Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology, and Aaron Jones M '25 presented research conducted in collaboration with Bryanne Bellovary, Kinesiology, and Jason Parks, Kinesiology. Their project, titled "Does limb specialization in track and field introduce asymmetry in dynamic stability?" was presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. Their findings demonstrate how sport-specific definitions of limb dominance are necessary to isolate unique kinetic strategies during hop landing tasks in male track and field athletes.
Heather Bartlett, Laura Davies, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson and Kevin Rutherford
Heather Bartlett, Laura Davies, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson and Kevin Rutherford, all from the English Department Composition Program, presented together at the SUNY Council on Writing Conference on Sept. 9. Their panel was titled, “Making Changes: Revising a First-Year Writing Curriculum within a Teaching Community.”
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, had her article titled “Between Empathy and Antagonism: Subjective Imagination in the Situationist Drakabygget” published in the current edition of the Oxford Art Journal.
Christopher Badurek
Christopher Badurek, Geography Department, was honored with the 2018 GISP of the Year Award in February from the Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute (GISCI) for over five years of sustained contributions to the development of GIS professional knowledge certification standards used nationally in industry, government, and academia.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented a paper titled “Portrayal of Religion Against the Backdrop of Progress and Modernity in the US and Canadian Social Science Textbooks from 1850 to 2010” at the Future of World Society conference at Pomona College, Los Angeles.
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.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, co-organized the second biannual Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing (SSRW) conference with synchronous keynote speakers Oct. 2 and 3. The conference was themed around sound, place and increasing diversity within sound studies scholarship. Due to COVID-19 the conference was moved online.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will present a research paper on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the College Art Association Conference in New York City. Schwartz will present a paper titled “Ephemeral Interventions: The Radical Practices of the Danish Experimenting School (1961-1972)” as part of a panel on Generative Pedagogies in Art and Curatorial Practice.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence recently had four poems published by Synkroniciti Magazine, edited by Katherine Grace McDaniel. Two poems, “Kangaroo Court,” a satirical take on celebrities and politicians, and “Entanglements Under a Forest Canopy,” a study of nature and color and beauty), were written in the abecedarian form. Her poems “Amelia Earhart: Lost & Found” and “A Wall of Peaches of Immortality” trace the mystery and wonder of a favorite female explorer and a study of peaches and conflict in a lovely fruit grove.
Also, Lawrence received word this summer that two of her poems were included in Masques: Poetry of Identities: An Anthology by Culture Cult Press, Jay Chakravarti, editor. They included Lawrence’s abecedarian “Holy Wars,” about the inherent struggle of arguing agnostics and atheists in religious climates, and “Whirlpool,” a series of sinking cinquains of the swirling loss of culture, ideals, and principles in America.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will present a talk titled “Charlotte Perkins Gilman on and in Italy” at the Transatlantic Women II Conference in June in Florence, Italy.