Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, has been awarded a Community News Champion Fellowship Grant from the University of Vermont. She is one of 33 fellows representing 21 different states. Her grant focuses on expanding the production of radio programs/podcasts at local audiences. She will serve as the executive producer and host of a new public affairs show that will feature local officials, along with area journalists and student reporters across campus media. The program will be aired on WSUC-FM and will be archived as a podcast and available on various streaming sites.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article, “Averaging Trials Versus Averaging Trial Peaks: Impact on Statistical Tests,” that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics. The paper addressed the methodological issue in biomechanics of how to select peaks from time series data. The authors demonstrated, through experimental data and phase shifted sine waves, that peaks are significantly underestimated when selected from an average profile.
Keith Newvine
Keith Newvine, Literacy Department, in collaboration with Sarah Fleming, was awarded a grant from the Abolitionist Teaching Network, which awards grants to those who strive to disrupt inequalities and injustice within their schools, communities or both. The funds will be used to purchase class sets of young adult texts written by and about people of color that are loaned to school districts in Onondaga County and Cortland County to introduce and reinforce the Abolitionist Teaching Network’s commitment to culturally and historically responsive education. After students and teachers engage in this antiracist literacy work, students will become Antiracist Ambassadors who engage in courageous conversations with students and educators from other high schools in Onondaga and Cortland County about the ways in which white supremacy is demystified, dismantled, and decentered in these texts and amplify the culturally sustaining and joyful counternarratives written by these authors and realized by these texts.
Katherine M. Polasek, Larissa True, Erik Lind, Joy L. Hendrick and Patrick R. Boerner ‘13
Katherine M. Polasek, Larissa True, Erik Lind and Joy L. Hendrick, all from the Kinesiology Department, and Patrick R. Boerner ‘13, had their paper titled “Is What You See What You Get? Perceptions of Personal Trainers’ Competence, Knowledge, and Preferred Sex of Personal Trainer Relative to Physique” published in the July issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Joshua A. Peck and Claire Toal
Joshua A. Peck, Psychology Department, and his undergraduate research assistant Claire Toal were selected as Cortland delegates to represent SUNY Cortland at the SUNY-wide Innovative Exploration Forum: Undergraduate Research in New York State’s Public Higher Education System in Albany. The conference is designed to bring together some of SUNY’s most talented undergraduate scholars with SUNY administration officials and members of the New York state legislative delegation and their office staff. Peck and Toal will present to members of the state legislature and SUNY administrators on how Environmental Enrichment reduces stress-induced relapse in ethanol-addicted rats.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, attended the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, held in State College, Pa., from July 29 through Aug. 2. While there, she presented her innovations in the pedagogy of physical chemistry.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored an article in the current volume of Rangelands titled “Application of Vulnerability Assessment to a Grazed Rangeland: Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework.”
JoEllen Bailey
JoEllen Bailey, Physical Education Department, presented “Assisting Teacher Candidates through Professional Puberty,” at the National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference on April 28 at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading International Conference held July 13-15 in St. Pete Beach, Fla. The paper was titled “Storage of Rime-Based Sub-Word Orthographic Units in Children and Adults: Evidence from a Pseudo-Rime Task.”
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, represented the Society for Public Health Education at the “Developing Health Literacy Skills in Youth” workshop convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in November in Washington, D.C. In October, Hodges’ American School Health Association (ASHA) Committee on Research Translation facilitated a pre-conference workshop for school health practitioners as part of ASHA’s annual meeting.