Rhiannon Maton and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Economics Department, had their article “This Could Be Me': Simulation of Refugee Experiences” published in Kappa Delta Pi Record. The authors discuss how the kinesthetic, affective and conceptual learning triggered through simulation can support future teachers in building empathy for refugees and immigrants.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, has been elected chair of Study New York, a consortium of more than 50 SUNY, CUNY and private institutions formed to promote New York as a destination for international students. He will serve as chair-elect for two years prior to becoming chair for 2018-19. Langhans, a Study New York board member, has been active in the consortium for many years and represented the consortium this past May at NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference in Denver, Colo.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, recently had his article, “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors: Exploring the 2020 Rainbow List,” published in Children and Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children. It was coauthored with Darryn Diuguid of McKendree University and Barbara Ward from the University of New Orleans.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, had three peer-reviewed papers published recently. The first, titled “Towards a better understanding of Tetrapyrgos (Basidiomycota, Agaricales: New species, type studies, and phylogenetic inferences)” was published in late 2015 in Phytotaxa. It was co-authored by Amy Honan and Dennis Desjardin of San Francisco State University, and Brian Perry, California State University East Bay. One of the new species came from Baroni’s National Science Foundation (NSF) funded biodiversity work in the Greater Antilles, from the island of Puerto Rico. Two more recent papers came out in mid 2016, one with co-authors Juan Luis Mata, University of South Alabama, Clark Ovrebo, University of Central Oklahoma, and Karen Hughes, University of Tennessee. “New Species of Neotropical Rhodocollybia” was published in Mycotaxon. The new species were discovered during Baroni’s NSF-funded work in the Dominican Republic. The article “Rhodocybe tugrulii (Agaricales, Entolomataceae), a New Species from Turkey and Estonia Based on Morphological and Molecular Data, and a New Combination in Clitocella (Entolomataceae)” was published in Phytotaxa. It was co-authored with Alfredo Vizzini, University of Turin, Italy, Ertugrul Sesli, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey, Vladimír Antonín, Moravian Museum, Czech Republic, and Irja Saar, University of Tartu, Estonia. Baroni was invited to contribute to the research on this new taxon because of his numerous publications on Rhodocybe globally and because he was a co-author of the newly erected genus Clitocella, now being recognized by fungal systematists.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of the chapter “Gun Control” for the just-published Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, published by Elsevier.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will have her essay, “Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” published in Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World, forthcoming from the University of New Hampshire Press in 2017.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, recently had two chapters and one book review published: “Smilin’ Bob Douglas and the Renaissance Big Five” in the book Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation, edited by David K. Wiggins and Ryan A. Swanson, and published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2016. Also, “Robert L. ‘Bob’ Douglas: Aristocracy on the Court, an Architect of Men” in the book Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers, edited by Gerald R. Gems and published by the University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Her book review of The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism, by Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves, University of Illinois Press, 2016, was published online by the Sport Literature Association on Jan. 10.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was invited by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and served as a 2016 Boren Fellowship Merit Review Panelist for the Africa Region and the Africa Flagship Languages Initiative. Asumah and two colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona, reviewed and selected top applicants for the National Security Program Boren Fellowships for 2016 (Africa Region/AFLI) from Feb. 23-25 in Washington, D.C.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, recently was informed that his paper, “Intersections of Maximal Subspaces of Zeros of Two Quadratic Forms,” was accepted for publication in the journal Annals of Combinatorics. This is a joint paper with David Leep, University of Kentucky, and is based on research they performed while Schubert visited the University Kentucky in the fall of 2015, during his sabbatical.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented a paper at the annual conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), held March 3-6 in El Paso, Texas. The paper, “Directors Explore Contemporary Cultural Trauma through Lope’s Fuenteovejuna and El caballero de Olmedo,” considers two recent productions of Spanish Golden Age plays in the light of sociological theories of cultural trauma. The contemporary traumas addressed in the plays are related to immigration in the U.S. and the exhuming of Spanish Civil War victims buried in mass graves.