Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has been awarded the Aurora Poetry Chapbook Prize for “Before We Forget,” the title poem of his next collection. The prize includes a $500 cash award and publication in Aurora Poetry, an online publication. Two additional poems, “Sunset” and “Drafts,” were also selected to appear in the journal.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had a scholarly award established in his name by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. The award, the “John C. Hartsock Award for Best Article in Literary Journalism Studies,” was established by the association at their last international conference held at King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia in May. The award is given for the best article appearing in the association’s blind-reviewed journal, Literary Journalism Studies, for the previous publication year. Hartsock was the founding editor of the journal in spring 2009 and guided it for the first five years of publication. He has been invited to give the award next May at the association’s annual conference to be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Tisa Loewen
Tisa Loewen, Sociology/Anthropology Department, with senior Emma Caraher and Samantha Horn '24, wrote a textbook review, "Pedagogy in Practice, A Collaborative Textbook Review of: Forensic Anthropology, an Introductory Lab Manual," that was published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on the recently published peer-reviewed paper “Additions to quadrate spored Entoloma (Agaricales) in Kerala State, India” published in Mycosphere in late 2016. Co-authors were Indian research mycologists C. K. Pradeep, K. B. Vrinda and C. Bihjeesh of the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute, Kerala, India.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Joshua Eller ’14, had their article titled “Computational assessment of electron density in metallo-organic nickel pincer complexes for formation of P-C bonds” published in volume 36, issue 26 of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The article reports on research they conducted during Eller’s senior year. Current senior Matt Ellis ’16 is advancing the work further, under the advisement of Downey.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a spiraling abecedarian poem, “Dorothy Delivered,” published in March in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology (Science Fiction Poetry Association). In February Silver Blade Magazine published her “Haiku Swarm” group of four haiku: “Path,” “Rules of the Rodeo,” “Laws of Nature” and “Unrequited Love.” Altered Reality Magazine honored Lawrence as a Rhysling award nominee on their March/April 2017 front cover. Her free verse poem “Dear Lost Love of My Life” is the featured publication today in Silver Birch Press’s Lost & Found poetry and prose series. Lawrence’s published poem, “Trump's Tip,” was recorded by request of the editor at Rattle Magazine. In the last 12 months, 49 poems by Lawrence have been published or are forthcoming.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, made several presentations in November. She was a guest of The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for National Security and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for the Comics, Security, and the American Mission conference on Nov. 4, where she presented research called “Veteran-Created War Comics and the Workaday War.” On Nov. 10, she was an invited participant in an international panel hosted by “Military at Microsoft” about humor in the military, part of Microsoft’s National Veterans Awareness Week events. On Nov. 19, she presented in two panel discussions at the annual National Communication Association conference, held in New Orleans, La.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, coauthored with Graham McPhail from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, published in the Journal of Education. It is titled “Conceptualizing a radical visible pedagogy.”
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, returned to southern Seneca county, N.Y., to introduce Irish Step Dance to 7 to 10-year-olds at the public library in Ovid, N.Y. The class was sponsored by a grant from New York State Office of Children and Family Services whose purpose is to provide a variety of physical education opportunities including dance, yoga and sports to youth in under-resourced communities. Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions (STEPS) was the recipient of the grant. STEPS is a health-promotion project of Pivital Public Health Partnership, funded by the Greater Rochester Health Foundation.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences, was awarded the “Amicus Tironum” (Friend of Amateurs) certificate from the Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) at the 2018 NEMF meetings at SUNY Geneseo this past summer by NEMF President Dianna Smith. The meetings centered on biodiversity sampling of fungi from Letchworth State Park this year and included a wide variety of lectures on fungal biology from Thursday to Sunday provided by a host of professional mycologists including Baroni. The event had an attendance of just over 200 participants.