JoEllen Bailey
JoEllen Bailey, Physical Education Department, presented “Assisting Teacher Candidates through Professional Puberty,” at the National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference on April 28 at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading International Conference held July 13-15 in St. Pete Beach, Fla. The paper was titled “Storage of Rime-Based Sub-Word Orthographic Units in Children and Adults: Evidence from a Pseudo-Rime Task.”
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, represented the Society for Public Health Education at the “Developing Health Literacy Skills in Youth” workshop convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in November in Washington, D.C. In October, Hodges’ American School Health Association (ASHA) Committee on Research Translation facilitated a pre-conference workshop for school health practitioners as part of ASHA’s annual meeting.
Eileen Gilroy
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, shared that graduate students Erika Janny, Paige Knetchel and Min Ju Oh accepted a proclamation from the Cortland County Legislature declaring June 2022 as Aphasia Awareness Month in Cortland County. The students provided a brief presentation on Aphasia to the council and attendees of the May 26 meeting.
Melissa Keelhar, M ’10
Melissa Keelhar, M ’10, University Police officer, was recognized by the New York State chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the New York State Stop DWI Program for her outstanding dedication and efforts in deterring impaired driving. She traveled to Albany on April 6 to receive her award.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at the National Communication Association Conference on Nov. 21 in Seattle, Wash. She presented a research paper, “They Furnished the Pictures, Trump Furnished the War: Political Cartoons of the Fight Against COVID and the ‘Wartime President,’” on a panel exploring “News Coverage of Crises, COVID-19, and Campaigns.” She also presented “‘You’re on Mute’: Idiosyncrasies of Synchronous Online Public Speaking” as part of a panel session titled “Transforming the Public Speaking Course in Response to COVID-19.”
Benjamin J. Lovett
Benjamin J. Lovett, Psychology Department, gave an invited talk to the American Association of Medical Colleges, the association that makes and administers the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). Lovett discussed research on testing accommodations for students with disabilities and when accommodations would be appropriate on the MCAT. His book, Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Research-Based Practice, was recently published by the American Psychological Association Press.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane '13, Physical Education Department, will lead a virtual session titled "Are Dance Degrees Related to Kinesiology Degrees?" for the International Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Dance, and Sport Virtual Roundtable on Nov. 1, 2025.
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace and John Foley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace, Health Department, and John Foley, Physical Education and Health departments, each presented at the American School Health Association (ASHA) conference held Oct. 15-17 in Orlando, Fla.
A poster session titled “WSCC: Merging Health and Learning by Reinventing, Refocusing, and Recharging Your School Community” outlined the collaborative work of Moyer, Hodges, Foley and Pace. Pace is an adjunct health department faculty member and Cortland Enlarged City School District health curriculum coordinator.
The group developed and executed the initial phase of the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (CDC/ASCD’s) new Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model for coordinated school health in the Cortland Enlarged City School District. Videto and Hodges presented findings from their five-year School Health Systems Change Project. Hodges serves as a member of ASHA’s Research and Publication Committee and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of School Health.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored a book chapter, “Avid Readers in High School: Are they Reading for Pleasure?” that appears in Teaching Adolescent Literature Today, a book edited by J. A. Hayn and J. S. Kaplan to be published in November by Rowman and Littlefield. Also, Wilson presented “Beyond Questioning: Progress Monitoring Comprehension,” at the New York State Middle School Association Annual Conference held in October in Watkins Glen, N.Y.