Yomee Lee and Jim Hokanson
Yomee Lee and Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, recently had their research titled “Hearing Their Voices: Asian American College Students’ Perspectives on Sport and Physical Education” accepted for publication. The manuscript is currently in press and will soon be published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Heath, Sport & Physical Education.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors Bradley R. Kropp, Utah State University, Vera S. Evenon, Denver Botanical Gardens, and Markus Wilhelm, Allschwil, Switzerland, published a peer-reviewed paper titled “Cercopemyces crocodilinus, a New Genus and Species Related to Ripartitella, is Described from North America” in the September/October issue of the journal Mycologia. This new mushroom is associated with mountain mahogany shrubs in the arid mountainous regions of Utah and Colorado. Baroni coined the genus name after the Greek mythological characters, the Cercopes. The species name, crocodilinus, indicates the thick scaly skin found on the cap of the mushrooms. The authors noted that to find such a robust fungus in an arid ecosystem is unusual.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her new ethnography, Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China, published by University of Minnesota Press in September.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article about helping students create their own digital history texts published in The History Teacher. “Recasting the History Textbook as the Collaborative Creation of Student-Authored Interactive Texts” was co-authored with Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University. A second article, “Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks,” was published in September in the European Journal of Education, Research, Development and Policy. It was co-authored with Julia Lerch of University of California, Irvine, and Patricia Bromley from Stanford University.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, was lead author on an article published in Gait & Posture. The study, “Time to Boundary Reliability Differentiates Modified Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction in Balance (CTSIB-M) Trials in Adolescents,” was conducted in collaboration with Jessica Pegg M ’24 and former faculty member Samantha Moss. While time-to-boundary is commonly utilized to quantify postural control in adults, their study established test-retest reliability of the measure in the adolescent population across two visual (eyes open or closed) and two surface (rigid or compliant) conditions. Reliable approaches to monitor postural control can be especially valuable during adolescence as sensory and motor systems are rapidly evolving.
Jeremiah Donovan
Jeremiah Donovan, professor emeritus, Art and Art History Department, had his ceramic sculpture, Metamorphic Black, accepted into an international juried art competition, Life Forms 2026, dedicated to the exploration of life and the botanical world. His artwork will be featured on Artsy, a global art collectors’ platform, and published in the exhibition’s catalog.
Dianne Wellington
Dianne Wellington, Literacy Department, published four articles in research journals:
- Wellington, D., & Walker, A. (2026). “Emancipation literacies: Healing, resistance, and the power of becoming in and out of the classroom.” Theory Into Practice, 1–14.
- Smith, P., Wellington, D., Patterson, D., Ogundapo, T., & Richards, J. C. (2026). “Expanding Ways of Learning Together for All.” Innovative Strategies to Support All Qualitative Methods Students’ Empowerment and Success: A Social Constructivist/Transformative Teaching Approach, 17.
- Smith, P., Patterson, D., & Wellington, D. (2026). “Toward a Dual-Level Intersectionality Theory for Critical Multilingual Teacher Education: Excavating Identity through Cross-Circle Englishes.” In The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Identity (pp. 242-263). Routledge.
- Smith, P., Wellington, D., Alabede, Y. S., Hunte, A., & Ogundapo, T. (2026). “Entanglements, Englishes, and transraciolinguistic becoming.” Countering Colonialingualism in Language Education: Research Practices and Pedagogies from the Global South.
Lori Reichel
Lori Reichel, Health Department, published an article in the Journal of Health & Physical Literacy titled “Not All National Health Education Standards (NHES) are the Same.”
Nimisha Muttiah
Nimisha Muttiah, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, will be honored April 28 with the Special Friends Award from the Racker Center in Cortland. The award is given to a community member in recognition of the support, service and devotion to people with disabilities. Racker recognized Muttiah for an applied learning project her graduate students lead with the organization.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, gave a presentation at the fifth Central New York Humanities Corridor Symposium of Early Modern Hispanic Studies on April 11 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His paper, “Hybridization in Contemporary Stagings of Iberian Golden Age Theater,” focused on uses of intertextuality and intercultural performance in recent productions of 16th and 17th century Spanish and Portuguese plays.