Isabelle Bichindaritz, an associate professor of biomedical informatics and director of biomedical informatics programs, was part of a team that made a breakthrough that can increase the odds of surviving breast cancer. Recently published in the Molecular Oncology journal, “ABI1-based expression signature predicts breast cancer metastatis and survival” explains the findings around a gene that correlates with the most aggressive types of cancer and lowest survival rates –- and could offer support for a new treatment. Read full story.
Two modern languages and literatures faculty members published in the Latin American Literacy Review. Milton Loayza authored “The Bee Lecture: How Amerindian Perspectivism Psychoanalyzed the Western Symbolic Order And its Historicity And Set A Precedent for a New Kind of Politics.” Georgina Whittingham published “Art as Advocacy: Protecting the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment in Amanda Keller Konya's ‘Specimens.’"
Jaclyn Schildkraut of the criminal justice faculty co-authored "Effects of Lockdown Drills on Students’ Fear, Perceived Risk and Use of Avoidance Behaviors: A Quasi-Experimental Study" in Criminal Justice Policy Review with Amanda Nickerson of the University at Buffalo. In addition, Schildkraut and alumnus Jacob Sheingold co-authored “Understanding More Than 50 Years of Mass Public Shootings as a Function of Routine Activities” in Homicide Studies. Co-authors on this piece H. Jaymi Elsass and Mark C. Stafford, both of Texas State University. Now a student at Albany Law School, Sheingold participated in this project while an Oswego student research assistant for Schildkraut. In addition, Schildkraut co-authored “Armed and considered capable? Law enforcement officers’ attitudes about armed teacher policies in the USA” in Crime Prevention and Community Safety with H. Martin Martaindale, also of Texas State University.
Communication studies faculty member Jason Zenor published "A Private Practice? Commercial Speech, Public Accommodation, and Individual Dignity" recently in Elon Law Review. The article examines the issues of same-sex couples being denied professional services by public businesses who claim to have religious exemption. The article attempts to resolve the issue by seeking a balance between free expression rights and public accommodation through a lower level of protected speech by licensed professionals. The legal test would look at the forum, control and perception of the message. The paper previously was accepted to the 2020 National Communication Association Virtual Conference on the top paper panel for Freedom of Expression Division.
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