David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, received a very favorable review of his book in the summer edition of the International Dyslexia Association periodical Perspectives on Language and Literacy. His book, Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley & Sons, 2015) was published by Wiley & Sons in October 2015. The reviewer stated that the book “represents one of the most potent linkages between science and educational practice available to us now.” Also, Kilpatrick was an invited presenter for the Indiana Association of School Psychologists fall conference on Sept. 22. The presentation was titled “Recent Advances in Understanding Reading Difficulties: Assessment, Prevention, and Highly Successful Interventions.”
Hilary Izatt
Hilary Izatt, Political Science Department, has been informed that her article, “Asymmetry of Power and Attention in Alliance Relations: The US-ROK Case,” has been accepted for publication in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, to be published in 2016. Izatt co-authored the article with Gi Wook Shin and Renni Moon.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “Gun Law History in the U.S. and Second Amendment Rights,” at a conference on The Second Amendment: Legal and Policy Issues, held at the New York University Law School on April 8 in New York City. The conference was co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice.
Lisa Czirr and Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan
Lisa Czirr and Jenifer Sigafoes Phelan, Memorial Library, recently published a chapter, “Empowering Future Educators: A Spiral-Based Information Literacy Curriculum,” in Libson, Scott P., et al. Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework. Edited by Scott P. Libson and Malia Willey, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2025.
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Emmanuel S. Nelson, English Department, is the editor of the recently published Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. It is a revised, updated version of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature that he edited in 2005.
Caroline Kaltefleiter and undergraduate student Karmelisha Alexander
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, and Karmelisha Alexander, communication studies undergraduate student who served as first author, had their paper “(Self)Care and Community: Black Girls Saving Themselves” accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited collection titled, Black Girls and Black Girlhood. The collection is edited by Aria Halliday, University of New Hampshire, and will be published by Canadian Scholars’/Women’s Press in Toronto.
Deborah Seipp
Deborah Seipp, a Fall 2022 graduate international student from the German Sport University in Cologne, lectured in a spring 2022 physical education class on the European sport of team handball. In April she traveled with the new men’s handball team and several women, who joined the Ohio States women’s team, to the 2023 USA Team Handball Collegiate National Championships in Ohio, where she coached the team and also competed herself. Seipp personally captured the Top Scorer Award, the All-American All-Star Team Award and the USATH Academic All-Americans 2022-2023 Award for academic performance.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, was an invited panelist at the “Finding Your Path” workshop held by the American Chemical Society on Campus April 21 at Binghamton University.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, gave a talk to middle/high school students and teachers about “Ecological Justice and the 9 Planetary boundaries” at the sixth annual Central New York Youth Climate Summit held Feb. 11 at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Katie Ducett
In August, Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and the entire State of the Art Executive Committee were honored by the National Down Syndrome Congress with the Organization of the Year award at their annual Big Game Ball in Atlanta, Georgia.
Katie also accepted the Megan Cartier Early Career Scholar Award in October at the SOTA Conference in Syracuse, N.Y.