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.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented her paper at a panel she organized at the New York Conference on Asian Studies held Sept. 18-20 at Hofstra University. Also, she was invited by SUNY Plattsburgh to deliver two campus-wide lectures in October.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article recently published in Early Education & Development. It is titled “Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings
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.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Gun Accessories and the Second Amendment: Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Silencers,” appearing in the most recent issue of the journal Law and Contemporary Problems, published by the Duke University Law School.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, earned a Judges’ Citation for Excellence in Writing – News Writing from the SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) for her feature story “Iraq War Translator Aspires to Teach Immigrant.” Wilson will accept the Excellence in Writing award at this year’s conference June 12 to 14 in Saratoga, N.Y.
Brian Barrett and Anne Burns Thomas
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, served as a co-organizer of the Third International Social Realism Symposium hosted at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, from June 29 to July 1. The symposium attracted a record number of researchers and teachers to address educational questions by drawing significantly on social realism, which explores the social conditions of knowledge production and exchange as well as its structuring in the curriculum.
Barrett and Anne Burns Thomas, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented their paper titled “Flipping the Script: Exploring the Impact of Curriculum Modules on Access to Knowledge and Teacher Professionalism,” which also was co-authored by Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy, at the conference in Cambridge.