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Faculty and Staff Activities

Jacqueline Augustine

Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, recently had her manuscript, “Sex differences in cardiovascular adaptations in recreational marathoners,” published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology. 

Claus Schubert, Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese

Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator and six Noyce Scholars attended the second annual Noyce Northeast Conference Oct. 11-13 in Cambridge, Mass. The Noyce scholars included: Eric Reisweber, adolescence education: earth science; Lauren Pizzolla, Robin Tobin and Christopher Lambert, adolescence education: mathematics; Matthew Henderson adolescence education: biological sciences; and Katie Barbagallo, adolescence education: chemistry. More than 200 faculty and pre-in-service teachers attended the two-day event with the theme “Learning from Each Other for Excellent STEM Teaching.”

Thomas Hischak

Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has signed with Rowman and Littlefield to write a second edition of his textbook Theatre as Human Action.

Gretchen Herrmann

Gretchen Herrmann, Library emerita, had her article, “Valuing Affect: The Centrality of Emotion, Memory and Identity in Garage Sale Exchange,” published in the recent issue of The Anthropology of Consciousness. The article deals with affective or “sticky” elements of feeling and emotion that cling to objects as they circulate among shoppers and sellers in garage sale exchange. 

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, received word her poem titled “Too Many to Count,” previously published in The Daily Abuse, has been accepted by an anthology to be published by Guts Publishing later this year.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-authored an article with Kathy Mantas, Nipissing University, that was published in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement. The article is titled “Nurturing Mentorship Relationships with Inquiry-based Dialogue.”

Seth N. Asumah

Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, presented his paper “United States Immigration Policy and the Politics of Exclusion: Seeing More Than African Immigrants” at the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) 43rd annual conference held April 12 and 13 at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Also, Asumah supervised the research projects of four Africana studies majors and minors, which were presented at NYASA conference: Alliyah Dookie presented “Rethinking Internal Migration Benefits for Africa,” Jacob Wrights presented “Should All Speech Be Free? How Hate Speech Negates Freedom,” Kevin Robinson presented “Miseducation, Socialization and Conformity in the Black Community,” and Devon Sanders presented his research paper on “Melanin.”

Tom Lickona

Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs and professor of education emeritus, published “11 Ways to Foster the Spirit of Christmas All Year Long” as the December post for his Psychology Today “Raising Kind Kids” blog.

Bonni C. Hodges

Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has had her paper “Health Promotion at the Ballpark: Peanuts, Popcorn, and Mighty Molar” selected by the editorial leadership of Health Promotion Practice for inclusion in the inaugural collection “The Best of Health Promotion Practice.” The paper, published in 2017, was selected based on “its ability to stimulate out-of-the-box thinking and reminder of the importance of nimble, creative, and appropriately opportunistic health promotion… the article also reminds us that well-planned health promotion can be both important and fun. [It] exemplifies the best of academic scholarship, insights from practice, and writing that is accessible, provocative, and inspiring to practitioners.”

Timothy J. Baroni

Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, recently had two papers published. The first was written with colleagues from India. “New Specis of Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) from Kerala State, India,” was published in 2012 in Mycotaxon. Co-authors were C. K. Pradeep, S.P. Varghese and K.B. Vrinda. The second more recent paper with a colleague from Canada, Y. Lamoureaux, “A New Species of Entocybe (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) from Québec, Canada,” was published in a 2013 issue of Mycotaxon. The latter paper illustrates yet another newly discovered species belonging to the new genus of pink-spored mushrooms described by Baroni and colleagues in a 2011 article in North American Fungi and based on molecular phylogenetic analyses.