Friday, May 17^th around 2pm, after commencement rehearsal.

All faculty and staff are invited to attend this year’s Senior Class Pass through the Pillars.  Seniors will pass through Pillars in the upper quad and proceed up the hill to the faculty parking lot.  The Senior Class Officers will lead the class in a champagne toast after all seniors have passed.  Please come and support our seniors through their final campus tradition.

The Alumni Association Board of Directors is delighted to invite all faculty and staff to join us for Reunion Weekend 2013.  Reunion Weekend is a wonderful opportunity to renew your connection to your former students.

With a great schedule of events to choose from, you can decide how and where to spend your days reminiscing with alumni about their time at Oneonta.  Special events are planned throughout the weekend as are traditional favorites such as the Reunion Golf Tournament and the Reunion Barbecue. This year, we will also celebrate the milestone reunions of graduates whose class years end in 3 and 8 as well as mini-reunions for the Zombie Defense Core and the residents of Littell Hall. There is truly something for everyone at Reunion!

We hope you will join us for the fun and excitement.  We promise a weekend filled with festivities and memories!

Please visit www.oneontaalumni.com for additional details and to register.

Tracy Allen, Trevor Fuller, Ken Johnson, Tyra Olstad, and  Naomi Shanguhyia, all from the Department of Geography, gave paper presentations at the Association of American Geographers 2013 Annual National Conference in Los Angeles. Respectively, the presentation titles were:   “New Island and Electric Lake: A Landscape in Transition (100 Years of Ecological and Hydroseral Succession)”, “Environmental Activism and the Political Economy of Place”, “Restructuring the Eurozone”, “Paleontological Resource Management on Public Lands”, and “Interrogating Competing Narratives of Landscape Change: The Case of Forest Loss and Reforestation efforts on the Maragoli Hills in Western Kenya”.  Their presentations were funded by Faculty Development grants.

Due to software and hardware upgrades next week, Dragon Dollars and Retail Dining Dollars will not be available for use, Monday, May 20, 2013 – Friday, May 24, 2013.  Starbucks, Red Dragon Outfitters, Damascene, Shop 24 and all vending machines will only be able to accept cash. Credit card transactions will be unavailable at these locations. If you have any questions, please call OAS at x3352.

Senior Shawn Dacey captained his Mid State Divisional team to win the 25th World Geography Bowl at the Association of American Geographers 2013 Annual National Conference in Los Angeles. Dacey and his team finished the conference with a record of 9-1 beating the Mid Atlantic Division in the final round of questions. Dacey is a dual geography and social studies education major.  He attended the weeklong conference with Tracy Allen, Chair of the Department of Geography and received financial support from both the Department of Geography and the Grants Development Office.

The Red Dragon Outfitters will be closed Monday, May 27, 2013 through Friday, May 31, 2013 for inventory. Damascene Book Cellar will remain open.

The following dining operations will be available for faculty and staff during summer sessions:

Summer Session I:

• Starbucks, located in the Hunt Union, Monday – Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
• Shop 24, the robotic convenience store outside Mills Hall, open 24/7
• Mills Marketplace, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Summer Session II:

• Starbucks, located in the Hunt Union, Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
• Shop 24, the robotic convenience store outside Mills Hall, open 24/7
• Mills Marketplace, Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m

Calling All Female Golfers – The 5^th year of a fun filled Golf Season will be here before we know it!!!!  If you love golf, have been playing for years, or just beginning – we want you!  Our league is a non-competitive, learning league.  We will be playing at Ouleout Golf Course in Franklin every Thursday, with tee times ranging from 4:15 – 5:00.  http://www.ouleoutgolf.com.

Cost for league play is $9.00 for 9-hole greens fees and $9.00 for a cart (each team member) if you don’t want to WALK!  $20 League dues & $15 Mulligan fees are due from each player.  These dues are used to support the league, end of year banquet (fun, fun, fun) and fabulous prizes.  The season will be starting May 23^th and will end August 15^th.

If you are interested in golfing with us, or being a sub, our organizational meeting will be held on this Thursday, May 16^th at 5:00 pm in the Hunt Union outside Starbuck’s Coffee Shop.  If you cannot make the meeting, or have additional questions, please contact Brenda Balcom at X3713 or brenda.balcom@oneonta.edu.

See you on the course!

Lawrence T. Guzy, PhD., Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, accompanied two groups of students to the 84^th Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association to present their research. The following two projects mark the end of Dr. Guzy’s collaborative career with his O-State students. Six of his 17 research publications include 14 students as first or co-authors. Another is being reviewed with five more student co-authors.  Forty-three of his 66 scientific conference presentations included 149 student collaborators. Scores of other students presented their projects at undergraduate research conferences. Poster 1: The Effects of Training on the Recognition of Three Facial Expressions as a function of Facial Edema and Orientation with Cameron J. Cortese, Christopher D. Morley, Jamie Lynn Falco, Leanne E. Enrico, Teresa N. Moser, and Oluwakemi H. Ogunmuko,  Poster 2:  Changes in Facial Edema as a function of Body Pitches of Supine, 6, and 12 Degrees Head Down from Horizontal: An Exploratory Study with Joseph D. Prio, Anne M. Miner, Catherine E. Buckley, Christine M. Luzzi, Kaitlyn M.Marinaccio, and Heather B. White (a senior student at Laurens Central School).  When in space, due to a lack of gravity, fluid accumulates in the head resulting in a swollen face. The first project found that prior exposure of facial expressions containing edema improved accuracy in identifying facial expressions of anger and pain.  The second project focused on whether a six degree head down position from supine (NASA’s procedure to simulate microgravity) was necessary to generate facial edema.  We found that facial edema was present simply by lying supine.  This finding has important implication with individualized who are hospitalized and the HealthCare professional attempts to determine whether the patient is faking, hiding or in real pain. We are very thankful for the Student Travel Excellence Program (STEP) and the Caroline ’67 & David D’Antonio Undergraduate  Student Travel for Excellence Fund for making travel possible to Chicago, Illinois.  “Farewell to my students. I will miss your collaborative efforts in the Independent Study course.”