Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, recently had her blog post published. Titled “Interactive, Asynchronous On-line Discussions,” it describes how teachers can engage students in interactive, asynchronous online discussions that not only play an important role in online and hybrid classes, but are critical to assuring active participation by students.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) conference held April 5 to 7 in Philadelphia. She presented a paper called “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic Metaphor and the Visual ideograph,” which earned recognition as A Top Paper in Political Communication. She also participated in two roundtable discussions — “Invoking <Freedom>: Negative and Positive Freedom as Rhetorical Strategies in the Pandemic” and the “Scholars’ Roundtable: The State of U.S. Democracy in the Early 21st Century.” At the end of the conference, she became the new chair of the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group of ECA.
Alex Corbitt
Alex Corbitt, Literacy Department, had his article titled “Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity” published in November in the Journal of Literacy Research.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, co-authored two papers recently published in the journals Water and in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Both papers are part of REACH, a global research program to improve water security for the poor. The first paper, “Multibranch modelling of flow and water quality in the Dhaka River System, Bangladesh: Impacts of future development plans and climate change” was published in Water. The second paper, “Evaluating the effects of geochemical and anthropogenic factors on the concentration and treatability of heavy metals in Awash River and Lake Beseka, Ethiopia: Arsenic and Molybdenum issues,” was published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
Christa Chatfield
Christa Chatfield, Biological Sciences Department, and her student, senior biomedical sciences major Renee Bullard, presented her research at the 30th annual meeting of the Northeastern Microbiologists: Physiology, Ecology and Taxonomy group. Jeff Werner, Chemistry Department, also presented his research at the meeting, which was held June 22 at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Wellness Services, was a co-presenter at the annual conference of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) on Oct. 16 in New Orleans. She, along with Peter LeViness, University of Richmond, and Kim Gorman, Western Carolina University, presented “Highlights from the AUCCCD 2017 Directors’ Survey.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Nov. 13 and Sun Yat-Sen University, China on March 18 to deliver campus-wide talks on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China and the contribution of anthropology to public health.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology, and Aaron Jones M '25 presented research conducted in collaboration with Bryanne Bellovary, Kinesiology, and Jason Parks, Kinesiology. Their project, titled "Does limb specialization in track and field introduce asymmetry in dynamic stability?" was presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. Their findings demonstrate how sport-specific definitions of limb dominance are necessary to isolate unique kinetic strategies during hop landing tasks in male track and field athletes.
Heather Bartlett, Laura Davies, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson and Kevin Rutherford
Heather Bartlett, Laura Davies, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson and Kevin Rutherford, all from the English Department Composition Program, presented together at the SUNY Council on Writing Conference on Sept. 9. Their panel was titled, “Making Changes: Revising a First-Year Writing Curriculum within a Teaching Community.”
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, had her article titled “Between Empathy and Antagonism: Subjective Imagination in the Situationist Drakabygget” published in the current edition of the Oxford Art Journal.