Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had her research paper accepted for presentation at the67th Annual Convention of International Communication Association to be held May 25-29 in San Diego, Calif. Her paper is titled “Exploring the effect of teacher social support on students’ positive/negative emotions and learning engagement: A U.S.-Chinese classroom investigation.”
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Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had some of his poetry nominated for a Pushcart Award. The poems were nominated by Coco Harris, editor of IMPACT: An anthology of short memoirs. The poems are also in his upcoming book Approaching Home, from Finishing Line Press.
Stephen Halebsky
Stephen Halebsky, Sociology/Anthropology Department, wrote the chapter on “Big Box Stores” for the recently published The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing. His contribution had been solicited by the editors.
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, presented a one-hour session on obtaining funding for planning and implementing a regional conference at the 2012 Annual Noyce Scholarship Conference held May 25 in Washington, D.C. This year’s regional conference, which expects 200 professional investigators (PIs) and scholars from the Northeast Region, will be held Oct. 11-13 in Boston, Mass.
Susan Peterson
Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, had her article, “Race, Labor and the Economic Possibilities of Women in Colonial Latin America,” published in the Winter 2011 edition of the Journal of Intercultural Disciplines. The National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies publishes the journal.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto,” published in the September issue of the journal Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Brittany LaVaute and Saige Hupman
Brittany LaVaute and Saige Hupman, Kinesiology Department graduate students, were invited to present their abstracts as oral presentations at the American College of Sports Medicine conference Nov. 6-7 in Harrisburg, Pa. Hupman authored “Caloric Expenditure of Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Running.” LaVaute wrote “Perceived Exertion and Affective Responses During Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Running.” Co-authors on both papers were Kinesiology Department faculty members James F. Hokanson, Deborah Van Langen, Erik Lind and Larissa True.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a manuscript with collaborators from Colorado State University and Oakland University that was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanics. The article is titled “Leveling the Playing Field: Evaluation of a Portable Instrument for Quantifying Balance Performance.” Dames and co-authors derived commonly reported postural stability metrics from a portable force plate and validated them against measures calculated from a laboratory-grade instrument. Validating this tool allows clinicians, athletic trainers and others to collect accurate postural stability outcomes outside of the traditional laboratory setting.
Lisa Czirr, Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan and Maria McLane
Lisa Czirr, Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan and Maria McLane, Memorial Library, presented “The Flowers of Tomorrow Are in the Seeds of Today: Planting Seeds of Diversity in Your Library’s Collection So They’ll Bloom in Your Campus Community” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.” Their session showcased a guide for diverse classroom resources, discussing the background and process for building it, as well as current and future uses.
Justin Bucciferro
Justin Bucciferro, Economics Department, had his article, “A Comparative Portrait of Long-Run Racial Disparity in the United States and Brazil,” published in Essays in Economic & Business History. Also, he presented a paper at the Economic History Association meeting held in September in Pittsburgh, Pa.