Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, School of Education and regional director for the New York State Master Teacher Program, presented a paper titled, “A Q Methodological Study: Math & Science Teachers’ Views of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development” at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting on April 25 in San Diego, Calif.
Mary Schlarb and Jena Curtis
Mary Schlarb, Division of Academic Affairs, and Jena Curtis, Health Department, presented at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference held May 29 to June 2 in Washington, D.C. Their session on May 31, “LGBTQ+ Abroad: Research on Student Experiences and Promising Practices” had more than 140 attendees.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had one of his books translated and published in Romanian. A History of American Literary Journalism was published recently as O Istorie a Jurnalismului Literar American by the Romanian academic press, Institutul European. It was originally published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2000. The translators of the Romanian edition are Andra Andrei, Ioana Laura Bida, Oana Sîrbu and Dan Stoica. The preface was written by Ilie Rad, professor of journalism at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, who arranged for the translation.
In other news, Hartsock gave a paper, “Negotiating Cultural and Personal Revelation in Literary Journalism and Memoir,” at the 10th annual conference of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus.
Mark Dodds and Ray Cotrufo
Mark Dodds and Ray Cotrufo, Sport Management Department, recently had their paper, “The Ultimate Penalty Box: Fayetteville-Manlius is Disqualified from the State Playoffs for Playing Too Many Games,” published by the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a one-hour workshop at the annual conference for the New York Association of School Psychologists on Oct. 28. The workshop was titled “Not all Phonemic Awareness Tests are Created Equal.” Phonemic awareness is a very important linguistic skill that affects learning to read. The workshop was designed to assist school psychologists in determining if a student’s reading difficulties were influenced by difficulties in phonemic awareness. The conference was held Oct. 27-28 at the Turning Stone Resort in Oneida, N.Y.
Craig Foster
Craig Foster, Psychology Department, had his article, “Race and the NFL: Teaching the chi-square goodness of fit test” published in September in Significance, a magazine published for the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, recently was featured in an SB Nation article about the NCAA NIL changes and the impact those may have for NCAA women student-athletes.
Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter
Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter, Memorial Library, presented at the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Conference 2017 in May at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. They presented “Technical Metamorphosis by Design.”
Kevin Dames and Aaron Jones
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Aaron Jones, grad student, helped physics classes from Cortland High School visit the Biomechanics Laboratory in the Professional Studies Building for National Biomechanics Day. The high schoolers learned how to apply principles from their physics education, like free body diagrams, action-reaction, force and torque, to a human problem: postural control.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, contributed a chapter titled “Sports Administration: Heteronormative Presents, Queer Futures” in the recent collection Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport: Queer Inquiries, published by Routledge. The chapter uses queer theory and cultural studies to explore the current climate of athletics departments and imagine future, more inclusive environments for sports administrators. The chapter was co-written with Dr. Nefertiti Walker of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.