David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper on Feb. 24 at annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists in Philadelphia, Pa. Approximately 35 school psychologists, school psychology graduate students and professors of school psychology attended his 50-minute presentation titled, “Supercharge your Reading Evaluations with the ‘Simple View’ of Reading.”
Wanda Kent
Wanda Kent, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented the poster “Prediction of Reading Comprehension by Various Measures of Listening Comprehension,” at the British Dyslexia Association International Conference on March 28 in Guildford, England. Also, she presented the poster “Intonation and Reading Comprehension Skills in Fourth-Grade Students,” at the Society for Scientific Studies in Reading annual conference on July 18 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Heather L. Balog, Ph.D. was the second author of both posters.
Eileen Gilroy
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, recently learned that the department received its fourth training grant from the Parkinson Voice Project in Texas. The grant will enable the department to train its graduate clinicians and faculty to provide a very specific speech therapy program to individuals with Parkinson’s disease within our community and state. These services are offered at its campus clinic located in the Professional Studies Building and virtually via tele practice.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs and professor of education emeritus, shares that his blog posts, “8 Ways Parents Can Teach and Get Respect” and “Talking to Teens about Love and Sex,” were chosen by Psychology Today editors as “essential reads” for parents.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her most recent biennial exhibition report published in the May/June issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism . Kramer has written exhibition reports for Afterimage since 2012. Her latest report examines Prospect.3 New Orleans, the third citywide exhibition of international contemporary art to be held in New Orleans since 2009.
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.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, will moderate the immigration panel at the annual Northeast Regional Conference of Amnesty International set for Saturday, Nov. 10, at Boston University. The conference, which consists of panels and workshops covering a range of human rights issues, will be held at Boston University. Ritz-Deutch is one of the organizers of the conference and the faculty advisor for the SUNY Cortland Amnesty International student group.
Bekeh Ukelina
Bekeh Ukelina, History Department, and three of his African history students, presented a digital history project titled, “Where do we come from? African Origins of Human Life and Migration” at the New York African Studies Association annual conference held April 13 and 14 at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. Also, Ukelina’s book, The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria, won the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) Book Award. The award was presented on April 14 at the NYASA conference at Seton Hall University. Also, Ukelina presented a paper at the same conference titled “The Miseducation of the African Child: Migration and the Legacies of the Colonial School System in Nigeria.”
Paul Arras
Paul Arras, Communication and Media Studies Department, has a new book titled Seinfeld: A Cultural History. It is part of a series of books by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers that focuses on iconic television shows called The Cultural History of Television, which includes shows like “Friends," “The Simpsons,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad,” “Cheers,” “Star Trek,” and “Fraiser.” Arras’ graduate research on ’90s television turned into his first book, The Lonely Nineties, which has a chapter on “Seinfeld” among other TV shows such as “Friends,” “Law & Order” and “The Simpsons.”
Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, and two recent biology graduates had their article, “Suitability of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Cells in a Portable Impedance-based Toxicity Sensor: Temperature Mediated Impacts on Long-term Survival,” published in the journal Toxicology in Vitro.