Faculty and Staff Activities
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, had her book chapter titled “Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa” published this spring in The Routledge International Handbook on Penal Abolition.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held Sept. 1-4 in Seattle, Wa. His paper was titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto” for a roundtable panel on “In Defense of the Constitution.”
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley of the Health Department gave the presentation, “Examining School Health Systems,” for the American Association of Health Education as part of the annual conference of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The presentation described part of their work on the School Health Systems Change Project and took place on April 27 in Charlotte, N.C.
Moataz H. Emam
Moataz H. Emam, Physics Department, and physics graduate Jesse Chandler '14 collaborated on a research paper that was recently published in the Journal of Classical and Quantum Gravity. “Geodesic structure of five-dimensional non-asymptotically flat 2-branes” summarized research in the context of the superstring theory and studies the motion of light particles around a 2-brane, which is a higher dimensional generalization of black holes. This specific brane has interesting properties in that it has a gravitational field that doesn’t get weaker as one gets farther away from it.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, co-authored a book chapter with Esther Geva of the University of Toronto on learning disabilities. The chapter was published this summer in Consultation and Mental Health Interventions in School Settings: A Scientist–Practitioner’s Guide by Hogrefe & Huber.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented her paper titled “Cosmopolitanism, Fashion, and Globalization” at the annual conference organized by the Australian and New Zealand Anthropological Society and held Nov. 10-13 in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Argentinian journal Kurtziana. The article, “New Species and Records of Pouzarella (Agaricomyetes, Entolomataceae) from Northern Argentina/Nuevas especies y nuevas citas de Pouzarella (Agaricomyetes, Entolomataceae) del Norte Argentino,” was one of 13 invited scientific publications in an edited edition on mycological topics in South America. The publication was designed to honor Leif Ryvarden, University of Oslo, Norway, for his contributions to mycological research in South America over the past 40 years. The three co-authors, all from Argentina, included Edgardo Alberta of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Buenos Aires; Nicolas Niveiro, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Sargento Cabral; and Bernardo Lechner, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Baroni and his colleagues’ paper on new species and rarely observed mushrooms of northern Argentina’s national parks and reserves came from a two-week expedition made last spring while Baroni was on sabbatical leave. Baroni had been invited as guest and collaborator to study the macrofungal diversity of several remote regions in the Yungas ecosystem of northern South America by Alberta.
Eileen Gilroy and Ryan Davis
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, and Ryan Davis, Kinesiology Department, hosted the first in a series of interprofessional education discussions between their graduate students. As future healthcare providers, athletic training and communication sciences and disorders students detailed their programs with each other and brainstormed ideas on how the professions could work together to advance patient care. The students learned there are more similarities between the two programs, rather than differences.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, learned that her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” has been accepted for publication in a special edition of the British Journal German History. The volume is scheduled for publication in 2015.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “How to Evaluate Cultural Authenticity in Multicultural Children’s Literature” at the New York State Reading Association Conference held Nov. 10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On Nov. 21, he will give a presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The title of the presentation is “Discussing the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: LGBTQ Books for Children in Intermediate Grade Levels.”