Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had her article titled “Do the CCSS Support Developmentally Responsive Teaching of Young Adolescents?” published in volume 34 of the American Reading Forum Yearbook.
Cheryl Hines
Cheryl Hines ’05, Advisement and Transition, was recently elected secretary of the National Alpha Sigma Lambda board of directors and will be serving January 2013 through December 2014. An academic advisor and coordinator of non-traditional student support in Advisement and Transition, Hines has served as the SUNY Cortland chapter councilor for the honor society for six years.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has been invited to co-present and co-facilitate a panel discussion at SUNY Plattsburgh’s “The Value of Community Engagement in Higher Education” set for Wednesday, March 1.
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Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, and coauthors presented their work, “Radiative Cooling Rates in Planetesimal Impact Ejecta,” at the 79th annual meeting of The Meteoritical Society, held Aug. 7-12 in Berlin, Germany.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had a chapter titled “Navigating historical currents: Reflections of a Chinese-born global educator” published in a book, The Power of Oral History Narratives: Lived Experiences of International Global Scholars and Global Artists in their Native Country and After their Immigration to the United States. The book was edited by Toni Kirkwood-Tucker and Frans Doppen and published by Information Age Publishing.
Also, Lin was a leading presenter at the International Assembly of the 103rd National Council for the Social Studies held Nov. 30 through Dec. 3 in Nashville, Tenn.
Marni Gauthier
Marni Gauthier, English Department, had her book, Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction: Counterhistory, published on Oct. 11 by Palgrave MacMillan in the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century series. Linda Wagner-Martin edited the book. Through interpreting the truth, claims of a contemporary historical fiction — beyond postmodernism — on epistemological and narrative bases, Amnesia and Redress identifies a new literary movement as a distinct phenomenon of recent global and national history.
Eileen Gilroy and Jill Toftegaard
Eileen Gilroy and Jill Toftegaard, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, were recently awarded a $100 mini grant from the Central New York Speech Language and Hearing Association (CNYSLHA). The grant is in honor of a past president for CNYSLHA, Sandy Ladd, who passed away in July 2014. As an advocate for individuals with disabilities, Ladd often used creative cooking and craft projects to work on many speech, language and communication goals in small and large groups, often collaboratively with other teachers or staff. CNYSLHA honors her memory by offering mini grants to enable projects or activities that members would typically have to pay for out of pocket.
The funds received will be used for a spring planting project with the clients of Liberty Resources Center for Brain Injury and Rehabilitation in Cortland, N.Y. Communication disorders and sciences graduate students have provided speech/language therapy in social groups throughout this academic year. For this project, the graduate students will work with individuals from the center in planning, cultivating and maintaining a community garden.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, gave a presentation titled, “Public Bills in the Canadian Senate: An Evaluation of Partisanship and Seniority” on Nov. 15 at a seminar hosted by the Center for the Study of Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, presented “Flanerie’s Art and Measure of the Globalizing City” at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in February. In March, she presented an expanded version of the CAA lecture for Shanghai Flaneur, a cultural think tank in Shanghai, China. In addition, her review of the Shanghai Biennale will appear in the Sept./Oct. 2013 issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism.
Kerri Freese
Kerri Freese, Noyce Project coordinator, collaborated with Maritza Macdonald, senior director of education and policy and co-director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program at the American Museum of Natural History, to plan and implement a workshop for National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce Scholars. The workshop, held Dec. 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, highlighted using a museum and informal resources for science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) and culture knowledge. More than 60 Noyce scholars and faculty from Noyce programs throughout the northeast attended the workshop. The event was supported by leftover funds from a NSF conference grant awarded to Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves, University of Massachusetts Boston, that aimed to enhance pre-service and in-service teachers’ successful teaching practices in high-need schools. The SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, sponsored by the NSF, seeks to encourage talented STEM majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.