Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, received the “Sue and Ron Smith Service Award” at the annual convention of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) held May 26 to 29 in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes exceptional contributions to the organization. Rayl has served as the convention photographer since 2013.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a manuscript with collaborators from Colorado State University and Oakland University that was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanics. The article is titled “Leveling the Playing Field: Evaluation of a Portable Instrument for Quantifying Balance Performance.” Dames and co-authors derived commonly reported postural stability metrics from a portable force plate and validated them against measures calculated from a laboratory-grade instrument. Validating this tool allows clinicians, athletic trainers and others to collect accurate postural stability outcomes outside of the traditional laboratory setting.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, recently attended the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting in Rochester, Minn. He collaborated on a poster and a rapid podium presentation. The poster, titled “Comparison of subjective electromyographic onset determination to objective techniques during running,” compares alternative methods for identifying when lower extremity muscles are active during running. In the rapid podium presentation, titled “An exploration of muscle activity in young and older runners and the relationships with running economy,” they demonstrated that younger runners present different muscle activation patterns than older runners. Specifically, more economical young runners activate biarticular lower extremity muscles for a greater percent of stance phase, while more economical older runners activate these muscles for a lower percent of stance.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, had an article published in the Summer 2020 issue of Perspectives on Language and Literacy, a publication of the International Dyslexia Association. The article is titled “How the Phonology of Speech Is Foundational for Instant Word Recognition.” Also, he was asked by Pearson, Inc. to help revise the reading-related subtests from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – 4th Edition (WIAT-4). He declined the offered remuneration for his work in order to be able to recommend the revised test battery without any financial conflict of interest. It is currently the only K-12 individualized academic achievement battery with reading-related subtests that incorporate recent advances in the scientific research on reading acquisition and reading difficulties/disabilities. The WIAT-4 released in September.
Ryan Vooris and Susan Barnett
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, and Susan Barnett, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, co-authored an article recently published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure called “Understanding the Wearable Fitness Tracker Revolution.”
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, presented a daylong workshop on “Building Character, Preventing Bullying” to 70 independent school heads and faculty on April 16 as part of a two-day conference sponsored by the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education. The Center for the 4th and 5th Rs recently received a one-year extension of its four-year grant, “Building Smart and Good Schools,” from the John Templeton Foundation.
Matt Seyfried
Matt Seyfried, Sport Management Department, was selected to receive a Sport Industry Professional Service and Leadership Award from Ithaca College. The award is given in recognition of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the sports industry and support the mission of the college’s Department of Sport Management and Media. Matt will be formally recognized at the annual Sport Management and Media Awards Program which follows the annual Sport Management and Media Hole-in-One Golf Tournament on Saturday, April 28, at the Country Club of Ithaca.
James Webb, Chris Pecone, Alyssa McConnell and Nichole Snyder
James Webb and Chris Pecone, Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) executive chefs, and Alyssa McConnell and Nichole Snyder, ASC assistant managers of food production, won a team bronze medal at the Culinary Conference and Competition held in January at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. This is the first time an ASC team has participated in the “Chopped”-style competition that featured 11 colleges. The event was sponsored by the American Culinary Federation.
Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek
Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek of Memorial Library had their bibliographic essay titled “Resources on Women in STEM” published in Choice Magazine and featured in the March 2020 issue. This essay highlights women role models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions and includes 58 book titles that explore various elements within STEM fields such as gender inequality, history, education, academic contributions, societal impacts and government involvement.
Lieutenant Francis Cullen
Lieutenant Francis Cullen, University Police Department, was recognized by the State University of New York with a 2021 University Police Award. The SUNY Police Chiefs Association held a ceremony on Nov. 16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to present the annual awards to lieutenants, officers and staff who played a key role in life-saving events in the past year, as well as others on the New York University Police force for their outstanding professional service.