Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was a commentator at the annual conference of the German Studies Association held Oct. 8 in Oakland, Calif. She commented on the panel “Wishful Brothers: The Invention of Native Americans in German Literature, Media, and Performance.”
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was the keynote speaker at the annual Arkansas Department of Education Literacy Conference on March 7 in Hot Springs. On March 18, he presented an all-day professional development workshop for the Ohio Valley Chapter of the International Dyslexia Association in Cincinnati. Both presentations were on research on effective interventions for reading difficulties.
Jeremy Jimenez and Miranda Kistner ’23
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Miranda Kistner ’23 had their article “Concerned but Confused: University students’ knowledge and perceptions of climate change, and how they plan to address it in their future personal and professional lives” recently published in the Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement (JoSE).
Xiaoping “Ping” Fan
Xiaoping “Ping” Fan, Physical Education Department, received the Early Career Scholar Award during the closing ceremony at the 2024 International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) Convention held May 13 to 17 at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. The AIESEP Early Career Scholar Award was established in 2001 to recognize early career scholars within the field who have made an outstanding contribution to the field and demonstrate scholarly promise. Also, Ping delivered three presentations at the convention.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, was selected to the SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice Fellows Program.
Ann McClellan
Ann McClellan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented her paper, “‘Oh, Watson, the (Record) Needle!’: Sherlock Holmes and American Jazz,” at the annual Popular Culture Association conference on March 29 in Chicago, Ill. Also, on April 23 she gave a virtual talk for the Groton Public Library in Groton, Mass., on “The Sherlock Holmes You Never Knew: Black American Adaptations, Then and Now.”
Alexander G. Gonzalez and Michele I. Gonzalez
Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, and Michele I. Gonzalez, Literacy Department, received the 2016 Garrison Award, awarded by the Finger Lakes Trail Conference for their efforts to protect via easements public hiking trails that are built on private land.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented a paper on March 30 at the Society for Applied Anthropology in Baltimore, Md. Her paper, titled “Exchanging Memories, Emotions and a Little Cash: Alternative Economic Exchange in the US Garage Sale,” covered extended case studies of garage sale participants who sold items that still retained important emotional value and/or memories. She also addressed how the sellers incorporated their emotional values into the exchange.
Jason Tucker
Jason Tucker, English Department, served on the panel “Balancing Professional Writing with Your Creative Side,” at The Association of Writers and Writing Program’s 2011 AWP Conference on Feb. 4 in Washington D.C.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, had an article accepted by the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. The article, titled “The Matrix: Le sette chiese di Roma of 1575 and the Image of Pilgrimage,” will appear in issue 56, 2011.