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STAYING INFORMED - our faculty and staffBELLAVIA: BY DAY A COLLEGE LIBRARY DIRECTOR, AND BY NIGHTA WELL-KNOWN “FILK” MUSICIANAn esoteric and little known form of musicknown as “Filk” is growing in popularityintrigued by new creative musical sounds.Filking is a musical culture, genre and a It has been around since the early 1950s,and played primarily since the mid 1970s,according to Wikipedia. “Filk has beenis not exact,” Bellavia notes.of folk music in an essay by Lee JacobsModern American Filk Music.” It caughton and is used today for the genre. comic book conventions.One of the best internationally known director, Rand Bellavia, who just wonthe 2012 Pegasus Award for Excellencein Filking for his composition, “TiberiusRising,” written with long-time fellowWhen away from the D’Youville library,Bellavia and his writing and band mateEnglish, head up the musical group Ooklathe Mok, a rock band performing andand music has been used by Walt DisneyTelevision Animation as the theme for theABC-TV show Fillmore and their work hashas performed throughout the U.S. and hasmade a number of recordings.He and English also won a Pegasus Awardin 2004 for the Best Comic Book Song titled“Arthur Curry,” and the group was namedBest Performer in 2000 and Best Composerin 1997. The Pegasus Awards were foundedin 1984 by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest “toThe duo has written and produced astring of compositions well-known in theFilk community. The band has releasedmany songs about more universal topicslike relationships and lost love, but are(l to r) Band members: Wolfram Neff, Rand Bellavia, Joe Pepper and Adam Englishbest known for their genre creations. TheStar Wars song “Tantric Yoda” from their“Nerdvana EP” was the most requestedsong of 2012 on Dr. Demento’s nationallysyndicated radio show.Ookla the Mok is named after a characterfrom the Ruby-Spears Productions cartoonThundarr the Barbarian, created by SteveGerber.Bellavia and English met at HoughtonCollege in 1988, and shortly thereafterstarted performing their songs about StarTrek and Super Heroes, largely to thebefuddlement of audiences in the Buffalobar scene. Some years later, they wereintroduced to the Filk community and therest is history.Ookla the Mok were the internationalguests of honor at the 2009 British FilkConvention in Grantham, Lincolnshire,England and musical guests of honorat the 2007 installment of MarsCon inBloomington, Minn.The band is coming off a brief hiatus andwill be playing and touring in 2013. Theywill be releasing their tenth album “vs.Evil” in March at Consonance in San Jose,Calif., where they will be the guests ofhonor.14
ACADEMIC REVIEWPRESENTATIONS:G. John Abbarno, Ph.D. presented a paper atthe Eastern Division meeting of the AmericanPhilosophical Association (APA), December2012 in Atlanta. The title of his paper was“Ways of Philosophizing.” He attended theCentral APA in New Orleans, February 2013to present a paper on “The Risks of PublicPhilosophy.”G. Jayarama Bhat, Srinivasan Marimuthu,Raghavender S. Chivukula, Majid M.Moridani, Fred K. Hagen and Lloyd F.Alfonso, Ph.D., presented: Aspirin acetylatesmultiple cellular proteins in HCT-116 coloncancer cells: Identification of novel targets.American Association of Cancer ResearchAnnual Meeting, March 31- April 4, 2012.Chicago, IL.Dattesh Verlekar, Madhav G. Pai andLloyd F. Alfonso, Ph.D., presented: A newvalidated HPTLC method for the quantitativeestimation of Amlodipine Besylate andAtenolol in tablets. American Association ofPharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting,October 23-27, 2011. Washington D.C.Denise Brylinski, Ph.D. presented researchon X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Imagingand Depth Profiling of PVC/PMMA PolymerBlends. Spring National Meeting of theAmerican Chemical Society, March 2012.Melissa Guarino, PharmD, BCPS, Posterpresentation - “Pharmacist participation oninterdisciplinary rounds to improve painscores and patient satisfaction.” Presentedat the Annual American College of ClinicalPharmacy Conference, Hollywood, Florida,October 21, 2012.Dr. Sukhwinder Lakhman was a guestspeaker at the Annual Conference of IndianAcademy of Neurosciences and InternationalSymposium on Translational Neuroscience:Unraveling Mysteries of Brain in Health andDisease - October 27th 2012 -Venue – GuruNanak Bhawan Auditorium, Guru Nanak DevUniversity, Amritsar, Pb, INDIA, where hegave a presentation on “Genomics: A need toKnow.”Laryssa S. Petryshyn gave a paperpresentation regarding documentation issuesfor foreign students. National Association ofForeign Student Advisors (NAFSA), BrownConvention Center, May 27-June 1, 2012.Houston, Texas.SEMINARS:G. John Abbarno, Ph.D. is organizingsessions at the 23rd World Congress ofPhilosophy that will convene in Athens,Greece summer of 2013. The World Congressconvenes every five years and is dedicatedto general themes that embrace the diversityof philosophers from all over the world. ThisCongress has for its theme; “Philosophy asInquiry and Way of Life.” Dr. Abbarno ispresident of the Conference on PhilosophicalSocieties.Goodman, Margaret Anne, Ph.D.;Goodman, M.S.; Brennessel, W.W.; Binga,B.W.; Ryan, A.L. “Recent Progress onTris(pyrazolyl)methane and -ethane Ligands:Research at an Undergraduate College,”Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry, June24-26, 2012, Oxford, England.Goodman, Margaret Anne, Ph.D.;Goodman, M.S.; Brennessel, W.W.; Binga,B.W.; “Tris(pyrazolyl)ethane ligandsmethylated at the 3-, 4-, and 5-positionsand their Fe(II) complexes”, 38th NortheastRegional Meeting of the American ChemicalSociety, Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2012, Rochester,New York.In 2012, Joseph H. Jurkowski, Ph.D, MBA,CPA, CGMA, CRA spoke at the following:Taxation in China, KPMG; Affordable CareAct, Foundation of Accounting Education;Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes, Lumsden,McCormick; Exempt OrganizationsConference, Lumsden, McCormick; LearningApplication to Accounting, Wiley FacultyNetwork; American Institute of HigherEducation - 8th International Conference -Niagara Falls, New York; Internal Control andFraud Detection, CPE Solutions, Inc.; BusinessResearch Council, Annual Conference,Oswego, N.Y.; Global Research Conference,Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Spring Business TaxSeminar, Lumsden & McCormick; HIPAASeries: Confidentiality and Privacy underHIPAA for Health Care Organizations;Business Research Council, AnnualConference, Brockport, N.Y.Karen J. Panzarella, PT, Ph.D. presentedat Cultural Competence and Team Process,Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center, 15thAnnual Symposium, High Performing ClinicalTeams: The Art and the Science, Oakland,California, November 5, 2012.PUBLICATIONS:Srinivasan Marimuthu, Raghavender S.Chivukula, Lloyd F. Alfonso, Ph.D., MajidM. Moridani, Fred K. Hagen and G. JayaramaBhat, Aspirin acetylates multiple cellularproteins in HCT-116 colon cancer cells:Identification of novel targets. InternationalJournal Oncology 2011; 39(5): 1273-83.David A. Gettman, Ph.D., Chapter 18 onBudgeting in Desselle, Shane; Zgarrick,David & Alston, Greg (Editors) “PharmacyManagement,” Third Edition, McGraw-HillMedical, 2012.Margaret Anne Goodman, Ph.D.;Nazarenko, A.Y.; Casavant, B.J.; Li, Z.;Brennessel, W.W.; DeMarco, M. J.; Long, G.;Goodman, M.S.; “Tris(5-methylpyrazolyl)methane: Synthesis and Properties of itsIron(II) Complex,” Inorganic Chemistry, 2012,51(2), 1084-1093.Rachel Gorodetsky, Hon SL, Geller RJ,Morgan BW. The Beneficial Auxiliary Role ofPoison Information Centers: Stewardly Use ofRabies Post-Exposure Prophylaxis in a Time ofShortage. APJMT 2012;1 34-37Barth, B., Cabot, M., Cheng, H., DiVittore,N., Fox, T., Fritz, J., Yasser Heakal, Ph.D.,MBA, RPH, Jiang, Y., Kaiser, J., Kester, M.,Shanmugavelandy, S., Staveley-O’Carroll,K., Tagaram, H., Tran, M. (October 1,2011). Combinational Therapies Improvethe Therapeutic Efficacy of NanoliposomalCeramide for Pancreatic Cancer. CancerBiology and Therapy, 12, 574-585. Retrievedfrom www.landesbioscience.com.Yasser Heakal, Ph.D., Kester, M., Savage, M.(October 25, 2011). Vemurafenib (PLX4032):An Orally Available Inhibitor of MutatedBRAF for the Treatment of MetastaticMelanoma. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy,45, 1399-1405. doi: 10.1345/aph.1Q363Stacie Lampkin Pharm.D., AE-C, TurnerAM, Lakshminrusimha S, et al. Associationbetween caffeine citrate exposure andnecrotizing enterocolitis. Am J Health-SystPharm. 2013. Pending publication. AcceptedOctober 2012.Silberman, N., Karen J. Panzarella, PT,Ph.D. and Melzer, B. “Using High FidelityHuman Simulation to Prepare PhysicalTherapy Students for Acute Care ClinicalPractice,” Journal of Allied Health, AcceptedSpring 2013.alumni.dyouville.edu 15
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