Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA Emerging Worlds grant proposal selected for funding in the amount of $319,000. This highly interdisciplinary grant will involve Morris, an undergraduate student and a research assistant at SUNY Cortland, as well as researchers at Arizona State University and Caltech. The entire project has been funded by NASA at a level of approximately $500,000.
Also, Morris submitted a paper, “The Effect of Multiple Particle Sizes on Cooling Rates of Chondrules Produced in Large-scale Shocks in the Solar Nebula” to Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
Also, Morris has been invited to give a talk at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2015.
Richard Kendrick
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented “The Engaged Campus of the 21st Century,” at SUNY Geneseo on April 10. In addition, he met with their General Education and Bringing Theory to Practice committees to discuss ways that civic engagement and high-impact learning practices might be integrated into various curricular and co-curricular programs.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had his article, “Nomadic Subjectivity in Leyma López’s 2018 staging of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer,” published in Living the Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, edited by Esther Fernández and Yuri Porras, University Press of the South, 2020.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled "“The Icing on the Cake”: Peter Westbrook and his World Class Fencers,” at the fourth annual conference of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research on March 19 at the California State University at Fullerton.
Jordan Kobritz and Ray Cotrufo
Jordan Kobritz and Ray Cotrufo, Sport Management Department, presented “Beyond the Box Score: The Case for Integrating Sport Analytics into the Sport Management Curriculum” at the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) conference in Philadelphia on Feb. 13.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy, coauthored a book chapter titled “Portrayal of Religion Against the Backdrop of Progress and Modernity in the US and Canadian Social Science Textbooks from 1850 to 2010,” published in Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks: Analyzing Shifting Discourses on Nationhood, Citizenship, Gender, and Religion.
David Dickerson and John Suarez
David Dickerson, Mathematics Department, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, had their article, “The imperative of definition,” accepted for the September 2018 issue of MathAMATYC Educator Journal.
Dickerson and Suarez explore the kinds and uses of definitions in natural language, compare and contrast these with the kinds and uses of definitions in mathematics, then suggest a revised language and a vocabulary reserved specifically for definitions in mathematics classrooms.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in the Journal of Research in Childhood Education titled, “Early childhood professional well-being as a predictor of risk of turnover in child care: A matter of quality.” The article describes the relationship between early childhood educator’s risk of leaving their positions and their sense of well-being.
Eileen Gilroy and Nicole Scalera
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, and Nicole Scalera, a second-year graduate student in the department, presented a poster at the New York State Speech, Language and Hearing Association Convention on April 8 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The poster is titled, “The Use of Surface Electromyography as a Component of Speech Pathology Intervention for Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion: A Case Study.”
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper at the 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Lyon, France, in June.