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Faculty-Staff Achievements

June 23, 2021

Lori AceeLori Acee, assistant to the director of Scribner Library, served as chair of the Village of Ballston Spas Public Safety Committee on Police Reform and Reinvention. The committee engaged in constructive and inclusive conversations with lengthy community involvement concerning policing and efforts to foster trust, fairness and legitimacy within the community and address any racial or disproportionate policing.  A report was submitted on conclusion of the committees work.  

Emmanuel Balogun

Emmanuel Balogun, assistant professor of political science, has been named a Council of Foreign Relations international affairs fellow. Balogun will spend the 2022 calendar year working as a policy advisor on African affairs and United States-U.N. Security Council policy at the U.S. Department of State. According to CFR, fellowship alumni constitute a whos who of the U.S. foreign policy community and include a former secretary of state, several undersecretaries of state and defense, ambassadors to NATO and the United Nations, and many other influential leaders in government, academia and the private sector. 

Balogun was also selected as the inaugural diversity, equity, and inclusion fellow at the  project based at American University. The organization promotes scholarly contributions to public debate and decision-making on global challenges and U.S. foreign policy. Balogun will help create initiatives to mainstream equity in the organization and support underrepresented scholars and undergraduates. He was interviewed about his role by the international relations blog  

Balogun also published in African Studies Review and spoke in the Health Competition and Great Power Politics public panel of the  in May.

Vojtech Kejzlar

Vojta Kejzlar, assistant professor of statistics, is the lead author on the scientific paper , which was recently published in the Statistics and Computing journal.  

Jason OhlbergJason Ohlberg, associate professor of dance, was invited to stage a work by New York City-based choreographer Zvi Gotheiner for the University of Washingtons Chamber Dance Company. Reconstruction of the piece took place this June in preparation for the companys October performances in Seattle.

Masami TamagawaMasami Tamagawa, senior teaching professor of Japanese, was interviewed by and quoted in a news article. 

 


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