Three New Faculty for Fall
The Department of Communication has appointed François Cooren, currently a research assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of Cincinnati. From 1994 through 1997 he lectured in graduate and undergraduate courses in the department of communication at the University of Montreal and the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. In 1996 he was an invited scholar to the Center of Philosophy and Law at Universite catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium.
In addition to teaching, Cooren worked as a designer for televised courses at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He was organizer of the 7th International Festival on Scientific and Audiovisual Applications in 1989 at C.N.R.S. Images/Media in Paris, France, and a researcher for the International Institute of Agronomic Research in 1988.
The University of Cincinnati presented him with the Merit Award in 1997. In 1996 he won the Charles Redding Award, which is attributed to the best dissertation in organizational communication, from the International Communication Association.
The Department of Public Administration & Policy has appointed Gerald R. Marschke, a Ph.D. graduate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1997. Currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Buffalo, he was a research associate the University of Chicago�s Center for Social Program Evaluation from 1993-96, supervising research on government job training for the poor.
Marschke�s primary fields are microeconomics, organizations, labor economics and industrial organization. His secondary focuses are on public economics and applied econometrics.
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures has appointed Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, for the last seven years an assistant professor of Latin American Literature at Catholic University in Washington D.C.
Nagy-Zekmi has written two books in Spanish and edited two others, and she is currently engaged in another book-length project, The Postcolonial Condition: Nationhood, Ethnicity and Identity in Latin America, currently under review by Arizona State University Press. A native Hungarian, she received her Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
She has published numerous articles in books and refereed journals, is a member of more than a dozen professional organizations and has contributed entries to the Latino Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, and well as an article on Hungarian poetry to The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
Four-Star Winners on the Web
Two Department of Anthropology faculty recently recently won the Four Star Award for Web Site Excellence by the Veer Ring Company for their home pages: Michael Smith for the "Tlahuica Culture Home Page," and Lee Bickmore, for the "Zambian Languages Home Page."
Rochester Youth Grant Extended
Terrence Thornberry of the School of Criminal Justice has been informed by the NIMH that his grant application, entitled "Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior," has been accepted by that funding organization. The application received a priority score of 110 and an unprecedented percentile rating of 0.7.
The study is a continuation of the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS). The five-year grant begins on April 1, Its co-principal investigators from the University faculty are Alan Lizotte of criminal justice, Marvin Krohn of the Department of Sociology, Carolyn Smith of the School of Social Welfare, and Monica Rodriguez of the Department of Psychology.
The study will trace the third generation of development of the original RYDS sample of children, who will now be two to seven years of age. They and their families will be followed over time to better understand the development of serious antisocial behavior.
Widom Gets Support Grant
The State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services has awarded Cathy Spatz Widom of the School of Criminal Justice a grant to fund a subcontract research project, "Childhood Victimization & Delinquency, Adult Criminality, and Violent Criminal Behavior." The subcontract grant supports her National Institute of Justice research project begun on July 1 of last year.
Featured Exhibitor
Robert Cartmell of the Department of Art is currently the featured exhibitor at the Leslie Urbach Gallery in the Albany Center Galleries in Albany. "Small Works: Paintings and Drawings" will be exhibited through May 1. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
In addition, a Sunday Artists Brunch will be held on April 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Galleries, located on 23 Monroe St., one block west of North Pearl Street�s Capitol Repertory Theater.