Sam Avery
Sam Avery, MFA, Communication and Media Studies Department, made a short film, “The Catch”, which won Best New York Short at the Adirondack Film Festival before airing on Mountain Lake PBS. The film features David Hollenback, Communication and Media Studies Department, and recent SUNY Cortland alumnus, Mitchell Ensman ’17. A PBS-produced interview with Avery, promoting the film, can be found here.
Michelle Cryan
Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, developed a prototype for an app designed to teach sign language to pre-verbal children. She submitted the app project as the thesis for her master’s degree in Information Design and Technology at SUNYIT. The paper and a prototype of the app can be found at http://people.sunyit.edu/~cryanm/. Cryan wrote and illustrated a lift-the-flap sign language book that was published in 2007 by Gallaudet Press.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for Individual Excellence at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. Recognized for his outstanding performance and significant contribution to the career services field, the career coach and educator served as vice chair of the DEI Committee and the Conference Program Committee for SUNYCDO during the 2023-24 academic year.
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, is the author of The Bishop's Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy, published in November by The Catholic University of America Press. Through a detailed examination of the diocese of Padua in the seventeenth century, this book provides fresh insight into the challenges and process of reforming the Catholic Church after the 1563 Council of Trent.
Cynthia J. Benton
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had her chapter, “Is This Your Best Work? Complications and Limitations of Online Instruction for High Quality Student Engagement,” published in November in the Encyclopedia of Education and Technology in a Changing Society.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented a paper titled, “‘Don’t Say It’s Going to Be Okay’: How International Educators Embrace Transformative Education to Support Their Students Navigating Our Global Climate Emergency” at the Comparative and International Education Society conference in April in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also, he presented a paper titled ‘It’s my responsibility’: Perspectives on Environmental Justice and Education for Sustainability among international school students in Singapore” at the American Education Research Association conference in April in San Diego, California.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will have the following poems published in Home Planet News Online #6: “Red Sky at Morning,” “Remembering the Garden” and “Wolf Road and Holy Ground.”
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, was the lead author on an article recently published in the journal Motor Control titled “Tall Tales of Balance: The Influence of Height on Postural Control Measures.”
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his chapter, co-authored with Jim Hordern from the University of Bath, UK, published in Towards powerful educational knowledge: Perspectives from educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik (Routledge, 2024). The chapter’s title is “Rethinking the foundations: Towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England.”
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was the Sport Law session chair at the European Association for Sport Management Conference held Sept. 5 to 8 in Innsbruck, Austria.