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News Archives Kristy Kolb: Blazing a Path for Success - 05.16.2008 Recent H&SS graduate Kristy Kolb '08 has followed in the footsteps of her grandmother, one of Rensselaer's first two women graduates. But Kolb is also blazing her own path, just as she has throughout her four years at the Institute. Kolb spent a semester at Charles University in Prague, "because I wanted to study in a place that was rediscovering itself." She interned as a research assistant at the Alden March Bioethics Institute and, for her senior thesis, wrote about the ethics of cognitive-enhancing drugs. Even Kolb's dual major -- communication, and science and technology studies -- is not typical. "I'm more confident now and have become a better leader," Kolb says. "I know my strengths and my interests, I appreciate the experiences I've had here, and I'm proud to graduate from Rensselaer." For the full news story, visit: Inside Rensselaer: May 16, 2008
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Roger Grice Receives 2008 Director's Award from RAA - 05.06.2008 LL&C Clinical Associate Prof. Roger Grice has received the 2008 Director's Award from the Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA). The Director's Award, created in 1984 by the Office of Alumni Relations, is presented each year to alumni or friends who have made significant contributions to the success of the Office of Alumni Relations and to the RAA during the past year.
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Sin-Hwa Kang and James Watt Presented at CHI 2008 - 05.05.2008 LL&C doctoral student Sin-Hwa Kang and LL&C Prof. James Watt presented the paper "Social Copresence in Anonymous Social Interactions Using a Mobile Video Telephone", co-authored by Sin-Hwa Kang, James H. Watt and Sasi Kanth Ala, at CHI 2008 (Computer-Human Interaction, April 5-10, 2008, Florence, Italy). For more information on CHI 2008, visit: www.chi2008.org
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DreamWorks Animation Visits Campus - 03.14.2008 On February 29, 2008, DreamWorks Animation SKG visited campus to interview current students. While here, Marilyn Friedman, Head of Outreach, gave a presentation on how movies are made at DreamWorks, and the skills and experiences necessary to work in the CG animation field. Marilyn showed clips from upcoming films, explained the DreamWorks Animation production workflow, and talked about successful demonstrations of resumes and demo reels. For more information about DreamWorks Animation SKG, please visit: www.dreamworksanimation.com
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Sin-Hwa Kang Awarded 2008 AAMAS Scholarship - 03.06.2008 LL&C doctoral student Sin-Hwa Kang has been awarded a $1500 scholarship to attend the "Doctoral Consortium" at the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), to be held in Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008. Sin-Hwa will be delivering the paper she co-authored entitled "Does the contingency of agents' nonverbal feedback affect users’ social anxiety" (Sin-Hwa Kang, S., Gratch, J., Wang, N., Watt, J.; 2008). Padgham, Parkes, Mueller and Parsons (eds.): Proceedings of AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal. For more information about the conference, visit: www.aamas2008.org
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Why Not Study Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) This Summer? - 02.25.2008 Rensselaer will again be offering an HCI Summer Program. Students will be able take one or both of the introductory courses in the well-respected 4-course graduate Certificate in HCI. Learn about the HCI Summer Program Read about the full M.S. in HCI degree Watch a short HCI program video Summer Program begins May 19, 2008.
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Paul Booth and Shira Chess Each Authored a Chapter in Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy - 01.31.2008 LL&C doctoral students Paul Booth and Shira Chess each authored a chapter in the book titled Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy), edited by Josef Steiff and Tristan Tamplin. The book will be available in June 2008. For more information, visit: Amazon.com
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Paper Co-Authored by Sin-Hwa Kang, James Watt, and Sasi Kanth Ala Nominated for Best Paper Award at HICSS-41 - 01.17.2008 The paper "Communicators' Perceptions of Social Presence as a Function of Avatar Realism in Small Display Mobile Communication Devices", submitted and presented by LL&C doctoral students Sin-Hwa Kang and Sasi Kanth Ala, and LL&C Prof. James H. Watt, has been nominated for Best Paper Award at HICSS-41 (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 7-10, 2008, Big Island, Hawaii). For more information about HICSS-41, visit: HICSS-41
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David Seelow's Book Reviewed in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society - 01.15.2008 LL&C Adjunct Prof. David Seelow has had an extensive review of his book, Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud/Reich/DH Lawrence & Beyond, published in the recent edition of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December 2007 (Vol. 12, #4; pp. 406-409). The review was written by noted British scholar Fiona Becket (University of Leeds).
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Matthew R. Iacovone Seeks to Patent a Marketing Invention - 12.01.2007 LL&C alumnus Matthew R. Iacovone (B.S., Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication '02; M.S., Technical Communication '03) has filed a non-provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office relating to the preparation and usage of an academic/career portfolio for recruitment and self-promotional endeavors. Some of the distinguishing features of the invention include novel methods for standardizing and validating an individual's credentials, for achieving a uniform promotional message, and for evaluating similarly-qualified applicants efficiently and impartially. While an undergraduate at RPI, Matt served as the first teaching assistant for the course "Creating Electronic Portfolios" which sparked his interest in this field of research.
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Nathan Freier Quoted in Article on Child-Robot Interactions - 11.07.2007 LL&C Assistant Prof. Nathan Freier was interviewed recently and quoted in an article by Science Magazine on child-robot interactions which were studied by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Fumihide Tanaka, a robotics researcher at UCSD, noted that the results of their study imply that "current robot technology is surprisingly close to achieving [sustained] autonomous bonding and socialization with human toddlers". Prof. Freier offered a cautious voice to the findings, arguing against over-generalizing the results. "The authors are drawing general conclusions... beyond what the data alone suggest," noted Freier, and "haptic contact... cannot stand alone as an indicator of bonding or socialization." But Freier also called the study an "excellent foundation" for future studies into childhood development and technology design. To read the full article, visit: Science Magazine
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Cheryl Geisler and Barbara Lewis Co-Published Article on Language and Design - 10.22.2007 LL&C Prof. and Department Head Cheryl Geisler, and LL&C Clinical Associate Prof. Barbara Lewis, published "Remaking the World Through Talk and Text: What We Should Learn from How Engineers Use Language to Design" in Talking Texts: How Speech and Writing Interact in School Learning (Ed. Horowitz; 2007).
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Cheryl Geisler and Shaun Slattery Co-Published Article on Digital Writing - 10.22.2007 LL&C Prof. and Department Head Cheryl Geisler, and Shaun Slattery '06 (Ph.D., Communication and Rhetoric), published "Capturing the Activity of Digital Writing: Using, Analyzing, and Supplementing Video Screen Capture" in Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (Ed. McKee and DeVoss; 2007).
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Debbie Rowe Presented at STC's 54th Technical Communication Summit - 10.22.2007 LL&C doctoral student Debbie Rowe presented "How Users Process Procedural Illustrations: Evidence From Qualitative and Quantitative Data" at Technical Communication Summit, the Society for Technical Communication's 54th annual conference.
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Ekaterina Haskins Presented Paper on Religion, Public Memory, and Crisis of Soviet Identity - 10.22.2007 LL&C Associate Prof. Ekaterina Haskins presented a paper entitled "Religion, Public Memory, and the Crisis of Soviet Identity" at the biannual meeting of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric held in Strasbourg, France, July 24-28, 2007.
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Ekaterina Haskins Receives Karl Wallace Memorial Award for Rhetorical Studies - 10.22.2007 LL&C Associate Prof. Ekaterina Haskins was selected as this year's recipient of the Karl Wallace Memorial Award given by the National Communication Association to support research in rhetorical studies. The award, to be presented in Chicago in November 2007, will support Prof. Haskins' ongoing investigation into the construction of public memory in post-Communist Russia.
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Jan Fernheimer Awarded Honorable Mention by RSA - 10.22.2007 LL&C Assistant Prof. Jan Fernheimer was awarded an honorable mention by the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) under its 2007 Dissertation Award category.
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Jan Fernheimer Led Workshop on Rhetoric and Jewish Studies at RSA Summer Institute - 10.22.2007 LL&C Assistant Prof. Jan Fernheimer led a workshop on "Rhetoric and Jewish Studies" at the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in June 2007.
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Jan Fernheimer Selected as Editor for a Special Issue of College English - 10.22.2007 LL&C Assistant Prof. Jan Fernheimer has been selected as the editor for a special issue of College English dedicated to Rhetoric and Jewish Studies. College English is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher.
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Nathan Freier Completes Dissertation at the University of Washington - 10.22.2007 LL&C Assistant Prof. Nathan Freier completed his dissertation entitled "Children Distinguish Conventional from Moral Violations in Interactions with a Personified Agent" at the Information School of the University of Washington.
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