James Hokanson, Kate Polasek and Larissa True
James Hokanson, Kate Polasek and Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, mentored students who presented at the inaugural SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) on April 10 at The College at Brockport. SURC brings together undergraduate researchers and visual and performing artists as well as their faculty mentors throughout the SUNY and CUNY system for a full day of activities. Adam Lowe ’15, who was mentored by Hokanson, presented “Metabolic Cost of Supported Treadmill Running.” Karen Martinez ’15, who was mentored by Polasek and True, presented “Physical Activity Patterns of Latinos in the Northeast.” Their research was published in the International Journal of Exercise Science.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “The Legal System and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China” and served as a moderator at the panel “Race, Place, & Identity” at the annual conference of New York State Sociological Association held April 16 and 17.
Also, she was invited by Syracuse University to deliver her book talk, “Tongzhi Living: Same Sex Attracted Men in Postsocialist China” on April 27.
Garrett Otto
Garrett Otto, Mathematics Department, recently had his article "Allee effects introduced by density dependent phenology" published in Mathematical Biosciences.
Brice Smith
Brice Smith, Physics Department, is an invited presenter at a public forum titled “New York’s Energy Plan: Scaling Up Renewable Energy or Business as Usual?” being held Wednesday, March 5, in Ithaca, N.Y. The associate professor and former senior scientist at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has focused his work on renewable and sustainable energy systems for more than a decade. The forum will be moderated by Tony Ingraffea, a member of Cornell University’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is free and open to the public.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, had the second edition of his textbook, Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to the Theatre, released by Rowman & Littlefield in March.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, recently was awarded 1.1 million core-hours on one of the supercomputing clusters at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The value of these awarded resources is approximately $40,000. Also, Morris has been asked to become a member of the Science Organizing Committee for the international conference “Chondrules as Astrophysical Objects” to be held May 9-11, 2017, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Also, Morris will give an invited talk at the conference. In addition, Morris presented an invited talk at Cornell University on Sept. 22.
Tim Delaune
Tim Delaune, Political Science Department, was a presenter and panel chair/discussant on multiple panels at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting held March 24 -26 in San Diego, Calif. Delaune presented work in progress on the lessons that can be drawn from films and literature about the American West in regard to ethical policing.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver campus-wide talks at Hamilton College in September and at Columbia University in November on her recent research on self-identified gay men in postsocialist China.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article titled “Graphic Attachment: Relational Formalism and Queer Dependency," published on March 27 in ASAP/J.
David Barclay
David Barclay, geology, recently had a paper titled "Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in Alaska" published in Quaternary Science Reviews. This paper synthesized evidence of ice margin changes in Alaska over the past 10,000 years and appeared in the special volume of similar data for glaciers around the world.