Gregory Phelan
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, awarded the SUNY Cortland Chemistry Award to high school junior, Dylan Reahr. He attends the Lafayette (N.Y.) Big Picture School. The award was presented at the Greater Syracuse Scholastic Science Fair, held March 25 at the Oncenter. Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, hosted a booth at the Scholastic Science Fair to promote sciences at SUNY Cortland and Noyce scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), delivered a keynote on gender and the law at The Gender Construction of Society Conference held in April at Cantemir University, Bucharest, Romania. It will be published in a special issue of Journal of Research in Gender Studies in 2017.
Thomas S. Hischak
Thomas S. Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has signed a contract with McFarland Publishers to write the nonfiction book American Literature on Stage and Screen about 19th and 20th century American fiction that has been adapted for the theatre, film and television. McFarland recently released Hischak’s Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary about all performers who did voices for every Disney animated short and feature film from “Steamboat Willie” (1928) to “Tangled” (2010).
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her article “When virtual spaces meet the limitations of traditional sport: gender stereotyping in NBA2K” accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
Also, she was on a Tucker Center Talks podcast, which is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and WiSP Sports. Her talk “Research of Women in Sports Leadership” can be heard online.
Melissa Morris and student Matthew Metcalf
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, and coauthors, including SUNY Cortland undergraduate Matthew Metcalf, had their paper, “Thermal History of CBb Chondrules and Cooling Rate Distributions of Ejecta Plumes,” accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been informed that his new book, Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights, has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press. The book argues that the contemporary debate pitting gun rights against gun regulations is based on a misunderstanding of America’s gun past. While gun possession is as old as the country, so are gun laws, and throughout most of our history, the two have gone hand in hand. Drawing on a vast new dataset of early gun laws, the book shows that gun regulations in America’s early history were, if anything, more strict than they are now. In addition, the book examines the Second Amendment and the assault weapons controversy, “stand-your-ground” laws, and New York state’s recent strict new laws. The narrative also includes the author’s effort to obtain a pistol permit. The book is scheduled for publication by Oxford in March 2015. Spitzer is the author of four other books on gun policy.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, presented a paper titled “Experimental Pedagogies: The Art and Politics of the Danish Ex-School (1961-1972),” at the 18th International Conference on the Arts in Society held July 5 to 7 at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Also, Schwartz gave a museum talk titled “Between Laboratory and Mythology: Asger Jorn, Wifredo Lam and the New Primitivism” on July 11 at the Casa Jorn Museum in Albissola, Italy. Her talk is in conjunction with the exhibition LAM et Les Magiciens de la Mer at the Savona Museum of Ceramics and at the Exhibition Center of MuDA, Albissola Marina.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented her paper at a panel she organized at the New York Conference on Asian Studies held Sept. 18-20 at Hofstra University. Also, she was invited by SUNY Plattsburgh to deliver two campus-wide lectures in October.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article recently published in Early Education & Development. It is titled “Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings
Alexander G. Gonzalez
Alexander G. Gonzalez, English, had his article, “Joyce’s Presence in Iris Murdoch’s ‘Something Special,’” published in Studies in Short Fiction after many delays on the journal’s part. Gonzalez received encouraging support from the College Research Committee, which awarded him a Faculty Research Program grant in 2007.