John Suarez
At the June 8 SUNY Shared Governance Training at Lake Placid, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, developed and conducted three active listening workshops for about 55 people.
Kevin Pristash
Kevin Pristash, Campus Activities and Corey Union Office, attended the annual conference of the Association of College Unions International from March 22 to 25 in Anaheim, Calif., where he received, on behalf of SUNY Cortland, an award celebrating the College’s 50 years of membership. It was presented at the event’s honors luncheon.
Samantha Moss
Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled “The Associations of Physical Activity and Health-Risk Behaviors toward Depressive Symptoms among College Students: Gender and Obesity Disparities” published in March in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The article was co-authored by Xiaoxia Zhang, Ziyad Ben Taleb and Xiangli Gu.
Christine Paske
Christine Paske, Health Department, recently was elected to the American School Health Association (ASHA) Board of Directors.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, hosted the second teleconference of the North/South Central New York Applied Learning Coalition. Two SUNY Cortland students joined 10 applied learning professionals from seven colleges and universities in a two-hour discussion that generated ideas to address student food insecurity, to improve assessment of applied learning projects’ learning outcomes, and to increase student participation in voting-related activities.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, communication studies, had his book, The Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, accepted for publication in June by Cornell University Press. The book is a work of narrative journalism and recounts the cycle of the seasons at a ″mom-and-pop″ winery on Cayuga Lake — Long Point Winery owned by Gary and Rosemary Barletta — by capturing everyday activities such as planting and pruning the vines, grape crushing and fermenting and aging wine in barrels and bottles. It also details the challenges and triumphs of trying to make the perfect vintage. The book, intended for wine lovers, is the first to examine the national phenomenon of the rapid rise of small artisanal wineries outside of California. It is also the first in a new publishing initiative on the part of Cornell University Press to publish narrative journalism on regional subjects with the potential for national appeal.
Accepted for publication in July by the University of Massachusetts Press was Hartsock′s book Theorizing Literary Journalism: Examining a Narrative Genre. The volume will re-synthesize the last 10-plus years of his work which has appeared in publications such as Prose Studies, DoubleTake, the Journal of Communication Inquiry and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, as well as insights gained as the founding editor of Literary Journalism Studies, the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of the genre and published in cooperation with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The book will provide a scholarly summary after 20 years of research on the subject, and will serve as a companion volume to Hartsock′s award-winning A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2000, which is now in its second printing.
David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, appeared as a guest on the community syndicated cable television show, “Beyond the Game.” The show, hosted by John Vorperian, appears in prime time twice a week on White Plains Cable Television Channel 76. The episode in which Snyder appears as a guest is tentatively scheduled to air on Monday, April 5, to coincide with the opening games of the 2010 Major League Baseball season. The 30-minute segment featuring Snyder was taped on March 19 and addresses some unique aspects of baseball in Japan. Prior to his arrival at SUNY Cortland, Snyder was president of a sports marketing company based in Tokyo. His primary research interest involves the business of Japanese professional baseball. Since the show started in 2002, Vorperian has interviewed hundreds of guests on “Beyond the Game.” The show has been the subject of many feature stories, including a 2007 article in The New York Times.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-wrote “Leveraging and Activating NASCAR Sponsorships with NASCAR-linked Sales Promotions,” which was published in the December 2009 issue of Journal of Sponsorship.
Jack Carr and Nancy Kane
Jack Carr, Communications and Media Studies Department, and Nancy Kane ’13, Kinesiology Department, received discretionary awards for their musical performances and ensemble work with the Auburn Players in “Antigone and Letters to Soldiers Lost,” directed by Robert Frame, at the Theatre Association of New York Festival 2021 held Nov. 20 in Rome, N.Y. The play is a combination of Sophocles’ “Antigone” and actual letters left at the Vietnam Wall, with original music performed by Carr, Kane and John Fracchia from Ithaca College. Also, the production won adjudicators’ discretionary awards for Music and Best Long Production, as well as a People’s Choice Award for Best Production, among other honors. Kane was nominated for Best Performer in a Play on the Broadway World website.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, philosophy, has published a co-edited anthology Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young in the series Studies in Feminist Philosophy, Oxford University Press. It includes an essay by Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, geography, titled "Women's Work Trips and Multifaceted Oppression." Nagel was also a keynote speaker at the Hochschule Fulda, Germany, in June while she was a Visiting Professor.