Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, is on the board of directors for the National Health Education honorary, Eta Sigma Gamma, as the director of advocacy. She serves as a voting delegate for the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations and was involved in planning the 50th anniversary celebration that was held on March 30 in Denver, Colo. Also, she was appointed co-chair for the national awards committee for the Society for Public Health Education. And, Blavos recently had her article, “Marijuana and College Students: A Critical Review of the Literature,” published in the American Journal of Health Education, currently posted online.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, and E.L. McCallum of Michigan State University, will co-edit a book titled After Queer Studies: Literary Theory and Critical Interpretation. Their book is now under contract with Cambridge University Press. The volume maps the literary influences that made queer theory's academic emergence possible and charts the trajectories that shape its continued evolution.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will perform in the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s production of “Richard II: The Death of Kings” from Friday, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 15 and on Thursday, Feb. 19 through Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Hangar Theatre.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk on, “Live By History, Die By History: The Second Amendment, Heller, and Gun Policy,” on Oct. 18 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Chris Badurek
Chris Badurek, Geography Department, was awarded a 2020 Love of Learning Award on Sept. 1 from the Phi Kappa Honor Society for his project “At Work in the Wild: Developing Virtual Field Trips in the Adirondacks.” Funding will support development of virtual field trips focusing on significant environmental and cultural features in the Adirondack landscape using digital video and web mapping tools. The field trips will be used in teaching and research focused on sustainable development of the Adirondack region.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, spent his spring break doing professional development for teachers regarding the research on improving the reading skills of students with dyslexia for two state departments of education. He was in Ohio on March 13 and Virginia on March 20.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, has won the 2022 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States for her book Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China, recently published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented a paper at the conference of the Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO), held Oct. 20-24 in New York City. The paper analyzed the neobaroque aesthetic of Spanish classical plays produced recently at New York’s Repertorio Español. Gascón also served on the organizing committee for the conference, which was attended by approximately 150 scholars of Spanish Golden Age drama from all over the world.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently had her chapter titled “TransGerman Experiences in Southern Brazil: The Stutzer Family in Blumenau, 1885-1887” published in the book Becoming TransGerman: Cultural Identity Beyond Geography.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, Cabel McCandless '21 and Christopher Aiken of New Mexico State University had their article titled "Postural stability in trail and cross-country runners: Time-to-boundary metrics and training insights" published in the International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. Their work highlights unique postural control profiles among a cross-sectional sample of healthy adults, collegiate runners, and trail runners.