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Faculty and Staff Activities

Eric Edlund

Eric Edlund, Physics Department, gave a talk at Colgate University on Nov. 15 titled “A simplified analysis of orbital interception and rendezvous” which was based on his 2021 paper in the American Journal of Physics.

Lynn Anderson

Lynn Anderson, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, recently completed the Distinguished Visiting Professor program with the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. The distinguished service professor spent the week lecturing, debating and working with faculty and students in the School of Sport, Tourism, and the Outdoors at UCLAN. The university published this article on its blog site:http://uclanoutdoors.blogspot.com/.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, was invited to present a keynote lecture at Cornell University for the English Department’s Graduate Student Conference, which was held on March 15 and 16. His lecture was titled “Queer Narrative Theory and the Belongings of Form.” 

Katherine M. Polasek

Katherine M. Polasek, Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article titled “Women in Sport and Exercise Psychology: A North American Perspective” that was recently published in the International Journal of Sport Psychology.

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “The Case for Penal Abolition and Ludic Ubuntu in Arrow of God,” published in a Max Planck Working Papers series.

Tom Lickona

Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, chaired a “Symposium on Parent-Teacher Partnerships in Character Education” at the Oct. 18 to 20 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Philadelphia. Lickona is the author of a new book, How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain (Penguin, 2018), and writes a monthly parenting blog, “Raising Kind Kids,” for Psychology Today.

Kent M. Johnson

Kent M. Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had his chapter, “Opening Up the Family Tree: Promoting More Diverse and Inclusive Studies of Family, Kinship, and Relatedness in Bioarchaeology,” published recently in the edited volume Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues. The volume was published by Springer.

 

Jordan Kobritz

Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, had his article “A-Rod’s Legal Team Adopts a Scorched Earth Approach” published in the Nov. 1 edition of Sport Litigation Alert.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his essay, “Literature in an Age of Plague: The AIDS Epidemic,” published in American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990. The volume was edited by D. Quentin Miller and published in November by Cambridge University Press.

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented with Darryn Diuguid of McKendree University at the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English on Nov. 22 in Baltimore, Maryland. The presentation, “Intersectional Identities in LGBT Trade Books: Exploring the Current Trend in Rainbow Book List Winners,” was part of the roundtable sessions titled “LGBTQ + Spirited Inquiry: Visibility in ELA.”