Gillian Mertens
Gillian Mertens, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Evidence of Strategic Information Literacy Practices in Early Career Teachers’ Navigation of Teachers Pay Teachers” published Nov. 12 in Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.
Katherine M. Polasek, Erik Lind, John Foley and Dan Jones '15, MS
Katherine M. Polasek and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, and John Foley, Physical Education Department, recently had their manuscript, “The Relationship of Sex and Sport Skill Type on Imagery Use among Division III Athletes,” published in the Journal of Sport Behavior. The manuscript was co-authored by former exercise science graduate student Dan Jones, ’15, MS, exercise science.
Terrence Fitzgerald
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is the author of an article titled “Phelypera distigma Un charançon processionnaire” (A processionary weevil) appearing in the current issue of the French magazine Insectes. Eleven of Fitzgerald’s photographs accompany the article, which was translated by the editors of the publication from an English language version appearing on the author’s website “Social Caterpillars.” The original studies of the larva, the only weevil known to form head-to-tail processions, were conducted in the Guanacaste, Costa Rica and Jalisco, Mexico as a collaborative effort between the author, James Costa ’85 of Western Carolina University, Alfonso Pescador of the University of Colima in Mexico, Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Turna ’03, who recently completed an advanced degree in the chemical ecology of host selection behavior of the eastern tent caterpillars at Binghamton University.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, had three of his poems featured on WSKG Public Broadcasting’s “Off the Page” Poetry Month celebration.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, had his article, “Environmental enrichment induces early heroin abstinence in an animal conflict model,” published in the recent issue of Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. The findings suggest that environmental enrichment is an effective treatment strategy to support heroin abstinence in heroin seeking rats. The results may have important implications for human heroin addiction.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, presented two sessions at the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA) conference, held May 22-24 in Lake Placid, N.Y. The first was “Pre-Conference Session for New Professionals,” designed for professionals in the transfer field with one to three years’ experience to discuss trends in higher education, terminology and tips for success. Also, she presented “Let’s Celebrate! Promoting the First Annual National Transfer Student Week on Your Campus.” NYSTAA has been working with the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) to launch the first National Transfer Student Week, which is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 9 through Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Corbin served as president of NYSTAA for the 2016-17 year, and her term concluded at the end of the conference.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, had his book Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience published by The University of Massachusetts Press in January. The volume is a theoretical examination of issues that arose from his earlier A History of American Literary: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form (2000), the first history of the genre of narrative literary journalism.
In related news, an excerpt from Hartsock’s new book was published in the fall issue of the journal Literary Journalism Studies. “The Literature in the Journalism of Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievich” examines the work of the first author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for journalism. Alexievich is a Belorussian literary journalist.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will present two papers at the 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries to be held virtually from Oct. 24 to 28. Her papers are titled “The Autonomous Third Element: Asger Jorn’s Theory of Experimental Creativity” and “Artspotting: Collecting the Ephemeral in 1960s Postwar Art.”
Samantha Moss
Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, presented a research poster, “Home- and Community-Based Interventions in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review,” at the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America national convention held March 28 to April 1 in Seattle, Wash.
Diane H. Craft
Diane H. Craft, Physical Education Department, along with children’s singer/songwriter Vincent, presented the keynote lecture at the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children (MassAEYC) annual statewide conference held March 16-17 in Westford, Mass. Craft also gave two workshops on developmentally appropriate physical activities to the early childhood educators in attendance.