Mark Dallas, professor of political science, was recently invited to participate with a dozen other scholars in a workshop at Northwestern University Karen Alter's book, "Export Controls and Economic Security: America and the World." Alter, the Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at Northwestern, and Dallas both worked for a year at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, the primary agency that handles dual-use export controls for the United States.

Megan Ferry, professor of Chinese and Asian Studies, is a member of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Languages and Literatures, which has just published its first working paper: Humanities in the Balance: Initial Findings on the State of the Academic Workforce.

Joshua Hart, professor of psychology, gave a talk, "So, You Want to be a SLACer? Notes from a Small Liberal Arts College Psycho(logy Professor)" for the Social and Personality Psychology program at the University at Albany April 24.

Shena McAuliffe, associate professor of English, has published an essay, "Tiny Hairs," in Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 78. The essay is currently featured as an online preview for the publication of the print edition.

Ashok Ramasubramanian, professor of mechanical engineering, dean of engineering and co-director of the Templeton Institute, recently had an essay published in the journal Science, "I worried my science wasn’t making an impact. So I ran for elected office." In November, Ramasubramanian was elected to the Town Board in nearby Niskayuna.