Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and collaborators had their article, “Positive Impacts of a University Walking Program: A Case Study” published in the Journal of Physical Activity Research. Also, Dames and coauthors from the University of Northern Colorado had their article titled “Obese Adults Walk Differently in Shoes than While Barefoot” published in the journal Gait & Posture.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Bernstein in the urban classroom: A case study” published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Volume 39, Issue 8.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “Gender and the Law,” published in the current issue of Journal of Research in Gender Studies. The article is based on a keynote that she gave in Bucharest for a gender conference last spring, which was chaired by the journal’s editor, Ramona Mihaila.
Jen Drake
Jen Drake, The Learning Center, is co-founder and interim director of the Sharing Technology and Academic Resources-New York (STAR-NY) Consortium. She has been invited to present at the 2021 Association of Colleges for Tutoring and Learning Assistance virtual conference. Her session, Building an Online Tutoring Consortium from the Ground Up: Development of the STAR-NY Consortium, will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, April 23.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk titled, “Gun Laws, History, and the Second Amendment: What Does the Constitution Allow?” on April 17 at Clemson University, South Carolina. He also spoke to a political science class on the relationship between federalism and the gun debate.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Being Born in the Wrong Gender: Thinking about the Availability of Current Transgender Children’s Books,” at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention, held Nov. 18 in St. Louis, Mo.
Paulo Quaglio
Paulo Quaglio, Modern Languages Department, was an invited speaker on March 12 at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey. His talk, titled “The Power of Concordancing in ESL/FL Teaching & Learning: Making the Invisible Visible,” presented techniques used in corpus linguistics to enhance language teaching and learning.
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, Kinesiology Department, was first author on a recently published article, "Agreement Between Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Ultrasound for Measuring Body Composition in Women with Breast Cancer," in online resource PubMed.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Sutton Richmond, University of Florida, had an article published in Human Movement Science. The paper, “Good times, bad times? An evaluation of event detection strategies in time to boundary postural assessments” experimentally determined the effects of four algorithmic procedures for determining points of greatest postural instability during quiet standing. Their findings provide a replicable, objective means of eliminating unrealistic events in the continuous time series, which will increase clinical applicability of time to boundary for future work.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of two recent articles about the consequences of the Las Vegas mass shooting. His article, “America Used to be Good at Gun Control. What Happened?” was published on Oct. 3 by The New York Times.
His article, “An American standoff: How contemporary pro-gun orthodoxy is at odds with the Constitution and U.S. history,” was published Oct. 8 in the New York Daily News.