Recent Faculty and Student News and Notes
Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design, won the Ida Abrams Louis Award for her DVD “slippages” in the “62nd Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition.” The show is on view at the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery through October 4.
Felix Cochren, associate professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama, will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Scenic Design Award from the National Black Theatre Festival in August.
Jeffrey Gerlach ’10 and Nicholas Matarese ’10, industrial and interaction design majors in the School of Art and Design, won third place in the “future” category in ZINK imaging’s first annual Zero Boundaries product design competition. Jeffrey and Nicholas won for their design of the
ZINK pen, which “uniquely centers the user interaction around a piece of ZINK paper rather than on a computer monitor” and answers the question “with a ZINK pen and a cell phone, could any piece of paper become an interface?”
Cynthia Gordon, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, published the book “Making Meanings, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction” (Oxford University Press). According to Oxford, “Gordon integrates theories of intertextuality and framing in order to explore how and why family members repeat one another's words in everyday talk, as well as the interactive effects of those repetitions. Analyzing the discourse of three dual-income American families who recorded their own conversations over the course of one week, Gordon demonstrates how repetition serves as a crucial means of creating the complex, shared meanings that give each family its distinctive identity.”
Mark Edward Grimm, instructor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, founded and exhibited the
Red Radio Shadow Stream, an interactive art, performance, and presentation project that aims to broaden the definition of radio, at the 2009 Pure Data conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The project is part of Syracuse’s Red House Art Radio and Red House Arts Center. Mark is director of technology for Red House Art Radio.
Elizabeth Ingram and Malcolm Ingram, both associate professors in the Department of Drama, performed leading roles in “Pinter’s Mirror,” three one-act plays by Harold Pinter, at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Mass., this summer.
Craig MacDonald, associate professor of drama in the Department of Drama, acted in a developmental play reading of “The Strangest Thing” by Wendy Dann at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, N.Y. He will play Gaston in Syracuse Stage’s upcoming production of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” (October 14-November 1).
Caroline Stinson, instructor of cello in the Setnor School of Music, joined the critically acclaimed Lark Chamber Artists, and its core ensemble, the world-renowned Lark Quartet. This summer she also performed at the Weekend of Chamber Music Festival in New York’s Catskill Mountains; Music at Penn Alps in Grantsville, Md.; ASTA/NJ Chamber Music Institute at Kean University; and the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival in Newburyport, Mass. She also recorded James McMillen’s “Fourteen Little Pictures” for piano trio with Greg Harrington, violin, and Simon Mulligan, piano.
James Tapia, associate professor of orchestral studies/strings in the Setnor School of Music, was named conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra. He was also interviewed in an American Public Media “Performance Today” program featuring a Society for New Music concert of Michael Daugherty's “Ladder to the Moon.”