Tracy Hudson
Tracy Hudson, Physical Education Department, received a New York State Senate Commendation Award from 52nd District Sen. Lea Webb on Feb. 20. Hudson was honored for having made a lasting impact on the growth and prosperity of the Southern Tier and its residents.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was elected to serve a five-year term on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sexuality Studies Executive Committee. She also gave a presentation on LGBTQ+ kinship narratives at the annual MLA Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, visiting assistant professor in the Kinesiology Department, was an invited speaker to Le Moyne College’s Natural Science Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 20. His talk was titled “Caloric restriction, Diet, and Metabolic Disorders.” Also, Rosenberg was the third author on a publication titled, “Single point insulin sensitivity estimator index for identifying metabolic syndrome in US adults: HJANES 2017-march 2020,” recently published in the July-August journal Obesity Research & Clinical Practice.
Tegan Bradway
Tegan Bradway, English Department, interviewed Judith Butler, author of the national bestseller Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024) and one of the founders of queer theory. Bradway’s interview, “Queer Narrative Lines: A Conversation with Judith Butler,” was published by differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and is available online.
Vaughn Randall
Vaughn Randall, Art and Art History Department, was selected as winner of the Sculpture at SteelStacks national contest sponsored by ArtsQuest. His sculpture, titled Locus, is a five-and-and-feet-in-diameter, 1,000-pound cast-iron and bronze, pinwheel-looking creation. An official ceremony was held outside the Bethlehem (Pa.) Visitor Center on Sept. 19 where the sculpture will be displayed for one year. The winning selection was made by members of the Steel Weekend Arts subcommittee, which includes representatives of ArtsQuest, The National Museum of Industrial History, The SouthSide Arts District, the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and local artists. Read more in an article published Sept. 19 in the Lehigh Valley News.
Jerome O'Callaghan
Jerome O'Callaghan, Political Science Department, had an article accepted by the University of California's UC Law Constitutional Quarterly. The article analyses the weaknesses of the Supreme Court’s content neutrality doctrine, indicating that current First Amendment speech precedent is already applied inconsistently and that the courts need a more transparently workable doctrine. The UC Law Constitutional Quarterly, founded at the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), is the oldest law journal in the United States solely dedicated to constitutional law.
Margaret Gichuru and Patricia Roiger and Maria Timberlake
Margaret Gichuru and Patricia Roiger, Childhood and Early Childhood Education Department, and Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, traveled to the Kenya Institute of Special Education to deepen a partnership started by Gichuru. The faculty will share their experiences and photos at a Sandwich Seminar titled “Summer Teaching in Kenya” set for noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Old Main Colloquium.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Catalysts for Change: Exploring Collective Action for Social Justice Through Nonfiction Picture Books in Early Childhood Education” published Sept. 23 in Early Childhood Education Journal.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her book, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College, published by Duke University Press in August.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, had a book chapter titled “The Pleasures of Reading Camp” published by Cambridge UP in The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, edited by Benjamin A. Kahan.