Mary Gfeller
Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, presented at the 2015 Professional Development Schools National Conference held March 5-8 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “Co-Teaching and Special Education in Secondary Science and Mathematics Classrooms.” Findings were from the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) funded Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Program.
Tracy A. Trachsler and Raymond J. Cotrufo
Tracy A. Trachsler and Raymond J. Cotrufo, Sport Management Department, received notice that their article, “National Collegiate Academic Association: The Implications of Increased NCAA Oversight of Academics,” will be published in the Journal of Contemporary Athletics. The paper discussed recent academic scandals with an emphasis on events at the University of North Carolina, where student-athletes, over a period of several years, were enrolled in “paper classes” with limited oversight from faculty. Since some have proposed increased involvement by the NCAA in academic affairs on member campuses as a way to prevent occurrences of academic impropriety, this paper outlines some of the far-reaching effects of such an action.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had a United States patent issued on July 25. Patent number 8,227,561 “Bisphenol-A replacement materials” deals with safer alternatives to a common consumer plastic. The patent was developed based on research that Phelan is currently doing with industrial partners.
Lawrence Klotz
Lawrence Klotz, Biological Sciences Department, recently had his article, “Factors Driving the Metabolism of Two North Temperate Ponds,” published in Hydrobiologia: The International Journal of Aquatic Science. The journal’s cover image was selected to highlight Klotz’s article.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored an article in the latest issue of Local Environment titled “Drivers of local people’s participation in sustainable natural resource management: a case study in central Iran.”
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, co-authored a paper that was published in May in Science magazine titled “Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean.” The multi-institution collaboration project with lead authors from Syracuse University is detailed in this news release.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, has learned that her poem, “Things That Go Bump and Smile in the Night,” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, had a new article, “Challenging the American Dream: The New Journalism and Its Precursors,” published in Witnessing the Sixties: A Decade of Change in Journalism and Literature, which is volume 51 of the Groningen Studies in Cultural Change series published by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The article examines how the American New Journalism of the 1960s subverted the cultural shibboleth and cliché of the American Dream. The series is published by the academic publisher Peeters of Louvain, Belgium.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at two conferences in late July. She participated in a panel discussion, “Comics on Campus: Fandom + Academia,” in the educational track of the San Diego Comic Con-International on July 23. Also, she presented a co-authored paper, “Letters and Lace: Male Call and its Readers,” with Dr. Daniel Yezbick, St. Louis Community College, Wildwood, at the annual convention of the Comics Studies Society held July 29 at Michigan State University. Earlier in the summer, it was announced that Dr. Knopf is now a co-editor of the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies book series.
Anna Curtis
Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “Little Me versus My Princess: Prisoners’ Gendered Expectations for Fathering” at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems held Aug. 21-23 in Chicago.