Lisa Czirr and Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan
Lisa Czirr and Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan, Memorial Library, recently published a chapter, “Empowering Future Educators: A Spiral-Based Information Literacy Curriculum,” in Libson, Scott P., et al. Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework. Edited by Scott P. Libson and Malia Willey, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2025.
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Emmanuel S. Nelson, English Department, is the editor of the recently published Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. It is a revised, updated version of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature that he edited in 2005.
Caroline Kaltefleiter and undergraduate student Karmelisha Alexander
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, and Karmelisha Alexander, communication studies undergraduate student who served as first author, had their paper “(Self)Care and Community: Black Girls Saving Themselves” accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited collection titled, Black Girls and Black Girlhood. The collection is edited by Aria Halliday, University of New Hampshire, and will be published by Canadian Scholars’/Women’s Press in Toronto.
Deborah Seipp
Deborah Seipp, a Fall 2022 graduate international student from the German Sport University in Cologne, lectured in a spring 2022 physical education class on the European sport of team handball. In April she traveled with the new men’s handball team and several women, who joined the Ohio States women’s team, to the 2023 USA Team Handball Collegiate National Championships in Ohio, where she coached the team and also competed herself. Seipp personally captured the Top Scorer Award, the All-American All-Star Team Award and the USATH Academic All-Americans 2022-2023 Award for academic performance.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, was an invited panelist at the “Finding Your Path” workshop held by the American Chemical Society on Campus April 21 at Binghamton University.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, gave a talk to middle/high school students and teachers about “Ecological Justice and the 9 Planetary boundaries” at the sixth annual Central New York Youth Climate Summit held Feb. 11 at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Katie Ducett
In August, Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and the entire State of the Art Executive Committee were honored by the National Down Syndrome Congress with the Organization of the Year award at their annual Big Game Ball in Atlanta, Georgia.
Katie also accepted the Megan Cartier Early Career Scholar Award in October at the SOTA Conference in Syracuse, N.Y.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Distinguished Service Professor of Kinesiology, had a Greek translation of the 4th edition of his textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, published by Konstadaras in Greece. Counting this translation and those of this and previous editions, the book has now been translated into seven different languages: Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese and now Greek.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently attended Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania as an Erasmus Plus Scholar for the Public Administration Department and the Social Work Department. During her week-long appointment in May she gave two graduate lectures on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities and met with three leaders of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for Romania. The Erasmus Plus Project is funded through the European Union.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented “Using the Law to Combat Sport Corruption” at the 2019 Current Legal and Ethical Issues in Sports and Entertainment event held at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisc.