Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Young and Virgin at 17,” published by Silver Birch Press in February. Her poem “What T***p Was Really Saying” appeared in The New Verse News, also in February. Lawrence was nominated for a Rhysling Award, sponsored by the Science Fiction Association, for the poem “Dorothy Delivered,” originally published in Altered Reality Magazine in 2016. In addition, Lawrence had three poems accepted by Inigo Online Magazine — “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King” — scheduled to appear in April.
Taylor Lynch
Taylor Lynch, Career Services, received a President’s Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. The university’s internship and student employment coordinator served as secretary and new member relations coordinator for the SUNYCDO Board of Directors during the 2023-24 academic year.
Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator, along with co-professional investigators from Drexel University and University of Massachusetts, Boston, (UMass Boston) planned and executed the Second Annual Noyce Northeast Conference in Cambridge, Mass. Highlights of the two-day conference included 15 breakout sessions and a keynote from the 2012 MacArthur Fellows or Genius Grant recipient and Harvard University economist Raj Chetty. Other keynote speakers included physics professor Arthur Eisenkraft, UMass Boston; author Penny Noyce, daughter of Robert Noyce, the microchip inventor and founder of Intel; and chemistry teacher Rebecca Grella, who inspired homeless student Samantha Garvey to conduct research that led her to the Intel national science fair. A National Science Foundation grant written by Phelan, Sheila Vaidya of Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves of UMass Boston funded the conference and participants’ attendance.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management and Kevin Heisey, formerly of SUNY Cortland, co-authored “Riddell v. United States Casts Legal Light on Tariff Engineering.” This article was published in Sport Marketing Quarterly.
Mary Ware
Mary Ware, Foundations and Social Advocacy, co-authored a publication with Mary Stuck of SUNY Oswego titled, “Diversity in Career and Technical Education On-Line Classrooms: Considering Issues of Gender, Race and Age.” The publication was published in the International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, Vol. 1, #3 (July-Sept.) 2010.
Kevin Heisey, David Snyder and Taerin Chung
Kevin Heisey and David Snyder, Sport Management Department, and Taerin Chung, M.S. '10, a former graduate student in the Sport Management Program, presented “The Effect of Foreign Players on Attendance in the Korean Professional Baseball League” at the 2nd European Conference in Sports Economics held Oct. 5-6 at the German Sport University Cologne in Cologne, Germany.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was a commentator at the annual conference of the German Studies Association held Oct. 8 in Oakland, Calif. She commented on the panel “Wishful Brothers: The Invention of Native Americans in German Literature, Media, and Performance.”
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was the keynote speaker at the annual Arkansas Department of Education Literacy Conference on March 7 in Hot Springs. On March 18, he presented an all-day professional development workshop for the Ohio Valley Chapter of the International Dyslexia Association in Cincinnati. Both presentations were on research on effective interventions for reading difficulties.
Jeremy Jimenez and Miranda Kistner ’23
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Miranda Kistner ’23 had their article “Concerned but Confused: University students’ knowledge and perceptions of climate change, and how they plan to address it in their future personal and professional lives” recently published in the Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement (JoSE).
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.