Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was invited to present at a Presidential Panel session at the Comparative and International Education Society annual conference on Education for Planetary Sustainability. It was held in February in Washington, D.C.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, and colleagues had an article titled “Politics Spread COVID: Developing a Public Health Response” published in August in Health Promotion Practice.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her monograph, “‘what our union once was’: Newly Recovered Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther Lane,” published in the Fall 2021 issue of American Literary Realism.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History in May in Washington, D.C. Her talk “Who is a women’s sports advocate?” focused on the life and activism of Dr. Jean Grossholtz of Mt. Holyoke College.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, professor emerita of English, has been informed that her article, “A `solitary song’: Identity, Agency, and Motherhood in Wharton’s Summer,” has been accepted for publication in American Literary Realism.
Fran Elia
Fran Elia, Sports Information Office, along with the Georgetown University sports information director, co-moderated the “Town Hall” panel at the annual Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) workshop June 26 in Troy, N.Y.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, co-authored an article titled “Information and Communication Technology, Uncertainty Reduction, and Dual Identification in Chinese Organizations,” that was published in the Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research. Co-author is Ran Ju of Mount Royal University in Canada.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Distinguished Service Professor of Kinesiology, had the 4th edition of his textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, translated to Japanese. The book was published by Medical Sciences International, Ltd. in Tokyo. Counting this translation and those of previous editions, the book has now been translated into six different languages.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, just received word that her 5-7-5 poem “Fresh Squeezed Juice” was accepted for publication by the online journal Haikuniverse as one of the featured poems on the theme of Valentine's Day. Her triptych poem “Always Blue Cops” was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Rosebud Magazine. Her speculative poem “Cinderella Continued” appeared in Star*Line, Issue 41.1, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). In addition, she recently learned that her poem “Just Rosie,” published in Eye to the Telescope in 2017, has also been nominated for a 2017 Rhysling Award from the SFPA, along with the Pushcart Prize for 2017.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, was invited to give a lecture on June 21 to the doctoral program in human sciences at the University of Perugia on the relationship between literary journalism and ethnography. The University of Perugia is located in Perugia, Italy and is one of Italy’s oldest universities, founded in 1308. The invitation came about because Hartsock has been teaching a study abroad course at the Umbra Institute in Perugia for the last three summer sessions.