Sonia Sharma
Sonia Sharma, Mathematics Department, presented at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Contributed Session on “C*-algebras and Analysis” at the annual Joint Mathematical Meeting held in January in Baltimore, Md.
Bruce Mattingly and Jerome O’Callaghan
Bruce Mattingly and Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, presented at the annual conference of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) held in early November in Montreal. Mattingly presented to colleagues on strategic planning. O’Callaghan’s presentation was part of a panel devoted to the dean’s relationship to the registrar.
Jacqueline Dyke M ’08, Jason Page M ’12, Lynn Anderson and Susan Wilson
Jacqueline Dyke M ’08, Jason Page M ’12, Lynn Anderson and Susan Wilson, of the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services Department, presented virtually at the 2021 American Therapeutic Recreation Association annual conference. Dyke and Wilson presented “Don't Farm It Out to Facebook: Using Your Skills to Design Interventions that Work.” Page presented with Patricia Stanko, MS TR-On ’21, “It’s a Long Road: Supervising a CTRS Candidate on the Equivalency Path to Certification.” Page also presented “The Status of Clinical Supervision in Therapeutic Recreation in 2020: A Follow Up Study” with Anderson and Melissa Zahl from the University of Utah. Additionally, Wilson presented with Jennifer Hinton from Western Carolina University, “How We Teach the Language of Disability: It’s Not All Person-First Anymore” as well as a solo and live presentation titled “Burnout and Compassion Fatigue.”
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, had his journal article “What can Bilfinger Teach Olympic Sponsors?” accepted for publication by Sports Management International Journal Choregia. It was co-authored by University of Missouri Assistant Professor Mario Palmero.
T. D. Fitzgerald
T. D. Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is a co-author with Alfonso Pescador of the University of Colima, Mexico, of a paper titled “Trail Marking and Abandonment of Depleted Feeding Sites by the Caterpillars of Eutachyptera psidii (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae).” The paper appears in the journal Insect Science. The insect is a nest-building social caterpillar that feeds on a variety of native and introduced tree species that occur in the seasonal dry forests of Mexico. The paper reports that the caterpillars employ an efficient system of chemical communication that enables colonies, consisting of 300 or more individuals, to make nocturnal, en mass forays between their nests and distant feeding sites.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, was the plenary speaker at the annual conference of the Alabama World Languages Association on Feb. 3 at Auburn University. Her talk, “Language and Culture in the Classroom: Are YOU on Target?” stressed the importance of teaching and using in the target language 90 percent plus of the time in all foreign language classrooms. She also gave a talk on FLTEACH, the Foreign Language Teaching Forum, an online resource she has co-moderated for 24 years with her colleague, Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, led a workshop for local inservice educators titled “How Can we Support our Students with Incarcerated Loved Ones?” The workshop was developed in partnership with Phoebe Brown from Alliance of Families for Justice community organization, and took place at the Ithaca Regional Conference on the Impact of Mass Incarceration on Families and Communities.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program and Clark Center for Global Engagement, gave the keynote address titled “Reflections on Twenty Years in Conflict Resolution” at the fourth edition of the Crisis Communication and Conflict Resolution Conference held April 17-18 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Approximately 50 scholars from 20 universities in the United States, Turkey, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, France, Poland, China and Romania presented at the conference.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, had a peer-reviewed paper titled “A new species of Phlebopus (Boletales, Basidiomycota) from Mexico” published in North American Fungi, issue 10, 2015. Phlebopus is a relative of the highly sought after porcini mushrooms (boletes) of culinary fame. In addition to describing this new tropical species of bolete, a phylogenetic analysis using RNA genes is provided, a brief overview of the economic importance of Phlebopus in the new world tropics is presented and an identification key of all known species of Phlebopus reported from the Americas is included for use by future investigators. Co-authors included Joaquin Cifuentes of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Beatriz Ortiz Santana of the USDA- Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wis., and Silvia Cappello from Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico.
Richard Kendrick and Timothy Rodriguez ’08
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, and Timothy Rodriguez ’08, a graduate student at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, presented a seminar on April 18 at Syracuse University. They discussed “Building a Culture of Volunteering” with the Leaders for Democracy Fellows, which included journalists, activists, and non-governmental organization leaders from the Middle East and North Africa.