Orvil White
Orvil White, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, received an award from Srinakharinwirot University (Bangkok, Thailand) for $11,880 for the “Nature of Science,” a professional development workshop.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about engineering and communicative literacies with K-12 students recently published in the Journal for Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER). Co-authors are Michelle Jordan of the University of Arizona, Patricia Paugh at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Mary McVee at the University at Buffalo SUNY, and Diane Schallert at the University of Texas - Austin.
The article is a state-of-the-art literature review focused on findings of 33 research articles informed by qualitative and quantitative data to foreground communicative literacies within engineering design teams at the pre-college level. The selected studies clustered under five overarching themes pertaining to: (a) engineering disciplinary communicative literacies in practice; (b) matters of access with populations underrepresented in engineering; (c) learning STEM content through engineering design; (d) affective responses to uncertainty and risk in engineering design; and (e) evaluating the quality of collaboration. With respect to the themes, the authors discuss possibilities of using literacy frameworks to deepen theoretical and methodological insights into the study of phenomena related to within-group communicative literacies in K-12 engineering spaces.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was presented with the “Amnesty International Keeper of the Flame Activism Award” for the northeast region. At the annual regional conference, which took place on Nov. 15 in Providence, Rhode Island, she also led a workshop on “How to create a Human Rights Podcast.” She hosts a weekly one-hour talk radio show on WRFI community radio in Ithaca, N.Y., called “The Human Rights and Social Justice Program.” The award was partly based on that. She has more than 260 podcasts on Soundcloud.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had a publication titled “Voluntary occupational turnover and the experiences of former intercollegiate women assistant coaches” published in October in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication and Media Studies Department, had his article, “Explorando o Journalismo Literario e a Verdaded no Vinho,” published in the recent issue of the journal Brazilian Journalism Research. The article was translated into Portuguese by Mateus Yuri Passos of the Universidade Metodista de São Paolo.
Christopher Xenakis
Christopher Xenakis, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, World Politics and the American Quest for Super-Villains, Demons, and Bad Guys to Destroy. The 593-page text is published by Cognella Academic Publishing, with a 2014 copyright.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, organized the webinar “School Health Education in the 21st Century” for the American Association for Health Education [AAHE]. AAHE webinars are developed for professionals, students and the general public for professional development, continuing education credit and general knowledge. The webinar was developed and presented by Hodges and her colleagues Donna Videto, Health Department; Tami Benham-Deal, University of Wyoming; and Nancy Hudson, Council of Chief State School Officers. It was delivered live on Nov. 16 and is available as a webinar-on-demand through AAHE.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences, was a co-author on a peer-reviewed article published in Fungal Systematics and Evolution titled “Phylloporus and Phylloboletellus are no longer alone: Phylloporopsis gen. nov. (Boletaceae), a new smooth-spored lamellate genus to accommodate the American Phylloporus boletinoides.” The work was a collaboration between researchers from Italy and the U.S., based on collections from the Dominican Republic and eastern U.S. made over the past decade. Baroni was also a co-author on a peer-reviewed article on a different group of boletes (porcini) published recently in Mycologia titled “A global view of Gyroporus (Boletaceae): molecular phylogenetics, diversity patterns, and new species.” This publication was part of the Ph.D. thesis work of Naveed Davoodian from the New York Botanical Garden and incorporated research contributions from a number of colleagues from the U.S., Australia, Thailand, Japan and Belgium. Baroni served as an advisor on Naveed’s Ph.D. committee and also contributed research collections from the Gulf Coast that were obtained on Baroni’s second sabbatical leave in the 1990’s.
Eamon O'Shea
Eamon O'Shea, University Police Department, received a State University of New York 2021 University Police Award in a ceremony hosted by the SUNY Police Chiefs Association on Nov. 16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The annual awards honor lieutenants, officers and staff who played a key role in life-saving events in the past year, as well as others on the New York University Police force for their outstanding professional service.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction” (2015), re-published in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 433, edited by Jennifer Stock and published by Gale Cengage.