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.
Thomas Lickona
Thomas Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), has been invited to be a Distinguished Professor at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at England’s University of Birmingham.
During the week of June 23-27, Lickona will present “Integrating Ethics and Excellence: Educating for Both Moral and Performance Character” as part of the centre’s biweekly seminar series, and he will confer with teams working on different research projects within the centre. The invitation was announced in the March 2014 issue of the Jubilee Centre Research and Policy Digest.
The 2014 Winter-Spring issue of excellence & ethics, co-edited by Lickona and Office Manager Marthe Seales, focuses on how schools and parents can combat the rising rate of dating violence and sexual assault, which have received growing national attention. To download a copy, visit the center’s website at www.cortland.edu/character.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, chaired a panel on “Assessing the Presidency of Donald Trump” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in Washington, D.C. Aug. 29 through Sept. 1.