Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, is a member of the team from the Society for Public Health Education that developed this year’s Toolkit for National Health Education Week, planned for Oct. 15-19. This year’s theme, “Adolescent Health: Planting Seeds for a Healthier Generation,” focuses on the “importance of promoting and establishing healthy behaviors among our nation’s youth.” Toolkits will be available in mid-September at www.sophe.org.
Robert Rubendall
Robert Rubendall, Center for Environmental and Outdoor Education, was named a 2011 Josh Miner Dialogue Series honoree. The Josh Miner Series, named for the person responsible for bringing Outward Bound to this country, was started in 2003 to honor and hear from a longtime leader in the field of experiential education who has made a distinct impact over the course of their career. The series consists of a public dialogue or conversation between the years’ honoree and another professional in the field. Following tradition, Rubendall was interviewed during the Northeast Regional Conference of the Association for Experiential Education , which was held April 9 in Beckett, Mass. He was interviewed by Paul Hutchinson from Boston University.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a chapter in the edited collection LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media from Palgrave Macmillan (Dec. 2018). The chapter, “Out of the Frame: How Sports Media Shapes Trans Narratives,” analyzes media coverage of transgender participation in sports and discusses how the constructed narratives narrowly shape cultural understandings of trans athletes.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, choreographed the musical, “1776,” performed Nov. 2-6 in Ithaca, N.Y., under the direction of John Hertzler.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had her co-authored article, “Mobilizing Public Alternative Schools for Post-neoliberal Futures: Legacies of Critical Hope in Philadelphia and Toronto” published in a special issue of Policy Futures in Education journal. Maton’s article discusses how alternative school structures offer hopeful possibilities for reimagining and redefining public schools in the future.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was a speaker in the roundtable discussion “Gender and Kinship in the Deep Past: Unified Analysis for the 21st Century?" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association on Nov. 20 in Tampa, Fla.
Jennifer Parker, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong
Jennifer Parker, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, gave a virtual presentation at the State University of New York Librarians Association on June 18. They presented “Enhancing campus relationships: Building a more collaborative institutional repository.”
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, has had his review of James Foster’s new volume, BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska’s Capital, published in the Law and Politics Book Review (LPBR) volume 21 no. 7. The LPBR is an electronic publication of the American Political Science Association, distributed to 1,300 subscribers in 39 countries. To access reviews, visit www.lpbr.net
Sebastian Purcell
Sebastian Purcell, Philosophy Department, had his article, “Life on the Slippery Earth,” published in Aeon magazine’s July 4 issue. Purcell’s article discusses how the Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect.
Lauren deLaubell, Dan Harms, Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan and Hilary Wong
Lauren deLaubell, Dan Harms, Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, recently had their book chapter titled “Librarians Sitting Down with Students: Varied Approaches to Co-Teaching Reading Skills for Developmental Writers” published in the ACRL book Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians.