Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter
Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter, Memorial Library, presented at the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Conference 2017 in May at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. They presented “Technical Metamorphosis by Design.”
Kevin Dames and Aaron Jones
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Aaron Jones, grad student, helped physics classes from Cortland High School visit the Biomechanics Laboratory in the Professional Studies Building for National Biomechanics Day. The high schoolers learned how to apply principles from their physics education, like free body diagrams, action-reaction, force and torque, to a human problem: postural control.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, contributed a chapter titled “Sports Administration: Heteronormative Presents, Queer Futures” in the recent collection Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport: Queer Inquiries, published by Routledge. The chapter uses queer theory and cultural studies to explore the current climate of athletics departments and imagine future, more inclusive environments for sports administrators. The chapter was co-written with Dr. Nefertiti Walker of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and his co-authors recently had two articles published on the state of labor negotiations in the National Hockey League. “Don Fehr Trades His Ball For A Puck: Will He Continue To Score?” was published in the Villanova Sport & Entertainment Law Journal. “Trying His Luck at Puck: Examining the MLBPA’s History to Determine Don Fehr’s Motivation for Agreeing to Lead the NHLPA and Predicting How He Will Fare” was published in the Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal.
Xiaoping “Ping” Fan
Xiaoping “Ping” Fan, Physical Education Department, will be honored at the 2024 International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) Convention with the AIESEP Early Career Scholar Award. Ping will deliver three presentations at the convention, set for May 13 to 17 at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.
Barbara A. Barton
Barbara A. Barton, Health Department, was awarded an exemplary rating from the BlackBoard Exemplary Course Program for her online graduate course, HLH 593, Methods and Practices in Community Health. The Exemplary Course Program recognizes instructors whose courses demonstrate best practices in four major areas: course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment, and learner support. Submitted courses are evaluated by peer reviewers, and to receive an exemplary award, all standards must be met or exceeded.
Bonni C. Hodges and Lindsey Darvin
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, and Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, served as co-editors of a special issue of the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience focused on NCAA Division 3.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was named a Boren Merit Review Panelist by the Institute of International Education and the National Security Agency, Washington D.C. Between Feb. 26 and March 1, the panel reviewed 27 National Security Education Program Merit Fellowship applications and selected finalists for the Africa Region Boren Fellowships for 2017. Serving on the panel with Asumah were Kelly O’Brien from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Lynn Westley from Lake Forest University.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was invited to write a guest foreword, “Rethinking African Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century” which is published in a new volume of the Value Inquiry Book Series. The book, Postethnophilosophy, is authored by Sanya Osha, a professor of philosophy and a research fellow at Tshwane University, Pretoria, South Africa. The book was published by Edition Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Philosophy Department, wrote the editorial foreword for this book.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Central New York Career Development Association (CNYCDA) Student Success Champion Award at the CNYCDA annual meeting on June 2 in Dundee, N.Y. Wright is a career coach and educator. The award recognizes one professional in a 10-campus consortium for moving the industry of career development forward and promoting individual and group student success through student-centered programming.