David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, did an all-day presentation for the Colorado Department of Education on April 12 in Denver. This was one of a series of presentations Kilpatrick has done for them on reading development and reading difficulties. He has been assisting the state of Colorado in revising their approaches to addressing the needs of struggling readers.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, had his article titled “Rendezvous revisited: The search for fast intercept solutions” published in the August issue of the American Journal of Physics.
Ryan Fiddler, Erik Lind, James Hokanson and Phil Buckenmeyer
Ryan Fiddler, Erik Lind, James Hokanson and Phil Buckenmeyer, Kinesiology Department, attended the American College of Sports Medicine regional conference on Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa. Lind presented “Altering Awareness: Attentional Focus Responses to Weighted and Unweighted Walking and Running on a Treadmill,” with Kinesiology Department co-authors Hokanson, Debra Van Langen, Larissa True, Fiddler and graduate student Saige Hupman.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of psychology, presented two half-day workshops at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference held Feb. 9 in Denver. His presentations were “Intervention-Oriented Assessment of Reading Difficulties” and “Interventions for Difficulties with Word Identification, Fluency and Reading Comprehension.” On March 24, he presented an all-day conference titled “Word-Level Reading Difficulties: Implications for Assessment, Instruction and Intervention” at the South Carolina Association of School Psychologists annual conference.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was interviewed by The Detroit News on June 1. He provided a sponsorship and economic impact analysis for the Belle Isle Grand Prix IndyCar race.
Gary Evans
Gary Evans, Human Resources Department, won the Technology Innovation Award from PeopleConnect Live. The annual customer award is from SUNY Cortland’s applicant tracking vendor. Tina Vumbaco from the State University of New York also received the award, recognizing the system-wide and the campus-level HR information system program.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had an article published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research. “Mosaic of care: Preschool children’s caring expressions and enactments” was published on Nov. 1 as an advance online publication.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-presented with students Breeanna Dexter, Nicolette McKeon, Breanna Washington and Emily Urias-Velasquez at the National Council of Teachers of English annual conference. The presentation was titled, “Picture Books and Familial Incarceration: Representations of Visitation.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, co-authored a book titled Contesting Carceral Logic Towards Abolitionist Futures, now available through Routledge.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, received word that her poem “Visit from an Invisible Love” has been accepted for publication by the journal Voices de la Luna in their forthcoming February 2018 issue on the theme of family. Her speculative poem “Cinderella Continued” will soon appear in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). In addition, she recently learned that her poem “Vampirette,” published in Star*Line in 2017, has been nominated for a 2017 Rhysling Award from the SFPA.