Michelle Cefaratti VISITING INSTRUCTOR SCHOOL OF EDUCATION and Richard Jacob, Ph.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR, SPORT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, CHAIR OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Cefaratti and Dr. Jacob were awarded a $62,000 grant for Bethel Head Start Centers to implement a Healthy Child Curriculum starting this fall. They authored the curriculum, which includes physical education and nutrition and integrates literacy. They have begun training the faculty at the center to implement lessons.
Marguerite M. McCarty, Ed.D. LMHC, NBCC
Joseph Savarese, D.V.M.
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF GRADUATE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY (ROCHESTER CAMPUS) Dr. McCarty will have an article published in “Western NY Physician” titled “Late Adolescence Transitions for Individuals Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders.”
Spotlight
PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AND INTERIM DEAN OF THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE Dr. Savarese was recently named one of the top 15 Vet Tech Professors in the US by vettechcolleges.com, an educational publishing organization. The organization highlighted 15 top veterinary technology professors who not only have expertise across a variety of disciplines, but who actively participate in community outreach, research, and publishing to further advance the field of veterinary technology.
Alan Bigelow, Ph.D. Gerald J. Erion, Ph.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT Dr. Erion made two presentations in June: “Unplugging Postman” and “20x20: An Introduction to Pecha Kucha,” both given at the 14th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, Grand Valley State University. In addition, his chapter from the book “The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy: More Moments of Zen, More Indecision Theory” is featured as the free excerpt on the Wiley web site. Visit www.wiley. com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118397681.html and click on “read an excerpt.”
PROFESSOR, HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT Dr. Bigelow writes digital stories and poems for the web. In the past few months, his work has appeared in La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris); New Works Festival (Palo Alto, CA); FILE 2013 (Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil); and Espacio Enter Canarias. In September, one of his pieces was a finalist for the Screengrab New Media Art Award. He recently read at Medaille College as part of the Write Thing Reading Series, and he was also interviewed for the Burchfield Penney’s Living Legacy project. He has work upcoming in The New River Journal.
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