Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, presented a daylong workshop on “Building Character, Preventing Bullying” to 70 independent school heads and faculty on April 16 as part of a two-day conference sponsored by the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education. The Center for the 4th and 5th Rs recently received a one-year extension of its four-year grant, “Building Smart and Good Schools,” from the John Templeton Foundation.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, had an article titled “Energy Drink Expectancies Among College Students” published in the Journal of American College Health. The abstract can be viewed here. Also, her article titled “Faculty Perceptions of Certifications in Health Education and Public Health: Implications for Professional Preparation” was recently published in Pedagogy in Health Promotion. This abstract can be found here.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, will present her paper, “Violence, Deviance and Punishment,” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the U.S., set for Oct. 14-16 in Denver, Co.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and colleagues Ray Cotrufo and Matt Kastel, had the article “Evaluating the evaluators: Developing an instrument to assess a baseball scout’s effectiveness” published in the Review of Management Innovation and Creativity.
Matt Seyfried
Matt Seyfried, Sport Management Department, was selected to receive a Sport Industry Professional Service and Leadership Award from Ithaca College. The award is given in recognition of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the sports industry and support the mission of the college’s Department of Sport Management and Media. Matt will be formally recognized at the annual Sport Management and Media Awards Program which follows the annual Sport Management and Media Hole-in-One Golf Tournament on Saturday, April 28, at the Country Club of Ithaca.
Tracy Rammacher
Tracy Rammacher, Publications and Electronic Media, has been elected secretary of the SUNY Council for University Advancement's Board of Directors. She will serve a two-year term in this role.
Simon Brandon-Lai
Simon Brandon-Lai, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article, “Organizational Impression Congruence: A Conceptual Model of Multi-level Impression Management Operation in Sport Service Organizations,” that was published in Sport Management Review. In the paper, the authors addressed ways in which images projected by actors at different organizational levels combine to produce in/coherent consumer impressions. Conceptual links between these impressions and related outcomes (e.g., consumer trust, psychological connection, and re-patronage intentions) are discussed.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development Center, presented “Highlights from the AUCCCD 2016 Directors’ Survey” with Peter LeViness, Ph.D., at the annual conference of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) on Oct. 15 in Denver, Colo.
Lisa Czirr and Jenifer Phelan
Lisa Czirr, associate librarian, and Jenifer Phelan, assistant librarian, gave a presentation, "Mirror, mirror on the wall: Reflective practice for culturally responsive information literacy instruction," at the SUNY Library Association 2025 annual conference on reflective practice for culturally responsive information literacy instruction.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, is the author of a book chapter, “African Cultures, Modernization and Development: Re-examining the Effects of Globalization.” It will be included in a new book, Globalization and the African Experience, edited by Emmanuel M. Mbah and Steven J. Salm, to be published in 2012 by Carolina Academic Press.