Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article arguing against granting the president an item veto in the just published book, Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, published by CQ Press.
Darrell Thomas
Darrell Thomas was appointed catering manager for Auxiliary Services Corporation. The 1992 graduate of culinary arts from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., brings to the position a wealth of knowledge from his 25 years of experience in the food-service industry. Previously, Thomas worked at the Sherwood Inn in Skaneateles, N.Y., Phoebe’s Garden Café in Syracuse, N.Y., and several Ruby Tuesday restaurants. His experience includes on and off-site catering, including weddings and corporate dinners.
Henry Steck and Craig Little
Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political science, and Craig Little, professor emeritus of sociology, participated in a series of academic gatherings from Nov. 9 to 15 in Romania at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, and the Ratiu Center for Democracy in Turda. The subject of their presentations covered higher education in illiberal times, America in decline in the time of Trump, and the need for civic engagement as the prerequisite for a robust democratic society.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, with co-authors Philip Chu and Joshua Brumberg of Queens College, had their peer-reviewed paper titled “Exercises in Anatomy, Connectivity and Morphology using Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas” published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. The article discusses how laboratory instruction of neuroscience is often limited by the lack of physical resources and supplies and that the cost of acquiring, maintaining and updating the materials for these labs can be prohibitive. The authors recommend incorporating online, or e-learning, opportunities into undergraduate laboratory courses and describe a method using two free online databases, the Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA), that freely provide access to data from working brain scientists that can be modified for laboratory instruction and exercises.
Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, had her essay, “Teaching with Love,” published in the Fall 2014 issue of Composition Studies.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, wrote an article for the Concussion Litigation Reporter commenting on the proposed settlement of the NFL concussion lawsuit. The title of the article is “Plaintiffs Had Little Choice but to Take the Deal Offered by the NFL.”
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave two presentations at the bi-annual Play the Game Conference held Feb. 4 to 7 in Trondheim, Norway. Both were on anti-doping in sport. The first was “Social media use in doping prevention and enforcement” and the second was “The Rodchenkov Anti‐Doping Act: The United States’ newest approach to doping control.”
James Hokanson and Erik Lind
James Hokanson and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, along with current undergraduate exercise science students Mary Savi and Madison Heffern recently presented research at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine conference in Lancaster, Pa. The group co-authored two posters titled “Comparison of Fat Oxidation During Walking on a Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill” and “Perceptual and Affective Responses Relative to Maximal Fat Oxidation During Treadmill Walking Exercise.”
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented two papers concerning legal issues at the Sport Marketing Association conference held Oct. 23 to 26 in Albuquerque, N.M. The first dealt with a team’s liability when a fan gets injured from the team’s promotional activity and the other examined the legality of the NCAA.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was acknowledged as a consultant for the chapter on “Fungi in the Forest Ecosystem” in Joan Maloof’s recent (2016) book, Nature’s Temples – The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests published by Timber Press of Portland, Ore. Baroni provided Maloof with a 10-page summary of current knowledge of fungal species known from old growth forests of North America and Europe with a comprehensive literature cited section. Also, five of Baroni’s color images of tropical fungi were featured in the 2008 publication Biodiversidad de Puerto Rico, Augustín Stahl, Flora, Hongos, Serie de Historia Natural, on the mushrooms (hongos) of Puerto Rico written by his colleagues, Sharon A. Cantrell, Universidad del Turabo, P.R., and D. Jean Lodge, USDA-Forest Service Northern Research Station, Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Baroni and Lodge were funded by the National Science Foundation from 1996-2001 to perform biodiversity research on Basidiomycetes, large fleshy fungi, in Puerto Rico and the surrounding islands of the Greater Antilles except for Cuba. Cantrell served as the postdoctoral research collaborator on that grant. The chapter is a 46-page summary of the history of research on fungi in Puerto Rico by a host of investigators from around the world, dating back to the 19th century. A summary of these investigations and an overview of the biology of fungi in tropical forest ecosystems is presented, culminating in a list of macrofungi and slime molds documented from Puerto Rico.