Newsmakers

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts, recently presented a paper at the annual meeting of the International Economics and Finance Society in New Orleans. In addition, he recently published a paper in the International Review of Economics and Finance and book reviews in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics and in Rangelands.
Roberley Bell, associate professor of foundations, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, is taking part in The View from Here, an exhibition in Moscow that features the work of American and Russian artists. She also participated in the International Studio Program in New York City, a forum for artists from around the world to share ideas and studio time.
Eva Cukakova, assistant professor of mathematics, presented "Thoughts on Teaching Calculus as a New Faculty Member" at the semi-annual meeting of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America held at the State University of New York at Fredonia. James Marengo presented "Bounds of Correlation Coefficients."
Andrew Davidhazy, professor of photography, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, will be a guest speaker March 1 for the Tips and Techniques lecture series at the George Eastman House, discussing high-speed photography. He was also featured in an article about mentor educators in the January issue of American Photo OnCampus magazine.
Stephen Diehl, associate professor of photography, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, had an article published on glassware photography in the January issue of Photo Imaging Newsletter of the PIEA, the Photo Imaging Educators Association.
Paul Grebinger, professor of anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, gave a talk as part of the Cornell University Plantations series on the Elwanger and Barry Mount Hope Nurseries. He published a biographical sketch on the same in Pioneers of American Landscape Design, published by McGraw-Hill.
Robert Johnston, former dean and professor emeritus, Visiting Scholar Center for Imaging Science, recently gave his talk "Digital Revelations from Ancient Textual Documents" at Brock University in Ontario, Canada and at the Archaeological Institute of America, located at Boston University.
Joel Kastner, assistant professor of imaging science, College of Science, published the article, "Orion Sheds New Light on Star and Planet Formation," in the Jan. 5 issue of Science. Kastner is on the scientific organizing committee for the conference, Young Stars Near Earth: Progress and Prospects, to be held at NASA Ames Research Center March 28-30. The conference concerns the recent discovery of several nearby systems of young stars, including one Kastner uncovered a few years ago.
Vern Lindberg, associate professor of physics and materials science and engineering, recently co-authored "Reactive Deposition of Nitrides and Oxides Using a Twin-cathode Inverted Cylindrical Magnetron" in Surface Coatings and Technologies. He presented the work previously at the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films.
Andrew Moore, dean, College of Liberal Arts, presented "Beyond Stratigraphy--Accelerator Dates on Early Domesticated Grains from Abu Hureyra and Their Implications for Archaeological Interpretation" at the Theoretical Archaeology Conference at the University of Oxford. He discussed the radiocarbon dates that document the transition from foraging to farming at Abu Hureyra in Syria. Moore also chaired a session of the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America on "Noah's Flood? The Catastrophic Flooding of the Black Sea Ca. 5,600 B.C. and its Archaeological Implications."
Tom Moran, assistant professor, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, College of Applied Science and Technology, recently presented "Using Distance Education to Teach Elementary Multimedia Design and Production" at the Special Interest Group on Documentation/International Professional Communications Conference on Computer Documentation in Cambridge, Mass. Also, his essay, "In Venice, a Sad End for a Seaside Mistake," recently appeared in the Los Angeles Times.