Kaitlin Flannery
Kaitlin Flannery, Psychology Department, was interviewed about her work on friendship dissolutions for a recently published BBC article titled “Downgraded or dissolved: What to do when you break-up with your friends.”
Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, had her chapter, “Browsing with Intent: Digital Information Literacy and Distant Reading Practices,” published in August in The Next Digital Scholar, edited by James P. Purdy and Randall McClure. Her chapter was selected as the featured chapter on the publisher’s website.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her poem “Afternoon Dance” published in haikuniverse on May 4. This micro-poem was selected to be the featured haiku of the day and reflects the social life of residents of a spring garden.
Jim Hokanson and Yomee Lee and Gary Babjack
Jim Hokanson and Yomee Lee, Kinesiology Department, and Gary Babjack, Athletics Department, recently had their manuscript, “Effect of Carbohydrate Ingestion on Blood Glucose Concentration and Women’s Gymnastics Performance,” published in the International Journal of Human Movement Science. The manuscript was co-authored by former exercise science graduate student and assistant gymnastics coach Trisha (Zappala) Rebrovich ’03 exercise science, ’05 MS, exercise science.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, described the new species of mushroom in their article “A new species and a new combination of Rhodophana (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Africa.” It describes Rhodophana flavipes, T. J. Baroni, Daniëls and Hama, a mushroom of the family Entolomataceae, and made the new combination Rhodophana fibulata, (Pegler) T. J. Baroni, Kluting and Daniëls, for a species described in 1977 and still only known from Uganda and Tanzania. Their paper was based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence and published in 2017 in the journal Phytotaxa, volume 306. Only two species of Rhodophana are now known for the entire continent of Africa. Scientists names follow the species names as it is accepted in botanical taxonomy to include the authors of a species, governed by the Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Co-authors were Pablo Daniëls and Felix García-Pantaleón, University of Cordoba, Spain, Oumarou Hama, University of Tahoua, Niger, and Kerri Kluting, Uppsala University, Sweden, Saha Bergemann, Middle Tennessee State University, Moussa Barage and Dahiraou Ibrahinm, Abdou Moumouni University, Niger.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper titled “Tiaras, Tantrums and Toe Shoes: Reality Television Programs that Illuminate Stage Moms & Kiddie Fame” competitively selected for presentation at the January 2012 Annual Hawaiian International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Lawrence’s paper served as discussion for the new trend in reality television that exposes the contemporary version of the age-old stereotypical stage mom. Most of their daughters are filmed crying their way to Warhol’s prophetic “15 minutes of fame.” Exhausted, erratic and overexposed, these girls are often being pushed to perform as young as the age of 18 months. Lawrence focused on how this proliferation of shows reflects a preoccupation in our culture with celebrity at any cost and at any age.
Jeff Walkuski
Jeff Walkuski, Physical Education Department, presented workshops on fitness education for K-12 students for both the Minneapolis public schools and the Woodstock, Ill., public schools outside Chicago.
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Philosophy Department, led two workshops on stress and meditation at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES in Ithaca at the end of March. In early May, he presented at the SUNY Faculty Senate plenary meeting, held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., during the Ethics Forum titled “What’s the Good of SUNY?”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book chapter titled, “Gun Policy Research: Personal Reflections on Public Questions,” in Gun Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice, published by Routledge.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, is a member of the Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) Community College Task Force. The task force recently finished development of curricular templates and suggested course outlines that provide a general framework for community colleges wishing to update or institute associate’s degrees or certificate programs in public health. The report was approved by the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health as part of its “Framing the Future of Public Health” initiative.