Faculty and Staff Activities

  1. Home
  2. Academics
  3. Faculty and Staff Excellence
  4. Faculty and Staff Activities

Xiaoping “Ping” Fan

Xiaoping “Ping” Fan, Physical Education Department, received the Early Career Scholar Award during the closing ceremony at the 2024 International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) Convention held May 13 to 17 at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. The AIESEP Early Career Scholar Award was established in 2001 to recognize early career scholars within the field who have made an outstanding contribution to the field and demonstrate scholarly promise. Also, Ping delivered three presentations at the convention. 

Katie Silvestri

Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about Twitter as a kind of digital literacy that was recently published in School-University Partnerships. Co-authors are Jevon Hunter of Buffalo State College and Madison Ackerman of Niagara County Community College. The article shares the qualitative research findings of an emerging professional development schools partnership that investigated the way Twitter, as a type of digital literacy, mediated literature discussions of Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” between urban high school students and master’s degree literacy specialist candidates. The findings were organized into three themes that indicated Twitter’s productive use for literacy engagement among participants: (a) extending time-on-task engagement by encouraging text-specific discussions; (b) organizing cognitive engagement through questions to enhance text comprehension; and (c) facilitating affective engagement by generating enthusiasm and a desire to be part of a broader, more authentic literacy community. Collectively, these findings have implications for designing socially mediated digital literacy activities that lead to theorizing about the potential of adolescent online literacies in classrooms, leveraging 21st century literacy-based technologies for academic learning, and expanding the literacy pedagogy of preservice teachers.

Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Clarkson University to deliver a talk on her book Red Lights on Sept.13.

Doug Langhans

Doug Langhans, Admissions, was a panelist on the International Education in 2020: A Year End Review webinar presented by InternationalStudent.com. Langhans, Study New York Chair, and three other industry leaders from various study state consortia, discussed the challenges and changes that have occurred in the international student recruitment field due to the global pandemic.

Kevin Dames

Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, presented research conducted with former student Cabel McCandless M ’21 and Christopher Aiken from New Mexico State University at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics held in August in Knoxville, Tenn. The project, “A Battle of Balance: Differences in postural stability among cross-country runners, trail runners, and healthy non-runners,” found trail runners exhibit greater balance control than their cross-country peers and the control group. Improved balance may be an adaptation to chronic training on highly dynamic trail surfaces with uneven contours, unexpected shifting of materials underfoot such as rocks or sand, and frequent changes in step length to accommodate stepping over obstacles. 

Alexander G. Gonzalez and Michele I. Gonzalez

Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, and Michele I. Gonzalez, Literacy Department, received the 2016 Garrison Award, awarded by the Finger Lakes Trail Conference for their efforts to protect via easements public hiking trails that are built on private land.

Janet Duncan

Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy, recently gave the keynote address for the Inclusive Education Summer Institute at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The title of the keynote was “International Perspectives on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities.” While at Acadia she taught a graduate course in Foundations of Inclusive Education. 

Gregg Weatherby

Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will appear in Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s “Henry V,” on stage Feb. 12-14 and Feb. 19-20 at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented two papers in January at the Modern Language Association conference held in San Francisco, Calif. Bradway gave a paper on his experience of publishing research in PMLA, the flagship journal in literary studies, and he gave a second paper on queer characters in contemporary LGBTQ literature for a panel focused on queer and trans theories of narrative. 

Gregory D. Phelan

Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, was issued two patents: the first patent, Dioxaborinanes and uses thereof — United State Patent Number 8,546,617, deals with a new wood preservative. The second patent, Supercritical Noble Gases and Uses Thereof — United States Patent 8,551,257, deals with a new way to use nontoxic materials to clean textiles in a more environmentally friendly way.