Tracy Rammacher, Tony DeRado and Michelle Cryan
Tracy Rammacher, Publications and Electronic Media Office, recently learned that the office won two SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) Awards for Excellence. The group received a Best of Category award for a photo of Old Main taken by Tony DeRado and a Judges’ Citation, for the College’s website, to which Michelle Cryan and Rammacher contributed. The awards will be presented during the annual SUNYCUAD conference scheduled for June 8-10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, coauthored a book chapter titled “All the World’s a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments” in Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, published in August 2023.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, had her article, “Register and Forms of Address in Costa Rica: Sociolinguistic Realities and Pedagogical Implications,” published in the Spring 2017 issue of Foreign Language Annals. The article reports findings from the sociolinguistic study that LeLoup carried out in Costa Rica during the spring of 2016.
James Hokanson, Kate Polasek and Larissa True
James Hokanson, Kate Polasek and Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, mentored students who presented at the inaugural SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) on April 10 at The College at Brockport. SURC brings together undergraduate researchers and visual and performing artists as well as their faculty mentors throughout the SUNY and CUNY system for a full day of activities. Adam Lowe ’15, who was mentored by Hokanson, presented “Metabolic Cost of Supported Treadmill Running.” Karen Martinez ’15, who was mentored by Polasek and True, presented “Physical Activity Patterns of Latinos in the Northeast.” Their research was published in the International Journal of Exercise Science.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “The Legal System and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China” and served as a moderator at the panel “Race, Place, & Identity” at the annual conference of New York State Sociological Association held April 16 and 17.
Also, she was invited by Syracuse University to deliver her book talk, “Tongzhi Living: Same Sex Attracted Men in Postsocialist China” on April 27.
Garrett Otto
Garrett Otto, Mathematics Department, recently had his article "Allee effects introduced by density dependent phenology" published in Mathematical Biosciences.
Brice Smith
Brice Smith, Physics Department, is an invited presenter at a public forum titled “New York’s Energy Plan: Scaling Up Renewable Energy or Business as Usual?” being held Wednesday, March 5, in Ithaca, N.Y. The associate professor and former senior scientist at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has focused his work on renewable and sustainable energy systems for more than a decade. The forum will be moderated by Tony Ingraffea, a member of Cornell University’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is free and open to the public.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, co-authored with Paula O’Callaghan, University of Maryland, a paper on the free speech aspect of using Facebook in the context of public employment. The paper, titled “Facebook’s ‘Like’ – The First Amendment and Free Speech in the Workplace,” was published this summer in volume 15 of the ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, had two of his books released in January. The Abbott Touch: Pal Joey, Damn Yankees, and the Theatre of George Abbott have been published by Methuan Drama (London). The fourth edition of the textbook Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts has been released by Rowman & Littlefield. The new edition was co-authored by Mark A. Robinson.
Philip J. Buckenmeyer, Jeffery A. Bauer, James F. Hokanson and Joy L. Hendrick
Philip J. Buckenmeyer, Jeffery A. Bauer, James F. Hokanson and Joy L. Hendrick, Kinesiology Department, received notice that their article “Cognitive influence of a 5-hour ENERGY® Shot; Are Effects Perceived or Real?” will be published in Physiology & Behavior. In the study, the 5-hour Energy Shot® did not significantly improve short- or long-term cognitive function for selected computer-based tasks despite a high level of perception that it was working effectively compared to a placebo with college-aged participants.