Hilary Wong
Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, presented at the virtual Great Lakes Science Boot Camp on June 23. She gave a lightning talk titled “Library Outreach during COVIDity.”
Deborah Seipp
Deborah Seipp, a Fall 2022 graduate international student from the German Sport University in Cologne, lectured in a spring 2022 physical education class on the European sport of team handball. In April she traveled with the new men’s handball team and several women, who joined the Ohio States women’s team, to the 2023 USA Team Handball Collegiate National Championships in Ohio, where she coached the team and also competed herself. Seipp personally captured the Top Scorer Award, the All-American All-Star Team Award and the USATH Academic All-Americans 2022-2023 Award for academic performance.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article, co-authored with four undergraduate and graduate students, published in the Journal of Children’s Literature. The students include Breeana Dexter M ’19, Nicolette McKeon ’21, Emily Urias-Velasquez ’22 and Breanna Washington ’19, M ’21. The article, “Far Apart, Close in Heart: Exploring Representations of Familial Incarceration in Children’s Picturebooks,” examines how children’s picture books depict breaking the law, communication with loved ones incarcerated, racial identities and the socioemotional support systems available to children.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, library, presented her paper, “Stuff at High Tide: The Ebb and Flow of Household Clutter Witnessed through the U.S. Garage Sale,” at the 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held Nov. 16-20 in Montreal, Canada. The paper focuses on the over-accumulation of consumer goods in the last 40 years and the ways in which garage sales serve as “release valves” for too much household clutter.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs and professor of education emeritus, shares that his blog posts, “8 Ways Parents Can Teach and Get Respect” and “Talking to Teens about Love and Sex,” were chosen by Psychology Today editors as “essential reads” for parents.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, coauthored a book chapter titled “All the World’s a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments” in Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, published in August 2023.
Xiaoping “Ping” Fan
Xiaoping “Ping” Fan, Physical Education Department, will be honored at the 2024 International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) Convention with the AIESEP Early Career Scholar Award. Ping will deliver three presentations at the convention, set for May 13 to 17 at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, had two of his books released in January. The Abbott Touch: Pal Joey, Damn Yankees, and the Theatre of George Abbott have been published by Methuan Drama (London). The fourth edition of the textbook Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts has been released by Rowman & Littlefield. The new edition was co-authored by Mark A. Robinson.
Helena Baert and Matthew Madden
Helena Baert and Matthew Madden, Physical Education Department, served as planners for the Central South Zone Conference held at SUNY Cortland on Friday, Jan. 19. The conference, part of the Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, included more than 25 sessions and brought together over 170 physical education and health professionals from Central New York. The conference was well attended and participants and presenters included current students, faculty, alumni and members living and/or working in Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins counties. Student volunteers from the Alliance of Physical Education Majors (APEM) helped make the conference a success. Baert is past president of the Central South Zone.
Scott Moranda
Scott Moranda, History Department, is listed in the credits of a PBS documentary on Carl Schenck, one of America’s first foresters, which showed on WSKG Binghamton and WCNY Syracuse from April 15-18. Moranda was asked to review “America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment” and summarize Schenck’s life in relation to his return to Germany where he lived during the Nazi period. The documentary shows German contributions to American forestry in its earliest days.