Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on an article “The Wild Edible Mushroom Pleurocollybia cibaria from Peru is a Species of Gerhardtia in the Lyophyllaceae (Agaricales),” recently published in Cryptogamie, Mycologie. This wild edible mushroom is widely collected and a highly prized commodity sold in the Peruvian markets. Co-authors included: P. Brandon Matheny and Marisol Sánchez-García, University of Tennessee; Andriana Simoni, Hudbay Minerals, Lima Peru; María Holgado Rojas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonia Abad del Cusco, Peru; and, Genevieve M. Gates, University of Tasmania, Australia. Baroni was invited to help sort out the taxonomy of this mushroom because he and a former student, Nicole Bocsusis ’07, had published in 2008 an article, with two other co-authors and researchers from the USDA Forest Service, in the journal Mycotaxon describing a new species of Pleurocollybia from the Maya Mountains in Belize. In that paper, they also reviewed species placed in the genus Pleurocollybia on a global scale.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Slow Burn: Dreadful Kinship and the Weirdness of Heteronormativity in It Follows," published in the journal Studies in the Fantastic.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15, Health Department, had their research article, “Affirmative Consent: What Do College Student Leaders Think About ‘Yes Means Yes’ as the Standard for Sexual Behavior?” published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education titled “Artful learning: Early childhood pre-service teachers and art integration.”
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communications and Media Studies Department, co-authored a study that was published in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. The title is “Communicative Care: How Companies Approach Mental Health CSR on Social Media.”
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, gave an invited talk to the New York Society for General Semantics. She spoke on “Conceptualizing campaign media and misinformation in 2024” as part of the “Misinformation, Misdirection, Manipulation and Mischief: Making Sense of Contemporary Political Propaganda” event held on Jan. 17 at the historic “Players” club in Gramercy Park, New York City. A recording of the event is available on the NYSGS YouTube channel.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article, “The NRA is Doomed. It Has Only Itself to Blame,” published in the Washington Post on Aug. 8.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled ““18 Inches of Daylight”: Gale Sayers, “The Kansas Comet” at Southern Illinois University” at the 50th anniversary convention of the North American Society for Sport History, on May 29 in Chicago.
Christopher Xenakis
Christopher Xenakis, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, World Politics and the American Quest for Super-Villains, Demons, and Bad Guys to Destroy. The 593-page text is published by Cognella Academic Publishing, with a 2014 copyright.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, now serves on the Women in Esports Steering Committee with the Pittsburgh Knights, an esports organization sponsored by PNC, the Pittsburgh Stealers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The first roundtable has been released, with others to follow. Also, Darvin’s paper was accepted by Sustainability Science and published online Oct. 20. It is titled “Mass-participant sport events and sustainable development: gender, social bonding, and connectedness to nature as predictors of socially and environmentally responsible behavior intentions.”