Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, is a member of the Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) Community College Task Force. The task force recently finished development of curricular templates and suggested course outlines that provide a general framework for community colleges wishing to update or institute associate’s degrees or certificate programs in public health. The report was approved by the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health as part of its “Framing the Future of Public Health” initiative.
Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, were invited as consultants to train close to 300 professionals on Nov. 7 at Arlington High School in LaGrangeville, N.Y. The workshop focused on difficult dialogues and implicit bias.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program and Clark Center for Global Engagement, gave the keynote address titled “Reflections on Twenty Years in Conflict Resolution” at the fourth edition of the Crisis Communication and Conflict Resolution Conference held April 17-18 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Approximately 50 scholars from 20 universities in the United States, Turkey, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, France, Poland, China and Romania presented at the conference.
Jennifer Parker, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong
Jennifer Parker, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, gave a virtual presentation at the State University of New York Librarians Association on June 18. They presented “Enhancing campus relationships: Building a more collaborative institutional repository.”
Cynthia Benton, Orvil White and Susan Stratton
Cynthia Benton, Orvil White and Susan Stratton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, wrote a chapter that was published in International Education and the Next-Generation Workforce: Competition in the Global Economy, V.C.X. Wang, Ed. Their chapter describes the development of the Teach in Thailand program and is titled “Collaboration Not Competition: International Education Expanding Perspective on Learning and Workforce Articulation.”
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, was the plenary speaker at the annual conference of the Alabama World Languages Association on Feb. 3 at Auburn University. Her talk, “Language and Culture in the Classroom: Are YOU on Target?” stressed the importance of teaching and using in the target language 90 percent plus of the time in all foreign language classrooms. She also gave a talk on FLTEACH, the Foreign Language Teaching Forum, an online resource she has co-moderated for 24 years with her colleague, Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book chapter titled, “Gun Policy Research: Personal Reflections on Public Questions,” in Gun Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice, published by Routledge.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, was appointed to the International Advisory Board of Culture and Development International and the International Conference on Africana Culture and Development (ICACD), Accra, Ghana.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, had a peer-reviewed paper titled “A new species of Phlebopus (Boletales, Basidiomycota) from Mexico” published in North American Fungi, issue 10, 2015. Phlebopus is a relative of the highly sought after porcini mushrooms (boletes) of culinary fame. In addition to describing this new tropical species of bolete, a phylogenetic analysis using RNA genes is provided, a brief overview of the economic importance of Phlebopus in the new world tropics is presented and an identification key of all known species of Phlebopus reported from the Americas is included for use by future investigators. Co-authors included Joaquin Cifuentes of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Beatriz Ortiz Santana of the USDA- Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wis., and Silvia Cappello from Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and colleagues Ray Cotrufo and Matt Kastel, had the article “Evaluating the evaluators: Developing an instrument to assess a baseball scout’s effectiveness” published in the Review of Management Innovation and Creativity.