Lutz Mayer
Lutz Mayer, associate professor emeritus of music, was featured in an online publication published by the Department of Music at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The article, titled “Proud Tar Heel Celebrates 75th Birthday and a Life of Music,” presents a biography of Mayer’s life and includes highlights from his years at SUNY Cortland, where he was an assistant and an associate music professor from 1963-1995. Mayer was co-founder of the Council on the Arts for Cortland and a concertmaster of the College-Community Orchestra, which he directed for seven years. The article can be found at http://music.unc.edu/75.
Mary Ware
Mary Ware, foundations and social advocacy, authored a chapter titled "Learning Contracts as Part of Learning Design and Evaluation" for the volume Assessment and Evaluation in Career and Technical Education, edited by Victor C.X. Wang and published simultaneously by Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pa., and Zhejiang University Press this fall. The text is in print and in use in several universities including California State University, but will show a copyright of 2010. Ware was asked to author this chapter after the editor attended her presentation titled "Whadjaget: Learning Contracts in Distance Education" at the spring meeting of Lilly West Conference on Higher Education in Pomona, Calif. Ware is contracted to prepare two more chapters for a forthcoming encyclopedia of online learning to be published by Information Science Reference next year. These chapters, co-authored with Mary Stuck, will focus on gender, race and age as variables in online learning and on learning contracts in distance learning.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, communication studies, discussed the place of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in the history of American literary journalism. He participated in a panel discussion on the book at the annual convention of the American Journalism Historians Association held Oct. 8 in Birmingham, Ala.
Correction: John Hartsock, communication studies, has signed a contract with the University of Massachusetts Press to publish Theorizing Literary Journalism: Examining a Narrative Genre. The volume will provide his scholarly summa on the subject of literary journalism.
R. Bruce Mattingly and Amber J. Murphy ’09
R. Bruce Mattingly, School of Arts and Sciences, and Amber J. Murphy ’09, co-authored an article titled “A Markov Method for Ranking College Football Conferences” that will be included as a theme essay on the Mathematics Awareness Month Web site, sponsored by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. Murphy, an adolescence education: mathematics major, was a recipient of a 2008 Undergraduate Research Council Summer Fellowship.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, political science, is the author of a chapter titled "Leading Elite Opinion: Law Reviews and the Distortion of Scholarship" in the recently published book, Leadership at the Crossroads, published by Praeger.
Sue Lehr
Sue Lehr, professor emerita of foundations and social advocacy, recently had her book, Beautiful Ben — My Son with Autism, published by Ariminta Books. This book describes life with Ben, and her family as they learned about autism, inclusion, advocacy and adult issues. More details can be found on www.beautifulben.com. Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, helped with graphic design, layout and Web site development.
Brittany Adams and Nance Wilson
Brittany Adams and Nance Wilson, Literacy Department, had an article, “Troubling Critical Literacy Assessment: Criticality-in-Process,” published Oct. 7 in the Journal of Literacy Innovation.
Tracy Rammacher and Tony DeRado
Tracy Rammacher, Publications and Electronic Media Office, recently learned that the office won a SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) Judges’ Citation Award for the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement tickets, designed by Tony DeRado. The award will be presented at the annual SUNYCUAD conference set for June 9-11 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, delivered a keynote speech at the 29th International Sport Science Conference hosted this summer by the Korean Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Also, he was an invited speaker to the Korean Society for Sport Management Conference.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “How Obama Can Use the Power of the Veto and Still Avoid Being Nicknamed ‘President No,’” that was published on the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times on Feb. 3. The link to the article is: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0203-spitzer-presidential-veto-20150203-story.html