Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Young and Virgin at 17,” published by Silver Birch Press in February. Her poem “What T***p Was Really Saying” appeared in The New Verse News, also in February. Lawrence was nominated for a Rhysling Award, sponsored by the Science Fiction Association, for the poem “Dorothy Delivered,” originally published in Altered Reality Magazine in 2016. In addition, Lawrence had three poems accepted by Inigo Online Magazine — “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King” — scheduled to appear in April.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, was honored by USA Track and Field with the 2012 C. Harmon Brown Sports Medicine and Science Award at their annual meeting held Dec. 1 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The award was presented to McGinnis at the National Pole Vault Summit on Jan. 18 in Reno, Nev. McGinnis is the biomechanist for the pole vault event for USA Track and Field. Since 1983, McGinnis has provided scientific services to elite U.S. pole vaulters and their coaches to help them prepare for the Olympic Games, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Championships, and other international competitions.
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, presented a one-hour session on obtaining funding for planning and implementing a regional conference at the 2012 Annual Noyce Scholarship Conference held May 25 in Washington, D.C. This year’s regional conference, which expects 200 professional investigators (PIs) and scholars from the Northeast Region, will be held Oct. 11-13 in Boston, Mass.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as a grant reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She participated in two review panels for RWJF’s new funding initiative for Advancing Systemic Changes to Promote Healthy School Environments.
Brittany LaVaute and Saige Hupman
Brittany LaVaute and Saige Hupman, Kinesiology Department graduate students, were invited to present their abstracts as oral presentations at the American College of Sports Medicine conference Nov. 6-7 in Harrisburg, Pa. Hupman authored “Caloric Expenditure of Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Running.” LaVaute wrote “Perceived Exertion and Affective Responses During Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Running.” Co-authors on both papers were Kinesiology Department faculty members James F. Hokanson, Deborah Van Langen, Erik Lind and Larissa True.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had a new patent issued on April 14. Titled “Systems, materials and methods for recovering material from bedrock using supercritical argon compositions,” the patent deals with environmentally friendly ways to extract resources from the ground instead of using traditional hydraulic fracturing fluids. Details on the patent can be found at the following link: http://1.usa.gov/1yyFs6s
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently presented two papers at the Eastern Communication Association Convention held April 10 to 14 in Providence, RI. They are titled, “Communicating Social Support to Enhance Student Emotional Wellness: Exploring Supportive Message Sources, Types, and Effectiveness” and “Computer-Mediated Communication and the Dual Identification in Chinese Organizations.”
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.
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.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, had an article, “Care and Crisis in David Graeber’s New York: Anarcha-feminism, Gift Economies, and Mutual Aid Beyond a Global Pandemic” published in a special volume of Anthropological Notebooks. The volume is dedicated to the work of the late anthropology scholar and activist David Graeber who passed away in September 2020.