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Filling Station: A Faculty Research Presentation Series Reveals its Fall 2016 Lineup


The following MCC teaching faculty will present during the fall 2016 Filling Station series. Please mark your calendars and encourage students, staff, and friends to attend.

Karen Morris (Business Administration): Friday, September 23, 12-12:50 in 8-200

A SUNY Distinguished Professor with and LL.M. from New York University and over 35 years of teaching experience, Karen Morris is an authority on business law, hospitality law, criminal law and criminal procedure. For 22 years, Morris has served as Brighton Town Judge. She is also a prolific writer whose publications include various textbooks, a blog for Cengage Publishing, a Hotel Management Magazine column called “Legally Speaking,” as well occasional trade books, including Law Made Fun through Harry Potter’s Adventures. Her expertise as a writer will be the focus of her Filling Station Presentation, called “Recent Lawsuits Involving Hotels, Restaurants, and Casinos: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” In her own words, “the presentation will address issues such as employment discrimination, intoxicated customers, bugs in food, bugs in bed, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Franchise disputes, slot machine malfunctions, amusement park accidents, and much more. “ 

Amy Burtner (English/Philosophy): Friday, October 21, 12-12:50 in 8-200

An Associate Professor of English with a PhD from Binghamton University, Amy Burtner has been teaching full time at MCC for 7.5 years. The poetry of Emily Dickinson is one of Burtner’s great passions. Her Filling Station presentation, titled “From Blank to Blank,” will demonstrate one way this passion has been realized in her scholarship: “Over a year ago, I began what was initially going to be a modest web project: an online anthology of select Emily Dickinson poems that linked to and from each other according to similar words. For example, a poem in which Dickinson uses the word ‘blank’ would connect (by hyperlink) to another poem in which she uses ‘blank’ and so on. My thought was to create a reading experience of several key poems within a small, closed circuit space. As is the way with things, one word keeps leading to another. Since then, the project has ballooned to over 200 poems. I will present and discuss this ever-growing, still-in-progress web project that meanders through Emily Dickinson’s lexicon.”

Richard Stevens (Biology): Friday, November 11, 12-12:50 in 8-200

An Associate Professor of Biology with a PhD from The University of Memphis in Biology, Richard Stevens has been teaching full time at MCC for 13 years. He has served as Associate Editor for The Southwestern Naturalist for the past five years. Stevens’s experiences with this endeavor provide the focus of his Filling Station presentation. In his own words, he will “discuss the process of peer review in science and why peer review is an essential component of the scientific method.” 

All events are open to the entire MCC community.

Tony Leuzzi
English/Philosophy
05/23/2016