Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace and John Foley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace, Health Department, and John Foley, Physical Education and Health departments, each presented at the American School Health Association (ASHA) conference held Oct. 15-17 in Orlando, Fla.
A poster session titled “WSCC: Merging Health and Learning by Reinventing, Refocusing, and Recharging Your School Community” outlined the collaborative work of Moyer, Hodges, Foley and Pace. Pace is an adjunct health department faculty member and Cortland Enlarged City School District health curriculum coordinator.
The group developed and executed the initial phase of the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (CDC/ASCD’s) new Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model for coordinated school health in the Cortland Enlarged City School District. Videto and Hodges presented findings from their five-year School Health Systems Change Project. Hodges serves as a member of ASHA’s Research and Publication Committee and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of School Health.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of Rochester to deliver a book talk on Nov. 10 on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China.
Jill Toftegaard and Mary Emm
Jill Toftegaard and Mary Emm, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, received a grant for the 2019-20 academic year from the Parkinson Voice Project. The grant provides materials and trains clinical educators and graduate students to conduct therapy in the Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders using the SPEAK OUT!® and The LOUD Crowd® program for persons with Parkinson’s.
JoEllen Bailey
JoEllen Bailey, Physical Education Department, presented “Assisting Teacher Candidates through Professional Puberty,” at the National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference on April 28 at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, is the author of The 100 Greatest American and British Animated Films, published this spring by Rowman and Littlefield. The book covers computer, stop-motion and hand-drawn animated movies from 1937 to 2017.
Jacob Hall and Kate McCormick
Jacob Hall and Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in TechTrends titled ‘My Cars don’t Drive Themselves’: Preschoolers’ Guided Play Experiences with Button‑Operated Robots. The article describes what preschool children’s computational thinking experiences are like when button-operated robots are introduced into their guided play.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was a National Boren Fellowship panelist in February 2019 in Washington D.C. Asumah was invited for the fourth year by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Institute of International Education (IIE) to review 47 fellowship applications for 2019 for the Africa Region. Also, he was invited to serve on the Fulbright National Review Commission in New York City for graduate and undergraduate fellowships for United States students who would like to research in the Africa Region earlier in this year.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her book chapter, “Superman, a Super Freak: Returning the Man of Steel to the Circus in DC Bombshells,” published in Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel, McFarland & Co., 2021.
Sung Woo Yoo
Sung Woo Yoo, Communication Studies Department, received the top faculty paper award in the Political Communication Division at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) held in August in San Francisco. The paper, “The Dual Process of Influence: Examining the Hydraulic Pattern Hypothesis of Media Priming Effects,” looks into the influence of the media on perceived issue importance in presidential election cycles.
Lori Reichel
Lori Reichel, Health Department, presented two 70-minute activity-based sessions at the annual New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Conference on Nov. 17.The session titles were “Understanding What School Health Education is Really About” and “Teaching Sex Education Lessons in a Skill-Based Manner (with Communication Skills).”