Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, has 34 of her illustrations and designs on display from Feb. 4 to Feb. 24 at M. Gallery, Marczibanyi Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary. Kadas’s solo show is titled “The Natural Environment and People.”
Yomee Lee and Jim Hokanson
Yomee Lee and Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, recently had their research titled “Hearing Their Voices: Asian American College Students’ Perspectives on Sport and Physical Education” accepted for publication. The manuscript is currently in press and will soon be published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Heath, Sport & Physical Education.
Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, had her article, co-authored with three undergraduate students, published in Biosensors. The students include two current biomedical sciences majors, Annabella Nilon ’24 and Jacob Scibek ’24, and Matthew Besner ’22, who will attend medical school in the fall at University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. The research article, “Odorant Binding Causes Cytoskeletal Rearrangement, Leading to Detectable Changes in Endothelial and Epithelial Barrier Function and Micromotion” details a new label-free method to detect odorant molecules which was funded by the Department of Defense.
Kevin D. Dames
Kevin D. Dames, Kinesiology Department, collaborated with members of Colorado State University’s Sensorimotor Neuroimaging Laboratory on research presented at the Rocky Mountain Regional American Society of Biomechanics held in March in Chapel Hill, N.C., and at the Neural Control of Movement conferences, held in May in Santa Fe, N.M.
Anne Adams
Anne Adams, Africana Studies Department, chaired a panel and presented a paper at the annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in June in Havana, Cuba. Her paper, comparing folkloric and performance characteristics in African American and Caribbean literature, was titled “Pan-African Literature as Performance: Signifiyin’ Tricksters from Zora Neale Hurston and Marlon James.”
Andrea Dávalos
Andrea Dávalos, Biological Sciences Department, is a co-author of the Oct. 25 cover story in Science, titled “Global Distribution of Earthworm Diversity.”
Carol Van Der Karr, Susan Wilson, Andrea Dávalos, Michael Hough and Tim Baroni
Carol Van Der Karr, Academic Affairs, Susan Wilson, Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, and Andrea Dávalos, Michael Hough and Tim Baroni, all from the Biological Sciences Department, volunteered at the 24-hour community BioBlitz Sept. 8 and 9 held at the Cayuga Nature Center in Ithaca, NY. The event was sponsored by Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS) and the Cayuga Nature Center and the censing work was done at the both the center and The Smith Wood Preserve in Trumansburg, a patch of old growth forest near Taughannock State Park that has recently yielded newly discovered species for the Cayuga Lake Basin. A BioBlitz is the cataloging of all life forms, from mammals to bacteria, that can be found in a defined area over a 24-hour time span. It is meant to serve as a baseline snap shot of biodiversity for the area. The first ever BioBlitz was held in 1996 at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Washington, D.C. Such events are now common across the US and can cover small or large areas, such as national parks, and the time frames can be extended to a year or more. Van Der Karr and Wilson helped with the census for mollusks (snails and slugs) and annelids (worms). Dávalos assisted with identification of non-native annelids, Hough helped with identification of plants and Baroni with collecting and identification of fleshy fungi (mushroom and relatives). The BioBlitz started at 5 p.m. Friday at the Cayuga Nature Center and included talks and demonstrations that evening until 9 p.m. on snails, slugs, bats, spiders, moths and other nighttime insects. Saturday’s events began at 10 a.m. and included talks, walks and demonstrations on plants, fungi, microbiology, bees, large wild animal back yard feeding and birds. In addition, some of the selected organisms collected by the survey teams and brought to the nature center for identification were placed on display, along with field guides and literature on identification of organisms in nature. The event drew nature enthusiasts from as far away as Rochester, N.Y., and resulted in an overflow parking capacity at the center on Saturday.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors Bradley R. Kropp, Utah State University, Vera S. Evenon, Denver Botanical Gardens, and Markus Wilhelm, Allschwil, Switzerland, published a peer-reviewed paper titled “Cercopemyces crocodilinus, a New Genus and Species Related to Ripartitella, is Described from North America” in the September/October issue of the journal Mycologia. This new mushroom is associated with mountain mahogany shrubs in the arid mountainous regions of Utah and Colorado. Baroni coined the genus name after the Greek mythological characters, the Cercopes. The species name, crocodilinus, indicates the thick scaly skin found on the cap of the mushrooms. The authors noted that to find such a robust fungus in an arid ecosystem is unusual.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article about helping students create their own digital history texts published in The History Teacher. “Recasting the History Textbook as the Collaborative Creation of Student-Authored Interactive Texts” was co-authored with Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University. A second article, “Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks,” was published in September in the European Journal of Education, Research, Development and Policy. It was co-authored with Julia Lerch of University of California, Irvine, and Patricia Bromley from Stanford University.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her new ethnography, Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China, published by University of Minnesota Press in September.