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.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, recently attended the 14th annual National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) conference in Atlanta, Ga. She co-presented with Michael Henningsen, Mohawk Valley Community College, on the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA). Their session title was “A State-Wide Transfer Professional Organization: The Good, the Bad, and the Future.” Henningsen currently serves as NYSTAA president, and Corbin serves as president-elect. At the conference, Corbin was awarded the Bonita C. Jacobs Transfer Champion Rising Star award.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department, had a chapter titled “Recording Nonverbal Sounds: Cultivating Rhetorical Ambivalence in Digital Methods,” published in volume one of a WAC Clearinghouse book, Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper titled “Tiaras, Tantrums and Toe Shoes: Reality Television Programs that Illuminate Stage Moms & Kiddie Fame” competitively selected for presentation at the January 2012 Annual Hawaiian International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Lawrence’s paper served as discussion for the new trend in reality television that exposes the contemporary version of the age-old stereotypical stage mom. Most of their daughters are filmed crying their way to Warhol’s prophetic “15 minutes of fame.” Exhausted, erratic and overexposed, these girls are often being pushed to perform as young as the age of 18 months. Lawrence focused on how this proliferation of shows reflects a preoccupation in our culture with celebrity at any cost and at any age.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions Office, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to serve on the New York District Export Council. The council is one of 61 in the nation that brings together experienced international businesspeople who provide support, advice, and assistance to New York companies interested in entering into or expanding into international markets. Langhans was nominated for the position due to his 20 years of international recruitment experience and his 11 years of active involvement with Study New York including serving as chair for three years.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was recently appointed to the editorial board of Sports Marketing Quarterly, a leading sport management journal.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, and John Rennie Short, from the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, are co-authors of “Walking the City: Flânerie and Flâneurs,” in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of the City, due out June 9, 2019.
Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, and two recent biology graduates had their article, “Suitability of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Cells in a Portable Impedance-based Toxicity Sensor: Temperature Mediated Impacts on Long-term Survival,” published in the journal Toxicology in Vitro.
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.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, was recently invited to the United Arab Emirates to serve as an external dissertation examiner. The candidate successfully defended her dissertation “Negotiating the Intersection of Arabic and Anglo-American Literary Journalism: Exploring Possibilities, Challenging Canons.” The dissertation is believed to be the first to examine Arab literary journalism.