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Faculty and Staff Activities

Ashley Crossway

Ashley Crossway, Kinesiology Department, recently coauthored an article with colleagues. “Sports Medicine Physicians Comfort and Competence in Caring for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patients and Athletes,” was published in January in Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.

Jean W. LeLoup

Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish in the International Communications and Culture Department, has received the Robert F. McDermott Award for Research Excellence in Humanities from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The McDermott Award is given yearly for outstanding research performed by a member of the USAFA faculty in any area of the social sciences and humanities.

Tom Lickona

Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), had his Psychology Today blog post, “But, Mom, We Do Love Each Other!” reprinted in Australia’s MercatorNet.

Amy DiRenzo

Amy DiRenzo, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, will speak at the Empire Longevity Symposium on Saturday, Sept. 29. The symposium will be held at the Center 4 the Arts in Homer, N.Y. She will be speaking on the impact natural environments can have on human health, with a particular focus on the connection between adventuring outdoors and wellbeing. For more information and tickets, go to empirelongevity.com.

Greg Phelan

Greg Phelan, Chemistry Department, was one of several selected nationally by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be interviewed this month about project management and change leadership in STEM education with an emphasis on teacher education. Phelan was chosen as “having the experience and insights that will substantially advance the attainment of our goal to advance the skills of Noyce PIs (principal investigators) by drawing on the knowledge resident within the Noyce community.” Phelan is the PI for the SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, which seeks to encourage talented science, math and economics majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk as part of a virtual roundtable on his new book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022)Held Jan. 19, the event was hosted by the University of Southern California and sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Research Cluster, the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the USC Association of English Graduate Students.

Thomas Hischak

Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, has had two plays published in October. His stage adaptation of Frances Hodgen Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” has been published by Brooklyn Publishers and his adaptation of O. Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” has been published by Pioneer Drama Publishers as “The Unexpected Reformation of Jimmy Valentine.”

Jacqueline Augustine

Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, was an invited speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Regional American College of Sports Medicine Conference on Nov. 1 in Harrisburg, Pa. Her presentation was titled “Cardiovascular Adaptations in Female Marathoners.” 

Kate McCormick

Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article recently published in Early Education & Development. It is titled “Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings

Jordan Kobritz

Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and his co-authors recently had two articles published on the state of labor negotiations in the National Hockey League. “Don Fehr Trades His Ball For A Puck: Will He Continue To Score?” was published in the Villanova Sport & Entertainment Law Journal. “Trying His Luck at Puck: Examining the MLBPA’s History to Determine Don Fehr’s Motivation for Agreeing to Lead the NHLPA and Predicting How He Will Fare” was published in the Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal.