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.”
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and his co-authors recently had two articles published on the state of labor negotiations in the National Hockey League. “Don Fehr Trades His Ball For A Puck: Will He Continue To Score?” was published in the Villanova Sport & Entertainment Law Journal. “Trying His Luck at Puck: Examining the MLBPA’s History to Determine Don Fehr’s Motivation for Agreeing to Lead the NHLPA and Predicting How He Will Fare” was published in the Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal.
Bonni C. Hodges and Mike Urtz
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, and Mike Urtz, Athletics Department, conducted a webinar for the Society for Public Health Education titled “Student Athlete Wellbeing: One Team, One Family, Many Branches.” The webinar provided an overview of student-athlete wellbeing challenges, current student-athlete wellbeing initiatives in the U.S., and a process used to plan future student-athlete wellbeing initiatives at SUNY Cortland.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, had an article titled “Energy Drink Expectancies Among College Students” published in the Journal of American College Health. The abstract can be viewed here. Also, her article titled “Faculty Perceptions of Certifications in Health Education and Public Health: Implications for Professional Preparation” was recently published in Pedagogy in Health Promotion. This abstract can be found here.
Tracy Rammacher
Tracy Rammacher, Publications and Electronic Media, has been elected secretary of the SUNY Council for University Advancement's Board of Directors. She will serve a two-year term in this role.
Emily Quinlan
Emily Quinlan, Advisement and Transition, was awarded for her blog, “Transfer Student Blog” at the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA) conference in Albany in May. She received the NYSTAA STEP (Successful Transfer Enhancement Programs) Award.
Jennifer Parker, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong
Jennifer Parker, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, gave a virtual presentation at the State University of New York Librarians Association on June 18. They presented “Enhancing campus relationships: Building a more collaborative institutional repository.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, will present her paper, “Violence, Deviance and Punishment,” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the U.S., set for Oct. 14-16 in Denver, Co.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Library, had two books published this summer. The first, The Long-Lost Friend, is a book of Pennsylvania German folk remedies from 1820 published by Llewellyn. The second, Experimentum Potens Magna, is a handwritten and illuminated manuscript of folk belief published by Caduceus Books of Burbage, Leicestershire, Pa.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, recently was elected deputy coordinator for the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations for a term that extends to 2021.