Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Distinguished Service Professor of Kinesiology, had the 4th edition of his textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, translated to Japanese. The book was published by Medical Sciences International, Ltd. in Tokyo. Counting this translation and those of previous editions, the book has now been translated into six different languages.
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, along with professor emeritus of Spanish Jean LeLoup, US Air Force Academy, and Mark Warford, Buffalo State College, presented a two-hour workshop/symposium at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Seventh International Conference on Language Teacher Education. They presented “Code-Switching, Cognitions and Communities: Promoting more teacher use of L2,” and specifically addressed implications for teacher training, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ (ACTFL)/National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) standards and implementation at the department level, as well as providing concrete examples of lessons representing strategies for achieving this goal in the high school and college classroom. The symposium, held May 20 in Minneapolis, Minn., presented the research base supporting 90-100 percent of target language use in language classes at all levels as recommended in ACTFL’s position paper.
Terrence Fitzgerald
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, and former students Michael Smith ’11 and Steven Miller ’08, co-authored a paper appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Thermal Biology. “Thermal properties of the tent of early instar colonies of the eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)” is based on a study, conducted over a period of seven years, which shows that on spring mornings the silk tent that the caterpillars construct acts like a miniature green house allowing the caterpillars resting inside to raise their body temperatures far enough above the cold outside temperature to enable digestive processes and growth. Internal tent temperatures as great as 40 degrees Celsius in excess of outside air temperatures were recorded under field conditions in mid-May.
Gokhan Savas
Gokhan Savas, visiting assistant professor of sociology, has had his article, “Understanding Critical Race Theory as a Framework in Higher Educational Research,” accepted for publication in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. In addition, his co-authored article, with Yingyi Ma, titled “Which is More Consequential for Income Disparity: Fields of Study or Institutional Selectivity? — An Investigation on Gender Pay Gap among Recent College Graduates,” was accepted for publication in Review of Higher Education, the flagship journal of Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, made two presentations at the Sport Marketing Association Conference held Nov. 2-4 in Indianapolis, Ind. Also, he co-presented “Corruption’s impact on sport marketing: The case of EA Sports and Ticketmaster’s powerplay against Stubhub.”
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her monograph, “‘what our union once was’: Newly Recovered Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther Lane,” published in the Fall 2021 issue of American Literary Realism.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was invited to submit testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, for a hearing on “‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws: Civil Rights and Public Safety Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force,” held in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17. The hearing was chaired by Subcommittee Chair Dick Durbin.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, presented a concurrent session at the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students annual conference held Feb. 4-6 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “Transfer Credit Services that Support Completion for all Students.”
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, has had two books published recently: the anthology Plays of the American Experience: 25 Scenes for the Classroom and Stage (Meriwether Publishing) and The Woody Allen Encyclopedia (Rowman & Littlefield).
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, professor emerita of English, has been informed that her article, “A `solitary song’: Identity, Agency, and Motherhood in Wharton’s Summer,” has been accepted for publication in American Literary Realism.