Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, presented her research on the leaking pipeline of women sport leaders at the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) held in early June in New Orleans, La.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, presented a paper, “Group Sex,” for a panel on Sex and Form at the Modern Language Association Conference iin January n Philadelphia, Pa. Also, she chaired a roundtable on “Queer Relationalities.”
Karen Downey and Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and senior student researcher Matthew Ellis, presented their work, “Density Functional Theory Modeling for Design of Group 10-based Metallo-organic Catalysts,” at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 10 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, participated in a panel discussion titled, “Care Protesting Care Protesting” held Sept. 28 at the Kunstal Charlottenborg at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. During her tenure at the Kunstal Charlottenborg, she attended the exhibition “Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age” and took part in follow-up lectures and discussions.
In October, Kaltefleiter discussed her research on “Do-It-Yourself Media Campaigns” with colleagues at the Copenhagen University and Aalborg University in Denmark.
Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry, Neovox project director, was selected to be a judge for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Book Prize. The article announcing the contest and its judges can be found online.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a chapter in the edited collection LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media from Palgrave Macmillan (Dec. 2018). The chapter, “Out of the Frame: How Sports Media Shapes Trans Narratives,” analyzes media coverage of transgender participation in sports and discusses how the constructed narratives narrowly shape cultural understandings of trans athletes.
Brice Smith
Brice Smith, Physics Department, and his partner Melissa Kemp, won fourth place as a couple in the Individual category of the 2015 People’s Choice “Signs of Sustainability” poll for their work in promoting Tompkins County’s transition to clean renewable energy. Sustainable Tompkins conducted the online poll from March 23 to April 8. Community members were asked to nominate those they believe made a contribution in the past year toward making a more sustainable and just community. Nominees and the top vote getters were announced at the annual Earth Day Ithaca celebration on April 19.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, had her manuscript “A Social Marketing Intervention to Prevent Drowning Among Inner-City Youth,” accepted for publication in the journal Health Promotion Practice. Also, her oral presentation, “Building your Health Advocacy Toolkit: Tactics for the Trenches,” was accepted for presentation at the 2017 Health Education Advocacy Summit to be held Oct. 21 to 23 in Washington, D.C. In addition, Blavos had an oral presentation, “To CHES or CPH? The Future of Credentialing in Public Health,” and a poster presentation, “Health Related Risk Behaviors and Health Outcomes Among Cannabis Users,” accepted for presentation at the American Public Health Association 2017 meeting Nov. 4 to 8 in Atlanta, Ga.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, coauthored a paper titled “Planetary Embryo Bow Shocks as a Mechanism for Chondrule Formation,” that was accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
Also, Morris was formally appointed as adjunct faculty in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, facilitating her ongoing collaborations with this major research university.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, is a member of the team from the Society for Public Health Education that developed this year’s Toolkit for National Health Education Week, planned for Oct. 15-19. This year’s theme, “Adolescent Health: Planting Seeds for a Healthier Generation,” focuses on the “importance of promoting and establishing healthy behaviors among our nation’s youth.” Toolkits will be available in mid-September at www.sophe.org.