Dr. Joan Arnold, Professor in the School of Nursing, coauthored with Penelope Buschman Gemma, Columbia University School of Nursing, “The Continuing Process of Parental Grief” in the latest issue of the professional journal Death Studies. The article extends and deepens current understanding of parental grief and reports on the qualitative findings of their research based on a new survey instrument they created using a combined methodological approach. Professors Arnold and Gemma have been writing together and presenting about child death and parental grief for 30 years. The quantitative finding from this research were previously published in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.  

Dr. Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History and Honors Program Director, was featured in the August issue of The Women’s Times. The interview focused on both her role at NBC during the past six Olympic Games, as well as her own research and writing on issues of race and nation in international sports. She was also recently invited to contribute to the Beacon Broadside, an online venue created by Beacon Press that is designed to nurture intellectual debate and conversation.  Bass' piece, "A Professor's Perspective:  the Red Sox and the History of Racial Inequality," discusses Boston's late entry into integrated play, and the role it plays in her CNR course "Race, Sport, and Society," which she is teaching this semester.
http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/professors-pers.html

Dr. Kenneth Doka, Professor of Gerontology in the Graduate School, has a new book, Counseling Individuals with Life-Threatening Illness, being published this month by Springer Publishing Company. It is his 23rd book. This fall semester Dr. Doka will be keynoting conferences and leading workshops in Milwaukee, Denver, Portland, Scranton, Fort Myers and Sarasota, as well as, in Georgia and Virginia. He is also attending conferences in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Nanaimo, Canada.

Dr. Denise Guinn, Associate Professor of Chemistry in the School for Arts and Sciences, presented a paper in July at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Indianapolis, Indiana entitled Helping allied-health students succeed: An integrated approach to the General-Organic-Biochemistry (GOB) course. This paper describes an innovative approach to teaching the one-semester GOB course that engages nursing students and allied health majors in the study of chemistry through relevant medical applications. The rationale and details for using an integrated approach in the one-semester GOB course were described. Dr. Guinn and coauthor Dr. Rebecca Brewer are authors of a textbook on the same subject, due to be published by W.H. Freeman in 2009.

Dr. Cynthia Kraman, Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, gave a presentation on Chaucer’s Wife of Bath for the “Teaching Chaucer” roundtable at the New Chaucer Society’s Sixteenth Congress in Swansea, Wales in July 2008. Supported by an NEH grant to develop a new course on the tradition of the bard, Dr. Kraman went in search of Swansea native Dylan Thomas, visiting his birthplace, the writing shed at Laugharne, and undertaking research at the Dylan Thomas Centre. In conjunction with these activities, Dr. Kraman gave a poetry reading with prominent Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins and Carter Revard, a Native American poet. In August, Dr. Kraman delivered her paper “Levinas and the New Secular Redemptive Strategies” at the third meeting of the North American Levinas Society at Seattle University. West Coast journal Poetry Flash organized a reading for Dr. Kraman and Flash editor and publisher Joyce Jenkins at Hugo House to preview Kraman’s new poetry book, The Touch. (Bowery Books, NY). Her book, and an article on Levinas and Rashi in a volume from Duquesne, are both forthcoming in 2009.

An essay “I Bernard: Notes from the Feminist Classroom,” by Dr. Nick Smart, Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, will appear in the forthcoming issue of The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. The Miscellany's special issue is devoted to pedagogical approaches to Woolf’s work.  Dr. Smart, a member of the International Virginia Woolf Society, teaches a seminar on Woolf for Junior and Senior English and Women's Studies majors at CNR, and Modern British Novel, for English majors and other interested CNR students. 

Emily Stern, Associate Professor of Art in the School of Arts & Sciences, exhibited four works in the group exhibition "Horror Vacuii" at McKenzie Fine Art, in Chelsea, NYC this summer. The exhibit, titled after the Aristotelian theory regarding the "fear of open space," examines the work of artists who eschew figure/ground relationships and employ an "allover" compositional format.

Geraldine Valencia-Go, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, has completed the manuscript for the 7th edition of Health Promotion throughout the Life Span edited by Carole Edelman and Carol Mandel. Dr. Go’s chapter, “Emerging Populations,” focuses on the current status as well as health issues of the major ethnic groups in the United States inclusding persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS and homeless persons. The 6th edition of the book won three publication awards including the Annual American Journal of Nursing Book Award.

Dr. Connie Vance, Professor, and Deborah Hunt, Instructor, in the School of Nursing, are spearheading the development of a newly formed Nurse Advocacy Forum. The purpose of this Forum is to provide mentoring support, networking opportunities, advocacy, creative problem solving, and leadership development among alums who are "novice nurses, senior students, and faculty.  Data collection will assist educators and clinical staff about the first stage of the professional nursing career. Meetings were held in spring and summer, and two meetings are planned for October and December.

The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis recently featured Dr. Robert Wolf, an Art Studio Professor in the Graduate School, in their quarterly newsletter. The article described Professor Wolf as a diverse professional who is an internationally known fine art photographer and sculptor, a professor of art therapy and studio art at The College of New Rochelle, a visiting professor at Pratt Institute, a practicing psychoanalyst, a former director of the Institute For Expressive Analysis and former Clinical Director of the Henry Street Settlement School.

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