Emily Quinlan and Susan Stiner
Emily Quinlan and Susan Stiner, Advisement and Transition, attended the Western New York Advising Conference on Feb. 15 in Niagara Falls, N.Y. They presented “A Comprehensive Approach to Advising the Undecided Student” to a full room of approximately 50 conference attendees. The conference theme was “The Evolving Students: Strategies and Trends in Advising.”
Lynn Couturier MacDonald
Lynn Couturier MacDonald, Physical Education Department chair, announced that the department hosted its annual conference in collaboration with The New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (NYS AHPERD) Central North Zone on Jan. 30. More than 180 physical education and health teachers from the local area attended 29 different presentations. The conference was organized with the help of nearly 50 students in the Alliance for Physical Education Majors Club.
Brett Troyan
Brett Troyan, History Department, is on sabbatical for the spring semester. She was appointed a visiting scholar to Cambridge University’s Latin American Studies Center in the United Kingdom where she is working on a book manuscript on Costa Rica’s brief civil war.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, had his non-fiction book, Musicals in Film: A Guide to the Genre, published by ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Noelle Chaddock Paley
Noelle Chaddock Paley, Multicultural Life and Diversity Office and Africana Studies Department gave a talk titled “On Being a Black Woman” at Mohawk Valley Community College for their Fall 2014 Cultural Series. The talk took place on both the Utica and Rome campuses.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had a book chapter titled “Teacher Development, Support, and Training with the iPad” published in Advancing Higher Education with Mobile Learning Technology: Cases, Trends, and Inquiry Based Methods, edited by S. Keengwe and M. Maxfield. It was co-authored by Vicky Zygouris-Coe and Victoria Cardullo.
Bekeh Ukelina
Bekeh Ukelina, History Department, and three of his African history students, presented a digital history project titled, “Where do we come from? African Origins of Human Life and Migration” at the New York African Studies Association annual conference held April 13 and 14 at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. Also, Ukelina’s book, The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria, won the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) Book Award. The award was presented on April 14 at the NYASA conference at Seton Hall University. Also, Ukelina presented a paper at the same conference titled “The Miseducation of the African Child: Migration and the Legacies of the Colonial School System in Nigeria.”
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as a grant reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She participated in two review panels for RWJF’s new funding initiative for Advancing Systemic Changes to Promote Healthy School Environments.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had her research paper accepted for presentation at the67th Annual Convention of International Communication Association to be held May 25-29 in San Diego, Calif. Her paper is titled “Exploring the effect of teacher social support on students’ positive/negative emotions and learning engagement: A U.S.-Chinese classroom investigation.”
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Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had some of his poetry nominated for a Pushcart Award. The poems were nominated by Coco Harris, editor of IMPACT: An anthology of short memoirs. The poems are also in his upcoming book Approaching Home, from Finishing Line Press.