Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of French, received the William H. Heiser Award for the United States Air Force Academy’s (USAFA) Outstanding Senior Faculty Educator on May 1. Each year the Air Force Academy graduating class selects two senior faculty members, one from engineering and the sciences and one from humanities, who have contributed the most to cadet personal and intellectual development; professors who inspired and challenged their students to “work harder and dig deeper.” LeLoup is the first member of the USAFA’s Department of Foreign Languages to receive this honor since its inception in 1995.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, had the second edition of his textbook, Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to the Theatre, released by Rowman & Littlefield in March.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, recently was awarded 1.1 million core-hours on one of the supercomputing clusters at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The value of these awarded resources is approximately $40,000. Also, Morris has been asked to become a member of the Science Organizing Committee for the international conference “Chondrules as Astrophysical Objects” to be held May 9-11, 2017, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Also, Morris will give an invited talk at the conference. In addition, Morris presented an invited talk at Cornell University on Sept. 22.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Library, had his chapter, “Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic,” published in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization from Pennsylvania State University Press.
Wanda Kent
Wanda Kent, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented the poster “Prediction of Reading Comprehension by Various Measures of Listening Comprehension,” at the British Dyslexia Association International Conference on March 28 in Guildford, England. Also, she presented the poster “Intonation and Reading Comprehension Skills in Fourth-Grade Students,” at the Society for Scientific Studies in Reading annual conference on July 18 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Heather L. Balog, Ph.D. was the second author of both posters.
Eileen Gilroy
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, recently learned that the department received its fourth training grant from the Parkinson Voice Project in Texas. The grant will enable the department to train its graduate clinicians and faculty to provide a very specific speech therapy program to individuals with Parkinson’s disease within our community and state. These services are offered at its campus clinic located in the Professional Studies Building and virtually via tele practice.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs and professor of education emeritus, shares that his blog posts, “8 Ways Parents Can Teach and Get Respect” and “Talking to Teens about Love and Sex,” were chosen by Psychology Today editors as “essential reads” for parents.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was elected to serve a five-year term on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sexuality Studies Executive Committee. She also gave a presentation on LGBTQ+ kinship narratives at the annual MLA Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Karen Downey and senior Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, authored a paper with senior Matthew Ellis, to be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.
Charles Yaple
Charles Yaple, professor emeritus of recreation, parks and leisure studies, has a new book titled The 'Tree' of Us: Richford Boys Who Changed the World and What They Left Behind, a deeply personal narrative mixing biography, history and memoir to encourage the furtherance of a land ethic as envisioned by famed ecologist Aldo Leopold. Available on Amazon, the story follows the lives of three men, from the steeply forested hills of Richford, N.Y., who changed the world. Retired after 46 years teaching environmental and outdoor education courses, Yaple also is a co-founder, first board president and long-time director of the Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture in Cortland.