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The SUNY Russia Programs Network (RPN) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Spring and Summer Travel Awards to St. Petersburg, Russia, for SUNY Faculty. Spring Travel Awardees travel independently to St. Petersburg, Russia to provide approximately one week of lectures and pro-seminars (in English) at St. Petersburg State University and other local institutions. Summer Travel Awardees teach one 3-week seminar and typically give one general lecture and one short mini-conference presentation for the 13th New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI), held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 13-31, 2015. The 2015 Spring Travel Awardees are: James Castracane, Professor (Founding Faculty) and Head of the Nanobioscience Constellation in the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Under Dr. Castracane’s guidance, CNSE has assembled a multifaceted Nanobioscience program. These efforts established the critical bioresearch capabilities, associated technologies and the required infrastructure for a broad portfolio of programs. Research concentrations range from fundamental stem cell work to functionalized nanoparticle development to effective integration of tailored biochemistries of cells/tissues/proteins with innovative nanofabricated structures. His lectures will focus on the emergence of nanotechnology as a major engine driving research, education, and economic development throughout the world. More information about Professor Castracane can be viewed here. Michaela Porubanova, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Farmingdale State College. Michaela's research interests lie in cognitive psychology, specifically in the cognitive mechanisms of cultural transmission, deprivation studies, and the interplay between emotion and cognition. She will discuss the effect of short-term and longterm deprivation on visual cognition. She published manuscripts in Plos One, IPerception, Journal for the Study of Cognitive Science of Religion, Religion, Brain, & Behavior, Personality and Individual Differences, and other journals. More information about Professor Porubanova can be viewed here and here. The 2015 Summer Travel Awardee is: Heather D. DeHaan, Director of Russian and East European Studies and Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University. She has recently published a monograph about the politics of urban planning in Stalin’s Russia and is now conducting a study of neighborhood life in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet period. She will be teaching a seminar entitled, “Modern Cities; Modern Selves.” More information about Professor DeHaan can be viewed here.