Caroline Kaltefleiter and undergraduate student Karmelisha Alexander
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, and Karmelisha Alexander, communication studies undergraduate student who served as first author, had their paper “(Self)Care and Community: Black Girls Saving Themselves” accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited collection titled, Black Girls and Black Girlhood. The collection is edited by Aria Halliday, University of New Hampshire, and will be published by Canadian Scholars’/Women’s Press in Toronto.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, co-authored with Paula O’Callaghan, University of Maryland, a paper on the free speech aspect of using Facebook in the context of public employment. The paper, titled “Facebook’s ‘Like’ – The First Amendment and Free Speech in the Workplace,” was published this summer in volume 15 of the ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Margaret Gichuru, Lin Lin, Rhiannon Maton and Mechthild Nagel
Margaret Gichuru and Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments, had an article, “Engaging children in philosophical inquiry through picturebooks,” published in the Athens Journal of Education. The authors discuss how philosophical inquiry can promote critical thinking in children, considerations in the use of culturally responsive and abolitionist feminist curriculum and pedagogy in teaching philosophy, and highlights the utility of multiple stakeholder collaboration for successful philosophical inquiry projects in schools. The article closes by discussing key recommendations for the implementation of philosophical inquiry programs in preschool and elementary schools.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, presented at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, held virtually May 10 to 15. He presented “Scrying with the Saints: Holy Personalities and Their Marginality in Early Modern Magic” on May 12.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper on Feb. 24 at annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists in Philadelphia, Pa. Approximately 35 school psychologists, school psychology graduate students and professors of school psychology attended his 50-minute presentation titled, “Supercharge your Reading Evaluations with the ‘Simple View’ of Reading.”
Charles Yaple
Charles Yaple, professor emeritus of recreation, parks and leisure studies, has a new book titled The 'Tree' of Us: Richford Boys Who Changed the World and What They Left Behind, a deeply personal narrative mixing biography, history and memoir to encourage the furtherance of a land ethic as envisioned by famed ecologist Aldo Leopold. Available on Amazon, the story follows the lives of three men, from the steeply forested hills of Richford, N.Y., who changed the world. Retired after 46 years teaching environmental and outdoor education courses, Yaple also is a co-founder, first board president and long-time director of the Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture in Cortland.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently attended Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania as an Erasmus Plus Scholar for the Public Administration Department and the Social Work Department. During her week-long appointment in May she gave two graduate lectures on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities and met with three leaders of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for Romania. The Erasmus Plus Project is funded through the European Union.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a chapter titled, “The Unitary Executive and the Bush Presidency” appearing in the new book, The George W. Bush Presidency, published by Nova Publishers.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department and Sutton Richmond from the University of Florida had their article titled “A static posturography guide to implementing time-to-boundary” published in the Journal of Biomechanics. This work summarizes the state-of-the-field in time to boundary methodology, interpretation, and application for postural stability assessments. As a supplement, they also share a full MATLAB script and sample data to produce the outcome for universal access to the methodology, a resource hitherto not available. Lack of comprehensive, transparent methodology presentation in past literature has limited comparisons among studies or feasibility of establishing normative data given possibility of dissimilar data processing routines.
Jim Hokanson, Ryan Fiddler and Erik Lind
Jim Hokanson, Ryan Fiddler and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, moderated research sessions at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) regional meeting held Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa.