Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, was invited to write a monthly blog titled “Raising Kind Kids” for Psychology Today. The request was in response to Lickona’s How to Raise Kind Kids book (Penguin, 2018).
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was awarded a Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies with the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney. In February, she traveled to the University of Sydney and taught a seminar on “Queer Relationality” as part of the Hunt-Simes Institute for Sexuality Studies, which ran from Feb. 19 to March 1.
Benjamin Wilson
Benjamin Wilson, Economics Department, co-presented at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in June in San Antonio, Texas. He and Kevin Kennedy, managing director at The Center for Environmental Health at Children’s Mercy Hospital, presented “Mapping Health and Housing: Using Community Wide Data to Investigate Environmental Exposure Risks.”
Daniel Harms
Daniel Harms, Library, presented at the Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World Conference in July at St. Anne's College, Oxford, England. He presented “Hell and Faerie: Differentiation of Fairies and Demons within Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period."
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, co-authored an article that was published in December in Health Communication, one of the leading journals in this field. The article is titled “Promoting Mental Health on Social Media: A Content Analysis of Organizational Tweets.”
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, reviewed two manuscripts for publication in the Labor Studies Journal. The two articles were “Unintended consequences of Nevada’s Ninety Percent Prevailing Wage Rule,” and “Prevailing Wages, Side by Side Bids and School Construction Costs.”
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented his paper along with Jim Hordern, University of Bath, UK, titled “Towards Powerful Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education in the USA and England: Reframing the Foundations” at the Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education (KOSS) Symposium on powerful educational knowledge. Barrett presented virtually at the hybrid event in October, which was based at the University of London’s Institute of Education.
Mechthild Nagel,
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented on Ubuntu Philosophy at a forum sponsored by the Critical Jurist Association of Frankfurt University, on June 11 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her article published in the journal Theory in Action. The article “Dive In: Transformative Education, Direct Action, and Innovative Media Strategies in an (Inter)Collegiate Partnership to Save a Community Pool” highlights an innovative media campaign, design choices and digital media used for capacity building, critical reflection and social justice.
Jamie Dangler and Dan Harms
Jamie Dangler and Dan Harms, Memorial Library, were part of a panel presentation titled “Promotion and Tenure: The Rebooted Bootcamp” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. They joined five other SUNY librarians in a discussion of demystify the stressful process of promotion and tenure.