by the coroner's
office in southwestern Ohio
from 2000 to 2009.
Jason Knight, assistant
professor of geography and

planning, coauthored
the book Shrinking Cities:
Understanding Urban
Decline in the United States
(Routledge, August 2016).
The book juxtaposes the
complex and varied processes
that contribute to patterns of
shrinkage and decline in the
United States with broader
policy frameworks that have
been under consideration to
address such problems.
Thilo Schaller, assistant
professor of music, served
as co-producer, recording
producer, and engineer on
the album Canada (Traumton
Records), which was
nominated for an Echo Jazz
award in June 2017. Echo
awards are German music

prizes awarded by the
Deutsche Phono-Akademie
to recognize outstanding
achievement in the music
industry. The Echo Jazz
award, for personalities and
production of jazz, has been
awarded annually since 2010.
Zhang Jie, professor of
sociology and director of the
Buffalo State Center for
China Studies, published his
book Understanding Suicide:
A Social Psychological Study in
the Chinese Cultural Contexts
(Beijing: Renmin University
Press, 2016; in Chinese).
Renmin University Press is
one of the most prestigious
publishers for academic works
in China.

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Daniel Cunningham,
professor of mathematics,
published his latest book,
Set Theory: A First Course,
in July 2016 (Cambridge
University Press). The book
covers the basics of abstract
sets-relations, functions,
numbers, cardinality,
transfinite recursion, the
axiom of choice, and the
ordinal-developed within
the framework of axiomatic
set theory.



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