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Associate professor Kimberly Wilkinson (Occupational Therapy) and alumni Jules Doliscar (Occupational Therapy '16) with co-author Laura Figuero (Outdoor Kids OT, Berkeley, CA), published "From Stick Forts to Snowmen: Exploring the Benefits of Outdoor Play in Pediatric Occupational Therapy Practice" in the journal OT Practice.

The article examines the benefits of outdoor play for children and provides practical strategies for how occupational therapists can use outdoor play in pediatric occupational therapy sessions.

Professor Barney Beins gave an invited presentation at the Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology.  The presentation with Shawn Gallagher of Millersville University of Pennsylvania was entitled Online Psychology Laboratory: Teaching During the Pandemic and Beyond.

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Do you have women in your life who have been essential to your personal growth? This is your chance to recognize them as part of a special event to wrap up the 2021 Women Leaders Series at Ithaca College. 

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The Department of Art History is pleased to announce that two faculty—Professor Jennifer Jolly and Assistant Professor Risham Majeed—have published essays in this March 2021 issue of the Art Bulletin, the flagship journal of the discipline of Art History and its professional organization, the College Art Association.

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Dr. Skott Jones, Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, co-authored a study (“Job Satisfaction of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists in New York State as a Function of Workplace Features”) with three alumni who recently graduated from the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology program: 

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Psychology Professor Jeffrey Holmes recently published a research article entitled The Bad Test-taker Identity in the journal Teaching of Psychology.

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Associate professor Kimberly Wilkinson (Occupational Therapy) and alumni Jules Doliscar (Occupational Therapy '16) with co-author Laura Figuero (Outdoor Kids OT, Berkeley, CA), published "From Stick Forts to Snowmen: Exploring the Benefits of Outdoor Play in Pediatric Occupational Therapy Practice" in the journal OT Practice.

The article examines the benefits of outdoor play for children and provides practical strategies for how occupational therapists can use outdoor play in pediatric occupational therapy sessions. 

The We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media national touring exhibition is currently running for six weeks at the University of Colorado at Boulder. All six programs in the exhibition will be screened, with one program each week, with invited featured makers and the programmers. 

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Ithaca College's Graphic Novel Advisory Board presented "Reading in Color: Expanding Representation Using Graphic Novels" at the Ithaca Loves Teachers event on Feb. 19, 2021.

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Current and former Biochemistry and Chemistry students along with faculty mentor Scott Ulrich published a paper titled “Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Transition-State Analogs as Inhibitors of the Bacterial Quorum Sensing Autoinducer Synthase CepI” in the journal Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

The paper describes the discovery of drug-like molecules that interfere with a signaling system used by bacteria to coordinate group behaviors. These behaviors include virulence in some bacteria that are human pathogens, so this signaling system is an antibacterial drug target. The students showed that their molecules inhibit the signal-producing enzyme, and they are investigating the effects the molecules have on the bacterial behaviors the signal controls.

The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2021.127873

Assistant Professor Juan Arroyo recently published a book review for the Institute for European Union Studies at SUNY. Dr. Arroyo uses the book in his courses on the European Union, and draws from that experience in this critical analysis of the book.

Book Review of Nugent, N. The Government and Politics of the European Union,  8th edn, Macmillan Higher Education/Red Globe Press, 2017.  (Juan Arroyo, February 23, 2021)

The review can be found here:

https://ieuss.multistg.buffalostate.edu/2021

Professor Arroyo is one of the many faculty affected by APP faculty firings.

Last week four finance seniors (Kiera Peterson - team captain, John Debbie, Ian Kocis, and John Cassette), competed in the CFA Research Challenge within the Western New York region.  The team gave a 10-minute oral presentation on National Fuel Gas (NYSE: NFG) followed by a 10-minute Q&A session. This was preceded by months of research and the submission of a written report. The Western New York region consists of nine other schools and was broken into two brackets.  Ithaca placed second in our bracket (earning $100 gift certificates for each team member), falling to the eventual Region winner. 

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 Dr. Christopher House, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, has been named a 2021-2023 Hooks Academic Research Fellow at The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. 

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Mary Ann Rishel, Prof Emerita, Writing, has published an article, “Humor and Satire:  greater than the sum of their parts…and more,” in the book,  Teaching Writing with Humor, Kishor Vaidya, ed., University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia, spring 2021.

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Professor Yvette Sterbenk (Strategic Communications) with co-authors Sara Champlain (University of North Texas), Kasey Windels (University of Florida) and Summer Shelton (University of Idaho) published "Is Femvertising the New Greenwashing? Examining Corporate Commitment to Gender Equality" in the Journal of Business Ethics.

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Psychology Professor Barney Beins has published the third edition of his book Effective Writing in Psychology: Papers, Posters, and Presentation.

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Alex Paredes-Ruiz, a senior who is majoring in history and theater arts management, has published on the response to the pandemic in Florida as a part of a special issue of the CUSLAR Newsletter (Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations).  The special issue is on "Covid-19 in the Americas: Inequalities, Response, and Impact."

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Janak Judd (Psychology BS, 2021), Patricia Burkins (Psychology BA, 2021), and Professor Leigh Ann Vaughn (Psychology) presented "The Language of Regulatory focus" at the Annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The conference was virtual this year. The poster is publicly available here: osf.io/hwk9t/

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Leigh Ann Vaughn, Chase Garvey (Psychology BA, 2021), and Rachael Chalachan (Psychology BA, 2021) presented "Need support and regulatory focus in responding to COVID-19" at the Annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The conference was virtual this year. The poster is publicly available here, and the poster links to the published article: osf.io/afu6k/

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Cory Brown’s poem "Friday the 13th" was published in the literary journal december.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YYLm9zYG32nqjr50YXdrpoE4XvHUh8qY/view?usp=sharing

Also, Taiwanese poet and critic Ruey-shan Chen, professor of poetry at the National University of Kaohsiung, has published the fourth and final installment of his critical analysis of Brown's work, in the Taiwanese literary journal The Vineyard Poetry Quarterly. The other three installments were published in 2020. The analysis includes the translation of several of Brown's poems, written from 1983 to 2019.

Brown's fifth book of poems, A Long Slow Climb, is due out next month, a series of lyrical responses to the pandemic based on Dante's Divine Comedy.