David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, wrote a book that was released on Sept. 8 by Wiley and Sons. His book is titled Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, was the lead author on an article recently published in the journal Motor Control titled “Tall Tales of Balance: The Influence of Height on Postural Control Measures.”
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his chapter, co-authored with Jim Hordern from the University of Bath, UK, published in Towards powerful educational knowledge: Perspectives from educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik (Routledge, 2024). The chapter’s title is “Rethinking the foundations: Towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England.”
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was the Sport Law session chair at the European Association for Sport Management Conference held Sept. 5 to 8 in Innsbruck, Austria.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department, has published a chapter titled “Higher Education in New York State” in The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics, edited by Gerald Benjamin and published by Oxford University Press.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “The Queerness of Creativity: Aesthetic Object-Relations in Eve Sedgwick and Alison Bechdel” at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association’s annual meeting on March 18 at Harvard University. Also, he co-chaired and organized a seminar titled “Are We Queer Yet?” Also, in January, Bradway presented a paper titled "Bad Writing: Queer Experimentalism at the Limits of the LGBT Canon" at the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas.
Nance Wilson
Nance Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored an article titled “Investigating students during-reading practices through social annotation” that was selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries Distance and Online Learning Section’s Research & Publications Committee for the Summer Top 5 post about Digital Reading and Annotation.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has been selected to participate in the American Cancer Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “School Health Education Higher Education Academy” set for Feb. 2 to 4 at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. The 45 academy participants from across the country will engage in activities and participate in sessions designed to provide the basis for 21st century school health education preparation programs.
Dianne Wellington
Dianne Wellington is invited to be a panelist at the Crafting the Irresistible: Creative - Critical Literacies and Communities virtual symposium hosted by the University at Arkansas-Fayetteville Community Literacies Collaboratory on Oct. 21. The symposium will explore how the interplay between the creative and critical can bolster literacies scholarship, pedagogical practices, political and activist expression, and community formation and transformation. Wellington will be presenting as a panelist about imaginative pedagogies.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and Clark Center for Global Engagement, presented a paper titled “Creating Global Synergies: Inter-Organizational Cooperation in Peace Operations” at the 60th International Studies Association Annual Convention, held March 27-30 in Toronto, Canada.