JoEllen Bailey
JoEllen Bailey, Physical Education Department, presented “Assisting Teacher Candidates through Professional Puberty,” at the National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference on April 28 at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, learned that his workshop, “Build Organizational Capacity: Invert the Triangle,” has been accepted for the SUNY Applied Learning Conference set for Nov. 1 and 2. To address the challenge of limited budgets, directors of applied learning offices can build office capacity by hiring, for academic credit, interns who demonstrate entrepreneurial qualities such as creativity and initiative. Directors can nurture those qualities by inverting the traditional management triangle, thereby giving interns some autonomy in creating, designing and conducting office projects. This approach does require directors to relinquish some ownership of intern-led projects, so this session’s role plays will give participants the opportunity to surrender ownership of projects and to experience the resulting ambiguity regarding those projects’ trajectories.
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator, along with co-professional investigators (Co-PIs) from Drexel University and University of Massachusetts Boston, planned and executed the 3rd Annual Noyce NE Conference that took place from March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. The theme of the conference was “Successful Teaching in High-Need Schools.” The conference engaged more than 250 math and science teachers, pre-service teachers and faculty from over 50 Noyce programs throughout the northeast. Keynote speakers included: Paul Gorski, founder of EdChange and associate professor of Integrative Studies at George Mason University; Michele DiPietro, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Kennesaw State University; John Mighton, founder of JUMP Math, and; Ryan Devlin, 2013 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. The conference also included 21 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) – related breakout sessions and pre- and post-workshop sessions at the Academy of Natural Sciences. A State of Poverty Simulation, led by the Lindy Glennon, executive director of Cortland County Community Action Program (CAPCO), was held for nearly 80 conference participants. The conference was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, is on the board of directors for the National Health Education honorary, Eta Sigma Gamma, as the director of advocacy. She serves as a voting delegate for the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations and was involved in planning the 50th anniversary celebration that was held on March 30 in Denver, Colo. Also, she was appointed co-chair for the national awards committee for the Society for Public Health Education. And, Blavos recently had her article, “Marijuana and College Students: A Critical Review of the Literature,” published in the American Journal of Health Education, currently posted online.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, has announced the recent publication of the third edition of his undergraduate biomechanics textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise. Published by Human Kinetics, the textbook is used in biomechanics and kinesiology courses in the United States and elsewhere.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, spent his spring break doing professional development for teachers regarding the research on improving the reading skills of students with dyslexia for two state departments of education. He was in Ohio on March 13 and Virginia on March 20.
Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has an article titled “Grammatical subjects, ‘Hell is other people’, and irreprehensible nature” in the current issue of Cultural Geographies.
Jena Nicols Curtis
Jena Nicols Curtis, Health Department, presented at the Ending Violence Against Women’s International Conference held April 18-20 in Orlando, Fla. She presented “Working to Better Understand How Domestic Violence Survivors Experience and Interpret Abuse: Research Findings & Strategies for Outreach and Intervention.” The conference brought together more than 2,000 law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, health care professionals, faith community members, educators and researchers from around the world to collaborate on ending gender-based violence.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article about helping students create their own digital history texts published in The History Teacher. “Recasting the History Textbook as the Collaborative Creation of Student-Authored Interactive Texts” was co-authored with Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University. A second article, “Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks,” was published in September in the European Journal of Education, Research, Development and Policy. It was co-authored with Julia Lerch of University of California, Irvine, and Patricia Bromley from Stanford University.