Dec. 1, 2021

The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) has 

Senior physics major Lauren Samson (pictured at left) 

From left, biological sciences students Kelsey Roberts, Tiffany Flores, Palina Saljanin, Sarah Buckler and Alexia Perez present at the Rochester Academy of Science 47th annual Paper Session.

Dean of Graduate Studies Kristen Eichhorn was named an education alternate for the Proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council for a three-year term. Alternates play an important role in the Advisory Council, including attending meetings, acting as the primary in the absence of the primary member, adding to the overall discussion of sanctuary issues, increasing the voice of constituents, chairing working groups and participating on subcommittees. National marine sanctuary advisory councils are community-based advisory groups established to provide advice and recommendations to the superintendents on issues including management, science, service and stewardship.

Health promotion and wellness faculty members Jessica Harris and Minjung Seo, and Joshua McKeown, associate provost for international education and programs, co-authored “Global Competency Through Collaborative Online International Learning-COIL,” and co-presented it virtually at the 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21) hosted by Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, in June. The paper and presentation explored a successful COIL partnership between students from SUNY Oswego in New York and The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic, where 35 students participated in the experience that served as a platform to educate students through a health educator’s unique cultural lens.

Criminal justice faculty member Martin Koen co-authored “Transitioning from pandemic to normalcy: what police departments can learn from the rank-and-file” in the journal Policing. Written with Janne E. Gaub of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Shelby Davis from the University of Houston, the article looks at how the institution of policing needs to acknowledge changes that had been made during the pandemic and decide what modifications and innovations can help them continue moving forward.