Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, was awarded the Warren E. Schaller Presidential Citation for Service to the field of Health Sciences from the national health education honorary, Eta Sigma Gamma. She serves as Eta Sigma Gamma’s national director of advocacy chair.
Steven Canals
Steven Canals, residence hall director for Shea Hall, participated in the Association of College and Personnel Administrators (ACPA) Conference held March 26-30 in Baltimore, Md. Canals serves as the Director of Convention Programs for the Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Awareness. He is responsible for planning and implementing several annual programs including: all identity based socials and Our Agenda-Educate, Advocate, Eliminate HIV/AIDS.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, recently had his paper, “Revisiting the Salt Lake City Olympic Scandal: Would the Outcome Be Different Today?” accepted by the Sports Management International Journal ‘Choregia.’
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented “Money, Class, and Money Boys in Postsocialist China” at the Association of Asian Studies annual conference held March 28 in Chicago.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has an article titled “Grammatical subjects, ‘Hell is other people’, and irreprehensible nature” in the current issue of Cultural Geographies.
Ben E. Wodi
Ben E. Wodi, Health Department, had the preliminary edition of his book, International Health and Culture, published by Kendall-Hunt. The book was coauthored by Kassim Kone, Sociology/Anthropology Department.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “Gun Law, Policy, and Politics” that appears in the July/August issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal, the publication of the New York State Bar Association.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, received word that her poem “Blackest Night” was announced as one of the favorite poems selected by the editors from nearly 600 published by Scryptic Magazine to be included in the forthcoming celebratory Scryptic: Best of 2017-2018! anthology. Lawrence’s poem “My Name Is Not” was published in late March in Free Lit Magazine in the issue with a power theme. Her poem “Amelia's Bones,” written in response to continued speculation regarding Amelia Earhart’s final resting place, was accepted by The Broke Bohemian for publication in April. In addition, her speculative hay(na)ku titled, “Till Death Do Us Part” was accepted for publication in Star*Line magazine, Issue 41.2, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.
Obidiah Atkinson
Obidiah Atkinson, Physical Education Department, was nominated for and received the 2025 National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education’s Hally Beth Poindexter Young Scholar Award. The award recognizes scholarly content, organization and pertinence to the field of kinesiology or physical education from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will be presented in January at the conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, attended the annual international conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading in Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. On July 21, he presented the paper “Beyond Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic Proficiency and Word-Reading Skills.” While in Australia, the organization called “Science and Teaching of Learning Australia” invited him to present all-day professional development workshops titled “Addressing Word-Level Reading” in Perth (Aug. 15, Brisbane (Aug. 17) and Sydney (Aug. 24).