Charles Yaple
Charles Yaple, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, has learned that his book, Foxey Brown: A Story Of An Adirondack Outlaw, Hermit And Guide As He Might Have Told It, has generated five-star reviews on Amazon.com and is an Adirondack bookstore best seller. It was published in August 2011.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented a paper titled “From Our House to Your House: Intimate Belongings and Kindred Spirits in the American Garage Sale,” at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting on Nov. 20 in Chicago. The paper treats the transfer of special objects, often with a story attached, to buyers who become familiarized as “kindred spirits.”
Ashley Crossway
Ashley Crossway, Kinesiology Department, recently coauthored an article with colleagues. “Sports Medicine Physicians Comfort and Competence in Caring for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patients and Athletes,” was published in January in Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish in the International Communications and Culture Department, has received the Robert F. McDermott Award for Research Excellence in Humanities from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The McDermott Award is given yearly for outstanding research performed by a member of the USAFA faculty in any area of the social sciences and humanities.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), had his Psychology Today blog post, “But, Mom, We Do Love Each Other!” reprinted in Australia’s MercatorNet.
Amy DiRenzo
Amy DiRenzo, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, will speak at the Empire Longevity Symposium on Saturday, Sept. 29. The symposium will be held at the Center 4 the Arts in Homer, N.Y. She will be speaking on the impact natural environments can have on human health, with a particular focus on the connection between adventuring outdoors and wellbeing. For more information and tickets, go to empirelongevity.com.
Greg Phelan
Greg Phelan, Chemistry Department, was one of several selected nationally by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be interviewed this month about project management and change leadership in STEM education with an emphasis on teacher education. Phelan was chosen as “having the experience and insights that will substantially advance the attainment of our goal to advance the skills of Noyce PIs (principal investigators) by drawing on the knowledge resident within the Noyce community.” Phelan is the PI for the SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, which seeks to encourage talented science, math and economics majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk as part of a virtual roundtable on his new book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022). Held Jan. 19, the event was hosted by the University of Southern California and sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Research Cluster, the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the USC Association of English Graduate Students.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, has had two plays published in October. His stage adaptation of Frances Hodgen Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” has been published by Brooklyn Publishers and his adaptation of O. Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” has been published by Pioneer Drama Publishers as “The Unexpected Reformation of Jimmy Valentine.”
Jacqueline Augustine
Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, was an invited speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Regional American College of Sports Medicine Conference on Nov. 1 in Harrisburg, Pa. Her presentation was titled “Cardiovascular Adaptations in Female Marathoners.”