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.
Sam Kelley
Sam Kelley, Communication Studies Department, has announced that his play, “Thruway Diaries,” is now being published as a book and has been adopted by Syracuse University’s African American Studies Department for use during the 2012-13 academic year. “Thruway Diaries” had a workshop production at SUNY Cortland under the title “Driving While Black.” It was also the topic of a workshop at the Juneteenth Theatre Festival at the University of Louisville and the Juneteenth Legacy Theatre in Louisville, Ky. It made its professional debut at the Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, in June 2005, and later at the Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company in Syracuse, N.Y. The book is available through xlibris.com, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. This is one of four of Kelley’s plays that will be published by the end of this year. Kelley is currently on sabbatical and working on a play about African women suffragists and voting rights in Florida.
Madeline Orr
Madeline Orr, Sport Management Department, was recognized by Forbes as one of the top 30 under 30 in the sports category for being one of the first researchers to dive into the impact of climate change on sports.
Tyler Bradway
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, received word that her poem “Blackest Night” was accepted for publication in the upcoming issue of Scryptic Magazine. Her poem “I’m Going to Make You Love Me” was also accepted for publication in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. In addition, her poem “Three’s A Crowd,” forthcoming in the anthology Hay(na)ku 15, will be displayed in “Words with a View,” an exhibit planned for August through November at the Kresge Foundation International Center of the San Francisco Public Library.
Pam Schroeder
Pam Schroeder, Academic Affairs Office, presented a session titled “Lessons from a Curriculog Implementation” at Digital Architecture’s (Curriculog) annual conference, held March 1-4 in Tampa, Fla.