Lynn Couturier MacDonald
Lynn Couturier MacDonald, Physical Education Department chair, announced that the department hosted its annual conference in collaboration with The New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (NYS AHPERD) Central North Zone on Jan. 30. More than 180 physical education and health teachers from the local area attended 29 different presentations. The conference was organized with the help of nearly 50 students in the Alliance for Physical Education Majors Club.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had a book chapter titled “Teacher Development, Support, and Training with the iPad” published in Advancing Higher Education with Mobile Learning Technology: Cases, Trends, and Inquiry Based Methods, edited by S. Keengwe and M. Maxfield. It was co-authored by Vicky Zygouris-Coe and Victoria Cardullo.
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented her research on motor speech disorder in a platform paper presentation at the 19th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders and Motor Speech Control on Feb. 24 in Savannah, Ga. Her paper, “Temporal differences in a quasi-speech task: A comparison of highly intelligible speakers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and neurologically intact speakers,” was well received.
This is an international conference organized by Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the nation's foremost providers for medical and physical rehabilitation for adults and children. The conference focuses on injury or disease processes affecting neuromuscular control of speech such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, and birth defects. Relevant topics included experimental studies of sensory or motor function in the pulmonary, laryngeal, velopharyngeal and orofacial systems of persons with motor speech disorders, diagnostic evaluation or treatment of disrupted intelligibility, speech naturalness, voice, articulation and prosody in motor speech disorders in children and adults, as well as advances in uses of neuroimaging to support treatment effect.
Daniel Radus
Daniel Radus, English Department, was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a 212-year-old national research library and community of learners dedicated to discovering and sharing a deeper understanding of the American past. The more than 1,100 members from the U.S. and five other countries include scholars, collectors, librarians, artists, writers and history enthusiasts. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the American Antiquarian Society holds the world’s largest and most accessible collection of original printed, handwritten, and visual sources from before 1900 in what is now the United States. The library of over four million items includes books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, children's literature, music and graphic arts material.
Ashley Crossway
Ashley Crossway, Kinesiology Department, coauthored a research article recently published in the Athletic Training Education Journal. It is titled “Program Directors’ and Athletic Training Students’ Educational Experiences Regarding Patient-Centered Care and Transgender Patient Care.”
Stephen Halebsky
Stephen Halebsky, Sociology/Anthropology Department, wrote the chapter on “Big Box Stores” for the recently published The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing. His contribution had been solicited by the editors.
Susan Peterson
Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, had her article, “Race, Labor and the Economic Possibilities of Women in Colonial Latin America,” published in the Winter 2011 edition of the Journal of Intercultural Disciplines. The National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies publishes the journal.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had some of his poetry nominated for a Pushcart Award. The poems were nominated by Coco Harris, editor of IMPACT: An anthology of short memoirs. The poems are also in his upcoming book Approaching Home, from Finishing Line Press.
Brittany LaVaute and Saige Hupman
Brittany LaVaute and Saige Hupman, Kinesiology Department graduate students, were invited to present their abstracts as oral presentations at the American College of Sports Medicine conference Nov. 6-7 in Harrisburg, Pa. Hupman authored “Caloric Expenditure of Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Running.” LaVaute wrote “Perceived Exertion and Affective Responses During Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Running.” Co-authors on both papers were Kinesiology Department faculty members James F. Hokanson, Deborah Van Langen, Erik Lind and Larissa True.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, presented a poster at the 2020 American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics conference titled “Overview of measurements from the Wendelstein 7-X phase contrast imaging diagnostic and plans for the OP2 campaign.”