Cynthia J. Benton
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had her chapter, “Is This Your Best Work? Complications and Limitations of Online Instruction for High Quality Student Engagement,” published in November in the Encyclopedia of Education and Technology in a Changing Society.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented a paper titled, “‘Don’t Say It’s Going to Be Okay’: How International Educators Embrace Transformative Education to Support Their Students Navigating Our Global Climate Emergency” at the Comparative and International Education Society conference in April in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also, he presented a paper titled ‘It’s my responsibility’: Perspectives on Environmental Justice and Education for Sustainability among international school students in Singapore” at the American Education Research Association conference in April in San Diego, California.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will have the following poems published in Home Planet News Online #6: “Red Sky at Morning,” “Remembering the Garden” and “Wolf Road and Holy Ground.”
John Suarez
John Suarez, Service-Learning, learned that his book chapter, “Empathy, Action, and Intercultural Competence: A Neurological Rationale for Simulation’s Effectiveness in Developing Intercultural Competence,” was accepted for publication in The Intercultural Horizons Proceedings. The book is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from the Second Annual Horizons Conference, held in October 2012, at SUNY Global Center in New York City. The conference theme was “Intercultural Strategies in Civic Engagement.”
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish in the International Communications and Culture Department, has received the Robert F. McDermott Award for Research Excellence in Humanities from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The McDermott Award is given yearly for outstanding research performed by a member of the USAFA faculty in any area of the social sciences and humanities.
Marley Barduhn
Marley Barduhn, Assistant Provost for Teacher Education Office, has received $1,077,760 for the Migrant Education Outreach Program 2011-12 (MEOP) for the period Sept. 1, 2011, through Aug. 31, 2012.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, organized a three-article forum on basketball, “Excellence in Basketball On and Off the Court,” for the Spring 2011 issue of The Journal of Sport History, a peer-reviewed journal. Her article, “‘Holding Court’: The Real Renaissance Contribution of John Isaacs” was the first of the three articles. The two other articles provided poignant biographies of Holcombe Rucker and Charlotte Lewis. Rayl also wrote the introduction to the forum, “Three People, Three Journeys, Three Legacies.”
Rob Haggar
Rob Haggar, Economics, published, "Housing Insecurity Among Transgender Individuals: Racially Heterogeneous Gender Effects in the Household Pulse Survey," in the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was quoted twice by Sir Jim Rose, who was the Chair of the U.K. Reading Panel, which reviewed the scientific literature on teaching reading and released the Rose Report (2006). His quotes were from David’s book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley, 2015) and written in The Teacher Magazine, a publication for teachers in Australia.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, wrote a book that was released on Sept. 8 by Wiley and Sons. His book is titled Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties.