Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, presented at the 28th Annual Sport and Recreation Law Association Conference on March 4-7 in Charlotte, N.C. The title of his presentations were “Wind, Rain and Injuries: An Analysis of the Legal Risks Associated with Tarp Duty,” and “How Much is Too Much? Is the Unlimited Authority of the NFL Commissioner No Longer in the ‘Best Interests of the Game?’”
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, received a book contract from Duke University Press for Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging, which he is co-editing with Elizabeth Freeman from University of California, Davis. The book examines queer conceptions and practices of family, reproduction and belonging, and it features contributions from foundational scholars of LGBTQ+ kinship, including Judith Butler, Kath Weston and Mark Rifkin.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to give a Zoom departmental seminar about recent research on metabolic rate and body temperature in a lower body positive pressure treadmill (Alter G) on Feb. 10 to the Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Rena Janke, Gregory D. Phelan, Kerri Freese and Dominick Fantacone
Rena Janke, Biological Sciences Department, Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, and Dominick Fantacone M ’12 attended and presented a poster at the 7th Annual Noyce Scholarship Conference, Building Excellence in STEM Teaching, held May 23-25 in Washington, D.C. Carl Wieman, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, spoke at the conference, which celebrated 10 years of the Noyce Scholarship. The conference included representatives from nearly 350 Noyce Scholarship programs from throughout the U.S.
Tara Mahoney and Lindsey Darvin
Tara Mahoney and Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had a book chapter published in a new textbook, The Business of eSport.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political science, presented a lecture at the Ratiu Dialogues on Democracy-Transylvania 2019, held May 19 to 22 in Turda and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The title of his presentation was “Democracy: 1989 and After.”
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, and Survivors: Young Adult Literature as Bystander Intervention Education” published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of The ALAN Review.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered the plenary address for Bryn Mawr College’s 9th Annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Her talk, “Savor this Moment: The Activist Possibilities of Digital Pedagogy” is available online.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, had her article published in the September issue of The American Dance Circle. “Dance in New York’s Southern Tier” profiled Hilton Baxter, a contra dance inventor and caller for the Binghamton Community Dance group.
John Suarez
At the May 17 SUNY Civic Education Community of Practice Convening in Albany, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, co-developed and co-facilitated an active listening activity for about 65 people with Babette Faehmel, a history professor at SUNY Schenectady.